The SK model with a sparse variance profile: free energy and AMP algorithm for TAP equations at high temperature

Overview & Synopsis

A generalization of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model for spin glasses is considered, in which the interaction matrix is endowed with a variance profile that has no particular structure and may be sparse. In the first part of the paper, an asymptotic equivalent of the free energy is derived at sufficiently high temperatures, regardless of the signature of the variance profile matrix. In the second part, the mean of the spin vector under the Gibbs measure is estimated using an Approximate Message Passing algorithm based on the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equations. The dynamical approach of Adhikari et al. (J. Stat. Phys., 2021), originally developed for the classical SK model, is adapted to the present setting to obtain these results.