Hamilton.Jacobi equations for finite-rank matrix inference

Authors
Citation
Mourrat J.-c, Hamilton.Jacobi equations for finite-rank matrix inference, Annals of applied probability , 30(5), 2020, pp. 2234-2260
ISSN journal
10505164
Volume
30
Issue
5
Year of publication
2020
Pages
2234 - 2260
Database
ACNP
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Abstract
We compute the large-scale limit of the free energy associated with the problem of inference of a finite-rank matrix. The method follows the principle put forward in Mourrat (2018) which consists in identifying a suitable Hamilton.Jacobi equation satisfied by the limit free energy. We simplify the approach of Mourrat (2018) using a notion of weak solution of the Hamilton.Jacobi equation which is more convenient to work with and is applicable whenever the nonlinearity in the equation is convex.