Disorder-Controlled Basin Merging / disorder_basin.py

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  1"""MVP verification of disorder-controlled basin merging.
  2
  3The RFIM-like K=Delta=H=0 zero-temperature mean-field equation is
  4    F_R(m) = erf(m / (sqrt(2)*R)).
  5For relaxed updates m <- (1-alpha)m + alpha F_R(m), the local multiplier at
  6zero is lambda = 1-alpha+alpha*sqrt(2/pi)/R.  Thus Rc=sqrt(2/pi).
  7"""
  8import json, math
  9from pathlib import Path
 10import numpy as np
 11from scipy.special import erf
 12
 13SEED = 1016
 14RC_PRED = math.sqrt(2.0 / math.pi)
 15
 16
 17def rf_map(m, R):
 18    return erf(m / (math.sqrt(2.0) * R))
 19
 20
 21def relaxed_iter(m0, R, alpha=1.0, steps=3000):
 22    m = float(m0)
 23    trace = []
 24    for _ in range(steps):
 25        m = (1-alpha)*m + alpha*rf_map(m, R)
 26        trace.append(m)
 27    return np.asarray(trace)
 28
 29
 30def tanh_iter(m0, coupling=1.4, alpha=1.0, steps=3000):
 31    # Standard continuously saturated mean-field recurrent update, no disorder.
 32    m = float(m0)
 33    trace = []
 34    for _ in range(steps):
 35        m = (1-alpha)*m + alpha*math.tanh(coupling*m)
 36        trace.append(m)
 37    return np.asarray(trace)
 38
 39
 40def estimate_derivative(R, eps=1e-6):
 41    return (rf_map(eps, R) - rf_map(-eps, R)) / (2*eps)
 42
 43
 44def main():
 45    rng = np.random.default_rng(SEED)
 46    Rs = np.array([0.45, 0.60, 0.70, 0.78, 0.80, 0.90, 1.10, 1.40])
 47    alpha = 0.35
 48    rows = []
 49    for R in Rs:
 50        slope = estimate_derivative(R)
 51        predicted_lambda = 1-alpha + alpha*slope
 52        starts = np.array([-1.0, -0.4, -0.05, 0.05, 0.4, 1.0])
 53        finals = np.array([relaxed_iter(x, R, alpha)[-1] for x in starts])
 54        # Pairwise late-state spread is the basin-merging metric.
 55        pairwise = float(np.mean((finals[:, None] - finals[None, :])**2))
 56        # Empirical contraction from two nearby positive initial conditions.
 57        # Measure the Jacobian at the zero fixed point, where the analytic
 58        # contraction prediction is defined (rather than at a nonzero basin).
 59        eps = 1e-7
 60        def update_zero(x):
 61            return (1-alpha)*x + alpha*rf_map(x, R)
 62        measured_lambda = float((update_zero(eps)-update_zero(-eps))/(2*eps))
 63        rows.append({"R":float(R), "slope_measured":float(slope),
 64                     "slope_predicted":float(RC_PRED/R),
 65                     "lambda_measured":measured_lambda,
 66                     "lambda_predicted":float(predicted_lambda),
 67                     "finals":finals.tolist(), "pairwise_msd":pairwise})
 68
 69    # Locate the bifurcation by bisection on the positive fixed point.
 70    lo, hi = 0.55, 1.05
 71    for _ in range(45):
 72        mid = (lo+hi)/2
 73        pos = relaxed_iter(1.0, mid, 0.8, 5000)[-1]
 74        if pos > 1e-5: lo = mid
 75        else: hi = mid
 76    rc_obs = (lo+hi)/2
 77
 78    # A finite-N annealed ternary implementation: p(s) softmax and fresh fields.
 79    # This checks that the advertised ternary probabilities produce the same map.
 80    def ternary_relax(R, N=200000, steps=100, beta=80.0, alpha=1.0):
 81        # Fresh fields are redrawn each relaxation step, as in the proposal.
 82        p = np.zeros((N, 3)); p[:, 2] = 1.0
 83        means = []
 84        states = np.array([-1., 0., 1.])
 85        for _ in range(steps):
 86            m = float(np.mean(p @ states))
 87            xi = rng.normal(0., R, N)
 88            energies = -(m + xi)[:, None] * states[None, :]
 89            z = -beta * energies
 90            z -= z.max(axis=1, keepdims=True)
 91            peq = np.exp(z); peq /= peq.sum(axis=1, keepdims=True)
 92            p = (1-alpha)*p + alpha*peq
 93            means.append(float(np.mean(p @ states)))
 94        return means[-1]
 95    ternary_check = {str(R): ternary_relax(float(R), N=30000, steps=80)
 96                     for R in [0.6, 1.0]}
 97
 98    # Baseline: saturated tanh has two persistent basins at coupling 1.4;
 99    # idea: disorder above Rc merges them to zero.
100    baseline = np.array([tanh_iter(x, 1.4)[-1] for x in [-1., 1.]])
101    idea_high = np.array([relaxed_iter(x, 1.0, alpha)[-1] for x in [-1., 1.]])
102    summary = {
103        "seed": SEED, "Rc_predicted": RC_PRED, "Rc_observed_bisection": rc_obs,
104        "alpha": alpha, "rows": rows,
105        "ternary_finite_N_final_m": ternary_check,
106        "baseline_tanh_final_m": baseline.tolist(),
107        "idea_R1_final_m": idea_high.tolist(),
108        "prediction_checks": {
109            "linear_slope_max_relative_error": float(max(abs(r['slope_measured']-r['slope_predicted'])/r['slope_predicted'] for r in rows)),
110            "critical_point_absolute_error": abs(rc_obs-RC_PRED),
111            "relaxation_multiplier_max_absolute_error": float(max(abs(r['lambda_measured']-r['lambda_predicted']) for r in rows))
112        }
113    }
114    Path("results.json").write_text(json.dumps(summary, indent=2))
115    print(json.dumps(summary, indent=2))
116
117if __name__ == "__main__":
118    main()