A note on the dynamics of extended-context disordered kinetic spin models

Inspired by striking advances in language modeling, there has recently been much interest in developing autogressive sequence models that are amenable to analytical study. In this short note, we consider extensions of simple disordered kinetic glass models from statistical physics. These models have tunable correlations, are easy to sample, and can be solved exactly when the state space dimension is large. In particular, we give an expository derivation of the dynamical mean field theories that describe their asymptotic statistics. We therefore propose that they constitute an interesting set of toy models for autoregressive sequence generation, in which one might study learning dynamics.

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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
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2026-01-14
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ae38a4
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Quantum many-body systems
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A note on the dynamics of extended-context disordered kinetic spin models

Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
Quantum many-body systems
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A note on the dynamics of extended-context disordered kinetic spin models

Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan
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Abstract

Inspired by striking advances in language modeling, there has recently been much interest in developing autogressive sequence models that are amenable to analytical study. In this short note, we consider extensions of simple disordered kinetic glass models from statistical physics. These models have tunable correlations, are easy to sample, and can be solved exactly when the state space dimension is large. In particular, we give an expository derivation of the dynamical mean field theories that describe their asymptotic statistics. We therefore propose that they constitute an interesting set of toy models for autoregressive sequence generation, in which one might study learning dynamics.

Journal of Physics A Mathematical and TheoreticalVol. 59(4)
Harvard University Press (US), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) (CA)
National Science Foundation, Harvard University, National Institutes of Health, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Openalex Percentile: Top 85%
Quantum many-body systems
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