Storage capacity in symmetric binary perceptrons

International audienceWe study the problem of determining the capacity of the binary perceptron for two variants of the problem where the corresponding constraint is symmetric. We call these variants the rectangle-binary-perceptron (RPB) and the u−function-binary-perceptron (UBP). We show that, unlike for the usual step-function-binary-perceptron, the critical capacity in these symmetric cases is given by the annealed computation in a large region of parameter space (for all rectangular constraints and for narrow enough u−function constraints, K K$^*$. We conclude that full-step-replica-symmetry breaking would have to be evaluated in order to obtain the exact capacity in this case