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A poly-time algorithm exactly recovers the hidden matching of high-dimensional correlated Gaussians at constant correlation ρ²>√α by counting wide trees.

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load-bearing objection First poly-time exact recovery for high-d Procrustes matching at constant correlation, via a carefully engineered wide-tree signature and Weingarten moment control.

arxiv 2607.08538 v1 pith:AD2AWTC7 submitted 2026-07-09 stat.ML cs.ITcs.LGmath.ITmath.STstat.TH

High-Dimensional Procrustes Matching via Tree Counts

classification stat.ML cs.ITcs.LGmath.ITmath.STstat.TH MSC 62H3068Q2505C8015B52
keywords Procrustes matchingtree countingOtter's constanthigh-dimensional statisticsWeingarten calculusgraph matchingcolor codinglow-degree polynomials
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The paper studies Procrustes matching: two sets of n Gaussian vectors in R^d are related by an unknown permutation and an unknown rotation, and one must recover the permutation. In high dimension (d much larger than log n) earlier work needed correlation near 1 even for information-theoretic recovery. The authors give a polynomial-time algorithm that succeeds at constant correlation whenever ρ² exceeds the square root of Otter’s tree enumeration constant α≈0.338 and d is at least polylogarithmic in n. The algorithm builds vector signatures for each data point by counting a carefully chosen family of wide rooted trees (many non-isomorphic small branches attached to a high-degree root) inside the bipartite weighted graphs defined by the data matrices, then matches points whose signatures are sufficiently similar. They also prove a stronger information-theoretic threshold that permits vanishing correlation, and a low-degree calculation indicating that the same √α barrier is essentially necessary inside the tree-counting family.

Core claim

Whenever d≥polylog(n) and ρ²>√α (α≈0.338 Otter’s constant), a polynomial-time tree-counting algorithm recovers the unknown permutation exactly with high probability. The same algorithm, after a seeded-boosting step, upgrades almost-exact recovery to exact recovery under the slightly weaker condition ρ²≧C max{log n/d,1/√log n}.

What carries the argument

Similarity scores formed from weighted counts of a family of “wide” bipartite trees (Definition 2.2): each tree consists of D≈K/log K non-isomorphic degree-2 branches of size M=K/D attached to a common high-degree root, with K=Θ(log n). Mean separation and variance of these scores are controlled by Weingarten calculus on alternating circuit decompositions of the trees’ n-unions; the scores are approximated in poly(n,d) time by color coding.

Load-bearing premise

The asymptotic formula for Weingarten functions is used under the standing hypothesis that dimension d grows faster than a fixed power of log n (specifically d>12(2K)^{7/2} with K=Θ(log n)); if that growth fails, the mean/variance analysis and the polynomial-time claim no longer hold.

What would settle it

For concrete parameters n=2^{20}, d=(log n)^{C} with C large enough that the Weingarten hypothesis holds, and ρ² just above √α, run the color-coding tree-counting procedure and check whether the recovered matching equals the planted permutation with high probability over many independent draws; failure on a non-vanishing fraction of trials would falsify the main theorem.

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Summary. The paper studies high-dimensional Procrustes matching: recover an unknown permutation that aligns two n-point Gaussian clouds in R^d that are related by a latent orthogonal transformation and correlation ρ. Prior high-d guarantees required ρ o1. The main algorithmic result (Thm 1.1 / 2.1–2.2) is a polynomial-time exact-recovery procedure that succeeds for constant correlation ρ^{2}>√α (α≈0.338 Otter’s constant) once d≥polylog(n). The method builds similarity scores from weighted counts of a specially designed family of wide bipartite trees (Defs 2.1–2.2) whose d-nodes all have degree 2; the scores are approximated in poly time by color coding (Alg 2 / Prop 2.1) and then boosted from almost-exact to exact recovery by a seeded geometric matching step (Alg 3 / Thm 2.2). An improved information-theoretic guarantee via the quadratic-assignment estimator (Thm 2.3) shows exact recovery is possible for ρ^{2}≳max{log n/d,√(log n/n)}, and a low-degree calculation (Thm 10.1) indicates that √α is essentially optimal inside the tree-counting framework.

Significance. The work closes a long-standing gap: constant-correlation, polynomial-time exact matching in the high-dimensional Procrustes / geometric-graph-alignment model. The technical contribution is substantial—joint-moment analysis via Weingarten calculus on alternating circuit decompositions of decorated union graphs, a carefully engineered wide-tree family that simultaneously controls mean separation and variance, and a clean color-coding + seeding pipeline. The information-theoretic improvement and the matching low-degree barrier for tree polynomials further strengthen the contribution. The results are derived with explicit error terms under stated hypotheses; Otter’s constant enters as a classical combinatorial fact rather than a fitted parameter. If the claims hold, the paper will be a standard reference for high-dimensional matching and for the use of tree polynomials in geometric models.

minor comments (4)
  1. The standing hypothesis d>12(2K)^{7/2} for the Weingarten asymptotic (Lemma 4.4) is used throughout Sections 4–6; while it is absorbed into the polylog assumption of the main theorems, a short explicit remark in Section 2.4 that C2 is chosen large enough to satisfy this inequality would make the parameter hierarchy fully self-contained.
  2. In the variance decomposition (Lemma 6.2 and Props 6.1–6.2) the geometric-series bounds rely on several “poly(K)/min{d,n}<1/2” conditions; collecting these numerical requirements once (e.g., after (2.9)) would improve readability.
  3. Figure 1 and the schematic Figures 2–3 are helpful; adding a short caption sentence that explicitly marks the root degree D and branch size M would make the parameter choices easier to track.
  4. A few minor typos appear (e.g., “wheneverd”, “Notethat”). A light copy-edit pass would remove them.

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No significant circularity: threshold and guarantees are derived from classical combinatorial enumeration, external moment tools, and self-contained variance analysis under explicit hypotheses.

full rationale

The central algorithmic claim (exact recovery for ho^{2}>\sqrtα when d mid polylog(n)) is obtained by constructing wide trees whose branch count is governed by Otter’s classical asymptotic |J| mid( mid+o(1))^{-M} (Definition 2.1, citing [Ott48]), then verifying mean separation (Proposition 3.1 via Weingarten/Isserlis, Theorem 4.1) and variance bounds (Proposition 3.2) that force the same ho^{4}> mid condition for concentration. These moment calculations rest on the external asymptotic for the Weingarten function (Lemma 4.4 from [CM17]) under the paper’s explicit standing hypothesis d>12(2K)^{7}/^{2} with K= mid(log n); the hypothesis is already the operating regime of Theorems 2.1–2.2 and is not smuggled. The low-degree calculation (Theorem 10.1) independently recovers the same mid-barrier for any tree polynomial, confirming necessity within the tree-counting class rather than importing a uniqueness claim. Color-coding approximation and seeded exact-recovery boost inherit the same parameters without fitting or redefinition. No step reduces a claimed prediction to a fitted input, a self-definitional identity, or a load-bearing self-citation whose content is the target result. The derivation is therefore self-contained against external classical facts and standard probabilistic tools.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 6 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central algorithmic claim rests on classical combinatorial and probabilistic tools (Otter, Weingarten, Isserlis, color-coding, Gaussian concentration) plus modeling assumptions (i.i.d. Gaussians, Haar Q, uniform π). No free parameters are fitted to data; constants C1,c1,C2 are existential proof constants. The only invented object is the wide-tree family, which is an algorithmic construction rather than a physical postulate.

free parameters (2)
  • Tree parameters (K=C1 log n, D=c1 K/log K)
    Existential constants chosen large/small enough for variance bounds; not fitted to any dataset.
  • Score threshold τ=c|T|n^K d^K ρ^{2K}, c∈(1/4,3/4)
    Arbitrary constant in an open interval that works by Chebyshev; not data-driven.
axioms (6)
  • standard math Otter’s asymptotic: number of unlabeled trees on k edges is (α+o(1))^{-k} with α≈0.338
    Used to size the branch family J and obtain |T|≥(α+ε/2)^{-K} (Def. 2.1, §2.3).
  • standard math Weingarten calculus asymptotic for Haar orthogonal moments (Collins–Matsumoto)
    Lemma 4.4 supplies the leading d-power for every joint moment; invoked throughout §§4–6,10.
  • standard math Isserlis/Wick theorem for Gaussian moments
    Lemma 4.1 converts E[X^G Y^H|Q] into matchings (Lemma 4.2).
  • standard math Color-coding counts colorful tree copies in poly time (Alon–Yuster–Zwick / Alon et al.)
    Section 7 reduces enumeration of Θ(log n)-size trees to O(n^C d) time.
  • domain assumption Data model: Xi~N(0,Id), Yi=ρ Q X_π(i)+√(1−ρ²)Zi, Q Haar on Od, π uniform
    Equation (1.1); all statistical claims are conditional on this generative model.
  • ad hoc to paper d>12(2K)^{7/2} for Weingarten error control
    Standing hypothesis after Theorem 4.1; forces d=polylog(n) once K=Θ(log n).
invented entities (1)
  • Wide tree family T (Defs. 2.1–2.2) no independent evidence
    purpose: Signature polynomials whose joint moments separate true from false pairs while remaining poly-time countable
    Algorithmic construction, not a physical postulate; independent_evidence is the success proof itself.

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Suppose we observe two sets of $n$ Gaussian vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$, with the promise that, after applying a permutation of $[n]$ and a rotation of $\mathbb{R}^d$, the two sets are $\rho$-correlated. The Procrustes matching problem asks us to recover the unknown permutation of $[n]$ that aligns the two sets. The problem is well-studied in the low-dimensional regime $d=O(\log n)$, but the high-dimensional regime $d\gg \log n$ has remained largely uncharted: prior matching guarantees require nearly perfect correlation $\rho=1-o(1)$, even for information-theoretic recovery. Our main result is a polynomial-time algorithm for exact recovery at constant correlation. The algorithm works by computing and comparing weighted counts of a specially chosen family of ``wide'' trees. So long as $d\ge \mathrm{polylog}(n)$, the algorithm succeeds with high probability for any $\rho^2>\sqrt{\alpha}$, where $\alpha\approx 0.338$ is Otter's tree-counting constant. We complement this algorithmic result with an improved information-theoretic guarantee, showing that exact recovery is possible when $\rho^2 \gtrsim \max\{\log n/d,\sqrt{\log n/n}\}$. We also carry out a low-degree advantage calculation, which suggests that the condition $\rho^2 > \sqrt{\alpha}$ is necessary for any tree-counting algorithm.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.08538 by Jiaming Xu, Tselil Schramm, Xiaochun Niu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic illustration of a tree in T . Each dashed triangle represents the descendant subtree of a branch. We will later choose the parameters K and D carefully to meet our statistical requirements, taking K = Θ(log n) and D = Θ(K/ log K). The resulting trees are wide, with large root degree and small branch size (M = Θ(log K)). These choices will be explained in Section 2.3. 2.3 Statistical Properties of… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Dominant contribution to the true-pair mean. Every [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Dominant configurations for the false-pair variance. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: shows an example of a graph J and its circuit decompositions. 1 1 2 e1 e2 e3 e4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Different cases of fully overlapping branches. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Schematic illustration of decomposition of a decorated union [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_6.png] view at source ↗

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