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arxiv: 2605.11138 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-11 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT· hep-th· math.IT· stat.ME

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Field Theory of Data: Anomaly Detection via the Functional Renormalization Group. The 2D Ising Model as a Benchmark

Riccardo Finotello , Vincent Lahoche , Parham Radpay , Dine Ousmane Samary
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keywords anomaly detectionfunctional renormalization group2D Ising modelphase transitionsMarchenko-Pastur distributionnon-equilibrium field theorynoise-to-signal ratiostatistical inference
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Anomaly detection maps to renormalization group flows where the noise-to-signal ratio acts as temperature in an effective equilibrium field theory.

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The paper establishes a correspondence between anomaly detection in high-noise data and the renormalization group flow of non-equilibrium field theories. It proves that detecting phase transitions in interacting non-equilibrium systems is equivalent to studying an effective equilibrium field theory near its Gaussian fixed point, identified with the Marchenko-Pastur distribution. Applying the Functional Renormalization Group to the two-dimensional Model A shows that the noise-to-signal ratio functions as a physical temperature, allowing the signal to emerge as ordered domains amid fluctuations. Benchmarked against the exact Onsager solution for the 2D Ising model, the method locates critical thresholds with less than 4% error and outperforms the Kullback-Leibler divergence.

Core claim

We establish a correspondence between anomaly detection in high-noise regimes and the renormalization group flow of non-equilibrium field theories. The detection of phase transitions in interacting non-equilibrium systems maps to the study of an effective equilibrium field theory near its Gaussian fixed point, which we identify with the universal Marchenko-Pastur distribution. Applying the Functional Renormalization Group to the two-dimensional Model A, we demonstrate that the noise-to-signal ratio acts as a physical temperature, where the signal emerges as ordered domains within a thermalized background of fluctuations. Using the exact Onsager solution as a benchmark, we show that this maps

What carries the argument

Functional Renormalization Group flow applied to the 2D Model A, with the noise-to-signal ratio serving as effective temperature that drives emergence of ordered domains from fluctuations near the Gaussian fixed point.

If this is right

  • Critical thresholds in noisy datasets can be located with error below 4 percent using RG flows.
  • The noise-to-signal ratio functions as a tunable temperature parameter in the effective theory.
  • Ordered domains corresponding to the signal appear within a background of fluctuations.
  • The approach outperforms standard information-theoretic measures such as Kullback-Leibler divergence.
  • The Gaussian fixed point of the effective theory is identified with the Marchenko-Pastur distribution.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The mapping suggests that RG-derived flow equations could generate new anomaly scores for machine learning tasks.
  • Testing the same correspondence on models with different dynamics, such as 3D Ising or non-equilibrium variants, would check the claimed universality.
  • The framework could be used to analyze real-world datasets by treating their noise characteristics as a temperature variable.
  • If the Marchenko-Pastur identification holds, random-matrix techniques might directly inform the starting point of the RG flow.

Load-bearing premise

The detection of phase transitions or anomalies in interacting non-equilibrium data can be mapped onto an effective equilibrium field theory near a Gaussian fixed point given by the Marchenko-Pastur distribution.

What would settle it

Applying the Functional Renormalization Group to 2D Ising model data with controlled noise levels and finding that the extracted critical noise-to-signal ratio deviates by more than 4 percent from the known Onsager value or fails to outperform Kullback-Leibler divergence.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.11138 by Dine Ousmane Samary, Parham Radpay, Riccardo Finotello, Vincent Lahoche.

Figure 1.1
Figure 1.1. Figure 1.1: The presence of a heavy tail (red pattern) in the spectrum is usually hard to separate from the true noise (the bulk). While isolated spikes can be identified as the principal components of the data, a noise model (black dashed line) derived from random matrix theory provides a reliable separation. Wishart matrix Z = XT X/R converges weakly toward the MP distribution: µMP (λ) = p (λ+ − λ)(λ − λ−) 2πσ2qλ … view at source ↗
Figure 2.1
Figure 2.1. Figure 2.1: Numerical simulation of a quench for N = 100: starting at t = 0 at a very high temperature, the spins are plunged into a thermal bath below the critical temperature. The left image shows step 0, and the next two images correspond to time steps 3 × 103 and 39 × 103 . Although this mapping is exact at the level of the effective action, numerical convergence toward the Onsager temperature is only achieved i… view at source ↗
Figure 3.1
Figure 3.1. Figure 3.1: Canonical dimensions for a random matrix X ∈ R N×P , where N = 4×104 , and P/N = 0.5, plotted against the interpolation of the eigenvalue spectrum. dimτ(u2n) = −2(n − 2) dt dτ + (n − 1)dimτ(u4), (3.15) where dτ = d ln L(k) and t ′ = dt/dτ. The sign of the canonical dimension determines the rele￾vance of the couplings: couplings with dimτ(u2n) ≥ 0 are relevant, while those with dimτ(u2n) < 0 are irrelevan… view at source ↗
Figure 3.2
Figure 3.2. Figure 3.2: Behavior of the canonical dimension by decreasing the NSR from higher values (top left), to intermediate values (top right), to a pure MP contribution (bottom). Data extracted from our previous work [8]. Definition 1 Let C be a Wishart3 matrix depending on some parameters (α1, α2, . . . , αk) and let Ik ⊂ R k the domain of the parameters. Then, C is in the MP universality class at p ∈ Ik if: 1. The empir… view at source ↗
Figure 4.1
Figure 4.1. Figure 4.1: Behavior of the spectrum found by the KL-proxy for high temperature, T = 5 (top left), in the vicinity of the critical regime T = 0.648 (top right) and below the critical temperature T = 0.350 (bottom) for b = 0.8. where λc,u2n = λdim(u2n)=0 is the point in the spectrum where the coupling becomes marginal. Generally, λc,u4 > λc,u6 , but λc,u6 is numerically unstable, whereas λc,u4 benefits from an eigen￾… view at source ↗
Figure 4.2
Figure 4.2. Figure 4.2: Behavior of the Binder cumulant for different grid sizes with b = 0.4 (left). Empirical behavior of λc for different temperatures with different methods for b = 0.8 (right). identified as the crossing point of the different curves4 ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4.3
Figure 4.3. Figure 4.3: Comparison of the critical temperatures Tc(b) obtained by the various methods, for different values of b. The final point at b ≈ 1.8, corresponding to the “Ising-like” case, is in good agreement with Onsager’s temperature (≈ 0.57). The mean-field approximation obtained through the Hartree method is given by the green curve. J = 1/4. The results are summarized in Figures 4.4 and 4.5. The Binder cumulants … view at source ↗
Figure 4.4
Figure 4.4. Figure 4.4: Position of λc as a function of T with different methods: dim(u4) (top left), dim(u6) (top right), and KL divergence (bottom). prediction. This constitutes yet another rigorous validation of GSA: the canonical dimension of the sextic coupling detects the Ising transition with less than 2% error, simply by observing when the interaction couplings reach the marginality threshold. Note that the KL method pr… view at source ↗
Figure 4.5
Figure 4.5. Figure 4.5: Binder cumulant (left) and absolute magnetization (right) for the Ising model. provides higher precision than standard estimation based on the KL divergence minimization. These results establish GSA as a robust, high-precision approach for anomaly detection in the high-NSR regime. GSA can be viewed as a minimal approach, as it only considers the flow behavior around the Gaussian fixed point. In this spec… view at source ↗
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We establish a correspondence between anomaly detection in high-noise regimes and the renormalization group flow of non-equilibrium field theories. We provide a physical grounding for this framework by proving that the detection of phase transitions in interacting non-equilibrium systems maps to the study of an effective equilibrium field theory near its Gaussian fixed point, which we identify with the universal Marchenko-Pastur distribution. Applying the Functional Renormalization Group to the two-dimensional Model A, we demonstrate that the noise-to-signal ratio acts as a physical temperature, where the signal emerges as ordered domains within a thermalized background of fluctuations. Using the exact Onsager solution as a benchmark, we show that this approach identifies critical thresholds with an error below 4%, significantly outperforming standard information-theoretic metrics such as the Kullback-Leibler divergence. Our results provide a universal strategy for resolving structures in complex datasets near criticality, bridging the gap between statistical mechanics and statistical inference.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript claims to establish a correspondence between anomaly detection in high-noise regimes and the renormalization group flow of non-equilibrium field theories. It asserts a proof that phase-transition detection in interacting non-equilibrium systems maps to an effective equilibrium field theory near its Gaussian fixed point, identified with the universal Marchenko-Pastur distribution. Applying the Functional Renormalization Group to the two-dimensional Model A, the noise-to-signal ratio is treated as a physical temperature with the signal emerging as ordered domains; using the exact Onsager solution as benchmark, critical thresholds are identified with error below 4%, outperforming Kullback-Leibler divergence.

Significance. If the central mapping and fixed-point identification hold, the work offers a physically motivated, universal framework bridging statistical mechanics and statistical inference for resolving structures in complex datasets near criticality. The quantitative benchmark against the exact 2D Ising solution is a clear strength, providing a falsifiable test of numerical accuracy rather than qualitative analogy.

major comments (2)
  1. [Mapping section (preceding FRG application)] The abstract and the section presenting the mapping assert a 'proof' that anomaly detection maps to the study of an effective equilibrium field theory near the Gaussian fixed point identified with the Marchenko-Pastur distribution. It is not clear whether this identification follows from the underlying Langevin dynamics plus anomaly term or is obtained by matching the disordered-phase spectrum to the MP law; if the latter, the subsequent treatment of noise-to-signal ratio as temperature in the FRG flow of Model A becomes an analogy rather than a derived correspondence. This step is load-bearing for the entire framework and the claimed physical grounding.
  2. [FRG application and benchmark sections] In the FRG treatment of 2D Model A, the flow equations and the extraction of critical thresholds from the noise-to-signal ratio must be shown to be independent of the initial matching to the MP distribution; otherwise the <4% error relative to the Onsager solution tests only numerical implementation rather than the validity of the fixed-point identification itself.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Model definition] Notation for the anomaly term and the precise definition of the noise-to-signal ratio should be introduced with explicit equations before the FRG flow is written down.
  2. [Benchmark section] The comparison to Kullback-Leibler divergence would benefit from a brief statement of the exact implementation (e.g., binning, smoothing) used for the benchmark.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading and constructive comments, which help clarify the foundational aspects of our framework. We address the two major comments point by point below, providing additional derivation details where needed and committing to revisions that strengthen the presentation without altering the core results.

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  1. Referee: The abstract and the section presenting the mapping assert a 'proof' that anomaly detection maps to the study of an effective equilibrium field theory near the Gaussian fixed point identified with the Marchenko-Pastur distribution. It is not clear whether this identification follows from the underlying Langevin dynamics plus anomaly term or is obtained by matching the disordered-phase spectrum to the MP law; if the latter, the subsequent treatment of noise-to-signal ratio as temperature in the FRG flow of Model A becomes an analogy rather than a derived correspondence. This step is load-bearing for the entire framework and the claimed physical grounding.

    Authors: The mapping is derived directly from the Langevin dynamics augmented by the anomaly term. In the high-noise regime the stochastic equation, via the Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism, yields an effective action whose quadratic part is governed by a random covariance matrix whose eigenvalue spectrum is the Marchenko-Pastur law; this follows from the central-limit behavior of the noise-dominated fluctuations rather than from an external matching procedure. The noise-to-signal ratio then enters the effective temperature through the fluctuation-dissipation relation that holds near the Gaussian fixed point. We will expand the mapping section with an explicit step-by-step derivation from the stochastic equation to the effective equilibrium action, making the logical chain unambiguous. revision: yes

  2. Referee: In the FRG treatment of 2D Model A, the flow equations and the extraction of critical thresholds from the noise-to-signal ratio must be shown to be independent of the initial matching to the MP distribution; otherwise the <4% error relative to the Onsager solution tests only numerical implementation rather than the validity of the fixed-point identification itself.

    Authors: We agree that explicit independence must be demonstrated. The beta functions of the FRG flow for Model A are obtained from the Wetterich equation applied to the effective potential; they depend on the scaling dimension of the noise-to-signal ratio (treated as temperature) but not on the detailed form of the initial spectrum once the theory is in the Gaussian universality class. The Marchenko-Pastur law fixes only the disordered-phase initial condition, while the location of the critical threshold is determined by the infrared fixed-point structure. We will add a dedicated subsection that recomputes the flow starting from a generic Gaussian initial condition (without presupposing the MP spectrum) and shows that the extracted critical noise-to-signal ratio remains unchanged within the reported precision. This will confirm that the benchmark against the Onsager solution tests the physical correspondence rather than merely the numerical implementation. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation remains self-contained

full rationale

The paper presents a claimed proof of a mapping from phase-transition detection in non-equilibrium systems to an effective equilibrium field theory near a Gaussian fixed point identified with the Marchenko-Pastur distribution, followed by FRG analysis of Model A treating noise-to-signal ratio as temperature. This mapping is asserted in the abstract as a proof rather than shown via any quoted equation that reduces by construction to an input parameter or prior self-citation. The 2D Ising benchmark relies on the independent external Onsager solution to validate threshold extraction with <4% error, providing an external check that does not loop back to the mapping itself. No fitted-input-called-prediction, self-definitional loop, or load-bearing self-citation chain is exhibited in the available text, so the central claims retain independent content.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on the central mapping to an effective equilibrium theory and the identification with the Marchenko-Pastur distribution; these are treated as domain assumptions rather than derived from first principles within the abstract.

free parameters (1)
  • noise-to-signal ratio
    Treated as the physical temperature that controls the emergence of ordered domains in the effective theory.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Detection of phase transitions in interacting non-equilibrium systems maps to the study of an effective equilibrium field theory near its Gaussian fixed point
    Stated as proven in the abstract and used as the foundation for applying FRG.
  • domain assumption The Gaussian fixed point is identified with the universal Marchenko-Pastur distribution
    Used to ground the physical interpretation of the anomaly detection problem.

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