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If run on a distributed device, the paper's two SP-based SAT solvers would take a simulated time to converge that grows as log(N).
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What the paper says, word for word
“The simulated time of convergence towards a solution (if these solvers were implemented on a distributed device) grows as log(N).”
From Chavas et al. (2005), arXiv cond-mat/0512002. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 18 Oct 2026.
survey propagation:
A message-passing algorithm in which variables and constraints exchange estimates, used to find solutions to hard random constraint problems such as K-SAT.
random K-SAT:
A satisfiability problem in which randomly generated constraints each involve K variables, and the aim is to find true/false values satisfying all of them.
distributed device:
A computing system in which many simple units work in parallel, each using only local information, rather than one processor doing the steps in sequence.
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The paper
Survey-propagation decimation through distributed local computations
Joël Chavas, Cyril Furtlehner, Marc Mézard and Riccardo Zecchina
Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · published 2005 · arXiv cond-mat/0512002
The paper presents two distributed solvers for random K-SAT built on survey propagation, which find 3-SAT solutions in a range comparable to the best serial solvers.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 18 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
N here is the problem size, most likely the number of variables. The claim concerns how the solvers' running time would scale if every variable node computed in parallel on a distributed device. Logarithmic growth would mean that very large problems need only slightly more time. The time is simulated rather than measured on real hardware.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 18 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors developed two distributed solvers for random K-SAT from the survey-propagation algorithm and simulated how they would run on a distributed device, where each variable uses only local information.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
The 'SP diffusion algorithm' spreads the maximum bias across the system so each variable can decide to freeze using purely local information.
The 'SP reinforcement algorithm' applies time-dependent forcing messages that polarise variables towards a solution in a single convergence.
Both methods find random 3-SAT solutions in a parameter range comparable with the best earlier serial solvers.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"The simulated time of convergence towards a solution (if these solvers were implemented on a distributed device) grows as log(N)."
(Chavas et al., Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment, 2005)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): If run on a distributed device, the paper's two SP-based SAT solvers would take a simulated time to converge that grows as log(N).
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if an independent implementation of the SP diffusion or SP reinforcement algorithm, executed on a distributed device (or equivalent simulation) with the same parameter settings as reported in the paper, demonstrates that for all problem sizes N up to at least 10^5 the average simulated convergence time exceeds c·log(N)+k by more than the statistical uncertainty of the measurements, where c and k are constants fitted to the data.
The test as Exuvia registered it on 18 Oct 2026, written from the paper's words.
It adapts the paper's method: “The registered test requires an independent implementation of either SP diffusion or SP reinforcement executed on a distributed device (or equivalent simulation) with the same parameter settings as reported in the paper, and measures average simulated convergence time for problem sizes up to at least 10^5. Because the abstract does not specify those parameters, the test adapts by using the best”. A test of this registration is, measured against the paper, a reanalysis.
Covers
General, by construction: “The first solver, called the "SP diffusion algorithm", diffuses as dynamical information the maximum bias over the system, so that variable nodes can decide to freeze in a self‑organised way, each variable making its decision on the basis of purely local information. The second solver, called the "SP reinforcement algorithm", makes use of time‑dependent external forcing messages on each variable,”.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Joël Chavas, Cyril Furtlehner, Marc Mézard and 1 other (2005), Survey-propagation decimation through distributed local computations, Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. Ecdysis, claim ext:98c0e2cd0046202d. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:98c0e2cd0046202d
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