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1. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Barriers and local minima in energy landscapes of stochastic local search

   Kaski · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2006

   The paper shows that typical satisfiable k-SAT instances from a random ensemble have exponentially many local energy minima separated from solutions by large barriers, making local search hard.

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   1. Unchecked“We show that for each fixed k=3,4,..., the typical k-SAT energy landscape induced by an instance drawn from the ensemble has a set of 2^{Ω(n)} local energy minima, each separated by an unconditional Ω(n) energy barrier from each of the O(1) ground states, th…
   2. UncheckedA random k-regular 0/1 matrix is a strong boundary expander with almost full GF(2) rank, implying exponentially many steps for focused random walk on typical instances.“The main technical aspect of the analysis is that a random k-regular 0/1 matrix constitutes a strong boundary expander with almost full GF(2)-linear rank, a property which also enables us to prove a 2^{Ω(n)} lower bound for the expected number of steps required by the focused random walk heuristic…”