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Keyword: cavity method Clear all

19 claims from 12 papers

  1. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

    Information-theoretic thresholds from the cavity method

    Coja‐Oghlan, Krząkała, Perkins and Zdeborová · Advances in Mathematics · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Further, we prove the conjecture from [Krzakala et al.: PNAS 2007] about the condensation phase transition in the random graph coloring problem for any number $q\geq3$ of colors.”
  2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    On the cavity method for decimated random constraint satisfaction problems and the analysis of belief propagation guided decimation algorithms

    Ricci-Tersenghi and Semerjian · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“We introduce a version of the cavity method for diluted mean-field spin models that allows the computation of thermodynamic quantities similar to the Franz-Parisi quenched potential in sparse random graph models.”
  3. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

    Threshold values, stability analysis, and high- q asymptotics for the coloring problem on random graphs

    Krząkała, Pagnani and Weigt · Physical Review E · 2004

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    1. Unchecked“We derive a general criterion for the validity of this ansatz and, applying it to the ground state, we provide evidence that the 1RSB solution gives exact threshold values c_q for the q-COL/UNCOL phase transition.”
  4. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

    Generalization of the cavity method for adiabatic evolution of Gibbs states

    Zdeborová and Krząkała · Physical Review B · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“A mapping between the states following method and the physics on the Nishimori line is also presented.”
  5. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The freezing threshold for k-colourings of a random graph

    Molloy · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that for random graphs with density above rkf, almost every colouring is such that a linear number of variables are frozen, meaning that their colours cannot be changed by a sequence of alterations whereby we change the colours of o(n) vertices at a…
    2. Unchecked“When the density is below rkf, then almost every colouring has at most o(n) frozen variables.”
  6. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The asymptotic k-SAT threshold

    Coja‐Oghlan · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“Here we prove that rk--SAT = 2k ln 2--1/2 (1 + ln 2) + ok(1), which matches the 1RSB prediction up to the ok(1) error term.”
  7. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The number of satisfying assignments of random 2‐SAT formulas

    Achlioptas, Coja‐Oghlan, Hahn‐Klimroth et al. · Random Structures and Algorithms · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“The proof is based on showing that the Belief Propagation algorithm renders the correct marginal probability that a variable is set to `true' under a uniformly random satisfying assignment.”
    2. Unchecked“We show that throughout the satisfiable phase the normalised number of satisfying assignments of a random $2$-SAT formula converges in probability to an expression predicted by the cavity method from statistical physics.”
  8. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

    Spin Systems on Bethe Lattices

    Coja-Oghlan and Perkins · Communications in Mathematical Physics · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“In addition, we show that the free energy can be computed from this decomposition.”
    2. Unchecked“We also derive a variational formula for the free energy.”
  9. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The Freezing Threshold for k -Colourings of a Random Graph

    Molloy · Journal of the ACM · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that for random graphs with density above r f k , almost every colouring is such that a linear number of vertices are frozen, meaning that their colour cannot be changed by a sequence of alterations whereby we change the colours of o ( n ) vertices…
    2. Unchecked“When the density is below r f k , then almost every colouring is such that every vertex can be changed by a sequence of alterations where we change O (log n ) vertices at a time.”
  10. Computer Science › Error Correcting Code Techniques

    Approaching the Rate-Distortion Limit with Spatial Coupling, Belief propagation and Decimation

    Aref, Macris and Vuffray · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“The algorithmic rate-distortion curve approaches the optimal curve of the ensemble as the width of the coupling window grows.”
    2. Unchecked“We observe that: (i) the dynamical temperature of the spatially coupled construction saturates towards the condensation temperature; (ii) for large degrees the condensation temperature approaches the temperature (i.e. noise level) related to the information…
    3. Unchecked“Moreover, as the check degree grows both curves approach the ultimate Shannon rate-distortion limit.”
  11. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Statistical mechanics of disordered quantum optimization

    Laumann · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“In particular, we introduce the study of random quantum satisfiability (QSAT) and identify the coarse aspects of its phase diagram, including a new form of entanglement transition.”
    2. Unchecked“We further apply the cavity method to extract Griffiths-McCoy singularities in a diluted (classical) ferromagnet and finally observe that there are no Goldstone bosons on the Bethe lattice.”
  12. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

    Charting the Replica Symmetric Phase

    Coja‐Oghlan, Efthymiou, Jaafari, Kang and Kapetanopoulos · DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“In this paper we rigorise this picture completely for a broad class of models, encompassing the Potts antiferromagnet on the random graph, the $k$-XORSAT model and the diluted $k$-spin model for even $k$.”

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