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11 claims from 8 papers

1. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Linear Level Lasserre Lower Bounds for Certain k-CSPs

   Schoenebeck · Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science · 2008

   The paper shows that a high level of the Lasserre hierarchy cannot disprove random k-CSP instances, which gives integrality gaps for problems such as vertex cover and hypergraph independent set.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says its work is the first construction of an integrality gap for the Lasserre hierarchy, a method for approximating hard optimisation problems.“This is the first construction of a Lasserre integrality gap.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Random k ‐SAT: Two Moments Suffice to Cross a Sharp Threshold

   Achlioptas and Moore · SIAM Journal on Computing · 2006

   The authors use a second-moment argument to locate the thresholds for random hypergraph 2-colourability and Not-All-Equal k-SAT, and derive from this the order of the random k-SAT threshold.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper states that the satisfiability threshold for random k-SAT grows in proportion to 2^k, settling a long-standing open question.“As a corollary, we establish that the threshold for random k‐SAT is of order $\Theta(2^k)$, resolving a long‐standing open problem.”

3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Landscape analysis of constraint satisfaction problems

   Krząkała and B · Physical Review E · 2007

   The paper analyses constraint satisfaction problems as energy landscapes, and a benchmark algorithm suggested by this finds solutions in polynomial time beyond the clustering transition, sometimes beyond the thermodynamic one.

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   1. UncheckedThe point up to which a benchmark algorithm finds solutions quickly has a simple geometric meaning and could in principle be found with statistical mechanics methods.“This point has a simple geometric meaning and can be in principle determined with standard Statistical Mechanical methods, thus pushing the analytic bound up to which problems are guaranteed to be easy.”

4. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Constraint satisfaction problems with isolated solutions are hard

   Zdeborová and Mézard · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2008

   The paper studies the phase diagram and algorithmic hardness of random 'locked' constraint satisfaction problems, whose solution clusters are isolated points, and compares them with problems like satisfiability and graph colouring.

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   1. UncheckedIn random 'locked' constraint satisfaction problems, the clustered phase is empirically very hard: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions.“On the other hand we show empirically that the clustered phase of these problems is extremely hard from the algorithmic point of view: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions.”

5. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Locked Constraint Satisfaction Problems

   Zdeborová and Mézard · Physical Review Letters · 2008

   The authors introduce random 'locked' constraint satisfaction problems, show they have a broad clustered phase with isolated solutions, and propose them as benchmarks of really hard optimisation problems.

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   1. UncheckedIn a new family of random 'locked' constraint problems, the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions once the problems reach their clustered phase.“While the phase diagram can be found easily, these problems, in their clustered phase, are extremely hard from the algorithmic point of view: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions.”

6. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Biased landscapes for random constraint satisfaction problems

   Budzynski, Ricci‐Tersenghi and Semerjian · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2019

   The paper studies how a bias on solutions of random constraint problems, applied to bicoloring k-uniform random hypergraphs, shifts the clustering transition, and what that means for Simulated Annealing.

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   1. UncheckedFor small k, biasing solutions in random hypergraph bicoloring delays the clustering transition to higher constraint density and helps Simulated Annealing.“We show that for small k the clustering transition can be delayed in this way to higher density of constraints, and that this strategy has a positive impact on the performances of Simulated Annealing algorithms.”

7. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Phase transitions in the q -coloring of random hypergraphs

   Gabrié, Dani, Semerjian and Zdeborová · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical · 2017

   The paper studies how solutions to random hypergraph coloring change as constraint density varies, giving explicit values for several phase transitions and asymptotic expansions when the number of colours or constraint size is large.

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   1. UncheckedFor random hypergraph bicoloring with 3 or 4 variables per constraint, the one-step replica-symmetry-breaking calculation does not give the colorability threshold.“Among other cases we revisit the hypergraph bicoloring problem ($q=2$) where we find that for $K=3$ and $K=4$ the colorability threshold is not given by the one-step-replica-symmetry-breaking analysis as the latter is unstable towards more levels of replica symmetry breaking.”
   2. UncheckedIn random hypergraph bicoloring (two colours) with constraints of four or more variables, the paper finds two distinct 1RSB solutions that coexist.“We also unveil and discuss the coexistence of two different 1RSB solutions in the case of $q=2$, $K \ge 4$.”

8. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Relaxed Survey Propagation for The Weighted Maximum Satisfiability Problem

   Leong and Sun · 2014

   The paper presents relaxed survey propagation (RSP), which extends survey propagation to weighted Max-SAT, gives it a cover-based interpretation, and reports that it outperforms other solvers on random instances.

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   1. UncheckedThe relaxed survey propagation (RSP) algorithm is reported to beat state-of-the-art weighted Max-SAT solvers on random weighted Max-SAT instances.“RSP also outperforms state-of-the-art weighted Max-SAT solvers on random weighted Max-SAT instances.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors show that relaxed survey propagation (RSP) can be read as estimating marginals over covers that violate a set of clauses with minimal total weight.“We show that RSP has an interpretation of estimating marginals over covers violating a set of clauses with minimal weight.”
   3. Unchecked“Empirically, we show that RSP outperforms SP-y and other state-of-the-art Max-SAT solvers on random Max-SAT instances.”