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1. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Biased thermodynamics can explain the behaviour of smart optimization algorithms that work above the dynamical threshold

   Cavaliere and Ricci‐Tersenghi · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2025

   The paper argues that algorithmic limits in random constraint problems can be tied to thermodynamics if solutions are sampled with a biased, rather than uniform, probability measure.

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   1. Unchecked“We consider a simple Monte Carlo-based optimization algorithm, which is restricted to the solution space, and we demonstrate that sampling the equilibrium distribution of a biased measure improving on $α_d$ is still possible even beyond the ergodicity breaki…
   2. UncheckedThe authors conjecture that many smart algorithms sample solutions from a biased measure, and their failure point is that measure's ergodicity-breaking transition.“The conjecture we put forward is that many smart algorithms sample the solution space according to a biased measure: once this measure is identified, the algorithmic threshold is given by the corresponding ergodicity-breaking transition.”
   3. UncheckedAlgorithm behaviour and thermodynamic predictions can be reconciled up to a threshold, the highest dynamical threshold over all probability measures on solutions.“Here we show that a reconciliation between algorithmic behaviour and thermodynamic prediction is nonetheless possible at least up to some threshold $α_d^{\rm opt}\geqα_d$, which is defined as the maximum value of the dynamical threshold computed on all possible probability measures over the solutio…”