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5 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells generate an analog error-correcting code for singularly precise neural computation

   Sreenivasan and Fiete · Nature Neuroscience · 2011

   The paper analyses how accurately noisy grid cells encode location and reports a robust, error-correcting population code that a simple neural network can decode.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper states that grid cells represent location far more accurately across their coding range than observed sensory and motor population codes can.“In particular, the representational accuracy attained by grid cells over the coding range was in a qualitatively different class from what is possible with observed sensory and motor population codes.”
   2. UncheckedA simple neural network can effectively correct errors in the grid cell code that the brain uses to represent location, according to the authors.“We found that a simple neural network can effectively correct the grid code.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions

   Achlioptas and Coja‐Oghlan · 2013

   The paper studies how the set of k-colourings of a random graph changes as edges are added, and ties the factor-of-2 barrier for known algorithms to a phase transition in that set's geometry.

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   1. UncheckedThe factor of 2 in colouring random graphs marks a precise geometric phase transition in the set of valid colourings, according to the authors' proof.“We prove that the factor of 2 corresponds in a precise mathematical sense to a phase transition in the geometry of this set.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors develop a general technique that rigorously proves much of the 1-step Replica-Symmetry-Breaking hypothesis from statistical physics for random CSPs.“To prove our results we develop a general technique that allows us to prove rigorously much of the celebrated 1-step Replica-Symmetry-Breaking hypothesis of statistical physics for random CSPs.”

3. Mathematics › Limits and Structures in Graph Theory

   Set-coloring Ramsey numbers via codes

   Conlon, Fox, He, Mubayi, Suk and Verstraëte · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The paper proves general upper and lower bounds on set-coloring Ramsey numbers, using a link to error-correcting codes, and also studies the analogous problem for hypergraphs.

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   1. UncheckedThe set-coloring Ramsey number R(n;r,s) is shown to grow as 2 to the power of a constant multiple of nr when s/r stays away from 0 and 1.“We prove general upper and lower bounds on $R(n;r,s)$ which imply that $R(n;r,s) = 2^{Θ(nr)}$ if $s/r$ is bounded away from $0$ and $1$.”