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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques

   Improved Optimization for the Robust and Accurate Linear Registration and Motion Correction of Brain Images

   Jenkinson, Bannister, Brady and Smith · NeuroImage · 2002

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   1. Unchecked“It substantially reduces the likelihood of producing misregistrations due to being trapped by local minima.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Where the really hard problems are

   Cheeseman, Kanefsky and Taylor · 1991

   The paper argues that hard NP-complete problems cluster at a critical value of an order parameter, a phase-transition-like boundary between over- and underconstrained cases.

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   1. UncheckedSearch algorithms 'thrash' at the critical boundary because many well-separated near-solutions (local minima) are packed together there.“It is the high density of well-separated almost solutions (local minima) at this boundary that cause search algorithms to "thrash".”