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4 claims from 3 papers

1. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Backbone Fragility and the Local Search Cost Peak

   Singer, Gent and Smaill · Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research · 2000

   The paper analyses why the local search algorithm WSat finds some random 3-SAT instances hard, and proposes that large, fragile backbones explain high search costs near the satisfiability threshold.

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   1. UncheckedThe number of solutions predicts WSat's search cost well for small-backbone instances, but much less well for large-backbone ones near and beyond the threshold.“We find that the number of solutions predicts the cost well for small-backbone instances but is much less relevant for the large-backbone instances which appear near the threshold and dominate in the overconstrained region.”
   2. UncheckedBackbone-minimal 3-SAT instances, altered to be more backbone-fragile, are unusually hard for the WSat local search algorithm.“Second, that backbone-minimal instances (which are 3-SAT instances altered so as to be more backbone-fragile) are unusually hard for WSat.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   On Belief Propagation Guided Decimation for Random k -SAT

   Coja‐Oghlan · ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) · 2011

   The paper gives the first rigorous analysis of Belief Propagation Guided Decimation on random k-SAT, showing it fails at clause densities well below the satisfiability threshold.

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   1. UncheckedBelief Propagation Guided Decimation provably fails to find a satisfying assignment of random k-SAT once clauses per variable exceed about c times r(k)/k.“Furnishing the first rigorous analysis of BP decimation, the present paper shows that the algorithm fails to find a satisfying assignment already for m/n>c.r(k)/k, for a constant c>0 (independent of k).”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

   Coloring Random Graphs

   Mulet, Pagnani, Weigt and Zecchina · Physical Review Letters · 2002

   The paper studies colouring random graphs with q colours, finding the critical connectivity where graphs become uncolourable and a clustering phase below it linked to local search difficulty.

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   1. UncheckedBelow the colourability threshold, random-graph colourings split into exponentially many clusters, and metastable states make local search algorithms struggle.“Moreover, we show that below $c_q$ there exist a clustering phase $c\in [c_d,c_q]$ in which ground states spontaneously divide into an exponential number of clusters and where the proliferation of metastable states is responsible for the onset of complexity in local search algorithms.”