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5 claims from 3 papers

  1. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

    Information-theoretic thresholds from the cavity method

    Coja‐Oghlan, Krząkała, Perkins and Zdeborová · Advances in Mathematics · 2018

    The paper rigorously establishes a physics-derived cavity method formula for mutual information in random-graph inference problems, and uses it to pin down several phase transitions.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper proves a 2007 conjecture on where the condensation phase transition occurs in random graph colouring, for any number q of colours from 3 upwards.“Further, we prove the conjecture from [Krzakala et al.: PNAS 2007] about the condensation phase transition in the random graph coloring problem for any number $q\geq3$ of colors.”
  2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Information-theoretic thresholds from the cavity method

    Coja‐Oghlan, Krząkała, Perkins and Zdeborová · ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2017

    The paper proves a general formula for mutual information in inference problems built on random graphs, confirming predictions of the physics-derived cavity method and settling several earlier conjectures.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper proves a formula for mutual information in Low-Density Generator Matrix codes, which Montanari had conjectured in 2005.“As a further application we establish the formula for the mutual information in Low-Density Generator Matrix codes as conjectured in [Montanari: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2005)].”
  3. Computer Science › Error Correcting Code Techniques

    Approaching the Rate-Distortion Limit with Spatial Coupling, Belief propagation and Decimation

    Aref, Macris and Vuffray · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

    The paper studies lossy compression of a binary symmetric source with spatially coupled sparse codes and a simple decoder-like encoder, and links its performance to phase transitions found with spin glass methods.

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    1. UncheckedIn this lossy compression scheme, the practical encoder's rate-distortion curve gets closer to the ensemble's optimal curve as the coupling window widens.“The algorithmic rate-distortion curve approaches the optimal curve of the ensemble as the width of the coupling window grows.”
    2. UncheckedIn spatially coupled lossy-compression codes, the dynamical temperature approaches the condensation temperature, which nears the Shannon noise level at large degrees.“We observe that: (i) the dynamical temperature of the spatially coupled construction saturates towards the condensation temperature; (ii) for large degrees the condensation temperature approaches the temperature (i.e. noise level) related to the information theoretic Shannon test-channel noise para…”
    3. UncheckedAs the check degree rises, both the algorithm's and the ensemble's rate-distortion curves approach the Shannon limit for this lossy compression scheme.“Moreover, as the check degree grows both curves approach the ultimate Shannon rate-distortion limit.”

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