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5 claims from 3 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Machine learning phases of matter

   Carrasquilla and Melko · Nature Physics · 2017

   The authors show that neural networks trained on Monte Carlo samples can identify phases and phase transitions in condensed matter systems without knowing the Hamiltonian or the locality of interactions.

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   1. UncheckedNeural networks can detect Coulomb phases, and convolutional versions can detect topological phases that have no conventional order parameter.“In addition, they can detect highly non-trivial states such as Coulomb phases, and if modified to a convolutional neural network, topological phases with no conventional order parameter.”

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".”

3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   The scaling window of the 2‐SAT transition

   Bollobás, Borgs, Chayes, Kim and Wilson · Random Structures and Algorithms · 2001

   The paper determines how sharply random 2-SAT formulas switch from almost surely satisfiable to almost surely unsatisfiable, and proves the transition is continuous with exponents matching the random graph.

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   1. UncheckedFor random 2-SAT, the transition from satisfiable to unsatisfiable happens in a window of width of order n^(-1/3) around a clause-to-variable ratio of 1.“We show that W(n,delta)=(1-Theta(n^{-1/3}),1+Theta(n^{-1/3})), where the constants implicit in Theta depend on delta.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper proves that the random 2-SAT phase transition is continuous, with an order parameter critical exponent equal to 1.“Using this order parameter, we prove that the 2-SAT phase transition is continuous with an order parameter critical exponent of 1.”
   3. UncheckedThe paper determines two further critical exponents for random 2-SAT and reports that its exponents match those of the random graph.“We also determine the values of two other critical exponents, showing that the exponents of 2-SAT are identical to those of the random graph.”