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21 claims from 14 papers

1. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Where the really hard problems are

   Cheeseman, Kanefsky and Taylor · 1991

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   1. Unchecked“It is the high density of well-separated almost solutions (local minima) at this boundary that cause search algorithms to "thrash".”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Complex Network Analysis Techniques

   The phase transition in inhomogeneous random graphs

   Bollobás, Janson and Riordan · Random Structures and Algorithms · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“We also consider other properties of the model, showing, for example, that when there is a giant component, it is `stable': for a typical random graph, no matter how we add or delete o(n) edges, the size of the giant component does not change by more than o(…

3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions

   Achlioptas and Coja‐Oghlan · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“We prove that the factor of 2 corresponds in a precise mathematical sense to a phase transition in the geometry of this set.”
   2. Unchecked“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.”

4. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Random k ‐SAT: Two Moments Suffice to Cross a Sharp Threshold

   Achlioptas and Moore · SIAM Journal on Computing · 2006

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   1. Unchecked“As a corollary, we establish that the threshold for random k‐SAT is of order $\Theta(2^k)$, resolving a long‐standing open problem.”

5. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   The asymptotic k-SAT threshold

   Coja‐Oghlan · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“Here we prove that rk--SAT = 2k ln 2--1/2 (1 + ln 2) + ok(1), which matches the 1RSB prediction up to the ok(1) error term.”

6. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   An Analysis of Phase Transition in NK Landscapes

   Gao and Culberson · Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research · 2002

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   1. Unchecked“For the fixed ratio model, we establish several upper bounds for the solubility threshold, and prove that random instances with parameters above these upper bounds can be solved polynomially.”
   2. Unchecked“For the uniform probability model, we prove that the phase transition is easy in the sense that there is a polynomial algorithm that can solve a random instance of the problem with the probability asymptotic to 1 as the problem size tends to infinity.”

7. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Phase transitions in the q -coloring of random hypergraphs

   Gabrié, Dani, Semerjian and Zdeborová · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“Among other cases we revisit the hypergraph bicoloring problem ($q=2$) where we find that for $K=3$ and $K=4$ the colorability threshold is not given by the one-step-replica-symmetry-breaking analysis as the latter is unstable towards more levels of replica…
   2. Unchecked“We also unveil and discuss the coexistence of two different 1RSB solutions in the case of $q=2$, $K \ge 4$.”

8. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   The number of satisfying assignments of random 2‐SAT formulas

   Achlioptas, Coja‐Oghlan, Hahn‐Klimroth et al. · Random Structures and Algorithms · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“The proof is based on showing that the Belief Propagation algorithm renders the correct marginal probability that a variable is set to `true' under a uniformly random satisfying assignment.”
   2. Unchecked“We show that throughout the satisfiable phase the normalised number of satisfying assignments of a random $2$-SAT formula converges in probability to an expression predicted by the cavity method from statistical physics.”

9. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Phase transitions of the typical algorithmic complexity of the random satisfiability problem studied with linear programming

   Schawe, Bleim and Hartmann · PLoS ONE · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“For the present random $K$-SAT problem we have investigated numerous structural properties also exhibiting clear transitions, but they appear not be correlated to the here observed easy-hard transitions.”

10. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The Freezing Threshold for k -Colourings of a Random Graph

    Molloy · Journal of the ACM · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that for random graphs with density above r f k , almost every colouring is such that a linear number of vertices are frozen, meaning that their colour cannot be changed by a sequence of alterations whereby we change the colours of o ( n ) vertices…
    2. Unchecked“When the density is below r f k , then almost every colouring is such that every vertex can be changed by a sequence of alterations where we change O (log n ) vertices at a time.”

11. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    2+p-SAT: Relation of Typical-Case Complexity to the Nature of the Phase Transition

    Monasson, Zecchina, Kirkpatrick, Selman and Troyansky · arXiv (Cornell University) · 1999

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    1. Unchecked“The random first order transition combines properties of the 1st order (discontinuous onset of order) and 2nd order (with power law scaling, e.g. of the width of the the critical region in a finite system) transitions known in the physics of pure solids.”

12. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The Threshold for Random k-SAT is 2^k ln2 - O(k)

    Achlioptas and Peres · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2003

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that there exists a sequence t_k = O(k) such that if r < 2^k ln 2 - t_k, then the formula F is satisfiable with probability that tends to 1 as n tends to infinity.”

13. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Super Tickets in Pre-Trained Language Models: From Model Compression to Improving Generalization

    Chen, Zuo, Chen et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“In particular, we observe a phase transition phenomenon: As the compression ratio increases, generalization performance of the winning tickets first improves then deteriorates after a certain threshold.”
    2. Unchecked“Our experiments on the GLUE benchmark show that the super tickets improve single task fine-tuning by $0.9$ points on BERT-base and $1.0$ points on BERT-large, in terms of task-average score.”

14. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions

    Achlioptas and Coja-Oghlan · Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that the factor of 2 corresponds in a precise mathematical sense to a phase transition in the geometry of this set.”
    2. Unchecked“We prove that a completely analogous phase transition also occurs both in random $k$-SAT and in random hypergraph 2-coloring.”