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19 claims from 13 papers

1. 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.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   A new look at survey propagation and its generalizations

   Maneva, Mossel and Wainwright · Journal of the ACM · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“We then show that applying belief propagation---a well-known “message-passing” technique for estimating marginal probabilities---to this family of MRFs recovers a known family of algorithms, ranging from pure survey propagation at one extreme (ρ = 1) to stan…
   2. Unchecked“To that end, we investigate the associated lattice structure, and prove a weight-preserving identity that shows how any MRF with ρ > 0 can be viewed as a “smoothed” version of the uniform distribution over satisfying assignments (ρ = 0).”

3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Going after the k-SAT threshold

   Coja-Oghlan and Panagiotou · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“This technique enables us to compute the $k$-SAT threshold up to an additive $\ln2-\frac12+O(1/k)\approx 0.19$.”

4. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Survey propagation as local equilibrium equations

   Braunstein and Zecchina · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2004

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   1. Unchecked“We show that these equations can be derived as sum-product equations for the computation of marginals in an extended space where the variables are allowed to take an additional value -- $*$ -- when they are not forced by the combinatorial constraints.”

5. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   A Better Algorithm for Random k -SAT

   Coja‐Oghlan · SIAM Journal on Computing · 2010

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   1. Unchecked“We present a polynomial time algorithm that finds a satisfying assignment of F with high probability for constraint densities m/n<(1-eps_k)2^k\ln(k)/k, where eps_k->0.”

6. 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.”

7. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Proof of the satisfiability conjecture for large $k$

   Ding, Sly and Sun · Annals of Mathematics · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We establish the satisfiability threshold for random $k$-SAT for all $k\ge k_0$, with $k_0$ an absolute constant.”
   2. Unchecked“We show that the threshold $\alpha_{\rm sat}(k)$ is given explicitly by the one-step replica symmetry breaking prediction from statistical physics.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

   Replica bounds for optimization problems and diluted spin systems

   Franz and Leone · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2002

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   1. Unchecked“We analyze a family of models that includes the Viana-Bray model, the diluted p-spin model or random XOR-SAT problem, and the random K-SAT problem, showing that the replica method provides an improvable scheme to obtain lower bounds of the free-energy at all…
   2. Unchecked“In the case of K-SAT the replica method thus gives upper bounds of the satisfiability threshold.”

9. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Proof of the satisfiability conjecture for large k

   Ding, Sly and Sun · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“We establish the satisfiability threshold for random $k$-SAT for all $k\ge k_0$, with $k_0$ an absolute constant.”
   2. Unchecked“We show that the threshold $α_*(k)$ is given explicitly by the one-step replica symmetry breaking prediction from statistical physics.”

10. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Counting Solutions to Random CNF Formulas

    Galanis, Goldberg, Guo and Yang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“We give the first efficient algorithm to approximately count the number of solutions in the random $k$-SAT model when the density of the formula scales exponentially with $k$.”

11. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    On the Solution-Space Geometry of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    Achlioptas and Ricci‐Tersenghi · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2006

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    1. Unchecked“In particular, we prove that much before solutions disappear, they organize into an exponential number of clusters, each of which is relatively small and far apart from all other clusters.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, inside each cluster most variables are frozen, i.e., take only one value.”

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 › 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.”