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1. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Counting solutions from finite samplings

   Huang and Zhou · Physical Review E · 2012

   The paper estimates how many solutions a problem has by treating it as an inverse Ising problem and using belief propagation, then tests this on constraint models and on salamander retina data.

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   1. UncheckedIn random 2-SAT, 3-SAT and binary perceptron models, an entropy estimate of the solution count can be very close to the true value when constraint density is small.“We test this idea on both diluted models (random 2-SAT and 3-SAT problems) and fully-connected model (binary perceptron), and show that when the constraint density is small, this estimate can be very close to the true value.”