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28 claims from 20 papers

1. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Analytic and Algorithmic Solution of Random Satisfiability Problems

   Mézard, Parisi and Zecchina · Science · 2002

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   1. Unchecked“We show the existence of an intermediate phase below α c , where the proliferation of metastable states is responsible for the onset of complexity in search algorithms.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Mick Gets Some (the Odds Are on His Side)

   Chvátal and Reed · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 1992

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   1. Unchecked“In addition, we establish a threshold for 2-SAT; if k = 2 then F is satisfiable with probability 1 - o(1) whenever c < 1 and unsatisfiable with probability 1 - o(1) whenever c > 1.”

3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Typical random 3-SAT formulae and the satisfiability threshold

   Dubois, Boufkhad and Mandler · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2002

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   1. Unchecked“We show its efficiency in obtaining a jump from the previous upper bounds, lowering them to 4.506.”
   2. Unchecked“The method combines well with other techniques, and also applies to other problems, such as the 3-colourability of random graphs.”

4. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Lower bounds for random 3-SAT via differential equations

   Achlioptas · Theoretical Computer Science · 2001

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   1. Unchecked“We show how differential equations can serve as a generic tool for analyzing such algorithms by rederiving most of the known lower bounds for random 3-SAT in a simple, uniform manner.”

5. Computer Science › Advanced Graph Theory Research

   The Connectivity of Boolean Satisfiability: Computational and Structural Dichotomies

   Gopalan, Kolaitis, Maneva and Papadimitriou · SIAM Journal on Computing · 2009

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   1. Unchecked“The diameter of components can be exponential for the PSPACE-complete cases, whereas in all other cases it is linear; thus, diameter and complexity of the connectivity problems are remarkably aligned.”

6. 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 $\ln2-\frac12+O(1/k)\approx 0.19$.”

7. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Statistical mechanics of the random K -satisfiability model

   Monasson and Zecchina · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 1997

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   1. Unchecked“The annealed approximation is proven to be exact for large K.”

8. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Reconstruction and Clustering in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems

   A, Restrepo and Tetali · SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“The bounds become asymptoticlally tight as the number of degrees of freedom in each clause diverges.”

9. 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.”

10. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Catching the k-NAESAT threshold

    Coja-Oglan and Παναγιώτου · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that the threshold for the existence of solutions in random $k$-NAESAT is $2^{k-1}\ln2-(\frac{\ln2}2+\frac14)+\eps_k$, where $|\eps_k| \le 2^{-(1-o_k(1))k}$, thereby verifying the statistical mechanics conjecture for this problem.”

11. 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.”

12. 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.”

13. 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.”

14. 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.”

15. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    A new upper bound for 3-SAT

    Dı́az, Kirousis, Mitsche and Pérez‐Giménez · RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“We show that a randomly chosen $3$-CNF formula over $n$ variables with clauses-to-variables ratio at least $4.4898$ is asymptotically almost surely unsatisfiable.”

16. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The replica symmetric phase of random constraint satisfaction problems

    Coja-Oghlan, Kapetanopoulos and Müller · Combinatorics Probability Computing · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“In this paper we prove these physics predictions for a broad class of random constraint satisfaction problems.”
    2. Unchecked“Additionally, we obtain contiguity results that have implications on Bayesian inference tasks, a subject that has received a great deal of interest recently (e.g., [Banks et al., COLT 2016]).”

17. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Behavior of heuristics on large and hard satisfiability problems

    Ardelius and Aurell · Physical Review E · 2006

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    1. Unchecked“We show that ASAT solves instances as large as one million variables in linear time, on average, up to 4.21 clauses per variable for random 3SAT.”
    2. Unchecked“For K higher than 3, ASAT appears to solve instances at the ``FRSB threshold'' in linear time, up to K=7.”

18. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Super solutions of random (3 + p)-SAT

    Bin and Zhou · Theoretical Computer Science · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“This paper studies the ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfiability of random ( 3 + p ) -SAT and obtains rigorous results that the exact ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfiability threshold is r p ⁎ = 1 / 3 ( 1 − p ) if p ≤ 3 / 7 .”
    2. Unchecked“For p ≥ 3 / 7 , we give lower and upper bounds of the ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfiability threshold, where the lower bound is obtained by using the Unit-Clause algorithm, and the upper bound is obtained by using a novel way to count precisely the subset of all ( 1 , 0…

19. 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.”

20. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    One-step replica symmetry breaking of random regular NAE-SAT I

    Nam, Sly and Sohn · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Namely, we prove that with probability bounded away from zero, most of the solutions lie inside a bounded number of solution clusters whose sizes are comparable to the scale of the free energy.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, we establish that the overlap between two independently drawn solutions concentrates precisely at two values.”