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18 claims from 14 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms

   A fast and elitist multiobjective genetic algorithm: NSGA-II

   Deb, Pratap, Agarwal and Meyarivan · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 2002

   The paper proposes NSGA-II, a multi-objective genetic algorithm that tackles three criticisms of earlier methods: high computational cost, lack of elitism and the need for a sharing parameter.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper presents a fast non-dominated sorting method whose computing cost grows as O(MN²), where M is the number of objectives and N the population size.“Specifically, a fast non-dominated sorting approach with O(MN/sup 2/) computational complexity is presented.”
   2. UncheckedIn simulations, a constrained version of NSGA-II performed much better than another constrained multi-objective optimizer on several test problems.“Simulation results of the constrained NSGA-II on a number of test problems, including a five-objective, seven-constraint nonlinear problem, are compared with another constrained multi-objective optimizer, and the much better performance of NSGA-II is observed.”

2. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   The complexity of theorem-proving procedures

   Cook · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 1971

   Cook shows that tautology checking is as hard as any nondeterministic polynomial-time problem, defines polynomial degrees of difficulty, and introduces a way to measure the complexity of predicate calculus proof procedures.

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   1. UncheckedAny problem solvable by a polynomial-time nondeterministic Turing machine can be reduced to checking whether a propositional formula is a tautology.“It is shown that any recognition problem solved by a polynomial time-bounded nondeterministic Turing machine can be “reduced” to the problem of determining whether a given propositional formula is a tautology.”
   2. UncheckedChecking whether a logical formula is always true is shown to be exactly as hard, in polynomial terms, as checking whether one graph sits inside another.“From this notion of reducible, polynomial degrees of difficulty are defined, and it is shown that the problem of determining tautologyhood has the same polynomial degree as the problem of determining whether the first of two given graphs is isomorphic to a subgraph of the second.”

3. Computer Science › Computational Drug Discovery Methods

   Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life

   Discovery, Boitreaud, Dent et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024

   The paper introduces Chai-1, a multi-modal foundation model for molecular structure prediction that it reports performs at state-of-the-art across drug-discovery tasks, and releases it for use.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper states that Chai-1 can run without multiple sequence alignments (single-sequence mode) and keep most of its performance.“Chai-1 can also be run in single-sequence mode with-out MSAs while preserving most of its performance.”

4. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Linear Level Lasserre Lower Bounds for Certain k-CSPs

   Schoenebeck · Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science · 2008

   The paper shows that a high level of the Lasserre hierarchy cannot disprove random k-CSP instances, which gives integrality gaps for problems such as vertex cover and hypergraph independent set.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says its work is the first construction of an integrality gap for the Lasserre hierarchy, a method for approximating hard optimisation problems.“This is the first construction of a Lasserre integrality gap.”

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

   The paper establishes structural and computational dichotomies for the connectivity of the solution space of Boolean satisfiability problems, within Schaefer's framework.

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   1. UncheckedFor Boolean formulas, solution-space components can have exponential diameter only in the PSPACE-complete cases; in all other cases the diameter is linear.“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 › Computational Drug Discovery Methods

   AlphaFold2 structures guide prospective ligand discovery

   Lyu, Kapolka, Gumpper et al. · Science · 2024

   Docking large libraries against unrefined AlphaFold2 models of two receptors found new ligands as well as docking against experimental structures, extending structure-based drug design.

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   1. UncheckedDocking against AlphaFold2 models and experimental structures gave similarly high hit rates and similar binding affinities for two receptors.“Hit rates were high and similar for the experimental and AF2 structures, as were affinities.”
   2. UncheckedA cryo-EM structure of a potent 5-HT2A ligand found by AlphaFold2 docking showed residue adjustments resembling the AlphaFold2 prediction.“Determination of the cryo–electron microscopy structure for one of the more potent 5-HT2A ligands from the AF2 docking revealed residue accommodations that resembled the AF2 prediction.”

7. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Algebrization

   Aaronson and Wigderson · ACM Transactions on Computation Theory · 2009

   The paper introduces a third barrier to proving major complexity results, called algebrization, and shows that known arithmetization-based results get past ordinary relativization but still algebrize.

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   1. UncheckedAaronson and Wigderson show that most major open problems in complexity theory, including P versus NP, cannot be resolved by algebrizing proof techniques.“Second, we show that almost all of the major open problems---including P versus NP, P versus RP, and NEXP versus P/poly---will require non-algebrizing techniques.”

8. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Nonuniform ACC Circuit Lower Bounds

   Williams · Journal of the ACM · 2014

   The paper proves that NEXP lacks polynomial-size nonuniform ACC circuits, and that E^NP lacks ACC circuits of size 2^(n^o(1)), by designing faster circuit satisfiability algorithms for ACC.

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   1. UncheckedNEXP, a class of problems solvable in nondeterministic exponential time, cannot be computed by polynomial-size nonuniform ACC circuits.“NEXP, the class of languages accepted in nondeterministic exponential time, does not have nonuniform ACC circuits of polynomial size.”

9. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   No Occurrence Obstructions in Geometric Complexity Theory

   Bürgisser, Ikenmeyer and Panova · Journal of the American Mathematical Society · 2016

   The paper shows that occurrence obstructions cannot separate the orbit closures of the determinant and padded permanent, while leaving open the wider approach using multiplicity obstructions.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper proves that separating the determinant and padded permanent orbit closures by occurrence obstructions, as Mulmuley and Sohoni proposed, is impossible.“In that paper it was also proposed to separate these orbit closures by exhibiting occurrence obstructions, which are irreducible representations of GL_{n^2}(C), which occur in one coordinate ring of the orbit closure, but not in the other. We prove that this approach is impossible.”

10. Computer Science › Formal Methods in Verification

    Formal Verification of the Empty Hexagon Number

    Bernardo, Wojciech, James, Cayden, Mario and Heule · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

    The authors encode Keller's conjecture in dimension 7 as a satisfiability problem and use a SAT solver with symmetry breaking to find that no clique of size 128 exists in three related graphs.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper says that in any tiling of 7-dimensional space by unit cubes, at least two cubes must share a full face.“This result implies that every unit cube tiling of $\mathbb{R}^7$ contains a facesharing pair of cubes.”

11. Computer Science › Computational Drug Discovery Methods

    Efficient generation of protein pockets with PocketGen

    Zhang, Shen, Liu and Žitnik · Nature Machine Intelligence · 2024

    The authors introduce PocketGen, a deep generative model that designs the ligand-binding region of a protein, including its residue sequence and atomic structure, using a graph transformer and a protein language model.

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    1. UncheckedPocketGen is reported to run ten times faster than physics-based methods, with 97% of its generated pockets binding a ligand more strongly than reference pockets.“It operates ten times faster than physics-based methods and achieves a 97% success rate, defined as the percentage of generated pockets with higher binding affinity than reference pockets.”
    2. UncheckedPocketGen, a model that designs ligand-binding protein pockets, is reported to recover more than 63% of amino acids when compared with reference pockets.“Additionally, it attains an amino acid recovery rate exceeding 63%.”

12. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    A New General-Purpose Method to Multiply 3x3 Matrices Using Only 23 Multiplications

    Courtois, Bard and Hulme · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2011

    Using SAT solvers on the Brent equations, the authors found new 23-multiplication methods for 3x3 matrices, suggesting a 22-multiplication method is more plausible than thought.

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    1. UncheckedThe authors report a new way to multiply two 3x3 matrices with 23 multiplications that they say is not an equivalent variant of Laderman's 1976 method.“We present a new fully general non-commutative solution with 23 multiplications and show that this solution is new and is NOT an equivalent variant of the Laderman's original solution.”

13. Computer Science › Matrix Theory and Algorithms

    New ways to multiply 3 x 3-matrices

    Heule, Kauers and Seidl · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

    The authors find over 13,000 new, mutually inequivalent 23-multiplication schemes for 3 x 3 matrices and show the set of such schemes forms a manifold of dimension at least 17.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper presents over 13,000 new, mutually inequivalent ways to multiply two 3 x 3 matrices using 23 multiplications.“In this article, we extend this list considerably by providing more than 13 000 new and mutually inequivalent schemes for multiplying 3 x 3-matrices using 23 multiplications.”

14. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    Improving the matrix multiplication exponent with modern optimization and AlphaEvolve

    Dupont, Eisenberger, Kozlovskii et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026

    The note improves the optimisation step behind the laser method's combination loss analysis, using a reformulation, a machine-learning-based algorithm and AlphaEvolve, giving a slightly lower bound on ω.

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    1. UncheckedThe authors report a new upper bound on the matrix multiplication exponent, ω < 2.371177, slightly below the previous best of 2.371339.“Our combined approach yields an upper bound of $ω$ < 2.371177, improving the previous best bound of 2.371339.”