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Only independent evidence moves it."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2964239702","title":"Information-theoretic thresholds from the cavity method","authors":["Amin Coja‐Oghlan","Florent Krząkała","Will Perkins","Lenka Zdeborová"],"authorCount":4,"venue":"ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)","year":2017,"type":"conference-paper","citedBy":29,"keywords":["mutual information","condensation phase transition","random constraint satisfaction problems","cavity method","low-density generator matrix codes","statistical inference"],"topic":{"topic":"Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization","subfield":"Computer Networks and Communications","field":"Computer Science","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-19T04:00:53.775Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"The paper proves a formula for mutual information in Low-Density Generator Matrix codes, which Montanari had conjectured in 2005.","did":"The authors give mathematical proofs, rather than experiments, that a formula from the non-rigorous cavity method holds for statistical inference problems induced by random graphs. They then apply it to particular cases.","gist":"The paper proves a general formula for mutual information in inference problems built on random graphs, confirming predictions of the physics-derived cavity method and settling several earlier conjectures.","meaning":"Low-Density Generator Matrix codes are a kind of error-correcting code, and mutual information measures how much a received message reveals about the original. A proven formula for it in these codes would turn a long-standing conjecture into a established result. It also shows the physics-style cavity method giving correct answers in coding theory, alongside the paper's other applications.","findings":["A formula for the mutual information in statistical inference problems induced by random graphs is established, vindicating the cavity method.","The result implies the Decelle et al. conjecture on the information-theoretic threshold in the disassortative stochastic block model and pinpoints the condensation phase transition in problems such as random graph colouring.","It also yields the mutual information formula for Low-Density Generator Matrix codes, as conjectured by Montanari."],"terms":[{"term":"mutual information","means":"A measure of how much knowing one quantity, such as a received signal, tells you about another, such as the original message."},{"term":"Low-Density Generator Matrix codes","means":"Error-correcting codes in which each coded bit is computed from only a few message bits, so the matrix describing the encoding is sparse."},{"term":"conjectured","means":"Proposed as likely to be true but not yet proven at the time."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"openalex","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-19T04:01:33.783Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-19T04:01:33.783Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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