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The cavity method: from exact solutions to algorithms

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2022-09-26 v1 Discrete Mathematics Probability

Abstract

The goal of this chapter is to review the main ideas that underlie the cavity method for disordered models defined on random graphs, as well as present some of its outcomes, focusing on the random constraint satisfaction problems for which it provided both a better understanding of the phase transitions they undergo, and suggestions for the development of algorithms to solve them.

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@article{arxiv.2209.11499,
  title  = {The cavity method: from exact solutions to algorithms},
  author = {Alfredo Braunstein and Guilhem Semerjian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.11499},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

To appear as a contribution to the edited volume "Spin Glass Theory & Far Beyond - Replica Symmetry Breaking after 40 Years", World Scientific

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