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We show that two related classes of algorithms, stable algorithms and Boolean circuits with bounded depth, cannot produce an approximate sample from the uniform measure over the set of solutions to the symmetric binary perceptron model at…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Ahmed El Alaoui , David Gamarnik

It was recently shown that almost all solutions in the symmetric binary perceptron are isolated, even at low constraint densities, suggesting that finding typical solutions is hard. In contrast, some algorithms have been shown empirically…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Emmanuel Abbe , Shuangping Li , Allan Sly

The symmetric binary perceptron ($\texttt{SBP}$) exhibits a dramatic statistical-to-computational gap: the densities at which known efficient algorithms find solutions are far below the threshold for the existence of solutions. Furthermore,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-30 David Gamarnik , Eren C. Kızıldağ , Will Perkins , Changji Xu

Strict linear feasibility or linear separation is usually tackled using efficient approximation/stochastic algorithms (that may even run in sub-linear times in expectation). However, today state of the art for solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong

Binary perceptron is a fundamental model of supervised learning for the non-convex optimization, which is a root of the popular deep learning. Binary perceptron is able to achieve a classification of random high-dimensional data by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-12 Yang Zhao , Junbin Qiu , Mingshan Xie , Haiping Huang

In this paper we consider stable matchings subject to assignment constraints. These are matchings that require certain assigned pairs to be included, insist that some other assigned pairs are not, and, importantly, are stable. Our main…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-06-14 Gregory Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Anders Yeo

For many computational problems involving randomness, intricate geometric features of the solution space have been used to rigorously rule out powerful classes of algorithms. This is often accomplished through the lens of the multi Overlap…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-14 David Gamarnik , Eren C. Kızıldağ , Will Perkins , Changji Xu

We study the problem of finding solutions to the stable matching problem that are robust to errors in the input and we obtain a polynomial time algorithm for a special class of errors. In the process, we also initiate work on a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Tung Mai , Vijay V. Vazirani

We study the phase diagram and the algorithmic hardness of the random `locked' constraint satisfaction problems, and compare them to the commonly studied 'non-locked' problems like satisfiability of boolean formulas or graph coloring. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-09 Lenka Zdeborová , Marc Mézard

We investigate the unsupervised node classification problem on random hypergraphs under the non-uniform Hypergraph Stochastic Block Model (HSBM) with two equal-sized communities. In this model, edges appear independently with probabilities…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Hai-Xiao Wang

We consider the problem of finding nearly optimal solutions of optimization problems with random objective functions. Two concrete problems we consider are (a) optimizing the Hamiltonian of a spherical or Ising $p$-spin glass model, and (b)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-27 David Gamarnik , Aukosh Jagannath , Alexander S. Wein

Consider the following Online Boolean Matrix-Vector Multiplication problem: We are given an $n\times n$ matrix $M$ and will receive $n$ column-vectors of size $n$, denoted by $v_1,\ldots,v_n$, one by one. After seeing each vector $v_i$, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Monika Henzinger , Sebastian Krinninger , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak

This paper depicts algorithms for solving the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem. An extreme problem is formulated to analyze the complexity of algorithms and the complexity for solving it. A novel and easy reformulation as a lottery…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Carlos Barrón-Romero

In this work, we show that for all statistical estimation problems, a natural MMSE instability (discontinuity) condition implies the failure of stable algorithms, serving as a version of OGP for estimation tasks. Using this criterion, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Xifan Yu , Ilias Zadik

In the number partitioning problem (NPP) one aims to partition a given set of $N$ real numbers into two subsets with approximately equal sum. The NPP is a well-studied optimization problem and is famous for possessing a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Rushil Mallarapu , Mark Sellke

We define and study a statistical mechanics ensemble that characterizes connected solutions in constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Built around a well-known local entropy bias, it allows us to better identify hardness transitions in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-17 Damien Barbier

The symmetric binary perceptron ($\mathrm{SBP}_{\kappa}$) problem with parameter $\kappa : \mathbb{R}_{\geq1} \to [0,1]$ is an average-case search problem defined as follows: given a random Gaussian matrix $\mathbf{A} \sim…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Neekon Vafa , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

We study linear chance-constrained problems where the coefficients follow a Gaussian mixture distribution. We provide mixed-binary quadratic programs that give inner and outer approximations of the chance constraint based on piecewise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Shibshankar Dey , Sanjay Mehrotra , Anirudh Subramanyam

We present an efficient algorithm to solve semirandom planted instances of any Boolean constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). The semirandom model is a hybrid between worst-case and average-case input models, where the input is generated by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Venkatesan Guruswami , Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari , Peter Manohar

Probabilistic solvers for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) provide efficient quantification of numerical uncertainty associated with simulation of dynamical systems. Their convergence rates have been established by a growing body of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-21 Nicholas Krämer , Philipp Hennig
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