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We show that the shortest $s$-$t$ path problem has the overlap-gap property in (i) sparse $\mathbf{G}(n,p)$ graphs and (ii) complete graphs with i.i.d. Exponential edge weights. Furthermore, we demonstrate that in sparse $\mathbf{G}(n,p)$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuangping Li , Tselil Schramm

We suggest a possible approach to proving the M\'ezard-Parisi formula for the free energy in the diluted spin glass models, such as diluted K-spin or random K-sat model at any positive temperature. In the main contribution of the paper, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Dmitry Panchenko

We establish a strict asymptotic inequality between a class of graph partition problems on the sparse End\H{o]s-R\'enyi and random regular graph ensembles with the same average degree. Along the way, we establish a variational…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Aukosh Jagannath , Subhabrata Sen

We provide a systematic treatment of self-averaging identities for various spin systems. The method is quite general, basically not relying on the nature of the model, and as a special case recovers the Ghirlanda-Guerra and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca De Sanctis , Silvio Franz

The Survey Propagation (SP) algorithm for solving $k$-SAT problems has been shown recently as an instance of the Belief Propagation (BP) algorithm. In this paper, we show that for general constraint-satisfaction problems, SP may not be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-31 Ronghui Tu , Yongyi Mao , Jiying Zhao

We investigate numerically the dynamical behavior of the mean field 3-spin spin glass model: we study equilibrium dynamics, and compute equilibrium time scales as a function of the system size V. We find that for increasing volumes the time…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Alain Billoire , Luca Giomi , Enzo Marinari

Optimizing a high-dimensional non-convex function is, in general, computationally hard and many problems of this type are hard to solve even approximately. Complexity theory characterizes the optimal approximation ratios achievable in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-25 Ahmed El Alaoui , Andrea Montanari

Spin-glass systems are universal models for representing many-body phenomena in statistical physics and computer science. High quality solutions of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems can be encoded into low energy states of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-14 Gavin S. Hartnett , Masoud Mohseni

In this paper we develop randomized Krylov subspace methods for efficiently computing regularized solutions to large-scale linear inverse problems. Building on the recently developed randomized Gram-Schmidt process, where sketched inner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Julianne Chung , Silvia Gazzola

The constraint satisfaction problems k-SAT and Quantum k-SAT (k-QSAT) are canonical NP-complete and QMA_1-complete problems (for k>=3), respectively, where QMA_1 is a quantum generalization of NP with one-sided error. Whereas k-SAT has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Marco Aldi , Niel de Beaudrap , Sevag Gharibian , Seyran Saeedi

Discrete combinatorial optimization has a central role in many scientific disciplines, however, for hard problems we lack linear time algorithms that would allow us to solve very large instances. Moreover, it is still unclear what are the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Raffaele Marino , Giorgio Parisi , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

The random k-SAT model is the most important and well-studied distribution over k-SAT instances. It is closely connected to statistical physics; it is used as a testbench for satisfiability algorithms, and average-case hardness over this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Noah Fleming , Denis Pankratov , Toniann Pitassi , Robert Robere

We generalize the strategy, we recently introduced to prove the existence of the thermodynamic limit for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick and p-spin models, to a wider class of mean field spin glass systems, including models with multi-component…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Guerra , Fabio L. Toninelli

Random instances of constraint satisfaction problems such as k-SAT provide challenging benchmarks. If there are m constraints over n variables there is typically a large range of densities r=m/n where solutions are known to exist with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Amin Coja-Oghlan

We study in d=3 dimensions the short range Ising spin glass with Jij=+/-1 couplings at T=0. We show that the overlap distribution is non-trivial in the limit of large system size.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Guy Hed , Alexander K. Hartmann , Eytan Domany

Random constraint satisfaction problems are interesting model systems for spin-glasses and glassy dynamics studies. As the constraint density of such a system reaches certain threshold value, its solution space may split into extremely many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-14 Haijun Zhou

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a quantum algorithm designed for Combinatorial Optimization Problem (COP). We show that if a local algorithm is limited in performance at logarithmic depth for a spin glass type COP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Mark Goh

We investigate the computational hardness of spin-glass instances on a square lattice, generated via a recently introduced tunable and scalable approach for planting solutions. The method relies on partitioning the problem graph into…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-02 Dilina Perera , Firas Hamze , Jack Raymond , Martin Weigel , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms have been proposed as a new paradigm for evolutionary optimization. This paper focuses on the parallelization of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. More specifically, the paper discusses how to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jiri Ocenasek , Martin Pelikan

We show that in the $K$-sat model with $N$ variables and $\alpha N$ clauses, the expected ratio of the smallest number of unsatisfied clauses to the number of variables is $\alpha/2^K - \sqrt{\alpha} c_*(N)/2^K$ up to smaller order terms…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Dmitry Panchenko