Survey-propagation decimation through distributed local computations

Joel Chavas 1, Cyril Furtlehner 2, Marc Mezard 2, Riccardo Zecchina 3

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment P (2005) P11016

We discuss the implementation of two distributed solvers of the random K-SAT problem, based on some development of the recently introduced survey-propagation (SP) algorithm. The first solver, called the \’SP diffusion algorithm\’, diffuses as dynamical information the maximum bias over the system, so that variable nodes can decide to freeze in a self-organized way, each variable making its decision on the basis of purely local information. The second solver, called the \’SP reinforcement algorithm\’, makes use of time-dependent external forcing messages on each variable, which let the variables get completely polarized in the direction of a solution at the end of a single convergence. Both methods allow us to find a solution of the random 3-SAT problem in a range of parameters comparable with the best previously described serialized solvers. The simulated time of convergence towards a solution (if these solvers were implemented on a distributed device) grows as log(N).

  • 1. ISI,
    ISI
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS),
    CNRS : UMR8626 – Université Paris XI – Paris Sud
  • 3. ICTP,
    ICTP
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