Min-Max Problems on Factor Graphs

Authors: Siamak Ravanbakhsh, Christopher Srinivasa, Brendan Frey, Russell Greiner

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Experimental results suggest that message passing often provides near optimal min-max solutions for moderate size instances.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Siamak Ravanbakhsh MRAVANBA@UALBERTA.CA Christopher Srinivasa CHRIS@PSI.UTORONTO.CA Brendan Frey FREY@PSI.UTORONTO.CA Russell Greiner RGREINER@UALBERTA.CA Computing Science Dept., University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8 Canada PSI Group, University of Toronto, ON M5S 3G4 Canada
Pseudocode No The paper does not contain any structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks that are clearly labeled as 'Algorithm' or 'Pseudocode'.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any concrete access to source code for the methodology described, such as a specific repository link, an explicit code release statement, or code in supplementary materials.
Open Datasets Yes Table 2. Some optimal binary codes from Litsyn et al. 1999 recovered by K-packing factor-graph in the order of increasing y.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not provide specific dataset split information (exact percentages, sample counts, citations to predefined splits, or detailed splitting methodology) needed to reproduce the data partitioning into train/validation/test sets.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific hardware details (exact GPU/CPU models, processor types, memory amounts, or detailed computer specifications) used for running its experiments. It only mentions general experimental settings.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not provide specific ancillary software details, such as library or solver names with version numbers (e.g., 'Python 3.8', 'CPLEX 12.4'), that are needed to replicate the experiment.
Experiment Setup Yes The number of iterations T is the only parameter of PBP and increasing T, increases the chance of finding a solution (Only downside is time complexity; nb., no chance of a false positive). PBP starts at γ = 0 and linearly increases γ at each iteration, ending at γ = 1 at its final iteration. (T = 50 iterations for PBP (Figure 3), T = 500 for PBP (Figure 5), T = 1000 iterations (Table 2), T = 5000 for PBP (Figure 5)).