METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOLUTION OF PROBLEMS USING CONSTRAINED DISCRETE VARIABLES

Patent №

US 7,036,720

Granted

2006-05-02

Filed 2003

Owner

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)

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Lab

AI components

4

ml · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10606275

Calculator based resolution method and device for an optimization problem of the physical real world, the problem being modeled with constrained discrete variables, the variables having a referenced set of possible states. The method comprising, a survey propagation step and a survey induced decimation step to provide a simplified problem, until all variables are either assigned or are unpolarized.

AI classification

Planning1.00
AI hardware0.98
Machine learning0.94
Knowledge representation0.82
Evolutionary computation0.06
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)

assignment · 148490459

UNIVERSITE PARIS SUD (PARIS XI)

assignment · 148490459

ABDUS SALEAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

assignment · 148490459

Assignors

MEZARD, MARC, ZECCHINA, RICCARDO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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