Decelle et al.'s computational impossibility conjecture below the Kesten–Stigum threshold

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Let (X,G)(X,G) follow the same stochastic block model as in the achievability conjecture, with

SNR=(ab)2k(a+(k1)b).\operatorname{SNR}=\frac{(a-b)^2}{k(a+(k-1)b)}.

Decelle et al.'s computational impossibility conjecture. Irrespective of kk, if SNR<1\operatorname{SNR}<1, it is impossible to detect communities in polynomial time. This is the computational counterpart to the Kesten–Stigum achievability statement. The source presents it among further conjectures concerning impossibility statements; no resolution is given in the supplied text.

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Emmanuel Abbe and Colin Sandon, “Detection in the stochastic block model with multiple clusters: proof of the achievability conjectures, acyclic BP, and the information-computation gap”, arXiv:1512.09080 (2016).

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