The paper presents evidence of computational hardness for two problems based on a strengthened low-degree conjecture in random graphs.
The study addresses the matching recovery problem in sparse correlated Erdős-Rényi graphs and the detection problem between correlated sparse stochastic block models and independent stochastic block models.
The research utilizes 'algorithmic contiguity' to establish bounds on low-degree advantage between probability measures, enabling reductions between different inference tasks.
The findings offer insights into computational complexity in correlated random graphs and provide a framework for addressing related inference problems.