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We study parameterized Constraint Satisfaction Problem for infinite constraint languages. The parameters that we study are weight of the satisfying assignment, number of constraints, maximum number of occurrences of a variable in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Ruhollah Majdoddin

In recent years, there has been significant interest in characterizing the induced subgraph obstructions to bounded treewidth and pathwidth. While this has recently been resolved for pathwidth, the case of treewidth remains open, and prior…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Maria Chudnovsky , David Fischer , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl , Bartosz Walczak

In this paper, we propose a modal logic in which counting modalities appear in linear inequalities. We show that each formula can be transformed into an equivalent graph neural network (GNN). We also show that each GNN can be transformed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Pierre Nunn , François Schwarzentruber

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Arash Beikmohammadi , Andrei A. Bulatov

The Satisfactory Partition problem consists in deciding if the set of vertices of a given undirected graph can be partitioned into two nonempty parts such that each vertex has at least as many neighbours in its part as in the other part.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity , Shuvam Kant Tripathi

Parameterized algorithms are a way to solve hard problems more efficiently, given that a specific parameter of the input is small. In this paper, we apply this idea to the field of answer set programming (ASP). To this end, we propose two…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Johannes Fichte , Markus Hecher , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

The role of polymorphisms in determining the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems is well established. In this context we study the stability of CSP complexity and polymorphism properties under some basic graph theoretic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Marcel Jackson , Tomasz Kowalski , Todd Niven

The algebraic approach to the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) uses high order symmetries of relational structures -- polymorphisms -- to study the complexity of the CSP. In this paper we further develop one of the methods the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Andrei A. Bulatov

We study the Equitable Connected Partition (ECP for short) problem, where we are given a graph G=(V,E) together with an integer p, and our goal is to find a partition of V into p parts such that each part induces a connected sub-graph of G…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Václav Blažej , Dušan Knop , Jan Pokorný , Šimon Schierreich

Spanning tree modulus is a generalization of effective resistance that is closely related to graph strength and fractional arboricity. The optimal edge density associated with spanning tree modulus is known to produce two hierarchical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Nathan Albin , Kapila Kottegoda , Pietro Poggi-Corradini

In this paper, we study the complexity of the periodic temporal graph realization problem with respect to upper bounds on the fastest path durations among its vertices. This constraint with respect to upper bounds appears naturally in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Nils Morawietz , Paul G. Spirakis

Clustering algorithms for large networks typically use modularity values to test which partitions of the vertex set better represent structure in the data. The modularity of a graph is the maximum modularity of a partition. We consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Colin McDiarmid , Fiona Skerman

Structural decomposition methods have been developed for identifying tractable classes of instances of fundamental problems in databases, such as conjunctive queries and query containment, of the constraint satisfaction problem in…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Gianluigi Greco , Francesco Scarcello

Pearl's Causal Hierarchy (PCH) is a central framework for reasoning about probabilistic, interventional, and counterfactual statements, yet the satisfiability problem for PCH formulas is computationally intractable in almost all classical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Robert Ganian , Marlene Gründel , Simon Wietheger

Treewidth (tw) is an important parameter that, when bounded, yields tractability for many problems. For example, graph problems expressible in Monadic Second Order (MSO) logic and QUANTIFIED SAT or, more generally, QUANTIFIED CSP, are FPT…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Florent Foucaud , Esther Galby , Liana Khazaliya , Shaohua Li , Fionn Mc Inerney , Roohani Sharma , Prafullkumar Tale

There are various approaches to exploiting "hidden structure" in instances of hard combinatorial problems to allow faster algorithms than for general unstructured or random instances. For SAT and its counting version #SAT, hidden structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-30 Serge Gaspers , Stefan Szeider

Parameterized complexity seeks to use input structure to obtain faster algorithms for NP-hard problems. This has been most successful for graphs of low treewidth: Many problems admit fast algorithms relative to treewidth and many of them…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

A matched formula is a CNF formula whose incidence graph admits a matching which matches a distinct variable to every clause. We study phase transition in a context of matched formulas and their generalization of biclique satisfiable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Miloš Chromý , Petr Kučera

In this paper we initiate the study of the temporal graph realization problem with respect to the fastest path durations among its vertices, while we focus on periodic temporal graphs. Given an $n \times n$ matrix $D$ and a $\Delta \in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Nina Klobas , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Paul G. Spirakis

This paper investigates concurrency-constrained scheduling problems, where the objective is to construct a schedule for a set of jobs subject to concurrency restrictions. Formally, we are given a conflict graph $G$ defined over a set of $n$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hans L. Bodlaender , Danny Hermelin , Erik Jan van Leeuwen
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