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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

We study the computational complexity of planar valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs), which require the incidence graph of the instance be planar. First, we show that intractable Boolean VCSPs have to be self-complementary to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Peter Fulla , Stanislav Zivny

For a finite relational structure A, let CSP(A) denote the CSP instances whose constraint relations are taken from A. The resulting family of problems CSP(A) has been considered heavily in a variety of computational contexts. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Hubie Chen , Matt Valeriote , Yuichi Yoshida

We investigate the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) over templates with a group structure, and algorithms solving CSP that are equivariant, i.e. invariant under a natural group action induced by a template. Our main result is a method…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Sławomir Lasota

Promise CSPs are a relaxation of constraint satisfaction problems where the goal is to find an assignment satisfying a relaxed version of the constraints. Several well-known problems can be cast as promise CSPs including approximate graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

In 2007 it was conjectured that the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) over a constraint language $\Gamma$ is tractable if and only if $\Gamma$ is preserved by a weak near-unanimity (WNU) operation. After many efforts and partial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Dmitriy Zhuk

Constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) has been actively used for modeling and solving a wide range of complex real-world problems. However, it has been proven that developing efficient methods for solving CSP, especially for large problems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zouhayra Ayadi , Wadii Boulila , Imed Riadh Farah

We report new results on the complexity of the valued constraint satisfaction problem (VCSP). Under the unique games conjecture, the approximability of finite-valued VCSP is fairly well-understood. However, there is yet no characterisation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-29 Peter Jonsson , Fredrik Kuivinen , Johan Thapper

We argue that parameterized complexity is a useful tool with which to study global constraints. In particular, we show that many global constraints which are intractable to propagate completely have natural parameters which make them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-04 Christian Bessiere , Emmanuel Hebrard , Brahim Hnich , Zeynep Kiziltan , Toby Walsh

In this paper, we define the reoptimization variant of the closest substring problem (CSP) under sequence addition. We show that, even with the additional information we have about the problem instance, the problem of finding a closest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Jeffrey Aborot , Henry Adorna , Jhoirene Clemente

In recent years they have been numerous works that aim to automate relational verification. Meanwhile, although Constrained Horn Clauses (CHCs) empower a wide range of verification techniques and tools, they lack the ability to express…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Hiroshi Unno , Tachio Terauchi , Eric Koskinen

The field of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) studies homomorphism problems between relational structures where the target structure is fixed. Classifying the complexity of these problems has been a central quest of the field,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Antoine Cuvelier , Rémi Morvan

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) on a finite relational structure B is to decide, given a set of constraints on variables where the relations come from B, whether or not there is a assignment to the variables satisfying all of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hubie Chen

In this Part II, we apply the general theory developed in Part I to a detailed analysis of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). We show how specific types of resolution rules can be defined. In particular, we introduce the general…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Denis Berthier

Let \Gamma be a structure with a finite relational signature and a first-order definition in (R;*,+) with parameters from R, that is, a relational structure over the real numbers where all relations are semi-algebraic sets. In this article,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Manuel Bodirsky , Peter Jonsson , Timo von Oertzen

We present a Transformer-based framework for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). CSPs find use in many applications and thus accelerating their solution with machine learning is of wide interest. Most existing approaches rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yudong W. Xu , Wenhao Li , Scott Sanner , Elias B. Khalil

In the maximum constraint satisfaction problem (MAX CSP), one is given a finite collection of (possibly weighted) constraints on overlapping sets of variables, and the goal is to assign values from a given finite domain to the variables so…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vladimir Deineko , Peter Jonsson , Mikael Klasson , Andrei Krokhin

The causal graph of a planning instance is an important tool for planning both in practice and in theory. The theoretical studies of causal graphs have largely analysed the computational complexity of planning for instances where the causal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Christer Bäckström , Peter Jonsson

We analyse how the standard reductions between constraint satisfaction problems affect their proof complexity. We show that, for the most studied propositional, algebraic, and semi-algebraic proof systems, the classical constructions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Albert Atserias , Joanna Ochremiak

A finite constraint language $\mathscr{R}$ is a finite set of relations over some finite domain $A$. We show that intractability of the constraint satisfaction problem $\operatorname{CSP}(\mathscr{R})$ can, in all known cases, be replaced…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Lucy Ham , Marcel Jackson