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The complexity of the promise constraint satisfaction problem $\operatorname{PCSP}(\mathbf{A},\mathbf{B})$ is largely unknown, even for symmetric $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$, except for the case when $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Tamio-Vesa Nakajima , Stanislav Živný

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) and its quantified extensions, whether without (QCSP) or with disjunction (QCSP_or), correspond naturally to the model checking problem for three increasingly stronger fragments of positive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-27 Florent Madelaine , Barnaby Martin

In the last two decades the study of random instances of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) has flourished across several disciplines, including computer science, mathematics and physics. The diversity of the developed methods, on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Konstantinos Panagiotou , Matija Pasch

We study approximability of regular constraint satisfaction problems, i.e., CSPs where each variable in an instance has the same number of occurrences. In particular, we show that for any CSP $\Lambda$, existence of an $\alpha$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Aleksa Stankovic

This thesis investigates the extent to which the optimal value of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) can be approximated by some sentence of fixed point logic with counting (FPC). It is known that, assuming $\mathsf{P} \neq…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jamie Tucker-Foltz

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular framework for modeling combinatorial problems. However, ASP cannot easily be used for reasoning about uncertain information. Possibilistic ASP (PASP) is an extension of ASP that combines…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Kim Bauters , Steven Schockaert , Martine De Cock , Dirk Vermeir

As machine learning models, specifically neural networks, are becoming increasingly popular, there are concerns regarding their trustworthiness, specially in safety-critical applications, e.g. actions of an autonomous vehicle must be safe.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Kshitij Goyal , Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

We study the computational complexity of counting constraint satisfaction problems (#CSPs) whose constraints assign complex numbers to Boolean inputs when the corresponding constraint hypergraphs are acyclic. These problems are called…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Tomoyuki Yamakami

The CSP (constraint satisfaction problems) is a class of problems deciding whether there exists a homomorphism from an instance relational structure to a target one. The CSP dichotomy is a profound result recently proved by Zhuk (2020, J.…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Azza Gaysin

The typical complexity of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) can be investigated by means of random ensembles of instances. The latter exhibit many threshold phenomena besides their satisfiability phase transition, in particular a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-29 Louise Budzynski , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Guilhem Semerjian

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

Finding actions that satisfy the constraints imposed by both external inputs and internal representations is central to decision making. We demonstrate that some important classes of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) can be solved by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-16 Ueli Rutishauser , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Rodney J. Douglas

The Constraint-satisfaction problem (CSP) is fundamental in mathematics, physics, and theoretical computer science. Continuous local search (CLS) solvers, as recent advancements, can achieve highly competitive results on certain classes of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yunuo Cen , Zixuan Wang , Jintao Zhang , Zhiwei Zhang , Xuanyao Fong

Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs, for short) make up a class of problems with applications in many areas of computer science. The first classification of these problems was given by Schaeffer who showed that every CSP over the domain…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Dejan Delic , John Marcoux

In this paper we study the approximability of (Finite-)Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems (VCSPs) with a fixed finite constraint language {\Gamma} consisting of finitary functions on a fixed finite domain. An instance of VCSP is given…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Victor Dalmau , Andrei Krokhin , Rajsekar Manokaran

We investigate the computational complexity of the problem of counting the maximal satisfying assignments of a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) over the Boolean domain {0,1}. A satisfying assignment is maximal if any new assignment…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum

A subset of Q^n is called semilinear (or piecewise linear) if it is Boolean combination of linear half-spaces. We study the computational complexity of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) over the rationals when all the constraints…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Manuel Bodirsky , Marcello Mamino

In this paper, we study the parameterized complexity of local search, whose goal is to find a good nearby solution from the given current solution. Formally, given an optimization problem where the goal is to find the largest feasible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Aditya Anand , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Tommaso d'Orsi , Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Debmalya Panigrahi , Sijin Peng

Constraint satisfaction problems are computational problems that naturally appear in many areas of theoretical computer science. One of the central themes is their computational complexity, and in particular the border between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Manuel Bodirsky

We study interactions between Skolem Arithmetic and certain classes of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). We revisit results of Glass er et al. in the context of CSPs and settle the major open question from that paper, finding a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Christian Glasser , Peter Jonsson , Barnaby Martin