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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

We introduce a problem class we call Polynomial Constraint Satisfaction Problems, or PCSP. Where the usual CSPs from computer science and optimization have real-valued score functions, and partition functions from physics have monomials,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Alexander D. Scott , Gregory B. Sorkin

The constraint satisfaction probem (CSP) is a well-acknowledged framework in which many combinatorial search problems can be naturally formulated. The CSP may be viewed as the problem of deciding the truth of a logical sentence consisting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hubie Chen

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

We establish a framework that allows us to transfer results between some constraint satisfaction problems with infinite templates and promise constraint satisfaction problems. On the one hand, we obtain new algebraic results for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Antoine Mottet

What makes a computational problem easy (e.g., in P, that is, solvable in polynomial time) or hard (e.g., NP-hard)? This fundamental question now has a satisfactory answer for a quite broad class of computational problems, so called…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Libor Barto

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are ubiquitous in theoretical computer science. We study the problem of StrongCSPs, i.e. instances where a large induced sub-instance has a satisfying assignment. More formally, given a CSP instance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Suprovat Ghoshal , Anand Louis

Constraint satisfaction problems have been studied in numerous fields with practical and theoretical interests. In recent years, major breakthroughs have been made in a study of counting constraint satisfaction problems (or #CSPs). In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Tomoyuki Yamakami

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are about finding values of variables that satisfy the given constraints. We show that Transformer extended with recurrence is a viable approach to learning to solve CSPs in an end-to-end manner,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Zhun Yang , Adam Ishay , Joohyung Lee

We study the design of stochastic local search methods to prove unsatisfiability of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). For a binary CSP, such methods have been designed using the microstructure of the CSP. Here, we develop a method to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Daya Gaur , Muhammad Khan

Constraint-solving-based program invariant synthesis takes a parametric invariant template and encodes the (inductive) invariant conditions into constraints. The problem of characterizing the set of all valid parameter assignments is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Hao Wu , Qiuye Wang , Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Lihong Zhi , Zhihong Yang

In this paper we study the complexity of counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) of the form #CSP($\mathcal{C}$,-), in which the goal is, given a relational structure $\mathbf{A}$ from a class $\mathcal{C}$ of structures and an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Andrei A. Bulatov , Stanislav Zivny

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is ubiquitous in various areas of mathematics and computer science. Many of its variations have been studied including the Counting CSP, where the goal is to find the number of solutions to a CSP…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Amirhossein Kazeminia , Andrei A. Bulatov

The Algebraic Dichotomy Conjecture states that the Constraint Satisfaction Problem over a fixed template is solvable in polynomial time if the algebra of polymorphisms associated to the template lies in a Taylor variety, and is NP-complete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Libor Barto , Marcin Kozik

A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a computational problem where the input consists of a finite set of variables and a finite set of constraints, and where the task is to decide whether there exists a satisfying assignment of values…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Manuel Bodirsky

A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a problem of computing a homomorphism ${\bf R} \rightarrow {\bf \Gamma}$ between two relational structures. Analyzing its complexity has been a very fruitful research direction, especially for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Rustem Takhanov

We build on a recently proposed method for explaining solutions of constraint satisfaction problems. An explanation here is a sequence of simple inference steps, where the simplicity of an inference step is measured by the number and types…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Emilio Gamba , Bart Bogaerts , Tias Guns

Given $k$ collections of 2SAT clauses on the same set of variables $V$, can we find one assignment that satisfies a large fraction of clauses from each collection? We consider such simultaneous constraint satisfaction problems, and design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Amey Bhangale , Swastik Kopparty , Sushant Sachdeva

The binary Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is to decide whether there exists an assignment to a set of variables which satisfies specified constraints between pairs of variables. A binary CSP instance can be presented as a labelled…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-28 David A. Cohen , Martin C. Cooper , Peter G. Jeavons , Stanislav Zivny

In the Permutation Constraint Satisfaction Problem (Permutation CSP) we are given a set of variables $V$ and a set of constraints C, in which constraints are tuples of elements of V. The goal is to find a total ordering of the variables,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Eun Jung Kim , Daniel Goncalves