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This paper addresses a quadratic problem with assignment constraints, an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arisen from facility location, multiple-input multiple-output detection, and maximum mean discrepancy calculation et al. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Lijun Xie , Ran Gu , Xin Liu

Many natural combinatorial problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems. This class of problems is known to be NP-complete in general, but certain restrictions on the form of the constraints can ensure tractability. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dmitriy Zhuk

We study the optimization version of constraint satisfaction problems (Max-CSPs) in the framework of parameterized complexity; the goal is to compute the maximum fraction of constraints that can be satisfied simultaneously. In standard…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Holger Dell , Eun Jung Kim , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou , Tobias Mömke

Many AI synthesis problems such as planning or scheduling may be modelized as constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). A CSP is typically defined as the problem of finding any consistent labeling for a fixed set of variables satisfying all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Thomas Schiex

The exponential-time hypothesis (ETH) states that 3-SAT is not solvable in subexponential time, i.e. not solvable in O(c^n) time for arbitrary c > 1, where n denotes the number of variables. Problems like k-SAT can be viewed as special…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Peter Jonsson , Victor Lagerkvist , Biman Roy

A Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a framework used for modeling and solving constrained problems. Tree-search algorithms like backtracking try to construct a solution to a CSP by selecting the variables of the problem one after…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Muhammad Rezaul Karim

We show that the uniform Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) parameterized by the size of the solution is in W[1] (the problem is W[1]-hard and it is easy to place it in W[3]). Given a single "free" element of the domain, denoted by $0$,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Ruhollah Majdoddin

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

One of the key research interests in the area of Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is to identify tractable classes of constraints and develop efficient solutions for them. In this paper, we introduce generalized staircase (GS)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Shubhadip Mitra , Partha Dutta , Arnab Bhattacharya

We study the power of the bounded-width consistency algorithm in the context of the fixed-template Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP). Our main technical finding is that the template of every PCSP that is solvable in bounded…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Albert Atserias , Víctor Dalmau

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

In a $(k,2)$-Constraint Satisfaction Problem we are given a set of arbitrary constraints on pairs of $k$-ary variables, and are asked to find an assignment of values to these variables such that all constraints are satisfied. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Or Zamir

A wide range of problems can be modelled as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), that is, a set of constraints that must be satisfied simultaneously. Constraints can either be represented extensionally, by explicitly listing allowed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Evgenij Thorstensen

The study of phase transition phenomenon of NP complete problems plays an important role in understanding the nature of hard problems. In this paper, we follow this line of research by considering the problem of counting solutions of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-25 Minghao Yin , Ping Huang

An instance of Max CSP is a finite collection of constraints on a set of variables, and the goal is to assign values to the variables that maximises the number of satisfied constraints. Max CSP captures many well-known problems (such as Max…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-12-11 Peter Jonsson , Andrei Krokhin , Fredrik Kuivinen

Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) is an optimization variant of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem. In general, MaxSAT algorithms perform a succession of SAT solver calls to reach an optimum solution making extensive use of cardinality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-21 Ruben Martins , Saurabh Joshi , Vasco Manquinho , Ines Lynce

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

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are an important formal framework for the uniform treatment of various prominent AI tasks, e.g., coloring or scheduling problems. Solving CSPs is, in general, known to be NP-complete and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Hubie Chen , Georg Gottlob , Matthias Lanzinger , Reinhard Pichler

Random instances of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP's) appear to be hard for all known algorithms, when the number of constraints per variable lies in a certain interval. Contributing to the general understanding of the structure of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Andrea Montanari , Ricardo Restrepo , Prasad Tetali

In this paper, we consider the problem of finding a maximum cardinality subset of vectors, given a constraint on the normalized squared length of vectors sum. This problem is closely related to Problem 1 from (Eremeev, Kel'manov, Pyatkin,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Anton V. Eremeev , Alexander V. Kelmanov , Artem V. Pyatkin , Igor A. Ziegler