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We present a family of algorithms to solve random planted instances of any $k$-ary Boolean constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). A randomly planted instance of a Boolean CSP is generated by (1) choosing an arbitrary planted assignment…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Arpon Basu , Jun-Ting Hsieh , Andrew D. Lin , Peter Manohar

We investigate the fine-grained and the parameterized complexity of several generalizations of binary constraint satisfaction problems (BINARY-CSPs), that subsume variants of graph colouring problems. Our starting point is the observation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ambroise Baril , Miguel Couceiro , Victor Lagerkvist

We study the complexity of the parameterised counting constraint satisfaction problem: given a set of constraints over a set of variables and a positive integer $k$, how many ways are there to assign $k$ variables to 1 (and the others to 0)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Panagiotis Aivasiliotis , Andreas Göbel , Marc Roth

We study the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems involving global constraints, i.e., special-purpose constraints provided by a solver and represented implicitly by a parametrised algorithm. Such constraints are widely used;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-11 David A. Cohen , Peter G. Jeavons , Evgenij Thorstensen , Stanislav Živný

Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a framework for modeling and solving a variety of real-world problems. Once the problem is expressed as a finite set of constraints, the goal is to find the variables' values satisfying them. Even…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Rachid Oucheikh , Ismail Berrada , Outman El Hichami

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

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

A lot of problems, from fields like sparse signal processing, statistics, portfolio selection, and machine learning, can be formulated as a cardinality constraint optimization problem. The cardinality constraint gives the problem a discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Vikram Singh , Min Sun

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

The constrained synchronization problem (CSP) asks for a synchronizing word of a given input automaton contained in a regular set of constraints. It could be viewed as a special case of synchronization of a discrete event system under…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Stefan Hoffmann

We study the classic Max-Cut problem under multiple cardinality constraints, which we refer to as the Constrained Max-Cut problem. Given a graph $G=(V, E)$, a partition of the vertices into $c$ disjoint parts $V_1, \ldots, V_c$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yury Makarychev , Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu , Ali Vakilian

We study random constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in the unsatisfiable regime. We relate the structure of near-optimal solutions for any Max-CSP to that for an associated spin glass on the hypercube, using the Guerra-Toninelli…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Chris Jones , Kunal Marwaha , Juspreet Singh Sandhu , Jonathan Shi

Optimization problems with norm-bounding constraints arise in a variety of applications, including portfolio optimization, machine learning, and feature selection. A common approach to these problems involves relaxing the norm constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Danial Davarnia , Mohammadreza Kiaghadi

We study the complexity of the Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DCSP) on a synchronous, anonymous network from a theoretical standpoint. In this setting, variables and constraints are controlled by agents which communicate with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Silvia Butti , Victor Dalmau

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

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

Parameterized complexity enables the practical solution of generally intractable NP-hard problems when certain parameters are small, making it particularly useful in real-world applications. The study of string problems in this framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Josh Cudby , Sergii Strelchuk

CSP sparsification, introduced by Kogan and Krauthgamer (ITCS 2015), considers the following question: how much can an instance of a constraint satisfaction problem be sparsified (by retaining a reweighted subset of the constraints) while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron L. Putterman , Madhu Sudan

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

This paper considers the problem of minimizing an expectation function over a closed convex set, coupled with a {\color{black} functional or expectation} constraint on either decision variables or problem parameters. We first present a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Guanghui Lan , Zhiqiang Zhou