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We give a poly-time construction for a combinatorial classic known as Sparse Incomparability Lemma, studied by Erdos, Lovasz, Nesetril, Rodl and others: We show that every Constraint Satisfaction Problem is poly-time equivalent to its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Gabor Kun

Many researchers in artificial intelligence are beginning to explore the use of soft constraints to express a set of (possibly conflicting) problem requirements. A soft constraint is a function defined on a collection of variables which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 D. Cohen , M. Cooper , P. Jeavons , A. Krokhin

We prove that, in case $A(c)$ = the FRT construction of a braided vector space $(V,c)$ admits a weakly Frobenius algebra $\mathfrak B$ (e.g. if the braiding is rigid and its Nichols algebra is finite dimensional), then the Hopf envelope of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Marco Farinati

Given a finite structure $M$ and property $p$, it is a natural to study the degree of satisfiability of $p$ in $M$; i.e. to ask: what is the probability that uniformly randomly chosen elements in $M$ satisfy $p$? In group theory, a…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , Zoltan A. Kocsis

In this paper, the Identity Problem for certain groups, which asks if the subsemigroup generated by a given finite set of elements contains the identity element, is related to problems regarding ordered groups. Notably, the Identity Problem…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Corentin Bodart , Laura Ciobanu , George Metcalfe

We present a new algorithm for determining the satisfiability of conjunctions of non-linear polynomial constraints over the reals, which can be used as a theory solver for satisfiability modulo theory (SMT) solving for non-linear real…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Erika Ábrahám , James H. Davenport , Matthew England , Gereon Kremer

Primitive positive constructions have been introduced in recent work of Barto, Opr\v{s}al, and Pinsker to study the computational complexity of constraint satisfaction problems. Let $\mathfrak P_{\operatorname{fin}}$ be the poset which…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Manuel Bodirsky , Albert Vucaj

Larrauri and \v{Z}ivn\'y [ICALP'25/ACM ToCL'24] recently established a complete complexity classification of the problem of solving a system of equations over a monoid $N$ assuming that a solution exists over a monoid $M$, where both…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Alberto Larrauri , Antoine Mottet , Stanislav Živný

We aim at investigating the solvability/insolvability of nondeterministic logarithmic-space (NL) decision, search, and optimization problems parameterized by natural size parameters using simultaneously polynomial time and sub-linear space.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tomoyuki Yamakami

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 consider constraint satisfaction problems parameterized above or below tight bounds. One example is MaxSat parameterized above $m/2$: given a CNF formula $F$ with $m$ clauses, decide whether there is a truth assignment that satisfies at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-25 G. Gutin , A. Yeo

We prove that the isomorphism problem is decidable for generalized Baumslag-Solitar (GBS) groups with one quasi-conjugacy class and full support gaps. In order to do so we introduce a family of invariants that fully characterize the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Dario Ascari , Montserrat Casals-Ruiz , Ilya Kazachkov

One of the central open problems to classify the computational complexity of finite-domain constraint satisfaction problems within P is to prove better algorithmic results for CSPs with a Maltsev polymorphism; we do not even know whether…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Manuel Bodirsky , Andrew Moorhead

The Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) holds a central place in computational complexity theory as the first shown NP-complete problem. Due to this role, SAT is often used as the benchmark for polynomial-time reductions: if a problem can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yumiko Nishiyama

Encoding constraints into neural networks is attractive. This paper studies how to introduce the popular positive linear satisfiability to neural networks. We propose the first differentiable satisfiability layer based on an extension of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Runzhong Wang , Yunhao Zhang , Ziao Guo , Tianyi Chen , Xiaokang Yang , Junchi Yan

We study the seeded domino problem, the recurring domino problem and the $k$-SAT problem on finitely generated groups. These problems are generalization of their original versions on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ that were shown to be undecidable using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Nicolás Bitar

We investigate a correspondence between the complexity hierarchy of constraint satisfaction problems and a hierarchy of logical compactness hypotheses for finite relational structures. It seems that the harder a constraint satisfaction…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Danny Rorabaugh , Claude Tardif , David Wehlau

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 domain to the variables so as to…

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

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

The complexity and approximability of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) has been actively studied over the last 20 years. A new version of the CSP, the promise CSP (PCSP) has recently been proposed, motivated by open questions about…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Libor Barto , Jakub Bulín , Andrei Krokhin , Jakub Opršal