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It is known that if an algebra of polymorphisms of the constraint language has the Polynomially Generated Powers (PGP) Property then the Quantified CSP can be reduced to the CSP over the same constraint language with constants. The only…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Dmitriy Zhuk

In this paper, I consider a fine-grained dichotomy of Boolean counting constraint satisfaction problem (#CSP), under the exponential time hypothesis of counting version (#ETH). Suppose $\mathscr{F}$ is a finite set of algebraic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ying Liu

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

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) that includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. Barto [LICS '19] has shown that a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Kristina Asimi , Libor Barto

Query evaluation over probabilistic databases is known to be intractable in many cases, even in data complexity, i.e., when the query is fixed. Although some restrictions of the queries [19] and instances [4] have been proposed to lower the…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Antoine Amarilli , Mikaël Monet , Pierre Senellart

A CSP with n variables ranging over a domain of d values can be solved by brute-force in d^n steps (omitting a polynomial factor). With a more careful approach, this trivial upper bound can be improved for certain natural restrictions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Iyad Kanj , Stefan Szeider

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

This paper describes a new approach on optimization of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) by means of substituting sub-CSPs with locally consistent regular membership constraints. The purpose of this approach is to reduce the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sven Löffler , Ke Liu , Petra Hofstedt

In a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) the goal is to find an assignment of a given set of variables subject to specified constraints. A global cardinality constraint is an additional requirement that prescribes how many variables must…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Andrei A. Bulatov , Daniel Marx

We produce a class of $\omega$-categorical structures with finite signature by applying a model-theoretic construction -- a refinement of the Hrushosvki-encoding -- to $\omega$-categorical structures in a possibly infinite signature. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Pierre Gillibert , Julius Jonušas , Michael Kompatscher , Antoine Mottet , Michael Pinsker

In recent years, much attention has been placed on the complexity of graph homomorphism problems when the input is restricted to ${\mathbb P}_k$-free and ${\mathbb P}_k$-subgraph-free graphs. We consider the directed version of this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Santiago Guzmán-Pro , Barnaby Martin

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

We study the strong convergence and bounded perturbation resilience of iterative algorithms based on the Generalized Modular String-Averaging (GMSA) procedure for infinite sequences of input operators under a general admissible control.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Kay Barshad , Yair Censor

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

The fixed-template constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) can be seen as the problem of deciding whether a given primitive positive first-order sentence is true in a fixed structure (also called model). We study a class of problems that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Kristina Asimi , Libor Barto , Silvia Butti

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

We show that CSP is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the treewidth of a backdoor into any tractable CSP problem over a finite constraint language. This result combines the two prominent approaches for achieving tractability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Robert Ganian , M. S. Ramanujan , Stefan Szeider

Constraint satisfaction problems (or CSPs) have been extensively studied in, for instance, artificial intelligence, database theory, graph theory, and statistical physics. From a practical viewpoint, it is beneficial to approximately solve…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Tomoyuki Yamakami

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

In the constraint satisfaction problem ($CSP$), the aim is to find an assignment of values to a set of variables subject to specified constraints. In the minimum cost homomorphism problem ($MinHom$), one is additionally given weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Rustem Takhanov