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We present a unified framework on the limits of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) and efficient parameter testing which depends only on array exchangeability and the method of cut decomposition without recourse to the weakly regular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Marek Karpinski , Roland Markó

The effective representation, processing, analysis, and visualization of large-scale structured data, especially those related to complex domains such as networks and graphs, are one of the key questions in modern machine learning. Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Xiaowen Dong , Dorina Thanou , Laura Toni , Michael Bronstein , Pascal Frossard

Literature on Constraint Satisfaction exhibits the definition of several structural properties that can be possessed by CSPs, like (in)consistency, substitutability or interchangeability. Current tools for constraint solving typically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Lucas Bordeaux , Marco Cadoli , Toni Mancini

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are a class of problems that are ubiquitous in science and engineering. It features a collection of constraints specified over subsets of variables. A CSP can be solved either directly or by reducing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Xuanzhao Gao , Xiaofeng Li , Jinguo Liu

We survey recent advances in the theory of graph and hypergraph decompositions, with a focus on extremal results involving minimum degree conditions. We also collect a number of intriguing open problems, and formulate new ones.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Stefan Glock , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

Scalable addressing of high dimensional constrained combinatorial optimization problems is a challenge that arises in several science and engineering disciplines. Recent work introduced novel application of graph neural networks for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Nasimeh Heydaribeni , Xinrui Zhan , Ruisi Zhang , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Farinaz Koushanfar

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

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised for modelling complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, gain much attention representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Song Kim , Dahee Kim , Taejoon Han , Junghoon Kim , Hyun Ji Jeong , Jungeun Kim

Constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a well-studied combinatorial search problem, in which we are asked to find an assignment of values to given variables so as to satisfy all of given constraints. We study a reconfiguration variant of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Tatsuhiko Hatanaka , Takehiro Ito , Xiao Zhou

Treewidth and hypertree width have proven to be highly successful structural parameters in the context of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). When either of these parameters is bounded by a constant, then CSP becomes solvable in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Andre Schidler , Robert Ganian , Manuel Sorge , Stefan Szeider

We initiate a systematic study of the computational complexity of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) over finite structures that may contain both relations and operations. We show the close connection between this problem and a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Libor Barto , William DeMeo , Antoine Mottet

In recent years, significant advances have been made in the design and evaluation of balanced (hyper)graph partitioning algorithms. We survey trends of the last decade in practical algorithms for balanced (hyper)graph partitioning together…

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a recently introduced vast generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). We investigate the computational complexity of a class of PCSPs beyond the most studied cases -…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Libor Barto , Diego Battistelli , Kevin M. Berg

In this work, we focus on the Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) over control-flow graphs (CFGs) of programs. PCSP serves as a generalization of the well-known Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). In the CSP framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xuran Cai , Amir Goharshady

Finding actions that satisfy the constraints imposed by both external inputs and internal representations is central to decision making. We demonstrate that some important classes of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) can be solved by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-16 Ueli Rutishauser , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Rodney J. Douglas

The \emph{Sandwich Problem} (SP) for a graph class $\calC$ is the following computational problem. The input is a pair of graphs $(V,E_1)$ and $(V,E_2)$ where $E_1\subseteq E_2$, and the task is to decide whether there is an edge set $E$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Manuel Bodirsky , Santiago Guzmán-Pro

Modern compression algorithms exploit complex structures that are present in signals to describe them very efficiently. On the other hand, the field of compressed sensing is built upon the observation that "structured" signals can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Farideh Ebrahim Rezagah , Shirin Jalali , Elza Erkip , H. Vincent Poor

Research in Graph Signal Processing (GSP) aims to develop tools for processing data defined on irregular graph domains. In this paper we first provide an overview of core ideas in GSP and their connection to conventional digital signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-28 Antonio Ortega , Pascal Frossard , Jelena Kovačević , José M. F. Moura , Pierre Vandergheynst

This paper investigates the reconfiguration variant of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP), referred to as the Reconfiguration CSP (RCSP). Given a CSP instance and two of its solutions, RCSP asks whether one solution can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Kei Kimura

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