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We develop an analytical framework for Boolean Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PCSPs) that studies polymorphisms through the notion of influence from Fourier analysis of Boolean functions. Extending the work of Brakensiek,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Demian Banakh , Katzper Michno

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) involves deciding, given a set of variables and a set of constraints on the variables, whether or not there is an assignment to the variables satisfying all of the constraints. One formulation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Hubie Chen , Benoit Larose

The complexity of the promise constraint satisfaction problem $\operatorname{PCSP}(\mathbf{A},\mathbf{B})$ is largely unknown, even for symmetric $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$, except for the case when $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Tamio-Vesa Nakajima , Stanislav Živný

What makes a computational problem easy (e.g., in P, that is, solvable in polynomial time) or hard (e.g., NP-hard)? This fundamental question now has a satisfactory answer for a quite broad class of computational problems, so called…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Libor Barto

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

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) models many important intractable NP-hard problems such as propositional satisfiability problem (SAT). Algorithms with non-trivial upper bounds on running time for restricted SAT with bounded clause…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-01-22 Liang Li , Xin Li , Tian Liu , Ke Xu

We initiate the study of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in the presence of counting quantifiers, which may be seen as variants of CSPs in the mould of quantified CSPs (QCSPs). We show that a single counting quantifier strictly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Florent Madelaine , Barnaby Martin , Juraj Stacho

In pursuit of a deeper understanding of Boolean Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PCSPs), we identify a class of problems with restricted structural complexity, which could serve as a promising candidate for complete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Katzper Michno

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

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

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a general problem central to computer science and artificial intelligence. Although the CSP is NP-hard in general, considerable effort has been spent on identifying tractable subclasses. The main…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-09 David A. Cohen , Martin C. Cooper , Páidí Creed , András Z. Salamon

We study the complexity of local search for the Boolean constraint satisfaction problem (CSP), in the following form: given a CSP instance, that is, a collection of constraints, and a solution to it, the question is whether there is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Andrei Krokhin , Dániel Marx

Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) constitute a convenient way to capture many combinatorial problems. The general CSP is known to be NP-complete, but its complexity depends on a template, usually a set of relations, upon which they are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Florian Richoux

Given a satisfiable instance of 1-in-3 SAT, it is NP-hard to find a satisfying assignment for it, but it may be possible to efficiently find a solution subject to a weaker (not necessarily Boolean) predicate than `1-in-3'. There is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Andrei Krokhin , Danny Vagnozzi

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

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

We study the complexity of Boolean constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) when the assignment must have Hamming weight in some congruence class modulo M, for various choices of the modulus M. Due to the known classification of tractable…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Joshua Brakensiek , Sivakanth Gopi , Venkatesan Guruswami

The CSP (constraint satisfaction problems) is a class of problems deciding whether there exists a homomorphism from an instance relational structure to a target one. The CSP dichotomy is a profound result recently proved by Zhuk (2020, J.…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Azza Gaysin

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a central generic problem in computer science and artificial intelligence: it provides a common framework for many theoretical problems as well as for many real-life applications. Soft constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-04-25 Martin C. Cooper , Stanislav Zivny

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