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We analyse how the standard reductions between constraint satisfaction problems affect their proof complexity. We show that, for the most studied propositional, algebraic, and semi-algebraic proof systems, the classical constructions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Albert Atserias , Joanna Ochremiak

A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a problem of computing a homomorphism ${\bf R} \rightarrow {\bf \Gamma}$ between two relational structures. Analyzing its complexity has been a very fruitful research direction, especially for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Rustem Takhanov

A Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a computational problem where we are given variables and constraints about them; the question is whether the variables can be assigned values such that all constraints are satisfied. We give an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Michael Pinsker

The quantified constraint satisfaction problem (QCSP) is the problem of deciding, given a structure and a first-order prenex sentence whose quantifier-free part is the conjunction of atoms, whether or not the sentence holds on the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Hubie Chen

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

The algebraic approach to the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) uses high order symmetries of relational structures -- polymorphisms -- to study the complexity of the CSP. In this paper we further develop one of the methods the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Andrei A. Bulatov

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

We study the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems for templates $\Gamma$ that are first-order definable in $(\Bbb Z; succ)$, the integers with the successor relation. Assuming a widely believed conjecture from finite domain…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Manuel Bodirsky , Victor Dalmau , Barnaby Martin , Antoine Mottet , Michael Pinsker

Although the CSP (constraint satisfaction problem) is NP-complete, even in the case when all constraints are binary, certain classes of instances are tractable. We study classes of instances defined by excluding subproblems. This approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-01-19 Martin C. Cooper , Guillaume Escamocher

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) and its quantified extensions, whether without (QCSP) or with disjunction (QCSP_or), correspond naturally to the model checking problem for three increasingly stronger fragments of positive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-27 Florent Madelaine , Barnaby Martin

To any fixed, finite relational structure, $\mathbb{D}$, there is an associated decision problem, CSP$(\mathbb{D})$, which is a restricted version of the constraint satisfaction problem. In [8], the so called "algebraic approach" to the…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Ian Payne

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a central and generic computational problem which provides a common framework for many theoretical and practical applications. A central line of research is concerned with the identification of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Robert Ganian , M. S. Ramanujan , Stefan Szeider

The problem of deciding whether CSP instances admit solutions has been deeply studied in the literature, and several structural tractability results have been derived so far. However, constraint satisfaction comes in practice as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-19 Gianluigi Greco , Francesco Scarcello

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

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

Motivated by the inapproximability of reconfiguration problems, we present a new PCP-type characterization of PSPACE, which we call a probabilistically checkable reconfiguration proof (PCRP): Any PSPACE computation can be encoded into an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Shuichi Hirahara , Naoto Ohsaka

The Feder-Vardi dichotomy conjecture for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) with finite templates, confirmed independently by Bulatov and Zhuk, has an extension to certain well-behaved infinite templates due to Bodirsky and Pinsker…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Michael Pinsker , Jakub Rydval , Moritz Schöbi , Christoph Spiess , Paul Winkler

The algebraic dichotomy conjecture for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) of reducts of (infinite) finitely bounded homogeneous structures states that such CSPs are polynomial-time tractable if the model-complete core of the template…

There exist two conjectures for constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) of reducts of finitely bounded homogeneous structures: the first one states that tractability of the CSP of such a structure is, when the structure is a model-complete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Libor Barto , Michael Kompatscher , Miroslav Olšák , Trung Van Pham , Michael Pinsker

We introduce the framework of the left-hand side restricted promise constraint satisfaction problem, which includes problems like approximating clique number of a graph. We study the parameterized complexity of problems in this class and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kristina Asimi , Libor Barto , Victor Dalmau