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Neurosymbolic systems can satisfy logical constraints during learning without achieving the intended concept-label correspondence; this is a problem known as reasoning shortcuts. We formalize reasoning shortcuts as a constraint satisfaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Akihiro Takemura , Katsumi Inoue , Masaaki Nishino

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for all non-negative weighted counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). This caps a long series of important results on counting problems including unweighted and weighted graph homomorphisms…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen , Pinyan Lu

We show that the finite satisfiability problem for the guarded two-variable fragment with counting quantifiers is in EXPTIME. The method employed also yields a simple proof of a result recently obtained by Y. Kazakov, that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Ian Pratt-Hartmann

Many fundamental problems in artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and verification involve reasoning about sets and relations between sets and can be modeled as set constraint satisfaction problems (set CSPs). Such problems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Manuel Bodirsky , Martin Hils , Alex Krimkevich

We propose in this article a framework for compilation of quantified constraint satisfaction problems (QCSP). We establish the semantics of this formalism by an interpretation to a QCSP. We specify an algorithm to compile a QCSP embedded…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Igor Stéphan

Any satisfiability problem in conjunctive normal form can be solved in polynomial time by reducing it to a 3-sat formulation and transforming this to a Linear Complementarity problem (LCP) which is then solved as a linear program (LP). Any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Giacomo Patrizi

The Surjective Constraint Satisfaction Problem (SCSP) is the problem of deciding whether there exists a surjective assignment to a set of variables subject to some specified constraints, where a surjective assignment is an assignment…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Dmitriy Zhuk

In complexity theory, there exists a famous unsolved problem whether NP can be P or not. In this paper, we discuss this aspect in SAT (satisfiability) problem, and it is shown that the SAT can be solved in plynomial time by means of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masanori Ohya , Natsuki Masuda

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

A subset of Q^n is called semilinear (or piecewise linear) if it is Boolean combination of linear half-spaces. We study the computational complexity of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) over the rationals when all the constraints…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Manuel Bodirsky , Marcello Mamino

This paper deals with a problem from discrete-time robust control which requires the solution of constraints over the reals that contain both universal and existential quantifiers. For solving this problem we formulate it as a program in a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stefan Ratschan , Luc Jaulin

A famous result by Jeavons, Cohen, and Gyssens shows that every constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) where the constraints are preserved by a semi-lattice operation can be solved in polynomial time. This is one of the basic facts for the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Manuel Bodirsky , Dugald Macpherson , Johan Thapper

Compared with constraint satisfaction problems, counting problems have received less attention. In this paper, we survey research works on the problems of counting the number of solutions to constraints. The constraints may take various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Jian Zhang , Cunjing Ge , Feifei Ma

Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PCSP) were proposed recently by Brakensiek and Guruswami arXiv:1704.01937 as a framework to study approximations for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). Informally a PCSP asks to distinguish…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Guofeng Deng , Ezzeddine El Sai , Trevor Manders , Peter Mayr , Poramate Nakkirt , Athena Sparks

This thesis investigates the extent to which the optimal value of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) can be approximated by some sentence of fixed point logic with counting (FPC). It is known that, assuming $\mathsf{P} \neq…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jamie Tucker-Foltz

The \emph{Workflow Satisfiability Problem (WSP)} is a problem of practical interest that arises whenever tasks need to be performed by authorized users, subject to constraints defined by business rules. We are required to decide whether…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-18 David Cohen , Jason Crampton , Andrei Gagarin , Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones

We determine the computational complexity of approximately counting the total weight of variable assignments for every complex-weighted Boolean constraint satisfaction problem (or CSP) with any number of additional unary (i.e., arity 1)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Tomoyuki Yamakami

Quadratic programming (QP) is a common and important constrained optimization problem. Here, we derive a surprising duality between constrained optimization with inequality constraints -- of which QP is a special case -- and consumer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Pankaj Mehta , Wenping Cui , Ching-Hao Wang , Robert Marsland

The calculation of ground-state energies of physical systems can be formalised as the k-local Hamiltonian problem, which is the natural quantum analogue of classical constraint satisfaction problems. One way of making the problem more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Toby Cubitt , Ashley Montanaro

A class of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) is characterised by a valued constraint language, a fixed set of cost functions on a finite domain. An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of cost functions from the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Vladimir Kolmogorov