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We consider families of symmetric linear programs (LPs) that decide a property of graphs (or other relational structures) in the sense that, for each size of graph, there is an LP defining a polyhedral lift that separates the integer points…

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Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is the cornerstone of our understanding of quantum phases of matter. Recent works have generalized this concept to the domain of mixed states in open quantum systems, where symmetries can be realized in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xiaozhou Feng , Zihan Cheng , Matteo Ippoliti

We generalize the reduction mechanism for linear programming problems and semidefinite programming problems from [arXiv:1410.8816] in two ways 1) relaxing the requirement of affineness and 2) extending to fractional optimization problems.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta , Aurko Roy

In the last decade, the power of the state-of-the-art SAT and Integer Programming solvers has dramatically increased. They implement many new techniques and heuristics and since any NP problem can be converted to SAT or ILP instance, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-25 Rastislav Lenhardt

The Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem with Power Peak Minimization (SALBP-3PM) minimizes maximum instantaneous power usage while assigning $n$ tasks to $m$ workstations and determining execution schedules within given cycle time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Tuyen Van Kieu , Phong Chi Nguyen , Bao Gia Hoang , Khanh Van To

Today's propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers are extremely powerful and can be used as an efficient back-end for solving NP-complete problems. However, many fundamental problems in knowledge representation and reasoning are located at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Ronald de Haan , Stefan Szeider

The study of Locally Checkable Labelings (LCLs) has led to a remarkably precise characterization of the distributed time complexities that can occur on bounded-degree trees. A central feature of this complexity landscape is the existence of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Gustav Schmid

Symmetry is an important feature of many constraint programs. We show that any symmetry acting on a set of symmetry breaking constraints can be used to break symmetry. Different symmetries pick out different solutions in each symmetry…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-18 George Katsirelos , Toby Walsh

The goal of this paper is to understand the complexity of symmetry breaking problems, specifically maximal independent set (MIS) and the closely related $\beta$-ruling set problem, in two computational models suited for large-scale graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Christian Konrad , Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Talal Riaz , Peter Robinson

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

The 'exact subgraph' approach was recently introduced as a hierarchical scheme to get increasingly tight semidefinite programming relaxations of several NP-hard graph optimization problems. Solving these relaxations is a computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Elisabeth Gaar , Franz Rendl

We prove super-polynomial lower bounds on the size of linear programming relaxations for approximation versions of constraint satisfaction problems. We show that for these problems, polynomial-sized linear programs are exactly as powerful…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Siu On Chan , James R. Lee , Prasad Raghavendra , David Steurer

For a given labelled transition system (LTS), synthesis is the task to find an unlabelled Petri net with an isomorphic reachability graph. Even when just demanding an embedding into a reachability graph instead of an isomorphism, a solution…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Uli Schlachter , Harro Wimmel

The boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem asks whether there exists an assignment of boolean values to the variables of an arbitrary boolean formula making the formula evaluate to True. It is well-known that all NP-problems can be coded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christopher R. Serrano , Jonathan Gallagher , Kenji Yamada , Alexei Kopylov , Michael A. Warren

A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

The role of polymorphisms in determining the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems is well established. In this context we study the stability of CSP complexity and polymorphism properties under some basic graph theoretic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Marcel Jackson , Tomasz Kowalski , Todd Niven

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a key concept in physics that for decades has played a crucial role in the description of many physical phenomena in a large number of different areas, like particle physics, cosmology, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 J. Smits , H. T. C. Stoof , P. van der Straten

Motivated by the philosophy and phenomenal success of compressed sensing, the problem of reconstructing a matrix from a sampling of its entries has attracted much attention recently. Such a problem can be viewed as an information-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-15 Zhisu Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Yinyu Ye

A wide range of symbolic analysis and optimization problems can be formalized using polyhedra. Sub-classes of polyhedra, also known as sub-polyhedral domains, are sought for their lower space and time complexity. We introduce the Strided…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Arjun Pitchanathan , Albert Cohen , Oleksandr Zinenko , Tobias Grosser

Symmetry handling inequalities (SHIs) are an appealing and popular tool for handling symmetries in integer programming. Despite their practical application, little is known about their interaction with optimization problems. This article…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Christopher Hojny , Marc E. Pfetsch , José Verschae