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Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are ubiquitous in theoretical computer science. We study the problem of StrongCSPs, i.e. instances where a large induced sub-instance has a satisfying assignment. More formally, given a CSP instance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Suprovat Ghoshal , Anand Louis

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

Constructing fast samplers for unconditional diffusion and flow-matching models has received much attention recently; however, existing methods for solving inverse problems, such as super-resolution, inpainting, or deblurring, still require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Kushagra Pandey , Ruihan Yang , Stephan Mandt

In continual learning, solving the catastrophic forgetting problem may make the models fall into the stability-plasticity dilemma. Moreover, inter-task confusion will also occur due to the lack of knowledge exchanges between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sheng-Kai Huang , Jiun-Feng Chang , Chun-Rong Huang

Transformer-based self-supervised models are trained as feature extractors and have empowered many downstream speech tasks to achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, both the training and inference process of these models may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Jinchuan Tian , Rongzhi Gu , Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou

Recommender systems play a crucial role in tackling the challenge of information overload by delivering personalized recommendations based on individual user preferences. Deep learning techniques, such as RNNs, GNNs, and Transformer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xubin Ren , Wei Wei , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

In this study, we introduce an innovative deep learning framework that employs a transformer model to address the challenges of mixed-integer programs, specifically focusing on the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP). Our approach, to our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Joshua F. Cooper , Seung Jin Choi , I. Esra Buyuktahtakin

The model of Dynamic Meta-Constraints has special activity constraints which can activate other constraints. It also has meta-constraints which range over other constraints. An algorithm is presented in which constraints can be assigned one…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Janet van der Linden

In this paper, the problem of assigning channel slots to a number of contending stations is modeled as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). A learning MAC protocol that uses deterministic backoffs after successful transmissions is used…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Jaume Barcelo , Nuria Garcia , Azadeh Faridi , Simon Oechsner , Boris Bellalta

The quantified constraint satisfaction problem (QCSP) is a powerful framework for modelling computational problems. The general intractability of the QCSP has motivated the pursuit of restricted cases that avoid its maximal complexity. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hubie Chen

Minesweeper is a popular spatial-based decision-making game that works with incomplete information. As an exemplary NP-complete problem, it is a major area of research employing various artificial intelligence paradigms. The present work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yash Pratyush Sinha , Pranshu Malviya , Rupaj Kumar Nayak

Conformal prediction is a powerful distribution-free tool for uncertainty quantification, establishing valid prediction intervals with finite-sample guarantees. To produce valid intervals which are also adaptive to the difficulty of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Nabeel Seedat , Alan Jeffares , Fergus Imrie , Mihaela van der Schaar

Automatic performance tuning, or auto-tuning, accelerates high-performance codes by exploring vast spaces of code variants. However, due to the large number of possible combinations and complex constraints, constructing these search spaces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Floris-Jan Willemsen , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort , Ben van Werkhoven

Neural solvers have shown significant potential in solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), yet current approaches face significant challenges. Supervised learning (SL)-based solvers require large amounts of high-quality labeled data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Junrui Wen , Yifei Li , Bart Selman , Kun He

Recent research in areas such as SAT solving and Integer Linear Programming has shown that the performances of a single arbitrarily efficient solver can be significantly outperformed by a portfolio of possibly slower on-average solvers. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Roberto Amadini , Maurizio Gabbrielli , Jacopo Mauro

On the one hand, Constraint Satisfaction Problems allow one to declaratively model problems. On the other hand, propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) solvers can handle huge SAT instances. We thus present a technique to declaratively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Frédéric Lardeux , Eric Monfroy , Broderick Crawford , Ricardo Soto

Many real-world problems can be naturally described by mathematical formulas. The task of finding formulas from a set of observed inputs and outputs is called symbolic regression. Recently, neural networks have been applied to symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Martin Vastl , Jonáš Kulhánek , Jiří Kubalík , Erik Derner , Robert Babuška

We propose a data-driven Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework that employs a transformer encoder to generate multi-step predictions. To handle the nonconvex attention mechanism, we derive difference of convex (DC) representations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Xingxiao Chen , Mark Cannon

Self-supervised learning can significantly improve the performance of downstream tasks, however, the dimensions of learned representations normally lack explicit physical meanings. In this work, we propose a novel self-supervised approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Yifan Sun , Xihong Wu