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In recent years, much attention has been placed on the complexity of graph homomorphism problems when the input is restricted to ${\mathbb P}_k$-free and ${\mathbb P}_k$-subgraph-free graphs. We consider the directed version of this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Santiago Guzmán-Pro , Barnaby Martin

The \emph{Sandwich Problem} (SP) for a graph class $\calC$ is the following computational problem. The input is a pair of graphs $(V,E_1)$ and $(V,E_2)$ where $E_1\subseteq E_2$, and the task is to decide whether there is an edge set $E$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Manuel Bodirsky , Santiago Guzmán-Pro

Promise CSPs are a relaxation of constraint satisfaction problems where the goal is to find an assignment satisfying a relaxed version of the constraints. Several well-known problems can be cast as promise CSPs including approximate graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

We determine under which conditions certain natural models of random constraint satisfaction problems have sharp thresholds of satisfiability. These models include graph and hypergraph homomorphism, the $(d,k,t)$-model, and binary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hamed Hatami , Michael Molloy

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

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a computational problem that includes a range of important problems in computer science. We point out that fundamental concepts of the CSP, such as the solution set of an instance and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Soichiro Fujii , Yuni Iwamasa , Kei Kimura

In this paper we provide an extended formulation for the class of constraint satisfaction problems and prove that its size is polynomial for instances whose constraint graph has bounded treewidth. This implies new upper bounds on extension…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Petr Kolman , Martin Koutecký

We consider the problem of satisfiability of sets of constraints in a given set of finite uniform hypergraphs. While the problem under consideration is similar in nature to the problem of satisfiability of constraints in graphs, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Antoine Mottet , Tomáš Nagy , Michael Pinsker

This paper investigates the reconfiguration variant of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP), referred to as the Reconfiguration CSP (RCSP). Given a CSP instance and two of its solutions, RCSP asks whether one solution can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Kei Kimura

We completely classify the computational complexity of the list H-colouring problem for graphs (with possible loops) in combinatorial and algebraic terms: for every graph H the problem is either NP-complete, NL-complete, L-complete or is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Laszlo Egri , Andrei Krokhin , Benoit Larose , Pascal Tesson

We propose a universal Graph Neural Network architecture which can be trained as an end-2-end search heuristic for any Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). Our architecture can be trained unsupervised with policy gradient descent to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jan Tönshoff , Berke Kisin , Jakob Lindner , Martin Grohe

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

In the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP for short) the goal is to decide the existence of a homomorphism from a given relational structure $G$ to a given relational structure $H$. If the structure $H$ is fixed and $G$ is the only input,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andrei A. Bulatov , Amirhossein Kazeminia

We study constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) where the constraint languages are defined by finite automata, giving rise to automata-based CSPs. The key notion is the concept of Automatic Constraint Satisfaction Problem ($AutCSP$), where…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Andrei Bulatov , Xiaoyang Gong , Bakh Khoussainov , Xinyao Wang

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

It is well known that the constraint satisfaction problem over a general relational structure A is polynomial time equivalent to the constraint problem over some associated digraph. We present a variant of this construction and show that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Jakub Bulín , Dejan Delic , Marcel Jackson , Todd Niven

We give a complexity dichotomy theorem for the counting Constraint Satisfaction Problem (#CSP in short) with complex weights. To this end, we give three conditions for its tractability. Let F be any finite set of complex-valued functions,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen

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 approximate graph colouring problem, whose complexity is unresolved in most cases, concerns finding a $c$-colouring of a graph that is promised to be $k$-colourable, where $c\geq k$. This problem naturally generalises to promise graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Andrei Krokhin , Jakub Opršal , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

Following the success of the so-called algebraic approach to the study of decision constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), exact optimization of valued CSPs, and most recently promise CSPs, we propose an algebraic framework for valued…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Libor Barto , Silvia Butti , Alexandr Kazda , Caterina Viola , Stanislav Živný