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Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a fundamental algorithmic problem that appears in many areas of Computer Science. It can be equivalently stated as computing a homomorphism $\mbox{$\bR \rightarrow \bGamma$}$ between two relational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Vladimir Kolmogorov , Michal Rolinek , Rustem Takhanov

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

We introduce a problem class we call Polynomial Constraint Satisfaction Problems, or PCSP. Where the usual CSPs from computer science and optimization have real-valued score functions, and partition functions from physics have monomials,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Alexander D. Scott , Gregory B. Sorkin

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is ubiquitous in various areas of mathematics and computer science. Many of its variations have been studied including the Counting CSP, where the goal is to find the number of solutions to a CSP…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Amirhossein Kazeminia , Andrei A. Bulatov

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) of a first-order theory T is the computational problem of deciding whether a given conjunction of atomic formulas is satisfiable in some model of T. We study the computational complexity of CSP$(T_1…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Manuel Bodirsky , Johannes Greiner , Jakub Rydval

We consider the quantified constraint satisfaction problem (QCSP) which is to decide, given a structure and a first-order sentence (not assumed here to be in prenex form) built from conjunction and quantification, whether or not the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Hubie Chen

An important question in the study of constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) is understanding how the graph or hypergraph describing the incidence structure of the constraints influences the complexity of the problem. For binary CSP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Dániel Marx

The Constraint-satisfaction problem (CSP) is fundamental in mathematics, physics, and theoretical computer science. Continuous local search (CLS) solvers, as recent advancements, can achieve highly competitive results on certain classes of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yunuo Cen , Zixuan Wang , Jintao Zhang , Zhiwei Zhang , Xuanyao Fong

A central task in knowledge compilation is to compile a CNF-SAT instance into a succinct representation format that allows efficient operations such as testing satisfiability, counting, or enumerating all solutions. Useful representation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Christoph Berkholz , Stefan Mengel , Hermann Wilhelm

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

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are a class of problems that are ubiquitous in science and engineering. It features a collection of constraints specified over subsets of variables. A CSP can be solved either directly or by reducing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Xuanzhao Gao , Xiaofeng Li , Jinguo Liu

We give a precise algebraic characterisation of the power of Sherali-Adams relaxations for solvability of valued constraint satisfaction problems to optimality. The condition is that of bounded width which has already been shown to capture…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Johan Thapper , Stanislav Zivny

A workflow specification defines sets of steps and users. An authorization policy determines for each user a subset of steps the user is allowed to perform. Other security requirements, such as separation-of-duty, impose constraints on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Jason Crampton , Andrei Gagarin , Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones , Magnus Wahlstrom

A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP), $\textsf{Max-CSP}(\mathcal{F})$, is specified by a finite set of constraints $\mathcal{F} \subseteq \{[q]^k \to \{0,1\}\}$ for positive integers $q$ and $k$. An instance of the problem on $n$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chi-Ning Chou , Alexander Golovnev , Madhu Sudan , Santhoshini Velusamy

For general input automata, there exist regular constraint languages such that asking if a given input automaton admits a synchronizing word in the constraint language is PSPACE-complete or NP-complete. Here, we investigate this problem for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Stefan Hoffmann

This paper focuses on the algebraic theory underlying the study of the complexity and the algorithms for the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). We unify, simplify, and extend parts of the three approaches that have been developed to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Libor Barto , Zarathustra Brady , Andrei Bulatov , Marcin Kozik , Dmitriy Zhuk

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) has been intensively studied in many areas of computer science and mathematics. The approach to the CSP based on tools from universal algebra turned out to be the most successful one to study the…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Andrei A. Bulatov

Characterising tractable fragments of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is an important challenge in theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Forbidding patterns (generic sub-instances) provides a means of defining…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Martin C. Cooper , Stanislav Živný

We study the optimization version of constraint satisfaction problems (Max-CSPs) in the framework of parameterized complexity; the goal is to compute the maximum fraction of constraints that can be satisfied simultaneously. In standard…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Holger Dell , Eun Jung Kim , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou , Tobias Mömke

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