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In pursuit of a deeper understanding of Boolean Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PCSPs), we identify a class of problems with restricted structural complexity, which could serve as a promising candidate for complete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Katzper Michno

Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PCSPs) are a generalization of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) where each predicate has a strong and a weak form and given a CSP instance, the objective is to distinguish if the strong form…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami , Sai Sandeep

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

The promise constraint satisfaction problem (PCSP) is a recently introduced vast generalisation of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) that captures approximability of satisfiable instances. A PCSP instance comes with two forms of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Alex Brandts , Stanislav Živný

A classic result due to Schaefer (1978) classifies all constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) over the Boolean domain as being either in $\mathsf{P}$ or $\mathsf{NP}$-hard. This paper considers a promise-problem variant of CSPs called…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

In the field of constraint satisfaction problems (CSP), promise CSPs are an exciting new direction of study. In a promise CSP, each constraint comes in two forms: "strict" and "weak," and in the associated decision problem one must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

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

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a recently introduced vast generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). We investigate the computational complexity of a class of PCSPs beyond the most studied cases -…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Libor Barto , Diego Battistelli , Kevin M. Berg

Random constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) have been widely studied both in AI and complexity theory. Empirically and theoretically, many random CSPs have been shown to exhibit a phase transition. As the ratio of constraints to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Colin Wei , Stefano Ermon

We study the complexity of Boolean constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) when the assignment must have Hamming weight in some congruence class modulo M, for various choices of the modulus M. Due to the known classification of tractable…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Joshua Brakensiek , Sivakanth Gopi , Venkatesan Guruswami

We propose a new algorithm for Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems PCSPs). It is a combination of the $\textbf{C}$onstraint Basic $\textbf{L}$P relaxation and the $\textbf{A}$ffine I$\textbf{P}$ relaxation (CLAP). We give a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Lorenzo Ciardo , Stanislav Živný

For a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP), a robust satisfaction algorithm is one that outputs an assignment satisfying most of the constraints on instances that are near-satisfiable. It is known that the CSPs that admit efficient robust…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami , Sai Sandeep

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) that includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. Barto [LICS '19] has shown that a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Kristina Asimi , Libor Barto

We study threshold properties of random constraint satisfaction problems under a probabilistic model due to Molloy. We give a sufficient condition for the existence of a sharp threshold that leads (for boolean constraints) to a necessary…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gabriel Istrate

We analyse the complexity of approximate counting constraint satisfactions problems $\mathrm{\#CSP}(\mathcal{F})$, where $\mathcal{F}$ is a set of nonnegative rational-valued functions of Boolean variables. A complete classification is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Miriam Backens , Andrei Bulatov , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Colin McQuillan , Stanislav Živný

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Arash Beikmohammadi , Andrei A. Bulatov

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) involves deciding, given a set of variables and a set of constraints on the variables, whether or not there is an assignment to the variables satisfying all of the constraints. One formulation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Hubie Chen , Benoit Larose

We present a template for the Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) which is NP-hard but does not satisfy the current state-of-the-art hardness condition [ACMTCT'21]. We introduce a new "injective" condition based on the smooth…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Demian Banakh , Marcin Kozik

There has been great interest in identifying tractable subclasses of NP complete problems and designing efficient algorithms for these tractable classes. Constraint satisfaction and Bayesian network inference are two examples of such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Yong Gao

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
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