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A variational approach to finite connectivity spin-glass-like models is developed and applied to describe the structure of optimal solutions in random satisfiability problems. Our variational scheme accurately reproduces the known replica…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Giulio Biroli , Remi Monasson , Martin Weigt

The scenario-based optimization approach (`scenario approach') provides an intuitive way of approximating the solution to chance-constrained optimization programs, based on finding the optimal solution under a finite number of sampled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Georg Schildbach , Lorenzo Fagiano , Manfred Morari

Dipolar spin ensembles with random spin positions attract much attention currently because they help to understand decoherence as it occurs in solid state quantum bits in contact with spin baths. Also, these ensembles are systems which may…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-12-08 Timo Gräßer , Kristine Rezai , Alexander O. Sushkov , Götz S. Uhrig

This paper is composed of two main results concerning chains of infinite order which are not necessarily continuous. The first one is a decomposition of the transition probability kernel as a countable mixture of unbounded probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Sandro Gallo , Nancy L. Garcia

We study constraint satisfaction problems on the so-called 'planted' random ensemble. We show that for a certain class of problems, e.g. graph coloring, many of the properties of the usual random ensemble are quantitatively identical in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-13 Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Phase transitions in many complex combinational problems have been widely studied in the past decade. In this paper, we investigate phase transitions in the knowledge compilation empirically, where DFA, OBDD and d-DNNF are chosen as the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-06 Jian Gao , Minghao Yin , Ke Xu

Recent research indicates that many convex optimization problems with random constraints exhibit a phase transition as the number of constraints increases. For example, this phenomenon emerges in the $\ell_1$ minimization method for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Dennis Amelunxen , Martin Lotz , Michael B. McCoy , Joel A. Tropp

These notes contain, among others, a proof that the average running time of an easy solution to the satisfiability problem for propositional calculus is, under some reasonable assumptions, linear (with constant 2) in the size of the input.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Marek A. Suchenek

This paper addresses a quadratic problem with assignment constraints, an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arisen from facility location, multiple-input multiple-output detection, and maximum mean discrepancy calculation et al. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Lijun Xie , Ran Gu , Xin Liu

Given a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) on $n$ variables, $x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n \in \{\pm 1\}$, and $m$ constraints, a global cardinality constraint has the form of $\sum_{i = 1}^{n} x_i = (1-2p)n$, where $p \in (\Omega(1), 1 -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Xue Chen , Yuan Zhou

An algorithm for a particular problem may find some instances of the problem easier and others harder to solve, even for a fixed input size. We numerically analyse the relative hardness of MAX 2-SAT problem instances for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Puya Mirkarimi , Adam Callison , Lewis Light , Nicholas Chancellor , Viv Kendon

We consider constraint satisfaction problems parameterized above or below tight bounds. One example is MaxSat parameterized above $m/2$: given a CNF formula $F$ with $m$ clauses, decide whether there is a truth assignment that satisfies at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-25 G. Gutin , A. Yeo

This paper describes a new approach on optimization of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) by means of substituting sub-CSPs with locally consistent regular membership constraints. The purpose of this approach is to reduce the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sven Löffler , Ke Liu , Petra Hofstedt

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

Intuitively, if we can prove that a program terminates, we expect some conclusion regarding its complexity. But the passage from termination proofs to complexity bounds is not always clear. In this work we consider Monotonicity Constraint…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Amir M. Ben-Amram , Michael Vainer

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

We study parameterized Constraint Satisfaction Problem for infinite constraint languages. The parameters that we study are weight of the satisfying assignment, number of constraints, maximum number of occurrences of a variable in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Ruhollah Majdoddin

Many complex systems satisfy a set of constraints on their degrees of freedom, and at the same time, they are able to work and adapt to different conditions. Here, we describe the emergence of this ability in a simplified model in which the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Ginestra Bianconi , Roberto Mulet

Combinatorial optimization assumes that all parameters of the optimization problem, e.g. the weights in the objective function is fixed. Often, these weights are mere estimates and increasingly machine learning techniques are used to for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Jaynta Mandi , Emir Demirović , Peter. J Stuckey , Tias Guns

Asymmetry in the synaptic interactions between neurons plays a crucial role in determining the memory storage and retrieval properties of recurrent neural networks. In this work, we analyze the problem of storing random memories in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-11 Fabián Aguirre-López , Mauro Pastore , Silvio Franz