CSPs with Few Alien Constraints

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Main Authors: Jonsson, Peter, Lagerkvist, Victor, Osipov, George
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author Jonsson, Peter
Lagerkvist, Victor
Osipov, George
author_facet Jonsson, Peter
Lagerkvist, Victor
Osipov, George
contents The constraint satisfaction problem asks to decide if a set of constraints over a relational structure $\mathcal{A}$ is satisfiable (CSP$(\mathcal{A})$). We consider CSP$(\mathcal{A} \cup \mathcal{B})$ where $\mathcal{A}$ is a structure and $\mathcal{B}$ is an alien structure, and analyse its (parameterized) complexity when at most $k$ alien constraints are allowed. We establish connections and obtain transferable complexity results to several well-studied problems that previously escaped classification attempts. Our novel approach, utilizing logical and algebraic methods, yields an FPT versus pNP dichotomy for arbitrary finite structures and sharper dichotomies for Boolean structures and first-order reducts of $(\mathbb{N},=)$ (equality CSPs), together with many partial results for general $ω$-categorical structures.
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spellingShingle CSPs with Few Alien Constraints
Jonsson, Peter
Lagerkvist, Victor
Osipov, George
Computational Complexity
Artificial Intelligence
The constraint satisfaction problem asks to decide if a set of constraints over a relational structure $\mathcal{A}$ is satisfiable (CSP$(\mathcal{A})$). We consider CSP$(\mathcal{A} \cup \mathcal{B})$ where $\mathcal{A}$ is a structure and $\mathcal{B}$ is an alien structure, and analyse its (parameterized) complexity when at most $k$ alien constraints are allowed. We establish connections and obtain transferable complexity results to several well-studied problems that previously escaped classification attempts. Our novel approach, utilizing logical and algebraic methods, yields an FPT versus pNP dichotomy for arbitrary finite structures and sharper dichotomies for Boolean structures and first-order reducts of $(\mathbb{N},=)$ (equality CSPs), together with many partial results for general $ω$-categorical structures.
title CSPs with Few Alien Constraints
topic Computational Complexity
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12909