Algebraic approach to promise constraint satisfaction

L Barto, J Bulín, A Krokhin, J Opršal - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 2021 - dl.acm.org
The complexity and approximability of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) has been
actively studied over the past 20 years. A new version of the CSP, the promise CSP (PCSP) …

Local consistency as a reduction between constraint satisfaction problems

V Dalmau, J Opršal - Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We study the use of local consistency methods as reductions between constraint satisfaction
problems (CSPs), and promise version thereof, with the aim to classify these reductions in a …

CLAP: A new algorithm for promise CSPs

L Ciardo, S Živný - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2023 - SIAM
We propose a new algorithm for Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PCSPs). It is a
combination of the Constraint Basic LP relaxation and the Affine IP relaxation (CLAP). We …

Promise constraint satisfaction and width

A Atserias, V Dalmau - Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2022 - SIAM
We study the power of the bounded-width consistency algorithm in the context of the fixed-
template Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP). Our main technical finding is that …

Topology and adjunction in promise constraint satisfaction

A Krokhin, J Opršal, M Wrochna, S Živný - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2023 - SIAM
The approximate graph coloring problem, whose complexity is unresolved in most cases,
concerns finding a-coloring of a graph that is promised to be-colorable, where. This problem …

Combinatorial gap theorem and reductions between promise CSPs

L Barto, M Kozik - Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2022 - SIAM
A value of a CSP instance is typically defined as a fraction of constraints that can be
simultaneously met. We propose an alternative definition of a value of an instance and show …

The power of the combined basic linear programming and affine relaxation for promise constraint satisfaction problems

J Brakensiek, V Guruswami, M Wrochna… - SIAM Journal on …, 2020 - SIAM
In the field of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), promise CSPs are an exciting new
direction of study. In a promise CSP, each constraint comes in two forms:“strict” and “weak,” …

Promise constraint satisfaction: Algebraic structure and a symmetric Boolean dichotomy

J Brakensiek, V Guruswami - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2021 - SIAM
A classic result due to Schaefer Proceedings of STOC 78, ACM, 1978, pp. 216--226
classifies all constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) over the Boolean domain as being …

Hierarchies of minion tests for PCSPs through tensors

L Ciardo, S Živný - Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2023 - SIAM
We provide a unified framework to study hierarchies of relaxations for Constraint Satisfaction
Problems and their Promise variant. The idea is to split the description of a hierarchy into an …

Hardness of linearly ordered 4-colouring of 3-colourable 3-uniform hypergraphs

M Filakovský, TV Nakajima, J Opršal… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A linearly ordered (LO) $ k $-colouring of a hypergraph is a colouring of its vertices with
colours $1,\dots, k $ such that each edge contains a unique maximal colour. Deciding …