Reasoning Short Cuts in Infinite Domain Constraint Satisfaction: Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Backdoors
2021 (English) In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik , 2021, Vol. 210, p. 32:1-32:20Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
A backdoor in a finite-domain CSP instance is a set of variables where each possible instantiation moves the instance into a polynomial-time solvable class. Backdoors have found many applications in artificial intelligence and elsewhere, and the algorithmic problem of finding such backdoors has consequently been intensively studied. Sioutis and Janhunen (KI, 2019) have proposed a generalised backdoor concept suitable for infinite-domain CSP instances over binary constraints. We generalise their concept into a large class of CSPs that allow for higher-arity constraints. We show that this kind of infinite-domain backdoors have many of the positive computational properties that finite-domain backdoors have: the associated computational problems are fixed-parameter tractable whenever the underlying constraint language is finite. On the other hand, we show that infinite languages make the problems considerably harder.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik , 2021. Vol. 210, p. 32:1-32:20
Series
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), ISSN 1868-8969 ; 32
Keywords [en]
Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Parameterised Complexity, Backdoors
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198452 DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.32 ISI: 001590341200032 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118165989 ISBN: 9783959772112 (print) OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-198452 DiVA, id: diva2:1804540
Conference International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, October 25-29, 2021
Note Funding Agencies|Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council (VR) [2019-03690]; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/V00252X/1]; Swedish Research Council [2019-03690] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council
2023-10-132023-10-132026-02-05 Bibliographically approved