Piecewise Linear Valued CSPs Solvable by Linear Programming Relaxation
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Abstract
Valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) are a large class of combinatorial optimisation problems. The computational complexity of VCSPs depends on the set of allowed cost functions in the input. Recently, the computational complexity of all VCSPs for finite sets of cost functions over finite domains has been classified. Many natural optimisation problems, however, cannot be formulated as VCSPs over a finite domain. We initiate the systematic investigation of the complexity of infinite-domain VCSPs with piecewise linear homogeneous cost functions. Such VCSPs can be solved in polynomial time if the cost functions are improved by fully symmetric fractional operations of all arities. We show this by reducing the problem to a finite-domain VCSP which can be solved using the basic linear program relaxation. It follows that VCSPs for submodular PLH cost functions can be solved in polynomial time; in fact, we show that submodular PLH functions form a maximally tractable class of PLH cost functions.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 7:1-7:35 |
Number of pages | 35 |
Journal | ACM transactions on computational logic |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2022 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Mendeley | 7fd2284c-1812-3092-bcbe-6ee4b0929433 |
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dblp | journals/tocl/BodirskyMV22 |
ORCID | /0000-0001-8228-3611/work/142241073 |
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Keywords
- linear programming relaxation, piecewise linear functions, rational domain, submodularity, Valued constraint satisfaction