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Register a new userApproximate Constraint Satisfaction Requires Large LP Relaxations
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James Lee
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2013
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Informatics Engineering
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We prove super-polynomial lower bounds on the size of linear programming relaxations for approximati
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We show that for any odd $k$ and any instance of the Max-kXOR constraint satisfaction problem, there is an efficient algorithm that finds an assignment satisfying at least a $frac{1}{2} + Omega(1/sqrt{D})$ fraction of constraints, where $D$ is a bound on the number of constraints that each variable occurs in. This improves both qualitatively and quantitatively on the recent work of Farhi, Goldstone, and Gutmann (2014), which gave a emph{quantum} algorithm to find an assignment satisfying a $frac{1}{2} + Omega(D^{-3/4})$ fraction of the equations. For arbitrary constraint satisfaction problems, we give a similar result for triangle-free instances; i.e., an efficient algorithm that finds an assignment satisfying at least a $mu + Omega(1/sqrt{D})$ fraction of constraints, where $mu$ is the fraction that would be satisfied by a uniformly random assignment.
Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PCSP) were proposed recently by Brakensiek and Guruswami arXiv:1704.01937 as a framework to study approximations for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). Informally a PCSP asks to distinguish between whether a given instance of a CSP has a solution or not even a specified relaxation can be satisfied. All currently known tractable PCSPs can be reduced in a natural way to tractable CSPs. Barto arXiv:1909.04878 presented an example of a PCSP over Boolean structures for which this reduction requires solving a CSP over an infinite structure. We give a first example of a PCSP over Boolean structures which reduces to a tractable CSP over a structure of size $3$ but not smaller. Further we investigate properties of PCSPs that reduce to systems of linear equations or to CSPs over structures with semilattice or majority polymorphism.
We review the understanding of the random constraint satisfaction problems, focusing on the q-coloring of large random graphs, that has been achieved using the cavity method of the physicists. We also discuss the properties of the phase diagram in temperature, the connections with the glass transition phenomenology in physics, and the related algorithmic issues.
We study the approximability of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) by linear programming (LP) relaxations. We show that for every CSP, the approximation obtained by a basic LP relaxation, is no weaker than the approximation obtained using relaxations given by $Omegaleft(frac{log n}{log log n}right)$ levels of the Sherali-Adams hierarchy on instances of size $n$. It was proved by Chan et al. [FOCS 2013] that any polynomial size LP extended formulation is no stronger than relaxations obtained by a super-constant levels of the Sherali-Adams hierarchy.. Combining this with our result also implies that any polynomial size LP extended formulation is no stronger than the basic LP. Using our techniques, we also simplify and strengthen the result by Khot et al. [STOC 2014] on (strong) approximation resistance for LPs. They provided a necessary and sufficient condition under which $Omega(log log n)$ levels of the Sherali-Adams hierarchy cannot achieve an approximation better than a random assignment. We simplify their proof and strengthen the bound to $Omegaleft(frac{log n}{log log n}right)$ levels.
We introduce and study the random locked constraint satisfaction problems. When increasing the density of constraints, they display a broad clustered phase in which the space of solutions is divided into many isolated points. While the phase diagram can be found easily, these problems, in their clustered phase, are extremely hard from the algorithmic point of view: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions. We thus propose new benchmarks of really hard optimization problems and provide insight into the origin of their typical hardness.
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