Computer Science – Computational Complexity
Scientific paper
2010-08-09
Computer Science
Computational Complexity
15 pages
Scientific paper
We study the complexity of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSP). A problem from VCSP is characterised by a \emph{constraint language}, a fixed set of cost functions over a finite domain. An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of cost functions from the language and the goal is to minimise the sum. We consider the case of so-called \emph{conservative} languages; that is, languages containing all unary cost functions, thus allowing arbitrary restrictions on the domains of the variables. This problem has been studied by Bulatov [LICS'03] for $\{0,\infty\}$-valued languages (i.e. CSP), by Cohen~\etal\ (AIJ'06) for Boolean domains, by Deineko et al. (JACM'08) for $\{0,1\}$-valued cost functions (i.e. Max-CSP), and by Takhanov (STACS'10) for $\{0,\infty\}$-valued languages containing all finite-valued unary cost functions (i.e. Min-Cost-Hom). We give an elementary proof of a complete complexity classification of conservative finite-valued languages: we show that every conservative finite-valued language is either tractable or NP-hard. This is the \emph{first} dichotomy result for finite-valued VCSPs over non-Boolean domains.
Kolmogorov Vladimir
Zivny Stanislav
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