A New Approach for Weighted Constraint Satisfaction |
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Authors: | Hoong Chuin Lau |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore, 117543 |
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Abstract: | We consider the Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Problem which is an important problem in Artificial Intelligence. Given a set of variables, their domains and a set of constraints between variables, our goal is to obtain an assignment of the variables to domain values such that the weighted sum of satisfied constraints is maximized. In this paper, we present a new approach based on randomized rounding of semidefinite programming relaxation. Besides having provable worst-case bounds for domain sizes 2 and 3, our algorithm is simple and efficient in practice, and produces better solutions than some other polynomial-time algorithms such as greedy and randomized local search. |
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Keywords: | constraint satisfaction randomization semidefinite programming approximation algorithm |
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