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- lang: eng
  text: We characterize absorption in finite idempotent algebras by means of Jónsson
    absorption and cube term blockers. As an application we show that it is decidable
    whether a given subset is an absorbing subuniverse of an algebra given by the
    tables of its basic operations.
acknowledgement: 'Libor Barto and Alexandr Kazda were supported by the the Grant Agency
  of the Czech Republic, grant GACR 13-01832S. '
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  full_name: Barto, Libor
  last_name: Barto
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  full_name: Kazda, Alexandr
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  ama: Barto L, Kazda A. Deciding absorption. <i>International Journal of Algebra
    and Computation</i>. 2016;26(5):1033-1060. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196716500430">10.1142/S0218196716500430</a>
  apa: Barto, L., &#38; Kazda, A. (2016). Deciding absorption. <i>International Journal
    of Algebra and Computation</i>. World Scientific Publishing. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196716500430">https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196716500430</a>
  chicago: Barto, Libor, and Alexandr Kazda. “Deciding Absorption.” <i>International
    Journal of Algebra and Computation</i>. World Scientific Publishing, 2016. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196716500430">https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196716500430</a>.
  ieee: L. Barto and A. Kazda, “Deciding absorption,” <i>International Journal of
    Algebra and Computation</i>, vol. 26, no. 5. World Scientific Publishing, pp.
    1033–1060, 2016.
  ista: Barto L, Kazda A. 2016. Deciding absorption. International Journal of Algebra
    and Computation. 26(5), 1033–1060.
  mla: Barto, Libor, and Alexandr Kazda. “Deciding Absorption.” <i>International Journal
    of Algebra and Computation</i>, vol. 26, no. 5, World Scientific Publishing, 2016,
    pp. 1033–60, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196716500430">10.1142/S0218196716500430</a>.
  short: L. Barto, A. Kazda, International Journal of Algebra and Computation 26 (2016)
    1033–1060.
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abstract:
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  text: We prove that whenever A is a 3-conservative relational structure with only
    binary and unary relations,then the algebra of polymorphisms of A either has no
    Taylor operation (i.e.,CSP(A)is NP-complete),or it generates an SD(∧) variety
    (i.e.,CSP(A)has bounded width).
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citation:
  ama: Kazda A. CSP for binary conservative relational structures. <i>Algebra Universalis</i>.
    2016;75(1):75-84. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8">10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8</a>
  apa: Kazda, A. (2016). CSP for binary conservative relational structures. <i>Algebra
    Universalis</i>. Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8</a>
  chicago: Kazda, Alexandr. “CSP for Binary Conservative Relational Structures.” <i>Algebra
    Universalis</i>. Springer, 2016. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8</a>.
  ieee: A. Kazda, “CSP for binary conservative relational structures,” <i>Algebra
    Universalis</i>, vol. 75, no. 1. Springer, pp. 75–84, 2016.
  ista: Kazda A. 2016. CSP for binary conservative relational structures. Algebra
    Universalis. 75(1), 75–84.
  mla: Kazda, Alexandr. “CSP for Binary Conservative Relational Structures.” <i>Algebra
    Universalis</i>, vol. 75, no. 1, Springer, 2016, pp. 75–84, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8">10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8</a>.
  short: A. Kazda, Algebra Universalis 75 (2016) 75–84.
corr_author: '1'
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abstract:
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  text: "Small synthetic discrete tomography problems.\r\nSizes are 32x32, 64z64 and
    256x256.\r\nProjection angles are 2, 4, and 6.\r\nNumber of labels are 3 and 5."
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  ama: Swoboda P. Synthetic discrete tomography problems. 2016. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:46">10.15479/AT:ISTA:46</a>
  apa: Swoboda, P. (2016). Synthetic discrete tomography problems. Institute of Science
    and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:46">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:46</a>
  chicago: Swoboda, Paul. “Synthetic Discrete Tomography Problems.” Institute of Science
    and Technology Austria, 2016. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:46">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:46</a>.
  ieee: P. Swoboda, “Synthetic discrete tomography problems.” Institute of Science
    and Technology Austria, 2016.
  ista: Swoboda P. 2016. Synthetic discrete tomography problems, Institute of Science
    and Technology Austria, <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:46">10.15479/AT:ISTA:46</a>.
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    Science and Technology Austria, 2016, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:46">10.15479/AT:ISTA:46</a>.
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  text: We consider Conditional random fields (CRFs) with pattern-based potentials
    defined on a chain. In this model the energy of a string (labeling) (Formula presented.)
    is the sum of terms over intervals [i, j] where each term is non-zero only if
    the substring (Formula presented.) equals a prespecified pattern w. Such CRFs
    can be naturally applied to many sequence tagging problems. We present efficient
    algorithms for the three standard inference tasks in a CRF, namely computing (i)
    the partition function, (ii) marginals, and (iii) computing the MAP. Their complexities
    are respectively (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.)
    where L is the combined length of input patterns, (Formula presented.) is the
    maximum length of a pattern, and D is the input alphabet. This improves on the
    previous algorithms of Ye et al. (NIPS, 2009) whose complexities are respectively
    (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.), where (Formula
    presented.) is the number of input patterns. In addition, we give an efficient
    algorithm for sampling, and revisit the case of MAP with non-positive weights.
acknowledgement: This work has been partially supported by the European Research Council
  under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant
  agreement no. 616160.
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- first_name: Rustem
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  id: 2CCAC26C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Takhanov
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  ama: Kolmogorov V, Takhanov R. Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence
    data. <i>Algorithmica</i>. 2016;76(1):17-46. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7">10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7</a>
  apa: Kolmogorov, V., &#38; Takhanov, R. (2016). Inference algorithms for pattern-based
    CRFs on sequence data. <i>Algorithmica</i>. Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7</a>
  chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Rustem Takhanov. “Inference Algorithms for Pattern-Based
    CRFs on Sequence Data.” <i>Algorithmica</i>. Springer, 2016. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7</a>.
  ieee: V. Kolmogorov and R. Takhanov, “Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs
    on sequence data,” <i>Algorithmica</i>, vol. 76, no. 1. Springer, pp. 17–46, 2016.
  ista: Kolmogorov V, Takhanov R. 2016. Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs
    on sequence data. Algorithmica. 76(1), 17–46.
  mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Rustem Takhanov. “Inference Algorithms for Pattern-Based
    CRFs on Sequence Data.” <i>Algorithmica</i>, vol. 76, no. 1, Springer, 2016, pp.
    17–46, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7">10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7</a>.
  short: V. Kolmogorov, R. Takhanov, Algorithmica 76 (2016) 17–46.
corr_author: '1'
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abstract:
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  text: We consider the problem of minimizing the continuous valued total variation
    subject to different unary terms on trees and propose fast direct algorithms based
    on dynamic programming to solve these problems. We treat both the convex and the
    nonconvex case and derive worst-case complexities that are equal to or better
    than existing methods. We show applications to total variation based two dimensional
    image processing and computer vision problems based on a Lagrangian decomposition
    approach. The resulting algorithms are very effcient, offer a high degree of parallelism,
    and come along with memory requirements which are only in the order of the number
    of image pixels.
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  ama: Kolmogorov V, Pock T, Rolinek M. Total variation on a tree. <i>SIAM Journal
    on Imaging Sciences</i>. 2016;9(2):605-636. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1010257">10.1137/15M1010257</a>
  apa: Kolmogorov, V., Pock, T., &#38; Rolinek, M. (2016). Total variation on a tree.
    <i>SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences</i>. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1010257">https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1010257</a>
  chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, Thomas Pock, and Michal Rolinek. “Total Variation
    on a Tree.” <i>SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences</i>. Society for Industrial and
    Applied Mathematics, 2016. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1010257">https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1010257</a>.
  ieee: V. Kolmogorov, T. Pock, and M. Rolinek, “Total variation on a tree,” <i>SIAM
    Journal on Imaging Sciences</i>, vol. 9, no. 2. Society for Industrial and Applied
    Mathematics, pp. 605–636, 2016.
  ista: Kolmogorov V, Pock T, Rolinek M. 2016. Total variation on a tree. SIAM Journal
    on Imaging Sciences. 9(2), 605–636.
  mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, et al. “Total Variation on a Tree.” <i>SIAM Journal on
    Imaging Sciences</i>, vol. 9, no. 2, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
    2016, pp. 605–36, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1010257">10.1137/15M1010257</a>.
  short: V. Kolmogorov, T. Pock, M. Rolinek, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences 9 (2016)
    605–636.
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abstract:
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  text: "A class of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) is characterised
    by a valued constraint language, a fixed set of cost functions on a finite domain.
    Finite-valued constraint languages contain functions that take on rational costs
    and general-valued constraint languages contain functions that take on rational
    or infinite costs. An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of functions
    from the language with the goal to minimise the sum. This framework includes and
    generalises well-studied constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) and maximum constraint
    satisfaction problems (Max-CSPs).\r\nOur main result is a precise algebraic characterisation
    of valued constraint languages whose instances can be solved exactly by the basic
    linear programming relaxation (BLP). For a general-valued constraint language
    Γ, BLP is a decision procedure for Γ if and only if Γ admits a symmetric fractional
    polymorphism of every arity. For a finite-valued constraint language Γ, BLP is
    a decision procedure if and only if Γ admits a symmetric fractional polymorphism
    of some arity, or equivalently, if Γ admits a symmetric fractional polymorphism
    of arity 2.\r\nUsing these results, we obtain tractability of several novel and
    previously widely-open classes of VCSPs, including problems over valued constraint
    languages that are: (1) submodular on arbitrary lattices; (2) bisubmodular (also
    known as k-submodular) on arbitrary finite domains; (3) weakly (and hence strongly)
    tree-submodular on arbitrary trees. "
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  last_name: Kolmogorov
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  full_name: Thapper, Johan
  last_name: Thapper
- first_name: Stanislav
  full_name: Živný, Stanislav
  last_name: Živný
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  ama: Kolmogorov V, Thapper J, Živný S. The power of linear programming for general-valued
    CSPs. <i>SIAM Journal on Computing</i>. 2015;44(1):1-36. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1137/130945648">10.1137/130945648</a>
  apa: Kolmogorov, V., Thapper, J., &#38; Živný, S. (2015). The power of linear programming
    for general-valued CSPs. <i>SIAM Journal on Computing</i>. SIAM. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1137/130945648">https://doi.org/10.1137/130945648</a>
  chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, Johan Thapper, and Stanislav Živný. “The Power of
    Linear Programming for General-Valued CSPs.” <i>SIAM Journal on Computing</i>.
    SIAM, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1137/130945648">https://doi.org/10.1137/130945648</a>.
  ieee: V. Kolmogorov, J. Thapper, and S. Živný, “The power of linear programming
    for general-valued CSPs,” <i>SIAM Journal on Computing</i>, vol. 44, no. 1. SIAM,
    pp. 1–36, 2015.
  ista: Kolmogorov V, Thapper J, Živný S. 2015. The power of linear programming for
    general-valued CSPs. SIAM Journal on Computing. 44(1), 1–36.
  mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, et al. “The Power of Linear Programming for General-Valued
    CSPs.” <i>SIAM Journal on Computing</i>, vol. 44, no. 1, SIAM, 2015, pp. 1–36,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1137/130945648">10.1137/130945648</a>.
  short: V. Kolmogorov, J. Thapper, S. Živný, SIAM Journal on Computing 44 (2015)
    1–36.
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  text: "Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a fundamental algorithmic problem
    that appears in many areas of Computer Science. It can be equivalently stated
    as computing a homomorphism R→ΓΓ between two relational structures, e.g. between
    two directed graphs. Analyzing its complexity has been a prominent research direction,
    especially for the fixed template CSPs where the right side ΓΓ is fixed and the
    left side R is unconstrained.\r\n\r\nFar fewer results are known for the hybrid
    setting that restricts both sides simultaneously. It assumes that R belongs to
    a certain class of relational structures (called a structural restriction in this
    paper). We study which structural restrictions are effective, i.e. there exists
    a fixed template ΓΓ (from a certain class of languages) for which the problem
    is tractable when R is restricted, and NP-hard otherwise. We provide a characterization
    for structural restrictions that are closed under inverse homomorphisms. The criterion
    is based on the chromatic number of a relational structure defined in this paper;
    it generalizes the standard chromatic number of a graph.\r\n\r\nAs our main tool,
    we use the algebraic machinery developed for fixed template CSPs. To apply it
    to our case, we introduce a new construction called a “lifted language”. We also
    give a characterization for structural restrictions corresponding to minor-closed
    families of graphs, extend results to certain Valued CSPs (namely conservative
    valued languages), and state implications for (valued) CSPs with ordered variables
    and for the maximum weight independent set problem on some restricted families
    of graphs."
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  ama: 'Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M, Takhanov R. Effectiveness of structural restrictions
    for hybrid CSPs. In: <i>26th International Symposium</i>. Vol 9472. Springer Nature;
    2015:566-577. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48">10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48</a>'
  apa: 'Kolmogorov, V., Rolinek, M., &#38; Takhanov, R. (2015). Effectiveness of structural
    restrictions for hybrid CSPs. In <i>26th International Symposium</i> (Vol. 9472,
    pp. 566–577). Nagoya, Japan: Springer Nature. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48</a>'
  chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, Michal Rolinek, and Rustem Takhanov. “Effectiveness
    of Structural Restrictions for Hybrid CSPs.” In <i>26th International Symposium</i>,
    9472:566–77. Springer Nature, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48</a>.
  ieee: V. Kolmogorov, M. Rolinek, and R. Takhanov, “Effectiveness of structural restrictions
    for hybrid CSPs,” in <i>26th International Symposium</i>, Nagoya, Japan, 2015,
    vol. 9472, pp. 566–577.
  ista: 'Kolmogorov V, Rolinek M, Takhanov R. 2015. Effectiveness of structural restrictions
    for hybrid CSPs. 26th International Symposium. ISAAC: International Symposium
    on Algorithms and Computation, LNCS, vol. 9472, 566–577.'
  mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, et al. “Effectiveness of Structural Restrictions for
    Hybrid CSPs.” <i>26th International Symposium</i>, vol. 9472, Springer Nature,
    2015, pp. 566–77, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48">10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48</a>.
  short: V. Kolmogorov, M. Rolinek, R. Takhanov, in:, 26th International Symposium,
    Springer Nature, 2015, pp. 566–577.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-12-11
  location: Nagoya, Japan
  name: 'ISAAC: International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation'
  start_date: 2015-12-09
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:10Z
date_published: 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T08:39:38Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: VlKo
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '1504.07067'
  isi:
  - '000375151300048'
intvolume: '      9472'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07067
month: '12'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 566 - 577
project:
- _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '616160'
  name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice'
publication: 26th International Symposium
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-3-662-48970-3
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Nature
publist_id: '5519'
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title: Effectiveness of structural restrictions for hybrid CSPs
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volume: 9472
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '1637'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: An instance of the Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem (VCSP) is given
    by a finite set of variables, a finite domain of labels, and a sum of functions,
    each function depending on a subset of the variables. Each function can take finite
    values specifying costs of assignments of labels to its variables or the infinite
    value, which indicates an infeasible assignment. The goal is to find an assignment
    of labels to the variables that minimizes the sum. We study, assuming that P ≠
    NP, how the complexity of this very general problem depends on the set of functions
    allowed in the instances, the so-called constraint language. The case when all
    allowed functions take values in {0, ∞} corresponds to ordinary CSPs, where one
    deals only with the feasibility issue and there is no optimization. This case
    is the subject of the Algebraic CSP Dichotomy Conjecture predicting for which
    constraint languages CSPs are tractable (i.e. solvable in polynomial time) and
    for which NP-hard. The case when all allowed functions take only finite values
    corresponds to finite-valued CSP, where the feasibility aspect is trivial and
    one deals only with the optimization issue. The complexity of finite-valued CSPs
    was fully classified by Thapper and Zivny. An algebraic necessary condition for
    tractability of a general-valued CSP with a fixed constraint language was recently
    given by Kozik and Ochremiak. As our main result, we prove that if a constraint
    language satisfies this algebraic necessary condition, and the feasibility CSP
    (i.e. the problem of deciding whether a given instance has a feasible solution)
    corresponding to the VCSP with this language is tractable, then the VCSP is tractable.
    The algorithm is a simple combination of the assumed algorithm for the feasibility
    CSP and the standard LP relaxation. As a corollary, we obtain that a dichotomy
    for ordinary CSPs would imply a dichotomy for general-valued CSPs.
alternative_title:
- 56th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
  id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Kolmogorov
- first_name: Andrei
  full_name: Krokhin, Andrei
  last_name: Krokhin
- first_name: Michal
  full_name: Rolinek, Michal
  id: 3CB3BC06-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Rolinek
citation:
  ama: 'Kolmogorov V, Krokhin A, Rolinek M. The complexity of general-valued CSPs.
    In: IEEE; 2015:1246-1258. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2015.80">10.1109/FOCS.2015.80</a>'
  apa: 'Kolmogorov, V., Krokhin, A., &#38; Rolinek, M. (2015). The complexity of general-valued
    CSPs (pp. 1246–1258). Presented at the FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science,
    Berkeley, CA, United States: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2015.80">https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2015.80</a>'
  chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, Andrei Krokhin, and Michal Rolinek. “The Complexity
    of General-Valued CSPs,” 1246–58. IEEE, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2015.80">https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2015.80</a>.
  ieee: 'V. Kolmogorov, A. Krokhin, and M. Rolinek, “The complexity of general-valued
    CSPs,” presented at the FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science, Berkeley, CA, United
    States, 2015, pp. 1246–1258.'
  ista: 'Kolmogorov V, Krokhin A, Rolinek M. 2015. The complexity of general-valued
    CSPs. FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science, 56th Annual Symposium on Foundations
    of Computer Science, , 1246–1258.'
  mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, et al. <i>The Complexity of General-Valued CSPs</i>.
    IEEE, 2015, pp. 1246–58, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2015.80">10.1109/FOCS.2015.80</a>.
  short: V. Kolmogorov, A. Krokhin, M. Rolinek, in:, IEEE, 2015, pp. 1246–1258.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-10-20
  location: Berkeley, CA, United States
  name: 'FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science'
  start_date: 2015-10-18
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:10Z
date_published: 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T13:45:57Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: VlKo
doi: 10.1109/FOCS.2015.80
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '1502.07327'
  isi:
  - '000379204700071'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07327
month: '12'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 1246 - 1258
project:
- _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '616160'
  name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice'
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
publist_id: '5518'
quality_controlled: '1'
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title: The complexity of general-valued CSPs
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...
---
_id: '1675'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Proofs of work (PoW) have been suggested by Dwork and Naor (Crypto’92) as
    protection to a shared resource. The basic idea is to ask the service requestor
    to dedicate some non-trivial amount of computational work to every request. The
    original applications included prevention of spam and protection against denial
    of service attacks. More recently, PoWs have been used to prevent double spending
    in the Bitcoin digital currency system. In this work, we put forward an alternative
    concept for PoWs - so-called proofs of space (PoS), where a service requestor
    must dedicate a significant amount of disk space as opposed to computation. We
    construct secure PoS schemes in the random oracle model (with one additional mild
    assumption required for the proof to go through), using graphs with high “pebbling
    complexity” and Merkle hash-trees. We discuss some applications, including follow-up
    work where a decentralized digital currency scheme called Spacecoin is constructed
    that uses PoS (instead of wasteful PoW like in Bitcoin) to prevent double spending.
    The main technical contribution of this work is the construction of (directed,
    loop-free) graphs on N vertices with in-degree O(log logN) such that even if one
    places Θ(N) pebbles on the nodes of the graph, there’s a constant fraction of
    nodes that needs Θ(N) steps to be pebbled (where in every step one can put a pebble
    on a node if all its parents have a pebble).
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Dziembowski, Stefan
  last_name: Dziembowski
- first_name: Sebastian
  full_name: Faust, Sebastian
  last_name: Faust
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
  id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Kolmogorov
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
citation:
  ama: 'Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. Proofs of space. In: <i>35th
    Annual Cryptology Conference</i>. Vol 9216. Springer; 2015:585-605. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29">10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29</a>'
  apa: 'Dziembowski, S., Faust, S., Kolmogorov, V., &#38; Pietrzak, K. Z. (2015).
    Proofs of space. In <i>35th Annual Cryptology Conference</i> (Vol. 9216, pp. 585–605).
    Santa Barbara, CA, United States: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29</a>'
  chicago: Dziembowski, Stefan, Sebastian Faust, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Krzysztof
    Z Pietrzak. “Proofs of Space.” In <i>35th Annual Cryptology Conference</i>, 9216:585–605.
    Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29</a>.
  ieee: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “Proofs of space,”
    in <i>35th Annual Cryptology Conference</i>, Santa Barbara, CA, United States,
    2015, vol. 9216, pp. 585–605.
  ista: 'Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. 2015. Proofs of space.
    35th Annual Cryptology Conference. CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference,
    LNCS, vol. 9216, 585–605.'
  mla: Dziembowski, Stefan, et al. “Proofs of Space.” <i>35th Annual Cryptology Conference</i>,
    vol. 9216, Springer, 2015, pp. 585–605, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29">10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29</a>.
  short: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, 35th Annual
    Cryptology Conference, Springer, 2015, pp. 585–605.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-08-20
  location: Santa Barbara, CA, United States
  name: 'CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference'
  start_date: 2015-08-16
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:24Z
date_published: 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T09:55:25Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: VlKo
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
  isi:
  - '000364183100029'
intvolume: '      9216'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/796.pdf
month: '08'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 585 - 605
project:
- _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '616160'
  name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice'
- _id: 258C570E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '259668'
  name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography
publication: 35th Annual Cryptology Conference
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9783662479995'
  issn:
  - 0302-9743
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer
publist_id: '5474'
pubrep_id: '671'
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...
---
_id: '1859'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Structural support vector machines (SSVMs) are amongst the best performing
    models for structured computer vision tasks, such as semantic image segmentation
    or human pose estimation. Training SSVMs, however, is computationally costly,
    because it requires repeated calls to a structured prediction subroutine (called
    \\emph{max-oracle}), which has to solve an optimization problem itself, e.g. a
    graph cut.\r\nIn this work, we introduce a new algorithm for SSVM training that
    is more efficient than earlier techniques when the max-oracle is computationally
    expensive, as it is frequently the case in computer vision tasks. The main idea
    is to (i) combine the recent stochastic Block-Coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm
    with efficient hyperplane caching, and (ii) use an automatic selection rule for
    deciding whether to call the exact max-oracle or to rely on an approximate one
    based on the cached hyperplanes.\r\nWe show experimentally that this strategy
    leads to faster convergence to the optimum with respect to the number of requires
    oracle calls, and that this translates into faster convergence with respect to
    the total runtime when the max-oracle is slow compared to the other steps of the
    algorithm. "
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Neel
  full_name: Shah, Neel
  id: 31ABAF80-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Shah
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
  id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Kolmogorov
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Lampert, Christoph
  id: 40C20FD2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Lampert
  orcid: 0000-0001-8622-7887
citation:
  ama: 'Shah N, Kolmogorov V, Lampert C. A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe
    algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle. In: IEEE; 2015:2737-2745.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890">10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890</a>'
  apa: 'Shah, N., Kolmogorov, V., &#38; Lampert, C. (2015). A multi-plane block-coordinate
    Frank-Wolfe algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle (pp.
    2737–2745). Presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Boston,
    MA, USA: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890">https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890</a>'
  chicago: Shah, Neel, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Christoph Lampert. “A Multi-Plane
    Block-Coordinate Frank-Wolfe Algorithm for Training Structural SVMs with a Costly
    Max-Oracle,” 2737–45. IEEE, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890">https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890</a>.
  ieee: 'N. Shah, V. Kolmogorov, and C. Lampert, “A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe
    algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle,” presented at
    the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Boston, MA, USA, 2015, pp.
    2737–2745.'
  ista: 'Shah N, Kolmogorov V, Lampert C. 2015. A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe
    algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle. CVPR: Computer
    Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2737–2745.'
  mla: Shah, Neel, et al. <i>A Multi-Plane Block-Coordinate Frank-Wolfe Algorithm
    for Training Structural SVMs with a Costly Max-Oracle</i>. IEEE, 2015, pp. 2737–45,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890">10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890</a>.
  short: N. Shah, V. Kolmogorov, C. Lampert, in:, IEEE, 2015, pp. 2737–2745.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-06-12
  location: Boston, MA, USA
  name: 'CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition'
  start_date: 2015-06-07
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:24Z
date_published: 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-06-11T07:20:12Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: VlKo
- _id: ChLa
doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '1408.6804'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6804
month: '06'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 2737 - 2745
project:
- _id: 2532554C-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '308036'
  name: Lifelong Learning of Visual Scene Understanding
- _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '616160'
  name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice'
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
publist_id: '5240'
quality_controlled: '1'
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status: public
title: A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm for training structural
  SVMs with a costly max-oracle
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OA_place: repository
OA_type: green
_id: '1841'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We propose a new family of message passing techniques for MAP estimation in
    graphical models which we call Sequential Reweighted Message Passing (SRMP). Special
    cases include well-known techniques such as Min-Sum Diffusion (MSD) and a faster
    Sequential Tree-Reweighted Message Passing (TRW-S). Importantly, our derivation
    is simpler than the original derivation of TRW-S, and does not involve a decomposition
    into trees. This allows easy generalizations. The new family of algorithms can
    be viewed as a generalization of TRW-S from pairwise to higher-order graphical
    models. We test SRMP on several real-world problems with promising results.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
  id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Kolmogorov
citation:
  ama: Kolmogorov V. A new look at reweighted message passing. <i>IEEE Transactions
    on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence</i>. 2015;37(5):919-930. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465">10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465</a>
  apa: Kolmogorov, V. (2015). A new look at reweighted message passing. <i>IEEE Transactions
    on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence</i>. IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465">https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465</a>
  chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “A New Look at Reweighted Message Passing.” <i>IEEE
    Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence</i>. IEEE, 2015. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465">https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465</a>.
  ieee: V. Kolmogorov, “A new look at reweighted message passing,” <i>IEEE Transactions
    on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence</i>, vol. 37, no. 5. IEEE, pp. 919–930,
    2015.
  ista: Kolmogorov V. 2015. A new look at reweighted message passing. IEEE Transactions
    on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 37(5), 919–930.
  mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “A New Look at Reweighted Message Passing.” <i>IEEE Transactions
    on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence</i>, vol. 37, no. 5, IEEE, 2015,
    pp. 919–30, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465">10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465</a>.
  short: V. Kolmogorov, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    37 (2015) 919–930.
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:18Z
date_published: 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-22T14:33:14Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: VlKo
doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465
ec_funded: 1
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  - '1309.5655'
  isi:
  - '000352533000002'
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isi: 1
issue: '5'
language:
- iso: eng
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  url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5655
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oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 919 - 930
project:
- _id: 25FBA906-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '616160'
  name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice'
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publication_status: published
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...
---
_id: '2275'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Energies with high-order non-submodular interactions have been shown to be
    very useful in vision due to their high modeling power. Optimization of such energies,
    however, is generally NP-hard. A naive approach that works for small problem instances
    is exhaustive search, that is, enumeration of all possible labelings of the underlying
    graph. We propose a general minimization approach for large graphs based on enumeration
    of labelings of certain small patches. \r\nThis partial enumeration technique
    reduces complex high-order energy formulations to pairwise Constraint Satisfaction
    Problems with unary costs (uCSP), which can be efficiently solved using standard
    methods like TRW-S. Our approach outperforms a number of existing state-of-the-art
    algorithms on well known difficult problems (e.g. curvature regularization, stereo,
    deconvolution); it gives near global minimum and better speed. \r\nOur main application
    of interest is curvature regularization. In the context of segmentation, our partial
    enumeration technique allows to evaluate curvature directly on small patches using
    a novel integral geometry approach.\r\n"
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Carl
  full_name: Olsson, Carl
  last_name: Olsson
- first_name: Johannes
  full_name: Ulen, Johannes
  last_name: Ulen
- first_name: Yuri
  full_name: Boykov, Yuri
  last_name: Boykov
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
  id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
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citation:
  ama: 'Olsson C, Ulen J, Boykov Y, Kolmogorov V. Partial enumeration and curvature
    regularization. In: IEEE; 2014:2936-2943. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.365">10.1109/ICCV.2013.365</a>'
  apa: 'Olsson, C., Ulen, J., Boykov, Y., &#38; Kolmogorov, V. (2014). Partial enumeration
    and curvature regularization (pp. 2936–2943). Presented at the ICCV: International
    Conference on Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.365">https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.365</a>'
  chicago: Olsson, Carl, Johannes Ulen, Yuri Boykov, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Partial
    Enumeration and Curvature Regularization,” 2936–43. IEEE, 2014. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.365">https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.365</a>.
  ieee: 'C. Olsson, J. Ulen, Y. Boykov, and V. Kolmogorov, “Partial enumeration and
    curvature regularization,” presented at the ICCV: International Conference on
    Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia, 2014, pp. 2936–2943.'
  ista: 'Olsson C, Ulen J, Boykov Y, Kolmogorov V. 2014. Partial enumeration and curvature
    regularization. ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, 2936–2943.'
  mla: Olsson, Carl, et al. <i>Partial Enumeration and Curvature Regularization</i>.
    IEEE, 2014, pp. 2936–43, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.365">10.1109/ICCV.2013.365</a>.
  short: C. Olsson, J. Ulen, Y. Boykov, V. Kolmogorov, in:, IEEE, 2014, pp. 2936–2943.
conference:
  end_date: 2013-12-08
  location: Sydney, Australia
  name: 'ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision'
  start_date: 2013-12-01
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:42Z
date_published: 2014-03-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-29T14:28:16Z
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    IST Austria
  apa: Huszár, K., &#38; Rolinek, M. (n.d.). <i>Playful Math - An introduction to
    mathematical games</i>. IST Austria.
  chicago: Huszár, Kristóf, and Michal Rolinek. <i>Playful Math - An Introduction
    to Mathematical Games</i>. IST Austria, n.d.
  ieee: K. Huszár and M. Rolinek, <i>Playful Math - An introduction to mathematical
    games</i>. IST Austria.
  ista: Huszár K, Rolinek M. Playful Math - An introduction to mathematical games,
    IST Austria, 5p.
  mla: Huszár, Kristóf, and Michal Rolinek. <i>Playful Math - An Introduction to Mathematical
    Games</i>. IST Austria.
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    IST Austria, n.d.
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  text: "Representation languages for coalitional games are a key research area in
    algorithmic game theory.   There is an inher-\r\nent tradeoff between how general
    a language is, allowing it to  capture  more  elaborate  games,  and  how  hard
    \ it  is  computationally to optimize and solve such games.  One prominent  such
    \ language  is  the  simple  yet  expressive\r\nWeighted Graph Games  (WGGs) representation
    (Deng  and Papadimitriou 1994), which maintains knowledge about synergies between
    agents in the form of an edge weighted graph. We  consider  the  problem  of  finding
    \ the  optimal  coalition structure in WGGs. The agents in such games are vertices
    in a graph, and the value of a coalition is the sum of the weights of the edges
    present between coalition members. The optimal coalition structure is a partition
    of the agents to coalitions, that maximizes the sum of utilities obtained by the
    coalitions. We  show  that  finding  the  optimal  coalition  structure  is  not
    only hard for general graphs,  but is also intractable for restricted families
    such as planar graphs which are amenable for many other combinatorial problems.
    \ We then provide algorithms with constant factor approximations for planar, minorfree
    and bounded degree graphs."
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- first_name: Vladimir
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- first_name: Morteza
  full_name: Zadimoghaddam, Morteza
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citation:
  ama: 'Bachrach Y, Kohli P, Kolmogorov V, Zadimoghaddam M. Optimal Coalition Structures
    in Cooperative Graph Games. In: AAAI Press; 2013:81-87.'
  apa: 'Bachrach, Y., Kohli, P., Kolmogorov, V., &#38; Zadimoghaddam, M. (2013). Optimal
    Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games (pp. 81–87). Presented at the
    AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Bellevue, WA, United States: AAAI
    Press.'
  chicago: Bachrach, Yoram, Pushmeet Kohli, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Morteza Zadimoghaddam.
    “Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games,” 81–87. AAAI Press,
    2013.
  ieee: 'Y. Bachrach, P. Kohli, V. Kolmogorov, and M. Zadimoghaddam, “Optimal Coalition
    Structures in Cooperative Graph Games,” presented at the AAAI: Conference on Artificial
    Intelligence, Bellevue, WA, United States, 2013, pp. 81–87.'
  ista: 'Bachrach Y, Kohli P, Kolmogorov V, Zadimoghaddam M. 2013. Optimal Coalition
    Structures in Cooperative Graph Games. AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
    81–87.'
  mla: Bachrach, Yoram, et al. <i>Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph
    Games</i>. AAAI Press, 2013, pp. 81–87.
  short: Y. Bachrach, P. Kohli, V. Kolmogorov, M. Zadimoghaddam, in:, AAAI Press,
    2013, pp. 81–87.
conference:
  end_date: 2013-07-18
  location: Bellevue, WA, United States
  name: 'AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence'
  start_date: 2013-07-14
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:41Z
date_published: 2013-12-31T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-10T11:52:18Z
day: '31'
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publist_id: '4674'
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abstract:
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  text: "We consider Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) with pattern-based potentials
    defined on a chain. In this model the energy of a string (labeling) x1...xn is
    the sum of terms over intervals [i,j] where each term is non-zero only if the
    substring xi...xj equals a prespecified pattern α. Such CRFs can be naturally
    applied to many sequence tagging problems.\r\nWe present efficient algorithms
    for the three standard inference tasks in a CRF, namely computing (i) the partition
    function, (ii) marginals, and (iii) computing the MAP. Their complexities are
    respectively O(nL), O(nLℓmax) and O(nLmin{|D|,log(ℓmax+1)}) where L is the combined
    length of input patterns, ℓmax is the maximum length of a pattern, and D is the
    input alphabet. This improves on the previous algorithms of (Ye et al., 2009)
    whose complexities are respectively O(nL|D|), O(n|Γ|L2ℓ2max) and O(nL|D|), where
    |Γ| is the number of input patterns.\r\nIn addition, we give an efficient algorithm
    for sampling. Finally, we consider the case of non-positive weights. (Komodakis
    &amp; Paragios, 2009) gave an O(nL) algorithm for computing the MAP. We present
    a modification that has the same worst-case complexity but can beat it in the
    best case. "
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- first_name: Rustem
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  last_name: Takhanov
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
  id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Kolmogorov
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  ama: 'Takhanov R, Kolmogorov V. Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence
    data. In: <i>ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International</i>.
    Vol 28. ML Research Press; 2013:145-153.'
  apa: 'Takhanov, R., &#38; Kolmogorov, V. (2013). Inference algorithms for pattern-based
    CRFs on sequence data. In <i>ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference
    on International</i> (Vol. 28, pp. 145–153). Atlanta, GA, USA: ML Research Press.'
  chicago: Takhanov, Rustem, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Inference Algorithms for Pattern-Based
    CRFs on Sequence Data.” In <i>ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference
    on International</i>, 28:145–53. ML Research Press, 2013.
  ieee: R. Takhanov and V. Kolmogorov, “Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs
    on sequence data,” in <i>ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference
    on International</i>, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2013, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 145–153.
  ista: 'Takhanov R, Kolmogorov V. 2013. Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs
    on sequence data. ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on
    International. ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning, JMLR, vol.
    28, 145–153.'
  mla: Takhanov, Rustem, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Inference Algorithms for Pattern-Based
    CRFs on Sequence Data.” <i>ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference
    on International</i>, vol. 28, no. 3, ML Research Press, 2013, pp. 145–53.
  short: R. Takhanov, V. Kolmogorov, in:, ICML’13 Proceedings of the 30th International
    Conference on International, ML Research Press, 2013, pp. 145–153.
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  location: Atlanta, GA, USA
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date_updated: 2025-09-29T14:28:48Z
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intvolume: '        28'
isi: 1
issue: '3'
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  text: We propose a new family of message passing techniques for MAP estimation in
    graphical models which we call Sequential Reweighted Message Passing (SRMP). Special
    cases include well-known techniques such as Min-Sum Diusion (MSD) and a faster
    Sequential Tree-Reweighted Message Passing (TRW-S). Importantly, our derivation
    is simpler than the original derivation of TRW-S, and does not involve a  decomposition
    into trees. This allows easy generalizations. We present such a generalization
    for the case of higher-order graphical models, and test it on several real-world
    problems with promising results.
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  ama: Kolmogorov V. <i>Reweighted Message Passing Revisited</i>. IST Austria
  apa: Kolmogorov, V. (n.d.). <i>Reweighted message passing revisited</i>. IST Austria.
  chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. <i>Reweighted Message Passing Revisited</i>. IST
    Austria, n.d.
  ieee: V. Kolmogorov, <i>Reweighted message passing revisited</i>. IST Austria.
  ista: Kolmogorov V. Reweighted message passing revisited, IST Austria,p.
  mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir. <i>Reweighted Message Passing Revisited</i>. IST Austria.
  short: V. Kolmogorov, Reweighted Message Passing Revisited, IST Austria, n.d.
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- iso: eng
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  text: "Proofs of work (PoW) have been suggested by Dwork and Naor (Crypto'92) as
    protection to a shared resource. The basic idea is to ask the service requestor
    to dedicate some non-trivial amount of computational work to every request. The
    original applications included prevention of spam and protection against denial
    of service attacks. More recently, PoWs have been used to prevent double spending
    in the Bitcoin digital currency system.\r\n\r\nIn this work, we put forward an
    alternative concept for PoWs -- so-called proofs of space (PoS), where a service
    requestor must dedicate a significant amount of disk space as opposed to computation.
    We construct secure PoS schemes in the random oracle model, using graphs with
    high &quot;pebbling complexity&quot; and Merkle hash-trees. "
author:
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  last_name: Faust
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
  id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
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  ama: Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. <i>Proofs of Space</i>.
    IST Austria; 2013.
  apa: Dziembowski, S., Faust, S., Kolmogorov, V., &#38; Pietrzak, K. Z. (2013). <i>Proofs
    of Space</i>. IST Austria.
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    Z Pietrzak. <i>Proofs of Space</i>. IST Austria, 2013.
  ieee: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, and K. Z. Pietrzak, <i>Proofs of
    Space</i>. IST Austria, 2013.
  ista: Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. 2013. Proofs of Space,
    IST Austria,p.
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  short: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, K.Z. Pietrzak, Proofs of Space,
    IST Austria, 2013.
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- _id: KrPi
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_id: '2276'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: The problem of minimizing the Potts energy function frequently occurs in computer
    vision applications. One way to tackle this NP-hard problem was proposed by Kovtun
    [19, 20]. It identifies a part of an optimal solution by running k maxflow computations,
    where k is the number of labels. The number of “labeled” pixels can be significant
    in some applications, e.g. 50-93% in our tests for stereo. We show how to reduce
    the runtime to O (log k) maxflow computations (or one parametric maxflow computation).
    Furthermore, the output of our algorithm allows to speed-up the subsequent alpha
    expansion for the unlabeled part, or can be used as it is for time-critical applications.
    To derive our technique, we generalize the algorithm of Felzenszwalb et al. [7]
    for Tree Metrics . We also show a connection to k-submodular functions from combinatorial
    optimization, and discuss k-submodular relaxations for general energy functions.
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author:
- first_name: Igor
  full_name: Gridchyn, Igor
  id: 4B60654C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Gridchyn
  orcid: 0000-0002-1807-1929
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
  id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Kolmogorov
citation:
  ama: 'Gridchyn I, Kolmogorov V. Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular
    functions. In: IEEE; 2013:2320-2327. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.288">10.1109/ICCV.2013.288</a>'
  apa: 'Gridchyn, I., &#38; Kolmogorov, V. (2013). Potts model, parametric maxflow
    and k-submodular functions (pp. 2320–2327). Presented at the ICCV: International
    Conference on Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.288">https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.288</a>'
  chicago: Gridchyn, Igor, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. “Potts Model, Parametric Maxflow
    and k-Submodular Functions,” 2320–27. IEEE, 2013. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.288">https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.288</a>.
  ieee: 'I. Gridchyn and V. Kolmogorov, “Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular
    functions,” presented at the ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision,
    Sydney, Australia, 2013, pp. 2320–2327.'
  ista: 'Gridchyn I, Kolmogorov V. 2013. Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular
    functions. ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, 2320–2327.'
  mla: Gridchyn, Igor, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. <i>Potts Model, Parametric Maxflow
    and k-Submodular Functions</i>. IEEE, 2013, pp. 2320–27, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.288">10.1109/ICCV.2013.288</a>.
  short: I. Gridchyn, V. Kolmogorov, in:, IEEE, 2013, pp. 2320–2327.
conference:
  end_date: 2013-12-08
  location: Sydney, Australia
  name: 'ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision'
  start_date: 2013-12-01
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:43Z
date_published: 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-29T14:27:49Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: JoCs
- _id: VlKo
doi: 10.1109/ICCV.2013.288
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  isi:
  - '000351830500290'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
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  url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1771
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oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 2320 - 2327
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
publist_id: '4668'
quality_controlled: '1'
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  text: A class of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) is characterised
    by a valued constraint language, a fixed set of cost functions on a finite domain.
    An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of cost functions from the language
    with the goal to minimise the sum. We study which classes of finite-valued languages
    can be solved exactly by the basic linear programming relaxation (BLP). Thapper
    and Živný showed [20] that if BLP solves the language then the language admits
    a binary commutative fractional polymorphism. We prove that the converse is also
    true. This leads to a necessary and a sufficient condition which can be checked
    in polynomial time for a given language. In contrast, the previous necessary and
    sufficient condition due to [20] involved infinitely many inequalities. More recently,
    Thapper and Živný [21] showed (using, in particular, a technique introduced in
    this paper) that core languages that do not satisfy our condition are NP-hard.
    Taken together, these results imply that a finite-valued language can either be
    solved using Linear Programming or is NP-hard.
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- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
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  last_name: Kolmogorov
citation:
  ama: 'Kolmogorov V. The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs: A constructive
    characterization. In: Vol 7965. Springer; 2013:625-636. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53">10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53</a>'
  apa: 'Kolmogorov, V. (2013). The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs:
    A constructive characterization (Vol. 7965, pp. 625–636). Presented at the ICALP:
    Automata, Languages and Programming, Riga, Latvia: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53</a>'
  chicago: 'Kolmogorov, Vladimir. “The Power of Linear Programming for Finite-Valued
    CSPs: A Constructive Characterization,” 7965:625–36. Springer, 2013. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53</a>.'
  ieee: 'V. Kolmogorov, “The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs: A
    constructive characterization,” presented at the ICALP: Automata, Languages and
    Programming, Riga, Latvia, 2013, vol. 7965, no. 1, pp. 625–636.'
  ista: 'Kolmogorov V. 2013. The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs:
    A constructive characterization. ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming, LNCS,
    vol. 7965, 625–636.'
  mla: 'Kolmogorov, Vladimir. <i>The Power of Linear Programming for Finite-Valued
    CSPs: A Constructive Characterization</i>. Vol. 7965, no. 1, Springer, 2013, pp.
    625–36, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53">10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53</a>.'
  short: V. Kolmogorov, in:, Springer, 2013, pp. 625–636.
conference:
  end_date: 2013-07-12
  location: Riga, Latvia
  name: 'ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming'
  start_date: 2013-07-08
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date_created: 2018-12-11T11:58:08Z
date_published: 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T14:14:56Z
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abstract:
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  text: 'We study the complexity of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs)
    parametrized by a 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 minimize the sum. Under the unique games conjecture,
    the approximability of finite-valued VCSPs is well understood, see Raghavendra
    [2008]. However, there is no characterization of finite-valued VCSPs, let alone
    general-valued VCSPs, that can be solved exactly in polynomial time, thus giving
    insights from a combinatorial optimization perspective. We consider the case of
    languages containing all possible unary cost functions. In the case of languages
    consisting of only {0, ∞}-valued cost functions (i.e., relations), such languages
    have been called conservative and studied by Bulatov [2003, 2011] and recently
    by Barto [2011]. Since we study valued languages, we call a language conservative
    if it contains all finite-valued unary cost functions. The computational complexity
    of conservative valued languages has been studied by Cohen et al. [2006] for languages
    over Boolean domains, by Deineko et al. [2008] for {0, 1}-valued languages (a.k.a
    Max-CSP), and by Takhanov [2010a] for {0, ∞}-valued languages containing all finite-valued
    unary cost functions (a.k.a. Min-Cost-Hom). We prove a Schaefer-like dichotomy
    theorem for conservative valued languages: if all cost functions in the language
    satisfy a certain condition (specified by a complementary combination of STP and
    MJN multimor-phisms), then any instance can be solved in polynomial time (via
    a new algorithm developed in this article), otherwise the language is NP-hard.
    This is the first complete complexity classification of general-valued constraint
    languages over non-Boolean domains. It is a common phenomenon that complexity
    classifications of problems over non-Boolean domains are significantly harder
    than the Boolean cases. The polynomial-time algorithm we present for the tractable
    cases is a generalization of the submodular minimization problem and a result
    of Cohen et al. [2008]. Our results generalize previous results by Takhanov [2010a]
    and (a subset of results) by Cohen et al. [2006] and Deineko et al. [2008]. Moreover,
    our results do not rely on any computer-assisted search as in Deineko et al. [2008],
    and provide a powerful tool for proving hardness of finite-valued and general-valued
    languages.'
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- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
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  last_name: Kolmogorov
- first_name: Stanislav
  full_name: Živný, Stanislav
  last_name: Živný
citation:
  ama: Kolmogorov V, Živný S. The complexity of conservative valued CSPs. <i>Journal
    of the ACM</i>. 2013;60(2). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2450142.2450146">10.1145/2450142.2450146</a>
  apa: Kolmogorov, V., &#38; Živný, S. (2013). The complexity of conservative valued
    CSPs. <i>Journal of the ACM</i>. ACM. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2450142.2450146">https://doi.org/10.1145/2450142.2450146</a>
  chicago: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Stanislav Živný. “The Complexity of Conservative
    Valued CSPs.” <i>Journal of the ACM</i>. ACM, 2013. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2450142.2450146">https://doi.org/10.1145/2450142.2450146</a>.
  ieee: V. Kolmogorov and S. Živný, “The complexity of conservative valued CSPs,”
    <i>Journal of the ACM</i>, vol. 60, no. 2. ACM, 2013.
  ista: Kolmogorov V, Živný S. 2013. The complexity of conservative valued CSPs. Journal
    of the ACM. 60(2), 10.
  mla: Kolmogorov, Vladimir, and Stanislav Živný. “The Complexity of Conservative
    Valued CSPs.” <i>Journal of the ACM</i>, vol. 60, no. 2, 10, ACM, 2013, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2450142.2450146">10.1145/2450142.2450146</a>.
  short: V. Kolmogorov, S. Živný, Journal of the ACM 60 (2013).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:59:48Z
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