Lemmy: Bestiverse
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 15 days ago

Nonogram: Complexity of Inference and Phase Transition Behavior

arxiv.org

external-link
message-square
0
fedilink
3
external-link

Nonogram: Complexity of Inference and Phase Transition Behavior

arxiv.org

RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 15 days ago
message-square
0
fedilink
Nonogram is a popular combinatorial puzzle (similar in nature to Sudoku or Minesweeper) in which a puzzle solver must determine if there exists a setting of the puzzle parameters that satisfy a given set of constraints. It has long been known that the problem of deciding if a solution exists is a computationally difficult problem. Despite this fact, humans still seem to enjoy playing it. This work aims to reconcile these seemingly contradictory facts by (1) analyzing the complexity of the inference problem for Nonogram (the problem of determining if there exists a puzzle parameter that can be inferred from the constraints without guessing) and (2) experimentally establishing the existence of a phase transition behavior for this inference problem. Our results show that the difficulty of the inference problem is largely determined by the density of filled cells (positive parameters) in a given puzzle. Along the way we implement an efficient encoding of a Nonogram board as a Boolean formula in Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) through the use of regular expressions in order to make our experiments feasible.

Comments

alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.

Hacker News

hackernews

Subscribe from Remote Instance

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
lock
Community locked: only moderators can create posts. You can still comment on posts.

Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.

The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 398 users / day
  • 1.57K users / week
  • 4.22K users / month
  • 9.58K users / 6 months
  • 2 local subscribers
  • 2.37K subscribers
  • 28.9K Posts
  • 11.5K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • patrick
  • RSS Bot
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org