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What is the overall message of the constraint satisfaction topic?

  • A.Constraint problems are always solvable in polynomial time
  • B.Structure in the representation can be exploited by inference
  • C.Backtracking search is sufficient for problems of any size
  • D.Local search should be preferred for every kind of practical problem

Answer: B

Everything in the topic follows from using a factored representation in which constraints are visible, so that inference can prune before search rather than only during it. Plain backtracking is hopeless on real instances, local search cannot prove unsatisfiability, and the problems remain NP hard. That a change of representation, rather than a cleverer algorithm, unlocks the whole apparatus is the lesson worth carrying forward to the topics that follow.

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