@kaia
Tolkien (having heard only the first question) *takes a deeeeep breath*
@faho thank you, needed this today 🙏
@chjara women more like woe-men
@Erik You ask me. 3 people just boosted my graph theory∩utility theory post which was just definitions
In the context of making inconsistent preferences consistent, these are fairly strong results.
Not sure about their approximation behavior, but I think this makes becoming a coherent agent very difficult.
• PCS and all c∈C have minimum graph edit distance of i. (Proof sketch: There is a graph for which all acyclic tournaments with the same (minimal) graph-edit distance don't contain a specific subgraph). Graph in picture, the minimal edit distance is 3, the non-preserved consistent subgraph is a2→a4. This extends to arbitrarily big consistent subgraphs (replace all edges with acyclic tournaments with n nodes).
Then you have the following impossibilities:
• PCS and f has polynomial runtime. (Proof sketch: finding an s of size k is in NP. Finding all of them is in NP as well.)
• PCS and C has polynomial size. (Proof sketch: You can construct a graph with exponentially many acyclic tournaments as subgraphs).
I operate by Crocker's rules[1].