@InProceedings{kaznatcheev_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2024.17, author = {Kaznatcheev, Artem and van Marle, Melle}, title = {{Exponential Steepest Ascent from Valued Constraint Graphs of Pathwidth Four}}, booktitle = {30th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2024)}, pages = {17:1--17:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-336-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2024}, volume = {307}, editor = {Shaw, Paul}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2024.17}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207021}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2024.17}, annote = {Keywords: valued constraint satisfaction problem, steepest ascent, local search, bounded treewidth, intractability} }