@InProceedings{liu_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2025.65, author = {Liu, Yuwei and Chen, Yijia and Li, Shuangle and Lin, Bingkai and Zheng, Xin}, title = {{On Average Baby PIH and Its Applications}}, booktitle = {42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)}, pages = {65:1--65:19}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-365-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2025}, volume = {327}, editor = {Beyersdorff, Olaf and Pilipczuk, Micha{\l} and Pimentel, Elaine and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.65}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-228900}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.65}, annote = {Keywords: Average Baby PIH, Parameterized Inapproximability, Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Exact Set Cover, W\lbrack1\rbrack-hardness} }