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 - **[A Compendium of NP Optimization Problems](https://www.csc.kth.se/tcs/compendium/)** — Online catalog of NP optimization problems with approximability results (Crescenzi & Kann).
 - **Computers and Intractability** (Garey & Johnson, 1979) — The classic reference cataloging 300+ NP-complete problems with reductions. The most cited book in computer science.
 
-## Citation
-
-If you find this project useful in your research, please cite:
-
-```bibtex
-@misc{pan2026problemreductionsscaleagentic,
-      title={Problem Reductions at Scale: Agentic Integration of Computationally Hard Problems}, 
-      author={Xi-Wei Pan and Shi-Wen An and Jin-Guo Liu},
-      year={2026},
-      eprint={2604.11535},
-      archivePrefix={arXiv},
-      primaryClass={cs.AI},
-      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11535}, 
-}
-```
-
 ## License
 
 MIT License - see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.