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Planted-solution SAT and Ising benchmarks from integer factorization

Quantum Physics 2026-04-14 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

We present a family of planted-solution benchmark instances for satisfiability (SAT) solvers and Ising optimization derived from integer factorization. Given two primes pp and qq, the construction encodes the arithmetic constraints of N=p×qN = p \times q as a conjunctive normal form (CNF) formula whose satisfying assignments correspond to valid factorizations of~NN. The known pair (p,q)(p,q) serves as a built-in ground truth, enabling unambiguous verification of solver output. We show that for two dd-bit primes the total number of carry contractions is on the order of d4d^4. Empirical benchmarks with SAT solvers show that median runtime grows exponentially in the bit-length of the factors over the range tested. The construction provides a scalable, structured, and verifiable benchmark family controlled by a single parameter, accompanied by open-source generation software.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.09837,
  title  = {Planted-solution SAT and Ising benchmarks from integer factorization},
  author = {Itay Hen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.09837},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

11 pages; 4 figures

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