Planted-solution SAT and Ising benchmarks from integer factorization
Abstract
We present a family of planted-solution benchmark instances for satisfiability (SAT) solvers and Ising optimization derived from integer factorization. Given two primes and , the construction encodes the arithmetic constraints of as a conjunctive normal form (CNF) formula whose satisfying assignments correspond to valid factorizations of~. The known pair serves as a built-in ground truth, enabling unambiguous verification of solver output. We show that for two -bit primes the total number of carry contractions is on the order of . 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