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Yet Another Comparison of SAT Encodings for the At-Most-K Constraint

Logic in Computer Science 2020-05-14 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The at-most-k constraint is ubiquitous in combinatorial problems, and numerous SAT encodings are available for the constraint. Prior experiments have shown the competitiveness of the sequential-counter encoding for k >> 1, and have excluded the parallel-counter encoding, which is more compact that the binary-adder encoding, from consideration due to its incapability of enforcing arc consistency through unit propagation. This paper presents an experiment that shows astounding performance of the binary-adder encoding for the at-most-k constraint.

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@article{arxiv.2005.06274,
  title  = {Yet Another Comparison of SAT Encodings for the At-Most-K Constraint},
  author = {Neng-Fa Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06274},
  year   = {2020}
}