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This paper introduces the 2019 version of \us{}, a novel Constraint Programming framework for floating point verification problems expressed with the SMT language of SMTLIB. SMT solvers decompose their task by delegating to specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Heytem Zitoun , Claude Michel , Laurent Michel , Michel Rueher

Despite their sophisticated heuristics, boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers are still vulnerable to symmetry, causing them to visit search regions that are symmetric to ones already explored. While symmetry handling is routine in other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Markus Anders , Cayden Codel , Marijn J. H. Heule

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

In Verification and in (optimal) AI Planning, a successful method is to formulate the application as boolean satisfiability (SAT), and solve it with state-of-the-art DPLL-based procedures. There is a lack of understanding of why this works…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joerg Hoffmann , Carla Gomes , Bart Selman

Symmetry is a common feature of many combinatorial problems. Unfortunately eliminating all symmetry from a problem is often computationally intractable. This paper argues that recent parameterized complexity results provide insight into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Toby Walsh

Algebraic Branching Programs(ABPs) are standard models for computing polynomials. Syntactic multilinear ABPs (smABPs) are restrictions of ABPs where every variable is allowed to occur at most once in every path from the start to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-25 C. Ramya , B. V. Raghavendra Rao

The Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem with Power Peak Minimization (SALBP-3PM) minimizes maximum instantaneous power usage while assigning $n$ tasks to $m$ workstations and determining execution schedules within given cycle time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Tuyen Van Kieu , Phong Chi Nguyen , Bao Gia Hoang , Khanh Van To

Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) is an optimization variant of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem. In general, MaxSAT algorithms perform a succession of SAT solver calls to reach an optimum solution making extensive use of cardinality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-21 Ruben Martins , Saurabh Joshi , Vasco Manquinho , Ines Lynce

Many constraint satisfaction problems involve synthesizing subgraphs that satisfy certain reachability constraints. This paper presents programs in Picat for four problems selected from the recent LP/CP programming competitions. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Neng-Fa Zhou

Satisfiability-based verification techniques, leveraging modern Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers, have demonstrated efficacy in addressing practical problem instances within program analysis.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Markus Krahl , Matthias Güdemann , Stefan Wallentowitz

We present algorithms based on satisfiability problem (SAT) solving, as well as answer set programming (ASP), for solving the problem of determining inconsistency degrees in propositional knowledge bases. We consider six different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Isabelle Kuhlmann , Anna Gessler , Vivien Laszlo , Matthias Thimm

We study the Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT) in the framework of diversity, where one asks for multiple solutions that are mutually far apart (i.e., sufficiently dissimilar from each other) for a suitable notion of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Neeldhara Misra , Harshil Mittal , Ashutosh Rai

Integrating logical reasoning within deep learning architectures has been a major goal of modern AI systems. In this paper, we propose a new direction toward this goal by introducing a differentiable (smoothed) maximum satisfiability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Po-Wei Wang , Priya L. Donti , Bryan Wilder , Zico Kolter

Maximum surjective constraint satisfaction problems (Max-Sur-CSPs) are computational problems where we are given a set of variables denoting values from a finite domain B and a set of constraints on the variables. A solution to such a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-10-14 Walter Bach , Hang Zhou

Symmetry is an important problem in many combinatorial problems. One way of dealing with symmetry is to add constraints that eliminate symmetric solutions. We survey recent results in this area, focusing especially on two common and useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Toby Walsh

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a fundamental NP-complete problem with many applications, including automated planning and scheduling. To solve large instances, SAT solvers have to rely on heuristics, e.g., choosing a branching variable in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mikhail Shirokikh , Ilya Shenbin , Anton Alekseev , Sergey Nikolenko

This paper reviews the recent literature on solving the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT), an archetypal NP-complete problem, with the help of machine learning techniques. Despite the great success of modern SAT solvers to solve large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Wenxuan Guo , Junchi Yan , Hui-Ling Zhen , Xijun Li , Mingxuan Yuan , Yaohui Jin

In this short paper we present a survey of some results concerning the random SAT problems. To elaborate, the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) Problem refers to the problem of determining whether a given set of $m$ Boolean constraints over $n$…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Andreas Basse-O'Connor , Tobias Lindhardt Overgaard , Mette Skjøtt

We describe an algorithm for proving termination of programs abstracted to systems of monotonicity constraints in the integer domain. Monotonicity constraints are a non-trivial extension of the well-known size-change termination method.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-01 Michael Codish , Igor Gonopolskiy , Amir M. Ben-Amram , Carsten Fuhs , Jürgen Giesl

Dedicated treatment of symmetries in satisfiability problems (SAT) is indispensable for solving various classes of instances arising in practice. However, the exploitation of symmetries usually takes a black box approach. Typically,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Markus Anders , Pascal Schweitzer , Mate Soos