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In this paper we explore whether or not deep neural architectures can learn to classify Boolean satisfiability (SAT). We devote considerable time to discussing the theoretical properties of SAT. Then, we define a graph representation for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Benedikt Bünz , Matthew Lamm

The structure of satisfiability problems is used to improve search algorithms for quantum computers and reduce their required coherence times by using only a single coherent evaluation of problem properties. The structure of random k-SAT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Tad Hogg

While fine-tuning pre-trained models for downstream classification is the conventional paradigm in NLP, often task-specific nuances may not get captured in the resultant models. Specifically, for tasks that take two inputs and require the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Ashutosh Kumar , Aditya Joshi

The Conway-99 problem questions the existence of a strongly regular graph with 99 vertices and specific parameters. A \textit{strongly} regular graph is a regular graph that exhibits two additional properties: vertices must share a fixed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ali Keramatipour

Satisfiability of boolean formulae (SAT) has been a topic of research in logic and computer science for a long time. In this paper we are interested in understanding the structure of satisfiable and unsatisfiable sentences. In previous work…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Vaibhav Karve , Anil N. Hirani

Constraint programming uses enumeration and search tree pruning to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In order to speed up this solution process, we investigate the use of semidefinite relaxations within constraint programming. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Willem Jan van Hoeve

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving is a fundamental problem in computer science. Finding efficient algorithms for SAT solving has broad implications in many areas of computer science and beyond. Quantum SAT solvers have been proposed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Shang-Wei Lin , Tzu-Fan Wang , Yean-Ru Chen , Zhe Hou , David Sanán , Yon Shin Teo

In this contribution, we provide a comprehensive evaluation of graph neural networks applied to Boolean satisfiability problems, accompanied by an intuitive explanation of the mechanisms enabling the model to generalize to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 David Mojžíšek , Jan Hůla , Ziwei Li , Ziyu Zhou , Mikoláš Janota

In sphere of research of discrete optimization algorithms efficiency the important place occupies a method of polynomial reducibility of some problems to others with use of special purpose components. In this paper a novel method of compact…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 V. F. Romanov

Optimization over trained machine learning models has applications including: verification, minimizing neural acquisition functions, and integrating a trained surrogate into a larger decision-making problem. This paper formulates and solves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Shiqiang Zhang , Juan S. Campos , Christian Feldmann , David Walz , Frederik Sandfort , Miriam Mathea , Calvin Tsay , Ruth Misener

We present a general framework for good CNF-representations of boolean constraints, to be used for translating decision problems into SAT problems (i.e., deciding satisfiability for conjunctive normal forms). We apply it to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Matthew Gwynne , Oliver Kullmann

We study the problem of verification and synthesis of robust control barrier functions (CBF) for control-affine polynomial systems with bounded additive uncertainty and convex polynomial constraints on the control. We first formulate robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Shucheng Kang , Yuxiao Chen , Heng Yang , Marco Pavone

The Sum of Squares (\sos{}) hierarchy gives an automatized technique to create a family of increasingly tight convex relaxations for binary programs. There are several problems for which a constant number of rounds of this hierarchy give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Victor Verdugo , José Verschae , Andreas Wiese

Although Boolean Constraint Technology has made tremendous progress over the last decade, the efficacy of state-of-the-art solvers is known to vary considerably across different types of problem instances and is known to depend strongly on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Holger Hoos , Roland Kaminski , Marius Lindauer , Torsten Schaub

In the last decade, the power of the state-of-the-art SAT and Integer Programming solvers has dramatically increased. They implement many new techniques and heuristics and since any NP problem can be converted to SAT or ILP instance, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-25 Rastislav Lenhardt

Symmetries occur naturally in CSP or SAT problems and are not very difficult to discover, but using them to prune the search space tends to be very challenging. Indeed, this usually requires finding specific elements in a group of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Thierry Boy de la Tour , Mnacho Echenim

Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the efficiency of conflict-driven clause-learning Boolean satisfiability (CDCL SAT) solvers on industrial problems from a variety of domains. The availability of such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Saeed Nejati , Vijay Ganesh

If supersymmetric particles are discovered, an important problem will be to determine how supersymmetry has been broken. At collider energies, supersymmetry breaking can be parameterised by soft supersymmetry breaking parameters. Several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-07 Jamil Hetzel

A recent and active line of work achieves tight lower bounds for fundamental problems under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH). A celebrated result of Backurs and Indyk (STOC'15) proves that the Edit Distance of two sequences of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Amir Abboud , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Ryan Williams

This study develops a graph search algorithm to find the optimal discrimination path for the binary classification problem. The objective function is defined as the difference of variations between the true positive (TP) and false positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qinwu Xu