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Many natural optimization problems are NP-hard, which implies that they are probably hard to solve exactly in the worst-case. However, it suffices to get reasonably good solutions for all (or even most) instances in practice. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Raffaele Marino

Linear integer constraints are one of the most important constraints in combinatorial problems since they are commonly found in many practical applications. Typically, encodings to Boolean satisfiability (SAT) format of conjunctive normal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Ignasi Abío , Valentin Mayer-Eichberger , Peter Stuckey

Sorting networks are oblivious sorting algorithms with many practical applications and rich theoretical properties. Propositional encodings of sorting networks are a key tool for proving concrete bounds on the minimum number of comparators…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 José A. R. Fonollosa

This paper introduces a propositional encoding for lexicographic path orders in connection with dependency pairs. This facilitates the application of SAT solvers for termination analysis of term rewrite systems based on the dependency pair…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael Codish , Peter Schneider-Kamp , Vitaly Lagoon , René Thiemann , Jürgen Giesl

In this paper we investigate how to estimate the hardness of Boolean satisfiability (SAT) encodings for the Logical Equivalence Checking problem (LEC). Meaningful estimates of hardness are important in cases when a conventional SAT solver…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Alexander Semenov , Konstantin Chukharev , Egor Tarasov , Daniil Chivilikhin , Viktor Kondratiev

When solving a combinatorial problem using propositional satisfiability (SAT), the encoding of the problem is of vital importance. We study encodings of Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints, a common type of arithmetic constraint that appears in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Miquel Bofill , Jordi Coll , Peter Nightingale , Josep Suy , Felix Ulrich-Oltean , Mateu Villaret

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

Algebraic Normal Form (ANF) and Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) are commonly used to encode problems in Boolean algebra. ANFs are typically solved via Gr"obner basis algorithms, often using more memory than is feasible; while CNFs are solved…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Davin Choo , Mate Soos , Kian Ming A. Chai , Kuldeep S. Meel

Unit propagation (which is called also Boolean Constraint Propagation) has been an important component of every modern CDCL SAT solver since the CDCL solver was developed. In general, unit propagation is implemented by scanning sequentially…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Jingchao Chen

We present BEE, a compiler which enables to encode finite domain constraint problems to CNF. Using BEE both eases the encoding process for the user and also performs transformations to simplify constraints and optimize their encoding to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Amit Metodi , Michael Codish

Survey Propagation is an algorithm designed for solving typical instances of random constraint satisfiability problems. It has been successfully tested on random 3-SAT and random $G(n,\frac{c}{n})$ graph 3-coloring, in the hard region of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-04-02 A. Braunstein , M. Mezard , M. Weigt , R. Zecchina

The Boolean matrix factorization problem consists in approximating a matrix by the Boolean product of two smaller Boolean matrices. To obtain optimal solutions when the matrices to be factorized are small, we propose SAT and MaxSAT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Florent Avellaneda , Roger Villemaire

We present a simple randomized algorithm that approximates the number of satisfying assignments of Boolean formulas in conjunctive normal form. To the best of our knowledge this is the first algorithm which approximates #k-SAT for any k >=…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Marc Thurley

Parity constraints, common in application domains such as circuit verification, bounded model checking, and logical cryptanalysis, are not necessarily most efficiently solved if translated into conjunctive normal form. Thus, specialized…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Tero Laitinen , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

In this paper we present a new approach to solve the satisfiability problem (SAT), based on boolean networks (BN). We define a mapping between a SAT instance and a BN, and we solve SAT problem by simulating the BN dynamics. We prove that BN…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Andrea Roli , Michela Milano

In this work, we present a novel technique for GPU-accelerated Boolean satisfiability (SAT) sampling. Unlike conventional sampling algorithms that directly operate on conjunctive normal form (CNF), our method transforms the logical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Arash Ardakani , Minwoo Kang , Kevin He , Qijing Huang , John Wawrzynek

Weighted Max-SAT is the optimization version of SAT and many important problems can be naturally encoded as such. Solving weighted Max-SAT is an important problem from both a theoretical and a practical point of view. In recent years, there…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Javier Larrosa , Federico Heras , Simon de Givry

Propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers, which typically operate using conjunctive normal form (CNF), have been successfully applied in many domains. However, in some application areas such as circuit verification, bounded model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Tero Laitinen , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

Several algorithms for solving constraint satisfaction problems are based on survey propagation, a variational inference scheme used to obtain approximate marginal probability estimates for variable assignments. These marginals correspond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Aditya Grover , Tudor Achim , Stefano Ermon

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a propositional logic problem of determining whether an assignment of variables satisfies a Boolean formula. Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated in Boolean SAT logic -- either as k-SAT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Robert Simon Fong , Yanming Song , Alexander Yosifov