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Given a CNF formula and a weight for each assignment of values to variables, two natural problems are weighted model counting and distribution-aware sampling of satisfying assignments. Both problems have a wide variety of important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Supratik Chakraborty , Daniel J. Fremont , Kuldeep S. Meel , Sanjit A. Seshia , Moshe Y. Vardi

The boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem asks whether there exists an assignment of boolean values to the variables of an arbitrary boolean formula making the formula evaluate to True. It is well-known that all NP-problems can be coded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christopher R. Serrano , Jonathan Gallagher , Kenji Yamada , Alexei Kopylov , Michael A. Warren

Generating diverse solutions to the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is a hard computational problem with practical applications for testing and functional verification of software and hardware designs. We explore the way to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Karlis Freivalds , Sergejs Kozlovics

In recent years, expansion-based techniques have been shown to be very powerful in theory and practice for solving quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), the extension of propositional formulas with existential and universal quantifiers over…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Roderick Bloem , Nicolas Braud-Santoni , Vedad Hadzic , Uwe Egly , Florian Lonsing , Martina Seidl

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

Given a CNF formula F on n variables, the problem of model counting or #SAT is to compute the number of satisfying assignments of F . Model counting is a fundamental but hard problem in computer science with varied applications. Recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Kuldeep S. Meel , S. Akshay

This paper introduces SATformer, a novel Transformer-based approach for the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem. Rather than solving the problem directly, SATformer approaches the problem from the opposite direction by focusing on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Zhengyuan Shi , Min Li , Yi Liu , Sadaf Khan , Junhua Huang , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Qiang Xu

We investigate parameterizing hard combinatorial problems by the size of the solution set compared to all solution candidates. Our main result is a uniform sampling algorithm for satisfying assignments of 2-CNF formulas that runs in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Jean Cardinal , Jerri Nummenpalo , Emo Welzl

State-of-the-art SAT solvers are nowadays able to handle huge real-world instances. The key to this success is the so-called Conflict-Driven Clause-Learning (CDCL) scheme, which encompasses a number of techniques that exploit the conflicts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Robert Nieuwenhuis , Albert Oliveras , Enric Rodriguez-Carbonell

Earlier we introduced the notion of a stable set of points (SSP). We proved that a CNF formula is unsatisfiable iff there is a set of points (i.e. complete assignments) that is stable with respect to this formula. Experiments showed that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Eugene Goldberg

This paper proposes SAT-based techniques to calculate a specific normal form of a given finite mathematical structure (model). The normal form is obtained by permuting the domain elements so that the representation of the structure is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Mikoláš Janota , Choiwah Chow , João Araújo , Michael Codish , Petr Vojtěchovský

Configurable systems typically consist of reusable assets that have dependencies between each other. To specify such dependencies, feature models are commonly used. As feature models in practice are often complex, automated reasoning is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Chico Sundermann , Stefan Vill , Elias Kuiter , Sebastian Krieter , Thomas Thüm , Matthias Tichy

We consider the problem of elimination of existential quantifiers from a Boolean CNF formula. Our approach is based on the following observation. One can get rid of dependency on a set of variables of a quantified CNF formula F by adding…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Eugene Goldberg , Panagiotis Manolios

This is the latest in a series of articles aimed at exploring the relationship between the complexity classes of P and NP. In the previous papers, we have proved that the sat CNF problem is polynomially reduced to the problem of finding a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Stepan G. Margaryan

In this report, we propose a quick survey of the currently known techniques for encoding a Boolean cardinality constraint into a CNF formula, and we discuss about the relevance of these encodings. We also propose models to facilitate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-20 Olivier Bailleux

Graph generation and enumeration problems often require handling equivalent graphs -- those that differ only in vertex labeling. We study how to extend SAT Modulo Symmetries (SMS), a framework for eliminating such redundant graphs, to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Mikoláš Janota , Markus Kirchweger , Tomáš Peitl , Stefan Szeider

Incremental SAT and QBF solving potentially yields improvements when sequences of related formulas are solved. An incremental application is usually tailored towards some specific solver and decomposes a problem into incremental solver…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Uwe Egly , Florian Lonsing , Johannes Oetsch

Any satisfiability problem in conjunctive normal form can be solved in polynomial time by reducing it to a 3-sat formulation and transforming this to a Linear Complementarity problem (LCP) which is then solved as a linear program (LP). Any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Giacomo Patrizi

In this paper, we propose a first application of data mining techniques to propositional satisfiability. Our proposed Mining4SAT approach aims to discover and to exploit hidden structural knowledge for reducing the size of propositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Said Jabbour , Lakhdar Sais , Yakoub Salhi

Detection and elimination of redundant clauses from propositional formulas in Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) is a fundamental problem with numerous application domains, including AI, and has been the subject of extensive research. Moreover,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Anton Belov , Joao Marques-Silva