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Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs, for short) make up a class of problems with applications in many areas of computer science. The first classification of these problems was given by Schaeffer who showed that every CSP over the domain…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Dejan Delic , John Marcoux

The Maximum Satisfiability problem (MaxSAT) is a major optimization challenge with numerous practical applications. In recent MaxSAT evaluations, most MaxSAT solvers have incorporated an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) solver into their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jialu Zhang , Chu-Min Li , Sami Cherif , Shuolin Li , Zhifei Zheng

Commonly used proof strategies by automated reasoners organise proof search either by ordering-based saturation or by reducing goals to subgoals. In this paper, we combine these two approaches and advocate a SAT-based method with symmetry…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Clemens Eisenhofer , Michael Rawson , Laura Kovács

Modern software for propositional satisfiability problems gives a powerful automated reasoning toolkit, capable of outputting not only a satisfiable/unsatisfiable signal but also a justification of unsatisfiability in the form of resolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Konstantin Sidorov , Koos van der Linden , Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia , Mathijs de Weerdt , Emir Demirović

Simultaneously utilizing several complementary solvers is a simple yet effective strategy for solving computationally hard problems. However, manually building such solver portfolios typically requires considerable domain knowledge and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Shengcai Liu , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

Many AI synthesis problems such as planning or scheduling may be modelized as constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). A CSP is typically defined as the problem of finding any consistent labeling for a fixed set of variables satisfying all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Thomas Schiex

This paper describes diff-SAT, an Answer Set and SAT solver which combines regular solving with the capability to use probabilistic clauses, facts and rules, and to sample an optimal world-view (multiset of satisfying Boolean variable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Matthias Nickles

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

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

A wide range of problems can be modelled as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), that is, a set of constraints that must be satisfied simultaneously. Constraints can either be represented extensionally, by explicitly listing allowed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Evgenij Thorstensen

Many recent successes in sentence representation learning have been achieved by simply fine-tuning on the Natural Language Inference (NLI) datasets with triplet loss or siamese loss. Nevertheless, they share a common weakness: sentences in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Dejiao Zhang , Shang-Wen Li , Wei Xiao , Henghui Zhu , Ramesh Nallapati , Andrew O. Arnold , Bing Xiang

Although the CSP (constraint satisfaction problem) is NP-complete, even in the case when all constraints are binary, certain classes of instances are tractable. We study classes of instances defined by excluding subproblems. This approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-01-19 Martin C. Cooper , Guillaume Escamocher

SAT technology has proven to be surprisingly effective in a large variety of domains. However, for the Weighted CSP problem dedicated algorithms have always been superior. One approach not well-studied so far is the use of SAT in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Aleksandra Petrova , Javier Larrosa , Emma Rollón

The Constraint-satisfaction problem (CSP) is fundamental in mathematics, physics, and theoretical computer science. Continuous local search (CLS) solvers, as recent advancements, can achieve highly competitive results on certain classes of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yunuo Cen , Zixuan Wang , Jintao Zhang , Zhiwei Zhang , Xuanyao Fong

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Arash Beikmohammadi , Andrei A. Bulatov

Propositional satisfiability (SAT) is at the nucleus of state-of-the-art approaches to a variety of computationally hard problems, one of which is cryptanalysis. Moreover, a number of practical applications of SAT can only be tackled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Alexander Semenov , Oleg Zaikin , Ilya Otpuschennikov , Stepan Kochemazov , Alexey Ignatiev

The workflow satisfiability problem (WSP) asks whether there exists an assignment of authorized users to the steps in a workflow specification that satisfies the constraints in the specification. The problem is NP-hard in general, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-18 D. Cohen , J. Crampton , A. Gagarin , G. Gutin , M. Jones

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

We propose Differentiable Satisfiability and Differentiable Answer Set Programming (Differentiable SAT/ASP) for multi-model optimization. Models (answer sets or satisfying truth assignments) are sampled using a novel SAT/ASP solving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Matthias Nickles

We present a novel approach to non-convex optimization with certificates, which handles smooth functions on the hypercube or on the torus. Unlike traditional methods that rely on algebraic properties, our algorithm exploits the regularity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Gaspard Beugnot , Julien Mairal , Alessandro Rudi