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This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving MAX2SAT problems based on combining search methods with semidefinite programming approaches. Semidefinite programming techniques are well-known as a theoretical tool for approximating maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Po-Wei Wang , J. Zico Kolter

In this paper, we claim that cyclic obfuscation, when properly implemented, poses exponential complexity on SAT or CycSAT attack. The CycSAT, in order to generate the necessary cycle avoidance clauses, uses a pre-processing step. We show…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Shervin Roshanisefat , Hadi Mardani Kamali , Avesta Sasan

A novel parallel algorithm for solving the classical Decision Boolean Satisfiability problem with clauses in conjunctive normal form is depicted. My approach for solving SAT is without using algebra or other computational search strategies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Carlos Barrón-Romero

We propose an incomplete algorithm for Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) specifically designed to run on neural network accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs. Given a MaxSAT problem instance in conjunctive normal form, our procedure constructs a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 David Warde-Farley , Vinod Nair , Yujia Li , Ivan Lobov , Felix Gimeno , Simon Osindero

The wide adoption of machine learning in the critical domains such as medical diagnosis, law, education had propelled the need for interpretable techniques due to the need for end users to understand the reasoning behind decisions due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Bishwamittra Ghosh , Kuldeep S. Meel

Our work presents a novel reinforcement learning (RL) based framework to optimize heuristic selection within the conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) process, improving the efficiency of Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving. The proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Muyu Pan , Matthew Walter , Dheeraj Kodakandla , Mahfuza Farooque

In this paper we introduce Clause Cuts: linear inequalities obtained from clauses that are logically implied by a CNF formula, resembling strengthened no-good cuts. With these cuts, we tighten mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Max Engelhardt , Milan Adhikari , Jonasz Staszek , Alexander Martin

We propose to reduce the original well-posed problem of compressive sensing to weighted-MAX-SAT. Compressive sensing is a novel randomized data acquisition approach that linearly samples sparse or compressible signals at a rate much below…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ramin Ayanzadeh , Milton Halem , Tim Finin

Cryptographic problems can often be reduced to solving Boolean polynomial systems, whose equivalent logical formulas can be treated using SAT solvers. Given the algebraic nature of the problem, the use of the logical XOR operator is common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Monika Trimoska , Sorina Ionica , Gilles Dequen

In this paper we propose a structural parameter of CNF formulas and use it to identify instances of weighted MaxSAT and #SAT that can be solved in polynomial time. Given a CNF formula we say that a set of clauses is precisely satisfiable if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Sigve Hortemo Sæther , Jan Arne Telle , Martin Vatshelle

By the MAXSAT problem, we are given a set $V$ of $m$ variables and a collection $C$ of $n$ clauses over $V$, i.e., a conjunctive normal form ($\textit{CNF}$) formula. We will seek a truth assignment to maximize the number of satisfied…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yangjun Chen

We consider the problem of solving floating-point constraints obtained from software verification. We present UppSAT --- a new implementation of a systematic approximation refinement framework [ZWR17] as an abstract SMT solver. Provided…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Aleksandar Zeljic , Peter Backeman , Christoph M. Wintersteiger , Philipp Ruemmer

The past three decades have witnessed notable success in designing efficient SAT solvers, with modern solvers capable of solving industrial benchmarks containing millions of variables in just a few seconds. The success of modern SAT solvers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiong Yang , Arijit Shaw , Teodora Baluta , Mate Soos , Kuldeep S. Meel

We introduce a diversified top-k partial MaxSAT problem, a combination of partial MaxSAT problem and enumeration problem. Given a partial MaxSAT formula F and a positive integer k, the diversified top-k partial MaxSAT is to find k maximal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Junping Zhou , Huanyao Sun , Feifei Ma , Jian Gao , Ke Xu , Minghao Yin

PolySAT is a word-level decision procedure supporting bit-precise SMT reasoning over polynomial arithmetic with large bit-vector operations. The PolySAT calculus extends conflict-driven clause learning modulo theories with two key…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jakob Rath , Clemens Eisenhofer , Daniela Kaufmann , Nikolaj Bjørner , Laura Kovács

We analyze to what extent the random SAT and Max-SAT problems differ in their properties. Our findings suggest that for random $k$-CNF with ratio in a certain range, Max-SAT can be solved by any SAT algorithm with subexponential slowdown,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Sixue Liu , Gerard de Melo

Over the past few decades, combinatorial solvers have seen remarkable performance improvements, enabling their practical use in real-world applications. In some of these applications, ensuring the correctness of the solver's output is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dieter Vandesande , Jordi Coll , Bart Bogaerts

Max#SAT is an important problem with multiple applications in security and program synthesis that is proven hard to solve. It is defined as: given a parameterized quantifier-free propositional formula compute parameters such that the number…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Thomas Vigouroux , Cristian Ene , David Monniaux , Laurent Mounier , Marie-Laure Potet

We present a Satisfiability (SAT)-based approach for building Mixed Covering Arrays with Constraints of minimum length, referred to as the Covering Array Number problem. This problem is central in Combinatorial Testing for the detection of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Carlos Ansótegui , Felip Manyà , Jesus Ojeda , Josep M. Salvia , Eduard Torres

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