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The Satisfiability (SAT) problem is a core challenge with significant applications in software engineering, including automated testing, configuration management, and program verification. This paper presents SolSearch, a novel framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Junjie Sheng , Yanqiu Lin , Jiehao Wu , Yanhong Huang , Jianqi Shi , Min Zhang , Xiangfeng Wang

Efficient solutions for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) are integral in industrial applications such as hardware verification and design automation. Existing approaches are predominantly based on conflict-driven clause learning, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yunuo Cen , Daniel Ebler , Xuanyao Fong

Many decision procedures for SMT problems rely more or less implicitly on an instantiation of the axioms of the theories under consideration, and differ by making use of the additional properties of each theory, in order to increase…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-16 Mnacho Echenim , Nicolas Peltier

This work focuses on effectively generating diverse solutions for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) formulas, targeting the theories of bit-vectors, arrays, and uninterpreted functions, which is a critical task in software and hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shuangyu Lyu , Chuan Luo , Ruizhi Shi , Wei Wu , Chanjuan Liu , Chunming Hu

Satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solving has become a critical part of many static analyses, including symbolic execution, refinement type checking, and model checking. We propose Formulog, a domain-specific language that makes it…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Aaron Bembenek , Michael Greenberg , Stephen Chong

We study SMT problems over the reals containing ordinary differential equations. They are important for formal verification of realistic hybrid systems and embedded software. We develop delta-complete algorithms for SMT formulas that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-31 Sicun Gao , Soonho Kong , Edmund Clarke

We consider feasibility of linear integer programs in the context of verification systems such as SMT solvers or theorem provers. Although satisfiability of linear integer programs is decidable, many state-of-the-art solvers neglect…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Martin Bromberger , Thomas Sturm , Christoph Weidenbach

To check the satisfiability of (non-linear) real arithmetic formulas, modern satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solving algorithms like NLSAT depend heavily on single cell construction, the task of generalizing a sample point to a…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Valentin Promies , Jasper Nalbach , Erika Ábrahám , Paul Wagner

Prior work has combined chain-of-thought prompting in large language models (LLMs) with programmatic representations to perform effective and transparent reasoning. While such an approach works well for tasks that only require forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xi Ye , Qiaochu Chen , Isil Dillig , Greg Durrett

Search-optimization problems are plentiful in scientific and engineering domains. Artificial intelligence has long contributed to the development of search algorithms and declarative programming languages geared toward solving and modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuliya Lierler

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a fundamental NP-complete problem with many applications, including automated planning and scheduling. To solve large instances, SAT solvers have to rely on heuristics, e.g., choosing a branching variable in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mikhail Shirokikh , Ilya Shenbin , Anton Alekseev , Sergey Nikolenko

We consider the problem of computing numerical invariants of programs by abstract interpretation. Our method eschews two traditional sources of imprecision: (i) the use of widening operators for enforcing convergence within a finite number…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Thomas Martin Gawlitza , David Monniaux

The Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) problem is the problem of finding a truth assignment that maximizes the number of satisfied clauses of a given Boolean formula in Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF). Many exact solvers for MaxSAT have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Mohamed El Halaby

Solving nonlinear SMT problems over real numbers has wide applications in robotics and AI. While significant progress is made in solving quantifier-free SMT formulas in the domain, quantified formulas have been much less investigated. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Soonho Kong , Armando Solar-Lezama , Sicun Gao

We introduce (1) a novel parser for Minimalist Grammars (MG), encoded as a system of first-order logic formulae that may be evaluated using an SMT-solver, and (2) a novel procedure for inferring Minimalist Grammars using this parser. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Sagar Indurkhya

We present a novel automata-based approach to address linear temporal logic modulo theory (LTL-MT) as a specification language for data words. LTL-MT extends LTL_f by replacing atomic propositions with quantifier-free multi-sorted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Marco Faella , Gennaro Parlato

Restricted non-deterministic matrices (RNmatrices) impose constraints on the rows of non-deterministic matrices (Nmatrices), filtering out "unsound" rows and retaining only "valid" ones. This yields a more expressive framework than standard…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Renato R. Leme , Carlos Olarte , Elaine Pimentel

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is arguably the archetypical NP-complete decision problem. Progress in SAT solving algorithms has motivated an ever increasing number of practical applications in recent years. However, many practical uses of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Joao Marques-Silva , Mikolas Janota

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at understanding natural language but struggle with optimisation tasks involving multiple constraints and user-defined preferences, which commonly arise in domains such as robotics. We propose a hybrid…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Pedro Orvalho , Marta Kwiatkowska , Guillem Alenyà , Felip Manyà

Search-optimization problems are plentiful in scientific and engineering domains. Artificial intelligence has long contributed to the development of search algorithms and declarative programming languages geared towards solving and modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yuliya Lierler