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The formal analysis of automated systems is an important and growing industry. This activity routinely requires new verification frameworks to be developed to tackle new programming features, or new considerations (bugs of interest). Often,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Paul Brunet

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

One of the key factors in language productivity and human cognition is the ability of systematic compositionality, which refers to understanding composed unseen examples of seen primitives. However, recent evidence reveals that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Chen Huang , Peixin Qin , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv

Interpretable multi-hop reading comprehension (RC) over multiple documents is a challenging problem because it demands reasoning over multiple information sources and explaining the answer prediction by providing supporting evidences. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ming Tu , Kevin Huang , Guangtao Wang , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problems are expressed as mathematical formulas. This paper presents a matrix representation for these SAT problems. It shows how to use this matrix representation to get the full set of valid satisfying…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Paul W. Homer

We study preprocessing techniques for clause normal forms of LTL formulas. Applying the mechanism of labelled clauses enables us to reinterpret LTL satisfiability as a set of purely propositional problems and thus to transfer simplification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Martin Suda

An object--oriented approach to create a natural language understanding system is considered. The understanding program is a formal system built on the base of predicative calculus. Horn's clauses are used as well--formed formulas. An…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Yuriy Ostapov

When solving propositional logic satisfiability (specifically 3SAT) using quantum annealing, we analyze the effect the difficulty of different instances of the problem has on the quality of the answer returned by the quantum annealer. A…

For a system to understand natural language, it needs to be able to take natural language text and answer questions given in natural language with respect to that text; it also needs to be able to follow instructions given in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-08-22 Chitta Baral , Juraj Dzifcak

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for the positive one-in-three satisfiability problem (Pos1in3SAT). The proposed algorithm can efficiently decide the existence of a satisfying assignment in all assignments for a given formula by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Shunichi Matsubara

We propose new definitions of (causal) explanation, using structural equations to model counterfactuals. The definition is based on the notion of actual cause, as defined and motivated in a companion paper. Essentially, an explanation is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joseph Y. Halpern , Judea Pearl

The ability of an agent to comprehend a sentence is tightly connected to the agent's prior experiences and background knowledge. The paper suggests to interpret comprehension as a modality and proposes a complete bimodal logical system that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pavel Naumov , Kevin Ros

It is well known that the resolution method (for propositional logic) is complete. However, completeness proofs found in the literature use an argument by contradiction showing that if a set of clauses is unsatisfiable, then it must have a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Jean Gallier

We present various analytic and number theoretic results concerning the #SAT problem as reflected when reduced into a #PART problem. As an application we propose a heuristic to probabilistically estimate the solution of #SAT problems.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Ohad Asor

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 investigate the NP-Complete problem SAT and the geometry of its instances. For a particular type that we call {\it non-interlaced formulas}, we propose a polynomial time algorithm for their resolution using graphs and matrices.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Dr Serge Burckel

The following paper proposes a new approach to determine whether a logical (CNF) formula is satisfiable or not using probability theory methods. Furthermore, we will introduce an algorithm that speeds up the standard solution for (CNF-SAT)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Hazem J. Alkhatib , Majd N. Bohssas , Rawad H. Hatem , Odey N. Kassam Alhennawi

Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to problem-solving and decision-making are becoming more and more complex, leading to a decrease in the understandability of solutions. The European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Jorge Fandinno , Claudia Schulz

There are a huge number of problems, from various areas, being solved by reducing them to SAT. However, for many applications, translation into SAT is performed by specialized, problem-specific tools. In this paper we describe a new system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Predrag Janicic

In the last two decades, modal and description logics have been applied to numerous areas of computer science, including knowledge representation, formal verification, database theory, distributed computing and, more recently, semantic web…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Roberto Sebastiani , Michele Vescovi