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We introduce a new algorithm, called adaptive sparse backfitting algorithm, for solving high dimensional Sparse Additive Model (SpAM) utilizing symmetric, non-negative definite smoothers. Unlike the previous sparse backfitting algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-13 Yan Li

The goal of inductive logic programming is to search for a hypothesis that generalises training data and background knowledge. The challenge is searching vast hypothesis spaces, which is exacerbated because many logically equivalent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Andrew Cropper , David M. Cerna , Matti Järvisalo

The utility of satisfiability (SAT) as an application focused hard computational problem is well established. We explore the potential of quantum annealing to enhance classical SAT solving, especially where sampling from the space of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Kristen L. Pudenz , Gregory S. Tallant , Todd R. Belote , Steven H. Adachi

Symmetry breaking for graphs and other combinatorial objects is notoriously hard. On the one hand, complete symmetry breaks are exponential in size. On the other hand, current, state-of-the-art, partial symmetry breaks are often considered…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Michael Codish , Mikoláš Janota

Parallel solving via cube-and-conquer is a key method for scaling SAT solvers to hard instances. While cube-and-conquer has proven successful for pure SAT problems, notably the Pythagorean triples conjecture, its application to SAT solvers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Markus Kirchweger , Hai Xia , Tomáš Peitl , Stefan Szeider

Theorem provers has been used extensively in software engineering for software testing or verification. However, software is now so large and complex that additional architecture is needed to guide theorem provers as they try to generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jianfeng Chen , Xipeng Shen , Tim Menzies

Answer set programming (ASP) is a popular declarative programming paradigm with a wide range of applications in artificial intelligence. Oftentimes, when modeling an AI problem with ASP, and in particular when we are interested beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Johannes K. Fichte , Sarah Alice Gaggl , Dominik Rusovac

Fundamentally, every static program analyser searches for a proof through a combination of heuristics providing candidate solutions and a candidate validation technique. Essentially, the heuristic reduces a second-order problem to a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Cristina David , Daniel Kroening , Matt Lewis

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular declarative reasoning and problem solving approach in symbolic AI. Its rule-based formalism makes it inherently attractive for explainable and interpretive reasoning, which is gaining importance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Thomas Eiter , Tobias Geibinger , Zeynep G. Saribatur

In Answer Set Programming (ASP), the user can define declaratively a problem and solve it with efficient solvers; practical applications of ASP are countless and several constraint problems have been successfully solved with ASP. On the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Paola Cappanera , Marco Gavanelli , Maddalena Nonato , Marco Roma

Symmetry in mixed quantum states can manifest in two distinct forms: strong symmetry, where each individual pure state in the quantum ensemble is symmetric with the same charge, and weak symmetry, which applies only to the entire ensemble.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Leonardo A. Lessa , Ruochen Ma , Jian-Hao Zhang , Zhen Bi , Meng Cheng , Chong Wang

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an increasingly popular framework for declarative programming that admits the description of problems by means of rules and constraints that form a disjunctive logic program. In particular, many AI problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Johannes Klaus Fichte , Stefan Szeider

Boolean Satisfiability problems are vital components in Electronic Design Automation, particularly within the Logic Equivalence Checking process. Currently, SAT solvers are employed for these problems and neural network is tried as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tsz Ho Chan , Wenyi Xiao , Junhua Huang , Huiling Zhen , Guangji Tian , Mingxuan Yuan

We address the safety verification and synthesis problems for real-time systems. We introduce real-time programs that are made of instructions that can perform assignments to discrete and real-valued variables. They are general enough to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Franck Cassez , Peter Gjøl Jensen , Kim Guldstrand Larsen

Assembly planning is a fundamental problem in robotics and automation, which involves designing a sequence of motions to bring the separate constituent parts of a product into their final placement in the product. Assembly planning is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Boris Aronov , Tzvika Geft , Dan Halperin

Inspired by the developments in quantum computing, building domain-specific classical hardware to solve computationally hard problems has received increasing attention. Here, by introducing systematic sparsification techniques, we…

The Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) holds a central place in computational complexity theory as the first shown NP-complete problem. Due to this role, SAT is often used as the benchmark for polynomial-time reductions: if a problem can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yumiko Nishiyama

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

State-of-the-art answer set programming (ASP) solvers rely on a program called a grounder to convert non-ground programs containing variables into variable-free, propositional programs. The size of this grounding depends heavily on the size…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Manuel Bichler , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

Answer set programming (ASP) is a well-established logic programming language that offers an intuitive, declarative syntax for problem solving. In its traditional application, a fixed ASP program for a given problem is designed and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Manuel Bichler , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran