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We show how to convert any unsatisfiable 3-CNF formula which is sparse and exponentially hard to refute in Resolution into a negative instance of the $k$-clique problem whose corresponding natural encoding as a CNF formula is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Albert Atserias

Correctly classifying adversarial examples is an essential but challenging requirement for safely deploying machine learning models. As reported in RobustBench, even the state-of-the-art adversarially trained models struggle to exceed 67%…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Tianyu Pang , Huishuai Zhang , Di He , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Wei Chen , Jun Zhu , Tie-Yan Liu

Atserias and M\"uller (JACM, 2020) proved that for every unsatisfiable CNF formula $\varphi$, the formula $\operatorname{Ref}(\varphi)$, stating "$\varphi$ has small Resolution refutations", does not have subexponential-size Resolution…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Noel Arteche , Albert Atserias , Susanna F. de Rezende , Erfan Khaniki

The aircraft routing problem is one of the most studied problems of operations research applied to aircraft management. It involves assigning flights to aircraft while ensuring regular visits to maintenance bases. This paper examines two…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Frédéric Meunier , Axel Parmentier , Nour ElHouda Tellache

A well-established approach to reasoning about loops during program analysis is to capture the effect of a loop by extracting recurrences from the loop; these express relationships between the values of variables, or program properties such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Bishoksan Kafle , John P. Gallagher , Manuel V. Hermenegildo , Maximiliano Klemen , Pedro López-García , José F. Morales

Parity reasoning is challenging for Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) SAT solvers. This has been observed even for simple formulas encoding two contradictory parity constraints with different variable orders (Chew and Heule 2020). We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Leroy Chew , Alexis de Colnet , Friedrich Slivovsky , Stefan Szeider

Conventional works generally employ a two-phase model in which a generator selects the most important pieces, followed by a predictor that makes predictions based on the selected pieces. However, such a two-phase model may incur the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Wei Liu , Haozhao Wang , Jun Wang , Ruixuan Li , Chao Yue , Yuankai Zhang

We study the refutation complexity of graph isomorphism in the tree-like resolution calculus. Tor\'an and W\"orz (TOCL 2023) showed that there is a resolution refutation of narrow width $k$ for two graphs if and only if they can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Christoph Berkholz , Moritz Lichter , Harry Vinall-Smeeth

We investigate the computational complexity of various problems for simple recurrent neural networks (RNNs) as formal models for recognizing weighted languages. We focus on the single-layer, ReLU-activation, rational-weight RNNs with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yining Chen , Sorcha Gilroy , Andreas Maletti , Jonathan May , Kevin Knight

Widely used complex code refactoring tools lack a solid reasoning about the correctness of the transformations they implement, whilst interest in proven correct refactoring is ever increasing as only formal verification can provide true…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Dániel Horpácsi , Judit Kőszegi , Zoltán Horváth

The 1-in-3 and Not-All-Equal satisfiability problems for Boolean CNF formulas are two well-known NP-hard problems. In contrast, the promise 1-in-3 vs. Not-All-Equal problem can be solved in polynomial time. In the present work, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Lorenzo Ciardo , Marcin Kozik , Andrei Krokhin , Tamio-Vesa Nakajima , Stanislav Živný

A pair of clauses in a CNF formula constitutes a conflict if there is a variable that occurs positively in one clause and negatively in the other. A CNF formula without any conflicts is satisfiable. The Lovasz Local Lemma implies that a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-09-07 Dominik Scheder , Philipp Zumstein

A Boolean function is called read-once over a basis B if it can be expressed by a formula over B where no variable appears more than once. A checking test for a read-once function f over B depending on all its variables is a set of input…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-05-29 Dmitry V. Chistikov

It is known that the first-order theory of rewriting is decidable for ground term rewrite systems, but the general technique uses tree automata and often takes exponential time. For many properties, including confluence (CR), uniqueness of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bertram Felgenhauer

Hitting formulas have been studied in many different contexts at least since [Iwama,89]. A hitting formula is a set of Boolean clauses such that any two of them cannot be simultaneously falsified. [Peitl,Szeider,05] conjectured that hitting…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yuval Filmus , Edward A. Hirsch , Artur Riazanov , Alexander Smal , Marc Vinyals

Boolean satisfiability problem has applications in various fields. An efficient algorithm to solve satisfiability problem can be used to solve many other problems efficiently. The input of satisfiability problem is a finite set of clauses.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Manoj Kumar

We investigate the data exchange from relational databases to RDF graphs inspired by R2RML with the addition of target shape schemas. We study the problems of consistency i.e., checking that every source instance admits a solution, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Iovka Boneva , Jose Lozano , Sławek Staworko

The problem of determining whether a probabilistic program terminates almost surely (i.e.~with probability one) is undecidable, and actually $\Pi^0_2$-complete. For this reason, a growing literature has explored classes of programs for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ugo Dal Lago , Guido Fiorillo , Paolo Pistone

A monotone CNF formula is a Boolean formula in conjunctive normal form where each variable appears positively. We design a deterministic fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for counting the number of satisfying assignments…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-03 Jingcheng Liu , Pinyan Lu

A boolean expression is in read-once form if each of its variables appears exactly once. When the variables denote independent events in a probability space, the probability of the event denoted by the whole expression in read-once form can…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Sudeepa Roy , Vittorio Perduca , Val Tannen