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We call a CNF formula linear if any two clauses have at most one variable in common. We show that there exist unsatisfiable linear k-CNF formulas with at most 4k^2 4^k clauses, and on the other hand, any linear k-CNF formula with at most…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Dominik Scheder

Logic provides a controlled testbed for evaluating LLM-based reasoners, yet standard SAT-style benchmarks often conflate surface difficulty (length, wording, clause order) with the structural phenomena that actually determine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Naïm Es-sebbani , Esteban Marquer , Yakoub Salhi , Zied Bouraoui

We prove a complexity dichotomy for a class of counting problems expressible as bipartite 3-regular Holant problems. For every problem of the form $\operatorname{Holant}\left(f\mid =_3 \right)$, where $f$ is any integer-valued ternary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jin-Yi Cai , Austen Z. Fan , Yin Liu

We determine the exact threshold of satisfiability for random instances of a particular NP-complete constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). This is the first random CSP model for which we have determined a precise linear satisfiability…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Harold Connamacher , Michael Molloy

Given a 3-SAT formula, a graph can be constructed in polynomial time such that the graph is a point visibility graph if and only if the 3-SAT formula is satisfiable. This reduction establishes that the problem of recognition of point…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Bodhayan Roy

In this article, we show that the completion problem, i.e. the decision problem whether a partial structure can be completed to a full structure, is NP-complete for many combinatorial structures. While the gadgets for most reductions in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Helena Bergold , Manfred Scheucher , Felix Schröder

Let $\Phi$ be a uniformly random $k$-SAT formula with $n$ variables and $m$ clauses. We study the algorithmic task of finding a satisfying assignment of $\Phi$. It is known that satisfying assignments exist with high probability up to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Guy Bresler , Brice Huang

The random 3-satisfiability (3-SAT) problem is in the unsatisfiable (UNSAT) phase when the clause density $\alpha$ exceeds a critical value $\alpha_s \approx 4.267$. However, rigorously proving the unsatisfiability of a given large 3-SAT…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Lu-Lu Wu , Hai-Jun Zhou , Mikko Alava , Erik Aurell , Pekka Orponen

Using the recently developed framework of [Daniely et al, 2014], we show that under a natural assumption on the complexity of refuting random K-SAT formulas, learning DNF formulas is hard. Furthermore, the same assumption implies the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Amit Daniely , Shai Shalev-Shwatz

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

The $k$-SAT problem for \L{}-clausal forms has been found to be NP-complete if $k\geq 3$. Similar to Boolean CNF formulas, \L{}-clausal forms are important from a theoretical and practical points of view for their expressive power,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Mohamed El Halaby , Areeg Abdalla

A decision problem is called parameterized if its input is a pair of strings. One of these strings is referred to as a parameter. The problem: given a propositional logic program P and a non-negative integer k, decide whether P has a stable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zbigniew Lonc , Miroslaw Truszczynski

A fundamental question in Computer Science is understanding when a specific class of problems go from being computationally easy to hard. Because of its generality and applications, the problem of Boolean Satisfiability (aka SAT) is often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Soumya C. Kambhampati , Thomas Liu

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

The Inverse 3-SAT problem is known to be coNP Complete. This article shows a new interesting way to solve directly the problem by using closure under resolution and partial assignment properties. An algorithm is proposed which lets solve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Xavier Labouze

This paper addresses the resolution of the 3-SAT problem using a QAOA-like approach. The chosen principle involves modeling the solution ranks of the 3-SAT problem, which, in this particular case, directly represent a solution. This results…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Gerard Fleury , Philippe Lacomme

We show how one can use certain deterministic algorithms for higher-value constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) to speed up deterministic local search for 3-SAT. This way, we improve the deterministic worst-case running time for 3-SAT to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-27 Konstantin Kutzkov , Dominik Scheder

Many researchers in artificial intelligence are beginning to explore the use of soft constraints to express a set of (possibly conflicting) problem requirements. A soft constraint is a function defined on a collection of variables which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 D. Cohen , M. Cooper , P. Jeavons , A. Krokhin

Given a satisfiable instance of 1-in-3 SAT, it is NP-hard to find a satisfying assignment for it, but it may be possible to efficiently find a solution subject to a weaker (not necessarily Boolean) predicate than `1-in-3'. There is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Andrei Krokhin , Danny Vagnozzi

Many real life optimization problems contain both hard and soft constraints, as well as qualitative conditional preferences. However, there is no single formalism to specify all three kinds of information. We therefore propose a framework,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-05-26 Carmel Domshlak , Francesca Rossi , Kristen Brent Venable , Toby Walsh