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The Airborne Collision Avoidance System Xu (ACAS-Xu) relies on large certified Look-Up Tables (LUTs) that encode the exact decision logic used in operation. Neural-network-based approximations have been proposed to reduce memory…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Martin Boniol , Julien Brunel , Jean-Baptiste Chaudron , Christophe Garion , Xavier Thirioux

A derivative structure is a nonequivalent substitutional atomic configuration derived from a given primitive cell. The enumeration of derivative structures plays an essential role in searching for the ground states in multicomponent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Kohei Shinohara , Atsuto Seko , Takashi Horiyama , Masakazu Ishihata , Junya Honda , Isao Tanaka

This paper proposes an algorithmic framework for various reconfiguration problems using zero-suppressed binary decision diagrams (ZDDs), a data structure for families of sets. In general, a reconfiguration problem checks if there is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Takehiro Ito , Jun Kawahara , Yu Nakahata , Takehide Soh , Akira Suzuki , Junichi Teruyama , Takahisa Toda

Safety-critical controllers of complex systems are hard to construct manually. Automated approaches such as controller synthesis or learning provide a tempting alternative but usually lack explainability. To this end, learning decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Debraj Chakraborty , Clemens Dubslaff , Sudeep Kanav , Jan Kretinsky , Christoph Weinhuber

For the exploration of large state spaces, symbolic search using binary decision diagrams (BDDs) can save huge amounts of memory and computation time. State sets are represented and modified by accessing and manipulating their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-25 Stefan Edelkamp , Peter Kissmann , Álvaro Torralba

Selman and Kautz's work on ``knowledge compilation'' established how approximation (strengthening and/or weakening) of a propositional knowledge-base can be used to speed up query processing, at the expense of completeness. In this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Kevin Henshall , Peter Schachte , Harald Søndergaard , Leigh Whiting

Binary decision diagram (BDD) and zero-suppressed binary decision diagram (ZDD) are data structures to represent a family of (sub)sets compactly, and it can be used as succinct indexes for a family of sets. To build BDD/ZDD representing a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Kengo Nakamura , Masaaki Nishino , Shuhei Denzumi

Understanding the characteristics of neural networks is important but difficult due to their complex structures and behaviors. Some previous work proposes to transform neural networks into equivalent Boolean expressions and apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yiping Tang , Kohei Hatano , Eiji Takimoto

This paper presents a new data structure, called \emph{Weighted Context-Free-Language Ordered BDDs} (WCFLOBDDs), which are a hierarchically structured decision diagram, akin to Weighted BDDs (WBDDs) enhanced with a procedure-call mechanism.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Meghana Sistla , Swarat Chaudhuri , Thomas Reps

Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDDs) are a data structure that is used in an increasing number of fields of Computer Science (e.g., logic synthesis, program verification, data mining, bioinformatics, and data protection) for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Anna Bernasconi , Valentina Ciriani , Lorenzo Lago

We consider the compilation of a binary neural network's decision function into tractable representations such as Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDDs) and Sentential Decision Diagrams (SDDs). Obtaining this function as an OBDD/SDD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Weijia Shi , Andy Shih , Adnan Darwiche , Arthur Choi

The advanced data structure of the zero-suppressed binary decision diagram (ZDD) enables us to efficiently enumerate nonequivalent substitutional structures. Not only can the ZDD store a vast number of structures in a compressed manner, but…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Kohei Shinohara , Atsuto Seko , Takashi Horiyama , Isao Tanaka

In reliability engineering, we need to understand system dependencies, cause-effect relations, identify critical components, and analyze how they trigger failures. Three prominent graph models commonly used for these purposes are fault…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-10 L. A. Jimenez-Roa , T. Heskes , M. Stoelinga

Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are instrumental in many electronic design automation (EDA) tasks thanks to their compact representation of Boolean functions. In BDD-based reversible-circuit synthesis, which is critical for quantum…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mingkai Miao , Jianheng Tang , Guangyu Hu , Hongce Zhang

This paper proposes a new logic optimization paradigm based on circuit simulation, which reduces the need for Boolean computations such as SAT-solving or constructing BDDs. The paper develops a Boolean resubstitution framework to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Siang-Yun Lee , Heinz Riener , Alan Mishchenko , Robert K. Brayton , Giovanni De Micheli

BDDs are representations of a Boolean expression in the form of a directed acyclic graph. BDDs are widely used in several fields, particularly in model checking and hardware verification. There are several implementations for BDD…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Luigi Capogrosso , Luca Geretti , Marco Cristani , Franco Fummi , Tiziano Villa

We introduce a novel framework, termed $\lambda$DD, that revisits Binary Decision Diagrams from a purely functional point of view. The framework allows to classify the already existing variants, including the most recent ones like Chain-DD…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Joan Thibault , Khalil Ghorbal

Modeling decision-dependent scenario probabilities in stochastic programs is difficult and typically leads to large and highly non-linear MINLPs that are very difficult to solve. In this paper, we develop a new approach to obtain a compact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Utz-Uwe Haus , Carla Michini , Marco Laumanns

The Steiner tree enumeration problem is a well known problem that asks for enumerating Steiner trees. Numerous theoretical works proposed algorithms for the problem and analyzed their complexity, but there are no practical algorithms and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yuya Sasaki

Ordered binary decision diagrams (OBDDs) are an efficient data structure for representing and manipulating Boolean formulas. With respect to different variable orders, the OBDDs' sizes may vary from linear to exponential in the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Feifan Xu , Fei He , Enze Xie , Liang Li