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This paper develops a parallel computational solver for computing all satifying assignments of a Boolean system of equations defined by Boolean functions of several variables. While there are we known solvers for satisfiability of Boolean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Virendra Sule

Computational learning theory states that many classes of boolean formulas are learnable in polynomial time. This paper addresses the understudied subject of how, in practice, such formulas can be learned by deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Marcio Nicolau , Anderson R. Tavares , Zhiwei Zhang , Pedro Avelar , João M. Flach , Luis C. Lamb , Moshe Y. Vardi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been recently leveraged to solve several logical reasoning tasks. Nevertheless, counting problems such as propositional model counting (#SAT) are still mostly approached with traditional solvers. Here we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Gaia Saveri , Luca Bortolussi

Feature Models are a mechanism to organize the configuration space and facilitate the construction of software variants by describing configuration options using features, i.e., a name representing a functionality. The development of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jacopo Mauro

We present an approach to propagation based solving, Boolean equi-propagation, where constraints are modelled as propagators of information about equalities between Boolean literals. Propagation based solving applies this information as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Amit Metodi , Michael Codish , Vitaly Lagoon , Peter J. Stuckey

We consider the problem of elimination of existential quantifiers from a Boolean CNF formula. Our approach is based on the following observation. One can get rid of dependency on a set of variables of a quantified CNF formula F by adding…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Eugene Goldberg , Panagiotis Manolios

Propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers, which typically operate using conjunctive normal form (CNF), have been successfully applied in many domains. However, in some application areas such as circuit verification, bounded model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Tero Laitinen , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

We present a general framework for good CNF-representations of boolean constraints, to be used for translating decision problems into SAT problems (i.e., deciding satisfiability for conjunctive normal forms). We apply it to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Matthew Gwynne , Oliver Kullmann

Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is one of the core problems in computer science. As one of the fundamental NP-complete problems, it can be used - by known reductions - to represent instances of variety of hard decision problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Michał Karpiński

Nielsen transformation is a standard approach for solving word equations: by repeatedly splitting equations and applying simplification steps, equations are rewritten until a solution is reached. When solving a conjunction of word equations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig , Julie Cailler , Chencheng Liang , Philipp Rümmer

Interpretability is having an increasingly important role in the design of machine learning algorithms. However, interpretable methods tend to be less accurate than their black-box counterparts. Among others, DNFs (Disjunctive Normal Forms)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Fabio Aiolli , Luca Bergamin , Tommaso Carraro , Mirko Polato

Configurable systems typically consist of reusable assets that have dependencies between each other. To specify such dependencies, feature models are commonly used. As feature models in practice are often complex, automated reasoning is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Chico Sundermann , Stefan Vill , Elias Kuiter , Sebastian Krieter , Thomas Thüm , Matthias Tichy

In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of learning GNN (Graph Neural Network) based solvers and GNN-based heuristics for specified QBF (Quantified Boolean Formula) problems. We design and evaluate several GNN architectures for 2QBF…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Zhanfu Yang , Fei Wang , Ziliang Chen , Guannan Wei , Tiark Rompf

The minimization of propositional formulae is a classical problem in logic, whose first algorithms date back at least to the 1950s with the works of Quine and Karnaugh. Most previous work in the area has focused on obtaining minimal, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Eduardo Calò , Jordi Levy

On the Semantic Web, metadata and ontologies are used to enable computers to read data. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) has been proposed as a standard ontological language, and various inference systems for this language have been studied.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Daiki Takahashi , Ken Kaneiwa

We propose an approach for decomposing Boolean satisfiability problems while extending recent results of \cite{sul2} on solving Boolean systems of equations. Developments in \cite{sul2} were aimed at the expansion of functions $f$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Madhav Desai , Virendra Sule

In many decision-making processes, one may prefer multiple solutions to a single solution, which allows us to choose an appropriate solution from the set of promising solutions that are found by algorithms. Given this, finding a set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tatsuya Gima , Yuni Iwamasa , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yota Otachi , Rin Saito

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem is of fundamental importance in computer science and many application domains. For Grover's algorithm, solving the SAT problem requires $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{2^n})$ queries--where n denotes the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 He Wang , Jinyang Yao

Over the last few decades, many distinct lines of research aimed at automating mathematics have been developed, including computer algebra systems (CASs) for mathematical modelling, automated theorem provers for first-order logic, SAT/SMT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Curtis Bright , Ilias Kotsireas , Vijay Ganesh

While GNN-based detection methods excel at identifying overt outliers, they often struggle with boundary anomalies -- subtly camouflaged nodes that are difficult to distinguish from normal instances. This limitation highlights a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hwan Kim , Junghoon Kim , Sungsu Lim