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Verification methods based on SAT, SMT, and Theorem Proving often rely on proofs of unsatisfiability as a powerful tool to extract information in order to reduce the overall effort. For example a proof may be traversed to identify a minimal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-16 S. F. Rollini , R. Bruttomesso , N. Sharygina , A. Tsitovich

Despite their sophisticated heuristics, boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers are still vulnerable to symmetry, causing them to visit search regions that are symmetric to ones already explored. While symmetry handling is routine in other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Markus Anders , Cayden Codel , Marijn J. H. Heule

The search for increased trustworthiness of SAT solvers is very active and uses various methods. Some of these methods obtain a proof from the provers then check it, normally by replicating the search based on the proof's information.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Tomer Libal , Xaviera Steele

Correctness of results from mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) solvers is critical, particularly in the context of applications such as hardware verification, compiler optimization, or machine-assisted theorem proving. To this end,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kenan Wood , Runtian Zhou , Haoze Wu , Hammurabi Mendes , Jonad Pulaj

In this paper we propose a novel approach for checking satisfiability of non-linear constraints over the reals, called ksmt. The procedure is based on conflict resolution in CDCL style calculus, using a composition of symbolical and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Franz Brauße , Konstantin Korovin , Margarita Korovina , Norbert Th. Müller

Linear systems of equations can be found in various mathematical domains, as well as in the field of machine learning. By employing noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, variational solvers promise to accelerate finding solutions for…

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a fundamental NP-complete problem with many applications, including automated planning and scheduling. To solve large instances, SAT solvers have to rely on heuristics, e.g., choosing a branching variable in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mikhail Shirokikh , Ilya Shenbin , Anton Alekseev , Sergey Nikolenko

In the last decade, the power of the state-of-the-art SAT and Integer Programming solvers has dramatically increased. They implement many new techniques and heuristics and since any NP problem can be converted to SAT or ILP instance, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-25 Rastislav Lenhardt

Static verification techniques leverage Boolean formula satisfiability solvers such as SAT and SMT solvers that operate on conjunctive normal form and first order logic formulae, respectively, to validate programs. They force bounds on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Fadi A. Zaraket , Mohamad Noureddine

Interpolation based software model checkers have been successfully employed to automatically prove programs correct. Their power comes from interpolating SMT solvers that check the feasibility of potential counterexamples and compute…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Jochen Hoenicke , Tanja Schindler

Efficient omission of symmetric solution candidates is essential for combinatorial problem-solving. Most of the existing approaches are instance-specific and focus on the automatic computation of Symmetry Breaking Constraints (SBCs) for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Alice Tarzariol , Martin Gebser , Konstantin Schekotihin

In this paper, we present new optimization models for Support Vector Machine (SVM), with the aim of separating data points in two or more classes. The classification task is handled by means of nonlinear classifiers induced by kernel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Francesca Maggioni , Andrea Spinelli

We present our extension of ACL2 with Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers using ACL2's trusted clause processor mechanism. We are particularly interested in the verification of physical systems including Analog and Mixed-Signal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Yan Peng , Mark Greenstreet

In this work we address three questions: can we successfully describe (observed) deviations from the standard model in the SMEFT language? Can we learn something about the underlying, beyond the standard model, physics using the SMEFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 André David , Giampiero Passarino

We present a new approach to proving non-termination of non-deterministic integer programs. Our technique is rather simple but efficient. It relies on a purely syntactic reversal of the program's transition system followed by a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady , Petr Novotný , Đorđe Žikelić

In this paper we propose an approach for solving systems of nonlinear equations without computing function derivatives. Motivated by the application area of tomographic absorption spectroscopy, which is a highly-nonlinear problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 F. J. Aragón-Artacho , W. Cai , Y. Censor , A. Gibali , C. Shui , D. Torregrosa-Belén

Generating proofs of unsatisfiability is a valuable capability of most SAT solvers, and is an active area of research for SMT solvers. This paper introduces the first method to efficiently generate proofs of unsatisfiability specifically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Nick Feng , Alan J. Hu , Sam Bayless , Syed M. Iqbal , Patrick Trentin , Mike Whalen , Lee Pike , John Backes

This extended abstract describes work in progress on Smt-Switch, an open-source, solver-agnostic API for SMT solving. Smt-Switch provides an abstract interface, which can be implemented by different SMT solvers. Smt-Switch provides simple,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Makai Mann , Amalee Wilson , Cesare Tinelli , Clark Barrett

With the advent of large language models (LLMs), numerous Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) strategies have been proposed to alleviate deployment barriers created by their enormous parameter counts. Quantization achieves compression by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Wonjun Bang , Jongseok Park , Hongseung Yu , Kyungmin Bin , Kyunghan Lee

In recent years, expansion-based techniques have been shown to be very powerful in theory and practice for solving quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), the extension of propositional formulas with existential and universal quantifiers over…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Roderick Bloem , Nicolas Braud-Santoni , Vedad Hadzic , Uwe Egly , Florian Lonsing , Martina Seidl