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CNF-based SAT and MaxSAT solvers are central to logic synthesis and verification systems. The increasing popularity of these constraint problems in electronic design automation encourages studies on different SAT problems and their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Feng Shi , Chonghan Lee , Mohammad Khairul Bashar , Nikhil Shukla , Song-Chun Zhu , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

The Circuit Satisfiability (CSAT) problem, a variant of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem, plays a critical role in integrated circuit design and verification. However, existing SAT solvers, optimized for Conjunctive Normal Form…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhengyuan Shi , Tiebing Tang , Jiaying Zhu , Sadaf Khan , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Zhufei Chu , Qiang Xu

Over the past few decades, combinatorial solvers have seen remarkable performance improvements, enabling their practical use in real-world applications. In some of these applications, ensuring the correctness of the solver's output is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dieter Vandesande , Jordi Coll , Bart Bogaerts

We present DeepSAT, a novel end-to-end learning framework for the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem. Unlike existing solutions trained on random SAT instances with relatively weak supervision, we propose applying the knowledge of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Min Li , Zhengyuan Shi , Qiuxia Lai , Sadaf Khan , Shaowei Cai , Qiang Xu

Satisfiability problem (SAT) is a cornerstone of computational complexity with broad industrial applications, and it remains challenging to optimize modern SAT solvers in real-world settings due to their intricate architectures. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yiwen Sun , Furong Ye , Zhihan Chen , Ke Wei , Shaowei Cai

The Maximum Satisfiability problem (MaxSAT) is a major optimization challenge with numerous practical applications. In recent MaxSAT evaluations, most MaxSAT solvers have incorporated an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) solver into their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jialu Zhang , Chu-Min Li , Sami Cherif , Shuolin Li , Zhifei Zheng

Symmetries are intrinsic to many combinatorial problems including Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) and Constraint Programming (CP). In SAT, the identification of symmetry breaking predicates (SBPs) is a well-known, often effective, technique…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Joao Marques-Silva , Ines Lynce , Vasco Manquinho

Despite the recent successes of deep neural networks in various fields such as image and speech recognition, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning, we still face big challenges in bringing the power of numeric optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Fei Wang , Tiark Rompf

In the ongoing quest for hybridizing discrete reasoning with neural nets, there is an increasing interest in neural architectures that can learn how to solve discrete reasoning or optimization problems from natural inputs. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Marianne Defresne , Sophie Barbe , Thomas Schiex

While accelerated computing has transformed many domains of computing, its impact on logical reasoning, specifically Boolean satisfiability (SAT), remains limited. State-of-the-art SAT solvers rely heavily on inherently sequential…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Steve Dai , Cunxi Yu , Kalyan Krishnamani , Brucek Khailany

The search of hardware-compatible strategies for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) is an important challenge of today s computing research because of their wide range of applications in real world optimization…

It has been shown that Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) problem instances can be effectively solved by partitioning the set of soft clauses into several disjoint sets. The partitioning methods can be based on clause weights (e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Pedro Orvalho , Vasco Manquinho , Ruben Martins

Building on the progress in Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving over the last decades, maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT) has become a viable approach for solving NP-hard optimization problems, but ensuring correctness of MaxSAT solvers has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Hannes Ihalainen , Andy Oertel , Yong Kiam Tan , Jeremias Berg , Matti Järvisalo , Jakob Nordström

We propose an incomplete algorithm for Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) specifically designed to run on neural network accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs. Given a MaxSAT problem instance in conjunctive normal form, our procedure constructs a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 David Warde-Farley , Vinod Nair , Yujia Li , Ivan Lobov , Felix Gimeno , Simon Osindero

This paper introduces a novel formal SAT-based explanation model for deep learning in video understanding. The proposed method integrates SAT solving techniques with the principles of formal explainable AI to address the limitations of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hojer Key

In this paper, we extend the Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) problem to {\L}ukasiewicz logic. The MaxSAT problem for a set of formulae {\Phi} is the problem of finding an assignment to the variables in {\Phi} that satisfies the maximum…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Mohamed El Halaby , Areeg Abdalla

Modern SMT solvers have revolutionized the approach to constraint satisfaction problems by integrating advanced theory reasoning and encoding techniques. In this work, we evaluate the performance of modern SMT solvers in Z3, CVC5 and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Liam Davis , Tairan Ji

Encoding constraints into neural networks is attractive. This paper studies how to introduce the popular positive linear satisfiability to neural networks. We propose the first differentiable satisfiability layer based on an extension of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Runzhong Wang , Yunhao Zhang , Ziao Guo , Tianyi Chen , Xiaokang Yang , Junchi Yan

Exact solution of hard combinatorial optimization problems often relies on strong convex relaxations, but solving these relaxations repeatedly inside a branch-and-bound algorithm can be prohibitively expensive. Hence, we consider this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hao Chen , Chendi Qian , Christopher Morris , Andrea Lodi , Can Li

The growing interest in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for critical decision making motivates the need for interpretable machine learning (ML) models. In fact, due to their structure (especially with small sizes), these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Hao Hu , Marie-José Huguet , Mohamed Siala