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Local consistency techniques such as k-consistency are a key component of specialised solvers for constraint satisfaction problems. In this paper we show that the power of using k-consistency techniques on a constraint satisfaction problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Peter Jeavons , Justyna Petke

It is well known, and appreciated, that quantum computers have the potential to be the most powerful computational devices ever created. This newfound power comes from a quantum parallelism effect that allows the computer to be in multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark A Bashuk

In this paper, we address the problem of enumerating all models of a Boolean formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF). We propose an extension of CDCL-based SAT solvers to deal with this fundamental problem. Then, we provide an experimental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Said Jabbour , Lakhdar Sais , Yakoub Salhi

A new quantum algorithm is proposed to solve Satisfiability(SAT) problems by taking advantage of non-unitary transformation in ground state quantum computer. The energy gap scale of the ground state quantum computer is analyzed for 3-bit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Wenjin Mao

Many constraint satisfaction and optimisation problems can be solved effectively by encoding them as instances of the Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT). However, even the simplest types of constraints have many encodings in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Felix Ulrich-Oltean , Peter Nightingale , James Alfred Walker

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is arguably the archetypical NP-complete decision problem. Progress in SAT solving algorithms has motivated an ever increasing number of practical applications in recent years. However, many practical uses of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Joao Marques-Silva , Mikolas Janota

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

We present Woorpje, a string solver for bounded word equations (i.e., equations where the length of each variable is upper bounded by a given integer). Our algorithm works by reformulating the satisfiability of bounded word equations as a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Joel D. Day , Thorsten Ehlers , Mitja Kulczynski , Florin Manea , Dirk Nowotka , Danny Bøgsted Poulsen

The boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem asks whether there exists an assignment of boolean values to the variables of an arbitrary boolean formula making the formula evaluate to True. It is well-known that all NP-problems can be coded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christopher R. Serrano , Jonathan Gallagher , Kenji Yamada , Alexei Kopylov , Michael A. Warren

This paper formalizes the optimal base problem, presents an algorithm to solve it, and describes its application to the encoding of Pseudo-Boolean constraints to SAT. We demonstrate the impact of integrating our algorithm within the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Michael Codish , Yoav Fekete , Carsten Fuhs , Peter Schneider-Kamp

Commonly used proof strategies by automated reasoners organise proof search either by ordering-based saturation or by reducing goals to subgoals. In this paper, we combine these two approaches and advocate a SAT-based method with symmetry…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Clemens Eisenhofer , Michael Rawson , Laura Kovács

The maximal clique problem, to find the maximally sized clique in a given graph, is classically an NP-complete computational problem, which has potential applications ranging from electrical engineering, computational chemistry,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Weng-Long Chang , Qi Yu , Zhaokai Li , Jiahui Chen , Xinhua Peng , Mang Feng

Efficient characteristic set methods for computing solutions of polynomial equation systems in a finite field are proposed. The concept of proper triangular sets is introduced and an explicit formula for the number of solutions of a proper…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Xiao-Shan Gao , Zhenyu Huang

There have been several efforts to apply quantum SAT solving methods to factor large integers. While these methods may provide insight into quantum SAT solving, to date they have not led to a convincing path to integer factorization that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Michele Mosca , João Marcos Vensi Basso , Sebastian R. Verschoor

SAT provers are powerful tools for solving real-sized logic problems, but using them requires solid programming knowledge and may be seen w.r.t.\ logic like assembly language w.r.t.\ programming. Something like a high level language was…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Khaled Skander Ben Slimane , Alexis Comte , Olivier Gasquet , Abdelwahab Heba , Olivier Lezaud , Frederic Maris , Mael Valais

We present an executable formally verified SAT encoding of classical AI planning. We use the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL to perform the verification. We experimentally test the verified encoding and show that it can be used for reasonably…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Mohammad Abdulaziz , Friedrich Kurz

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problems are routinely solved by SAT solvers in real-life applications, yet solving time can vary drastically between solvers for the same instance. This has motivated research into machine learning models that…

The Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem lies at the core of many applications in combinatorial optimization, software verification, cryptography, and machine learning. While state-of-the-art solvers have demonstrated high efficiency in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhiwei Zhang , Samy Wu Fung , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Stanley Osher , Moshe Y. Vardi

We apply Monte Carlo simulations to count the numbers of solutions of two well-known combinatorial problems: the N-queens problem and Latin square problem. The original system is first converted to a general thermodynamic system, from which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheng Zhang , Jianpeng Ma

We give a general method of construting quantum circuit for random \QTR{it}{satisfiability} (SAT) problems with the basic logic gates such as multi-qubit controlled-NOT and NOT gates. The sizes of these circuits are almost the same as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xinhua Peng , Xiwen Zhu , Kelin Gao