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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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gathered increasing interest as learnable solvers of Boolean Satisfiability Problems (SATs), operating on graph representations of logical formulas. However, their performance degrades sharply on harder and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Geri Skenderi

We use neural graph networks with a message-passing architecture and an attention mechanism to enhance the branching heuristic in two SAT-solving algorithms. We report improvements of learned neural heuristics compared with two standard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Sebastian Jaszczur , Michał Łuszczyk , Henryk Michalewski

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…

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers are foundational to computer science, yet their performance typically hinges on hand-crafted heuristics. This work introduces Reinforcement Learning from Algorithm Feedback (RLAF) as a paradigm for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jan Tönshoff , Martin Grohe

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for solving the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT), offering potential alternatives to traditional backtracking or local search SAT solvers. However, despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhaoyu Li , Jinpei Guo , Xujie Si

In this contribution, we provide a comprehensive evaluation of graph neural networks applied to Boolean satisfiability problems, accompanied by an intuitive explanation of the mechanisms enabling the model to generalize to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 David Mojžíšek , Jan Hůla , Ziwei Li , Ziyu Zhou , Mikoláš Janota

Constraint programming is known for being an efficient approach for solving combinatorial problems. Important design choices in a solver are the branching heuristics, which are designed to lead the search to the best solutions in a minimum…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tom Marty , Tristan François , Pierre Tessier , Louis Gauthier , Louis-Martin Rousseau , Quentin Cappart

Modern neural networks obtain information about the problem and calculate the output solely from the input values. We argue that it is not always optimal, and the network's performance can be significantly improved by augmenting it with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Emils Ozolins , Karlis Freivalds , Andis Draguns , Eliza Gaile , Ronalds Zakovskis , Sergejs Kozlovics

We present NeuroSAT, a message passing neural network that learns to solve SAT problems after only being trained as a classifier to predict satisfiability. Although it is not competitive with state-of-the-art SAT solvers, NeuroSAT can solve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Daniel Selsam , Matthew Lamm , Benedikt Bünz , Percy Liang , Leonardo de Moura , David L. Dill

Generating diverse solutions to the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is a hard computational problem with practical applications for testing and functional verification of software and hardware designs. We explore the way to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Karlis Freivalds , Sergejs Kozlovics

Propositional model counting, or #SAT, is the problem of computing the number of satisfying assignments of a Boolean formula. Many problems from different application areas, including many discrete probabilistic inference problems, can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Pashootan Vaezipoor , Gil Lederman , Yuhuai Wu , Chris J. Maddison , Roger Grosse , Sanjit A. Seshia , Fahiem Bacchus

Finding good branching orders is key to solving SAT problems efficiently, but finding such branching orders is a difficult problem. Using a learning based approach to predict a good branching order before solving, therefore, has potential.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Arvid Eriksson , Gabriel Poesia , Roman Bresson , Karl Henrik Johansson , David Broman

In this paper we explore whether or not deep neural architectures can learn to classify Boolean satisfiability (SAT). We devote considerable time to discussing the theoretical properties of SAT. Then, we define a graph representation for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Benedikt Bünz , Matthew Lamm

The Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem is the canonical NP-complete problem and is fundamental to computer science, with a wide array of applications in planning, verification, and theorem proving. Developing and evaluating practical SAT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Jiaxuan You , Haoze Wu , Clark Barrett , Raghuram Ramanujan , Jure Leskovec

We propose a universal Graph Neural Network architecture which can be trained as an end-2-end search heuristic for any Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). Our architecture can be trained unsupervised with policy gradient descent to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jan Tönshoff , Berke Kisin , Jakob Lindner , Martin Grohe

With the rapid development of deep learning techniques, various recent work has tried to apply graph neural networks (GNNs) to solve NP-hard problems such as Boolean Satisfiability (SAT), which shows the potential in bridging the gap…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Minghao Liu , Fuqi Jia , Pei Huang , Fan Zhang , Yuchen Sun , Shaowei Cai , Feifei Ma , Jian Zhang

Backtracking has been widely used for solving problems in artificial intelligence (AI), including constraint satisfaction problems and combinatorial optimization problems. Good branching heuristics can efficiently improve the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Congsong Zhang , Yong Gao , James Nastos

There have been recent efforts for incorporating Graph Neural Network models for learning full-stack solvers for constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) and particularly Boolean satisfiability (SAT). Despite the unique representational power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Saeed Amizadeh , Sergiy Matusevych , Markus Weimer

Machine learning approaches to solving Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) aim to replace handcrafted heuristics with learning-based models. Graph Neural Networks have emerged as the main architecture for SAT solving, due to the natural graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Saku Peltonen , Roger Wattenhofer
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