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We propose a new approach to SAT solving which solves SAT problems in vector spaces as a cost minimization problem of a non-negative differentiable cost function J^sat. In our approach, a solution, i.e., satisfying assignment, for a SAT…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Taisuke Sato , Ryosuke Kojima

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

Modern CDCL SAT solvers easily solve industrial instances containing tens of millions of variables and clauses, despite the theoretical intractability of the SAT problem. This gap between practice and theory is a central problem in solver…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Chunxiao Li , Jonathan Chung , Soham Mukherjee , Marc Vinyals , Noah Fleming , Antonina Kolokolova , Alice Mu , Vijay Ganesh

Restart policy is an important technique used in modern Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) solvers, wherein some parts of the solver state are erased at certain intervals during the run of the solver. In most solvers, variable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Chunxiao Li , Charlie Liu , Jonathan Chung , Zhengyang Lu , Piyush Jha , Vijay Ganesh

Propositional satisfiability (SAT) is at the nucleus of state-of-the-art approaches to a variety of computationally hard problems, one of which is cryptanalysis. Moreover, a number of practical applications of SAT can only be tackled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Alexander Semenov , Oleg Zaikin , Ilya Otpuschennikov , Stepan Kochemazov , Alexey Ignatiev

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

Satisfiability (SAT) is a central problem in computer science, and advances in SAT-solving algorithms have a far-reaching impact across many fields. Recent works have proposed quantum SAT solvers based on Grover's algorithm, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Shang-Wei Lin , Ji-Qing Yan , Yean-Ru Chen , Zhe Hou , David Sanán

We prove that there exists a deterministic configuration of Conflict Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) SAT solvers using a variant of the VSIDS branching heuristic that solves instances of the Ordering Principle (OP) CNF formulas in time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sahil Samar , Marc Vinyals , Vijay Ganesh

Instances of logical cryptanalysis, circuit verification, and bounded model checking can often be succinctly represented as a combined satisfiability (SAT) problem where an instance is a combination of traditional clauses and parity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Tero Laitinen , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

Linear integer constraints are one of the most important constraints in combinatorial problems since they are commonly found in many practical applications. Typically, encodings to Boolean satisfiability (SAT) format of conjunctive normal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Ignasi Abío , Valentin Mayer-Eichberger , Peter Stuckey

Cryptographic hash functions play a crucial role in ensuring data security, generating fixed-length hashes from variable-length inputs. The hash function SHA-256 is trusted for data security due to its resilience after over twenty years of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Nahiyan Alamgir , Saeed Nejati , Curtis Bright

The Conflict-Driven Cylindrical Algebraic Covering algorithm has proven well suited for performing theory validation checks in the satisfiability modulo theories paradigm for non-linear real arithmetic. CDCAC repurposes the theory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Abiola Babatunde , Matthew England , AmirHosein Sadeghimanesh

The success of Conflict Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) for Boolean satisfiability has inspired adoption in other domains. We present a novel lifting of CDCL to program analysis called Abstract Conflict Driven Learning for Programs (ACDLP).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Rajdeep Mukherjee , Peter Schrammel , Leopold Haller , Daniel Kroening , Tom Melham

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

Constrained Horn Clauses (CHCs) are often used in automated program verification. Thus, techniques for (dis-)proving satisfiability of CHCs are a very active field of research. On the other hand, acceleration techniques for computing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl

In the article, within the framework of the Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT), the problem of estimating the hardness of specific Boolean formulas w.r.t. a specific complete SAT solving algorithm is considered. Based on the well-known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Daniil Chivilikhin , Artem Pavlenko , Alexander Semenov

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

Chronological backtracking is an interesting SAT solving technique within CDCL reasoning, as it backtracks less aggressively upon conflicts. However, chronological backtracking is more difficult to maintain due to its weaker SAT solving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Robin Coutelier , Mathias Fleury , Laura Kovács

In this paper we describe the volunteer computing project SAT@home, developed and maintained by us. This project is aimed at solving hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). We believe that this project can be a useful…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Alexander Semenov , Oleg Zaikin , Ilya Otpuschennikov

In this paper we propose the approach for constructing partitionings of hard variants of the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). Such partitionings can be used for solving corresponding SAT instances in parallel. For the same SAT instance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-23 Alexander Semenov , Oleg Zaikin