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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

Supervised Causal Learning (SCL) has shown promise in causal discovery by framing it as a supervised learning problem. However, it suffers from significant out-of-distribution generalization challenges. We reveal three limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zizhen Deng , Jiaru Zhang , Rui Ding , Huang Bojun , Jinzhuo Wang , Qiang Fu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Logic obfuscation is introduced as a pivotal defense against multiple hardware threats on Integrated Circuits (ICs), including reverse engineering (RE) and intellectual property (IP) theft. The effectiveness of logic obfuscation is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Rakibul Hassan , Gaurav Kolhe , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

Fault injection attacks represent a type of active, physical attack against cryptographic circuits. Various countermeasures have been proposed to thwart such attacks, the design and implementation of which are, however, intricate,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Huiyu Tan , Pengfei Gao , Taolue Chen , Fu Song , Zhilin Wu

A new algorithm for deciding the satisfiability of polynomial formulas over the reals is proposed. The key point of the algorithm is a new projection operator, called sample-cell projection operator, custom-made for Conflict-Driven Clause…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Haokun Li , Bican Xia

This paper introduces AlphaMapleSAT, a Cube-and-Conquer (CnC) parallel SAT solver that integrates Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with deductive feedback to efficiently solve challenging combinatorial SAT problems. Traditional lookahead…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Piyush Jha , Zhengyu Li , Zhengyang Lu , Raymond Zeng , Curtis Bright , Vijay Ganesh

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable general reasoning capabilities. However, systematically evaluating and enhancing these reasoning capabilities is challenging due to the lack of controllable and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yanxiao Zhao , Yaqian Li , Zihao Bo , Rinyoichi Takezoe , Haojia Hui , Mo Guang , Lei Ren , Xiaolin Qin , Kaiwen Long

In this paper we investigate how to estimate the hardness of Boolean satisfiability (SAT) encodings for the Logical Equivalence Checking problem (LEC). Meaningful estimates of hardness are important in cases when a conventional SAT solver…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Alexander Semenov , Konstantin Chukharev , Egor Tarasov , Daniil Chivilikhin , Viktor Kondratiev

Optimization problems such as the NP-complete 3-SAT provide an important benchmark for the difficult task of finding ground-states in strongly correlated many-body systems with rugged energy landscapes. The study of random 3-SAT problems as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 J. Schwardt , J. C. Budich

In this paper, we provide an overview of the SAT+CAS method that combines satisfiability checkers (SAT solvers) and computer algebra systems (CAS) to resolve combinatorial conjectures, and present new results vis-\`a-vis best matrices. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Curtis Bright , Dragomir Ž. Đoković , Ilias Kotsireas , Vijay Ganesh

Boolean Satisfiability solvers have gone through dramatic improvements in their performances and scalability over the last few years by considering symmetries. It has been shown that by using graph symmetries and generating symmetry…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-02 Arup Kumar Ghosh

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as an effective approach to tackling real-world problems. However, like human-written software, DNNs can have bugs and can be attacked. To address this, research has explored a wide-range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hai Duong , ThanhVu Nguyen , Matthew Dwyer

SAT solvers are increasingly being used for cryptanalysis of hash functions and symmetric encryption schemes. Inspired by this trend, we present MapleCrypt which is a SAT solver-based cryptanalysis tool for inverting hash functions. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Saeed Nejati , Jia Hui Liang , Vijay Ganesh , Catherine Gebotys , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) is a well-known optimization pro- blem, with several practical applications. The most widely known MAXS AT algorithms are ineffective at solving hard problems instances from practical application domains.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-12-10 Joao Marques-Silva , Jordi Planes

In this paper, we claim that cyclic obfuscation, when properly implemented, poses exponential complexity on SAT or CycSAT attack. The CycSAT, in order to generate the necessary cycle avoidance clauses, uses a pre-processing step. We show…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Shervin Roshanisefat , Hadi Mardani Kamali , Avesta Sasan

Exploitation of symmetries is an indispensable approach to solve certain classes of difficult SAT instances. Numerous techniques for the use of symmetry in SAT have evolved over the past few decades. But no matter how symmetries are used…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Markus Anders

We present a hardware-accelerated SAT solver targeting processor/Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) SoCs. Our solution accelerates the most expensive subroutine of the Davis-Putnam-Logemann-Loveland (DPLL) algorithm, Boolean Constraint…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hariprasadh Govindasamy , Babak Esfandiari , Paulo Garcia

On the one hand, Constraint Satisfaction Problems allow one to declaratively model problems. On the other hand, propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) solvers can handle huge SAT instances. We thus present a technique to declaratively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Frédéric Lardeux , Eric Monfroy , Broderick Crawford , Ricardo Soto

In this paper, we revisit an important issue of CDCL-based SAT solvers, namely the learned clauses database management policies. Our motivation takes its source from a simple observation on the remarkable performances of both random and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Said Jabbour , Jerry Lonlac , Lakhdar Sais , Yakoub Salhi

We study local-search satisfiability solvers for propositional logic extended with cardinality atoms, that is, expressions that provide explicit ways to model constraints on cardinalities of sets. Adding cardinality atoms to the language of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lengning Liu , Miroslaw Truszczynski