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Let F be a uniformly distributed random k-SAT formula with n variables and m clauses. Non-rigorous statistical mechanics ideas have inspired a message passing algorithm called Belief Propagation Guided Decimation for finding satisfying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Angelica Y. Pachon-Pinzon

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for tasks that implicitly reduce to Boolean satisfiability (SAT), yet their reasoning ability on SAT remains unclear. We present a systematic study of LLMs on 2-SAT and 3-SAT, together with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Leizhen Zhang , Shuhan Chen , Sheng Chen

Here we study the NP-complete $K$-SAT problem. Although the worst-case complexity of NP-complete problems is conjectured to be exponential, there exist parametrized random ensembles of problems where solutions can typically be found in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-11 Hendrik Schawe , Roman Bleim , Alexander K. Hartmann

Random $K$-satisfiability ($K$-SAT) is a model system for studying typical-case complexity of combinatorial optimization. Recent theoretical and simulation work revealed that the solution space of a random $K$-SAT formula has very rich…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Haijun Zhou

In this paper, we study the phase transition behavior emerging from the interactions among multiple agents in the presence of noise. We propose a simple discrete-time model in which a group of non-mobile agents form either a fixed connected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Jialing Liu , Vikas Yadav , Hullas Sehgal , Joshua M. Olson , Haifeng Liu , Nicola Elia

We present a simple randomized algorithm that approximates the number of satisfying assignments of Boolean formulas in conjunctive normal form. To the best of our knowledge this is the first algorithm which approximates #k-SAT for any k >=…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Marc Thurley

Circuits in deterministic decomposable negation normal form (d-DNNF) are representations of Boolean functions that enable linear-time model counting. This paper strengthens our theoretical knowledge of what classes of functions can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Alexis de Colnet , Stefan Szeider , Tianwei Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a very popular method for model size reduction. Recently, the technique is exploited for quantized deep neural networks (QDNNs) training as a way to restore the performance sacrificed by word-length reduction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sungho Shin , Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

A fundamental question in Computer Science is understanding when a specific class of problems go from being computationally easy to hard. Because of its generality and applications, the problem of Boolean Satisfiability (aka SAT) is often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Soumya C. Kambhampati , Thomas Liu

We examine the phase transition phenomenon for the Knapsack problem from both a computational and a human perspective. We first provide, via an empirical and a theoretical analysis, a characterization of the phenomenon in terms of two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Nitin Yadav , Carsten Murawski , Sebastian Sardina , Peter Bossaerts

Configurable systems typically consist of reusable assets that have dependencies between each other. To specify such dependencies, feature models are commonly used. As feature models in practice are often complex, automated reasoning is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Chico Sundermann , Stefan Vill , Elias Kuiter , Sebastian Krieter , Thomas Thüm , Matthias Tichy

Here we present a combinatorial decision problem, inspired by the celebrated quiz show called the countdown, that involves the computation of a given target number T from a set of k randomly chosen integers along with a set of arithmetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Lucas Lacasa , Bartolo Luque

Epistemic logics are a primary formalism for multi-agent systems but major reasoning tasks in such epistemic logics are intractable, which impedes applications of multi-agent epistemic logics in automatic planning. Knowledge compilation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Liangda Fang , Kewen Wang , Zhe Wang , Ximing Wen

One key challenge in Artificial Life is designing systems that display an emergence of complex behaviors. Many such systems depend on a high-dimensional parameter space, only a small subset of which displays interesting dynamics. Focusing…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-11 Vassilis Papadopoulos , Guilhem Doat , Arthur Renard , Clément Hongler

Analyzing a Feature Model (FM) and reasoning on the corresponding configuration space is a central task in Software Product Line (SPL) engineering. Problems such as deciding the satisfiability of the FM and eliminating inconsistent parts of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Pierre Bourhis , Laurence Duchien , Jérémie Dusart , Emmanuel Lonca , Pierre Marquis , Clément Quinton

In the last 30 years it was found that many combinatorial systems undergo phase transitions. One of the most important examples of these can be found among the random k-satisfiability problems (often referred to as k-SAT), asking whether…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-02-02 K. A. Zweig , G. Palla , T. Vicsek

In a physical system, changing parameters such as temperature can induce a phase transition: an abrupt change from one state of matter to another. Analogous phenomena have recently been observed in large language models. Typically, the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Julian Arnold , Flemming Holtorf , Frank Schäfer , Niels Lörch

In this paper, we propose a first application of data mining techniques to propositional satisfiability. Our proposed Mining4SAT approach aims to discover and to exploit hidden structural knowledge for reducing the size of propositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Said Jabbour , Lakhdar Sais , Yakoub Salhi

Phase transitions have been proposed as the origin of emergent abilities in large language models (LLMs), where new capabilities appear abruptly once models surpass critical thresholds of scale. Prior work, such as that of Wei et al.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Noah Hong , Tao Hong

Phase-transitionlike behavior is found to occur in globally coupled systems of finite number of elements, and its theoretical explanation is provided. The system studied is a population of globally pulse-coupled integrate-and-fire cells…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun-nosuke Teramae