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Answer set programming (ASP) is a paradigm for declarative problem solving where problems are first formalized as rule sets, i.e., answer-set programs, in a uniform way and then solved by computing answer sets for programs. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-31 Mai Nguyen , Tomi Janhunen , Ilkka Niemelä

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

Modal logic S5 has attracted significant attention and has led to several practical applications, owing to its simplified approach to dealing with nesting modal operators. Efficient implementations for evaluating satisfiability of S5…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mario Alviano , Sotiris Batsakis , George Baryannis

The circuit satisfaction problem CSAT(A) of an algebra A is the problem of deciding whether an equation over A (encoded by two circuits) has a solution or not. While solving systems of equations over finite algebras is either in P or…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Michael Kompatscher

The amount of information in satisfiability problem (SAT) is considered. SAT can be polynomial-time solvable when the solving algorithm holds an exponential amount of information. It is also established that SAT Kolmogorov complexity is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Maciej Drozdowski

Tsetlin Machines (TsMs) are a promising and interpretable machine learning method which can be applied for various classification tasks. We present an exact encoding of TsMs into propositional logic and formally verify properties of TsMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Emilia Przybysz , Bimal Bhattarai , Cosimo Persia , Ana Ozaki , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Jivitesh Sharma

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers check the satisfiability of quantifier-free first-order logic formulas. We consider the theory of non-linear real arithmetic where the formulae are logical combinations of polynomial constraints.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Jasper Nalbach , Erika Ábrahám , Philippe Specht , Christopher W. Brown , James H. Davenport , Matthew England

In this paper we propose a novel approach for checking satisfiability of non-linear constraints over the reals, called ksmt. The procedure is based on conflict resolution in CDCL style calculus, using a composition of symbolical and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Franz Brauße , Konstantin Korovin , Margarita Korovina , Norbert Th. Müller

The one of the most interesting problem of discrete mathematics is the SAT (satisfiability) problem. Good way in SAT solver developing is to transform the SAT problem to the problem of continuous search of global minimums of the functional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-13 R. T. Faizullin , I. G. Khnykin , V. I. Dylkeyt

Exact Max-SAT solvers, compared with SAT solvers, apply little inference at each node of the proof tree. Commonly used SAT inference rules like unit propagation produce a simplified formula that preserves satisfiability but, unfortunately,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 C. M. Li , F. Manya , J. Planes

We consider the problem of solving floating-point constraints obtained from software verification. We present UppSAT --- a new implementation of a systematic approximation refinement framework [ZWR17] as an abstract SMT solver. Provided…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Aleksandar Zeljic , Peter Backeman , Christoph M. Wintersteiger , Philipp Ruemmer

We consider the following \emph{model repair problem}: given a finite Kripke structure $M$ and a specification formula $\eta$ in some modal or temporal logic, determine if $M$ contains a substructure $M'$ (with the same initial state) that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-04-15 Paul C. Attie , Jad Saklawi

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

Complex reasoning aims to draw a correct inference based on complex rules. As a hallmark of human intelligence, it involves a degree of explicit reading comprehension, interpretation of logical knowledge and complex rule application. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Siyuan Wang , Zhongkun Liu , Wanjun Zhong , Ming Zhou , Zhongyu Wei , Zhumin Chen , Nan Duan

This paper introduces a new approach to solving a continuous-time version of the multi-agent path finding problem. The algorithm translates the problem into an extension of the classical Boolean satisfiability problem, satisfiability modulo…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Tomáš Kolárik , Stefan Ratschan , Pavel Surynek

The use of Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solver for hardware verification incurs exponential run-time in several instances. In this work we have proposed an efficient quantum SAT (qSAT) solver for equivalence checking of Boolean circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Abhoy Kole , Mohammed E. Djeridane , Lennart Weingarten , Kamalika Datta , Rolf Drechsler

Recent years have witnessed a wide array of results in software testing, exploring different approaches and methodologies ranging from fuzzers to symbolic engines, with a full spectrum of instances in between such as concolic execution and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Luca Borzacchiello , Emilio Coppa , Camil Demetrescu

Earlier we introduced the notion of a stable set of points (SSP). We proved that a CNF formula is unsatisfiable iff there is a set of points (i.e. complete assignments) that is stable with respect to this formula. Experiments showed that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Eugene Goldberg

One of the effective model checking methods is to utilize the efficient decision procedure of SAT (or SMT) solvers. In a SAT-based model checking, a system and its property are encoded into a set of logic formulas and the safety is checked…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Daisuke Ishii , Saito Fujii

We propose Differentiable Satisfiability and Differentiable Answer Set Programming (Differentiable SAT/ASP) for multi-model optimization. Models (answer sets or satisfying truth assignments) are sampled using a novel SAT/ASP solving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Matthias Nickles