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Ising machines are emerging as a new technology for solving various classes of computationally hard problems of practical importance, yet their limits on structured SAT workloads, representative of numerous real-world applications, remain…

Over the past few decades, combinatorial solvers have seen remarkable performance improvements, enabling their practical use in real-world applications. In some of these applications, ensuring the correctness of the solver's output is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dieter Vandesande , Jordi Coll , Bart Bogaerts

The Simplex tableau has been broadly used and investigated in the industry and academia. With the advent of the big data era, ever larger problems are posed to be solved in ever larger machines whose architecture type did not exist in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Demetrios Coutinho , Felipe O. Lins e Silva , Daniel Aloise , Samuel , Xavier-de-Souza

SAT solvers are indispensable in formal verification for hardware and software with many important applications. CDCL is the most widely used framework for modern SAT solvers, and restart is an essential technique of CDCL. When restarting,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Xindi Zhang , Zhihan Chen , Shaowei Cai

Modern SAT solvers routinely operate at scales that make it impractical to query a neural network for every branching decision. NeuroCore, proposed by Selsam and Bjorner, offered a proof-of-concept that neural networks can still accelerate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jesse Michael Han

In this paper, by constructing extremely hard examples of CSP (with large domains) and SAT (with long clauses), we prove that such examples cannot be solved without exhaustive search, which is stronger than P $\neq$ NP. This constructive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ke Xu , Guangyan Zhou

This paper introduces SATformer, a novel Transformer-based approach for the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem. Rather than solving the problem directly, SATformer approaches the problem from the opposite direction by focusing on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Zhengyuan Shi , Min Li , Yi Liu , Sadaf Khan , Junhua Huang , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Qiang Xu

We study preprocessing techniques for clause normal forms of LTL formulas. Applying the mechanism of labelled clauses enables us to reinterpret LTL satisfiability as a set of purely propositional problems and thus to transfer simplification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Martin Suda

This paper investigates approaches to parallelizing Bounded Model Checking (BMC) for shared memory environments as well as for clusters of workstations. We present a generic framework for parallelized BMC named Tarmo. Our framework can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Siert Wieringa , Matti Niemenmaa , Keijo Heljanko

This paper presents SibylSat, a novel SAT-based method designed to efficiently solve totally-ordered HTN problems (TOHTN). In contrast to prevailing SAT-based HTN planners that employ a breadth-first search strategy, SibylSat adopts a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Gaspard Quenard , Damier Pellier , Humbert Fiorino

We present a new soundness proof of Concurrent Separation Logic (CSL) based on a structural operational semantics (SOS). We build on two previous proofs and develop new auxiliary notions to achieve the goal. One uses a denotational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Pedro Soares , António Ravara , Simão Melo de Sousa

Data structures for efficient sampling from a set of weighted items are an important building block of many applications. However, few parallel solutions are known. We close many of these gaps both for shared-memory and distributed-memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider , Peter Sanders

We explore the potential of continuous local search (CLS) in SAT solving by proposing a novel approach for finding a solution of a hybrid system of Boolean constraints. The algorithm is based on CLS combined with belief propagation on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Moshe Y. Vardi , Zhiwei Zhang

Solving multiscale diffusion problems is often computationally expensive due to the spatial and temporal discretization challenges arising from high-contrast coefficients. To address this issue, a partially explicit temporal splitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Yating Wang , Zhengya Yang , Wing Tat Leung

Constraint problems can be trivially solved in parallel by exploring different branches of the search tree concurrently. Previous approaches have focused on implementing this functionality in the solver, more or less transparently to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Lars Kotthoff , Neil C. A. Moore

We propose a parallel algorithm for local, on the fly, model checking of a fragment of CTL that is well-suited for modern, multi-core architectures. This model-checking algorithm takes bene t from a parallel state space construction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Rodrigo Tacla Saad , Silvano Dal Zilio , Bernard Berthomieu

This paper shows how partial differential problems can be solved thanks to cellular computing and an adaptation of the Least Squares Finite Elements Method. As cellular computing can be implemented on distributed parallel architectures,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Nicolas Fressengeas , Hervé Frezza-Buet

This paper introduces SATFuL, a SAT solver for fuzzy logics. In contrast to the Boolean case, for which numerous SAT solvers exist, the SAT problem for fuzzy logics has attracted less attention, even though these tools have interesting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Pablo F. Castro

Despite their sophisticated heuristics, boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers are still vulnerable to symmetry, causing them to visit search regions that are symmetric to ones already explored. While symmetry handling is routine in other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Markus Anders , Cayden Codel , Marijn J. H. Heule

Recent work showed that compiling functional programs to use dense, serialized memory representations for recursive algebraic datatypes can yield significant constant-factor speedups for sequential programs. But serializing data in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Chaitanya Koparkar , Mike Rainey , Michael Vollmer , Milind Kulkarni , Ryan R. Newton