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While accelerated computing has transformed many domains of computing, its impact on logical reasoning, specifically Boolean satisfiability (SAT), remains limited. State-of-the-art SAT solvers rely heavily on inherently sequential…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Steve Dai , Cunxi Yu , Kalyan Krishnamani , Brucek Khailany

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

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

This article describes the *Confluence Framework*, a novel framework for proving and disproving confluence using a divide-and-conquer modular strategy, and its implementation in CONFident. Using this approach, we are able to automatically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Raúl Gutiérrez , Salvador Lucas , Miguel Vítores

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 Modulo Theories (SMT) and SAT solvers are critical components in many formal software tools, primarily due to the fact that they are able to easily solve logical problem instances with millions of variables and clauses. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Gereon Kremer , Erika Abraham , Vijay Ganesh

Many state-of-the-art Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers for the theory of fixed-size bit-vectors employ an approach called bit-blasting, where a given formula is translated into a Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Alex Ozdemir , Aina Niemetz , Mathias Preiner , Yoni Zohar , Clark Barrett

Assessing the correctness of distributed and parallel applications is notoriously difficult due to the complexity of the concurrent behaviors and the difficulty to reproduce bugs. In this context, Dynamic Partial Order Reduction (DPOR)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Matthieu Laurent , Thierry Jéron , Martin Quinson

Parallel Speculative Decoding (PSD) accelerates traditional Speculative Decoding (SD) by overlapping draft generation with verification. However, it remains hampered by two fundamental challenges: (1) a theoretical speedup ceiling dictated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuhao Shen , Tianyu Liu , Junyi Shen , Jinyang Wu , Quan Kong , Li Huan , Cong Wang

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

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers are widely used in hardware verification, cryptanalysis, automatic test-pattern generation, and side-channel reasoning workflows. Modern conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) solvers are highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Melki Bino

Fully automated verification of concurrent programs is a difficult problem, primarily because of state explosion: the exponential growth of a program state space with the number of its concurrently active components. It is natural to apply…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Kedar S. Namjoshi

For many users of Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers, the solver's performance is the main bottleneck in their application. One promising approach for improving performance is to leverage the increasing availability of parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Amalee Wilson , Andres Noetzli , Andrew Reynolds , Byron Cook , Cesare Tinelli , Clark Barrett

Clausal proofs have become a popular approach to validate the results of SAT solvers. However, validating clausal proofs in the most widely supported format (DRAT) is expensive even in highly optimized implementations. We present a new…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Luís Cruz-Filipe , Marijn Heule , Warren Hunt , Matt Kaufmann , Peter Schneider-Kamp

Parallel batched data structures are designed to process synchronized batches of operations in a parallel computing model. In this paper, we propose parallel combining, a technique that implements a concurrent data structure from a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Vitaly Aksenov , Petr Kuznetsov , Anatoly Shalyto

Previous work has shown that there are two major complexity barriers in the synthesis of fault-tolerant distributed programs: (1) generation of fault-span, the set of states reachable in the presence of faults, and (2) resolving deadlock…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Fuad Abujarad , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sandeep S. Kulkarni

It has become standard that, when a SAT solver decides that a CNF $\Gamma$ is unsatisfiable, it produces a certificate of unsatisfiability in the form of a refutation of $\Gamma$ in some proof system. The system typically used is DRAT,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Leszek Aleksander Kołodziejczyk , Neil Thapen

The boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem asks whether there exists an assignment of boolean values to the variables of an arbitrary boolean formula making the formula evaluate to True. It is well-known that all NP-problems can be coded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christopher R. Serrano , Jonathan Gallagher , Kenji Yamada , Alexei Kopylov , Michael A. Warren

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem is of fundamental importance in computer science and many application domains. For Grover's algorithm, solving the SAT problem requires $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{2^n})$ queries--where n denotes the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 He Wang , Jinyang Yao

In this article, we show that the completion problem, i.e. the decision problem whether a partial structure can be completed to a full structure, is NP-complete for many combinatorial structures. While the gadgets for most reductions in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Helena Bergold , Manfred Scheucher , Felix Schröder