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With the growing interest in quantum programs, ensuring their correctness is a fundamental challenge. Although constraint-solving techniques can overcome some limitations of traditional testing and verification, they have not yet been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Shangzhou Xia , Haitao Fu , Jianjun Zhao

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers incorporate decision procedures for theories of data types that commonly occur in software. This makes them important tools for automating verification problems. A limitation frequently…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Kshitij Bansal , Andrew Reynolds , Tim King , Clark Barrett , Thomas Wies

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers have been successfully applied to solve many problems in formal verification such as bounded model checking (BMC) for many classes of systems from integrated circuits to cyber-physical systems.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Luan V. Nguyen , Wesam Haddad , Taylor T. Johnson

Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for solving various automated reasoning problems across diverse domains. Unlike traditional satisfiability methods confined to Boolean variables, SMT can reason on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Arijit Shaw , Uddalok Sarkar , Kuldeep S. Meel

We apply Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers in the context of finding chiral heterotic string models with positive cosmological constant from $\mathbb{Z}_2\times \mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifolds. The power…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Alon E. Faraggi , Benjamin Percival , Sven Schewe , Dominik Wojtczak

Two pretrained neural networks are deemed equivalent if they yield similar outputs for the same inputs. Equivalence checking of neural networks is of great importance, due to its utility in replacing learning-enabled components with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Charis Eleftheriadis , Nikolaos Kekatos , Panagiotis Katsaros , Stavros Tripakis

The problem of finding small unsatisfiable cores for SAT formulas has recently received a lot of interest, mostly for its applications in formal verification. However, propositional logic is often not expressive enough for representing many…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Alessandro Cimatti , Alberto Griggio , Roberto Sebastiani

This report describes several approaches for handling synthesis conjectures within an Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver. We describe approaches that primarily focus on determining the unsatisfiability of the negated form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Andrew Reynolds

In recent work, Benjamin Schumacher and Michael D. Westmoreland investigate a version of quantum mechanics which they call modal quantum theory. This theory is obtained by instantiating the mathematical framework of Hilbert spaces with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Jeremiah Willcock , Amr Sabry

We develop a simple functional programming language aimed at manipulating infinite, but first-order definable structures, such as the countably infinite clique graph or the set of all intervals with rational endpoints. Internally, such sets…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Bartek Klin , Michał Szynwelski

In this paper we present a new approach to solve the satisfiability problem (SAT), based on boolean networks (BN). We define a mapping between a SAT instance and a BN, and we solve SAT problem by simulating the BN dynamics. We prove that BN…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Andrea Roli , Michela Milano

Satisfiability-based verification techniques, leveraging modern Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers, have demonstrated efficacy in addressing practical problem instances within program analysis.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Markus Krahl , Matthias Güdemann , Stefan Wallentowitz

Algebraic data types (ADTs) are a construct classically found in functional programming languages that capture data structures like enumerated types, lists, and trees. In recent years, interest in ADTs has increased. For example, popular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Amar Shah , Federico Mora , Sanjit A. Seshia

We present new methods for solving the Satisfiability Modulo Theories problem over the theory of Quantifier-Free Non-linear Integer Arithmetic, SMT(QF-NIA), which consists in deciding the satisfiability of ground formulas with integer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Cristina Borralleras , Daniel Larraz , Albert Oliveras , Enric Rodriguez-Carbonell , Albert Rubio

The development of embedded systems requires formal analysis of models such as those described with MATLAB/Simulink. However, the increasing complexity of industrial models makes analysis difficult. This paper proposes a model checking…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Daisuke Ishii , Takashi Tomita , Toshiaki Aoki , The Quyen Ngo , Thi Bich Ngoc Do , Hideaki Takai

Symmetries have been exploited successfully within the realms of SAT and QBF to improve solver performance in practical applications and to devise more powerful proof systems. As a first step towards extending these advancements to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Clemens Hofstadler , Manuel Kauers , Martina Seidl

In this paper, we present Bitwuzla, our Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver for the theories of bit-vectors, floating-points, arrays and uninterpreted functions and their combinations. We discuss selected features and provide…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Aina Niemetz , Mathias Preiner

While symmetries are well understood for Boolean formulas and successfully exploited in practical SAT solving, less is known about symmetries in quantified Boolean formulas (QBF). There are some works introducing adaptions of propositional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Manuel Kauers , Martina Seidl

This work focuses on effectively generating diverse solutions for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) formulas, targeting the theories of bit-vectors, arrays, and uninterpreted functions, which is a critical task in software and hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shuangyu Lyu , Chuan Luo , Ruizhi Shi , Wei Wu , Chanjuan Liu , Chunming Hu

We present a decision procedure for the theory of fixed-sized bitvectors in the MCSAT framework. MCSAT is an alternative to CDCL(T) for SMT solving and can be seen as an extension of CDCL to domains other than the Booleans. Our procedure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Stéphane Graham-Lengrand , Dejan Jovanović , Bruno Dutertre