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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

In this paper we consider the problem of finding stable maxima of expensive (to evaluate) functions. We are motivated by the optimisation of physical and industrial processes where, for some input ranges, small and unavoidable variations in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-22 Alistair Shilton , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Svetha Venkatesh , Majid Abdolshah , Dang Nguyen

The superior performance of deep learning relies heavily on a large collection of sample data, but the data insufficiency problem turns out to be relatively common in global electricity markets. How to prevent overfitting in this case…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Guangchun Ruan , Jianxiao Wang , Haiwang Zhong , Qing Xia , Chongqing Kang

Traditional pattern mining algorithms generally suffer from a lack of flexibility. In this paper, we propose a SAT formulation of the problem to successfully mine frequent flexible sequences occurring in transactional datasets. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Rémi Coletta , Benjamin Negrevergne

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at understanding natural language but struggle with optimisation tasks involving multiple constraints and user-defined preferences, which commonly arise in domains such as robotics. We propose a hybrid…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Pedro Orvalho , Marta Kwiatkowska , Guillem Alenyà , Felip Manyà

The Satisfiability (SAT) problem is a core challenge with significant applications in software engineering, including automated testing, configuration management, and program verification. This paper presents SolSearch, a novel framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Junjie Sheng , Yanqiu Lin , Jiehao Wu , Yanhong Huang , Jianqi Shi , Min Zhang , Xiangfeng Wang

We study the problem of synthesizing string to string transformations from a set of input/output examples. The transformations we consider are expressed using deterministic finite automata (DFA) that read pairs of letters, one letter from…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Jad Hamza , Viktor Kunčak

We propose a resource-constrained heuristic for instances of Max-SAT that iteratively decomposes a larger problem into smaller subcomponents that can be solved by optimized solvers and hardware. The unconstrained outer loop maintains the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Brian Matejek , Daniel Elenius , Cale Gentry , David Stoker , Adam Cobb

Today's propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers are extremely powerful and can be used as an efficient back-end for solving NP-complete problems. However, many fundamental problems in knowledge representation and reasoning are located at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Ronald de Haan , Stefan Szeider

Integrating logical reasoning within deep learning architectures has been a major goal of modern AI systems. In this paper, we propose a new direction toward this goal by introducing a differentiable (smoothed) maximum satisfiability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Po-Wei Wang , Priya L. Donti , Bryan Wilder , Zico Kolter

Nature-inspired computation is receiving increasing attention. Various Ising machine implementations have recently been proven to be effective in solving numerous combinatorial optimization problems including maximum cut, low density parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ahmet Yusuf Salim , Bart Selman , Henry Kautz , Zeljko Ignjatovic , Selçuk Köse

We present DeepSAT, a novel end-to-end learning framework for the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem. Unlike existing solutions trained on random SAT instances with relatively weak supervision, we propose applying the knowledge of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Min Li , Zhengyuan Shi , Qiuxia Lai , Sadaf Khan , Shaowei Cai , Qiang Xu

The Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem lies at the core of many applications in combinatorial optimization, software verification, cryptography, and machine learning. While state-of-the-art solvers have demonstrated high efficiency in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhiwei Zhang , Samy Wu Fung , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Stanley Osher , Moshe Y. Vardi

Many natural optimization problems are NP-hard, which implies that they are probably hard to solve exactly in the worst-case. However, it suffices to get reasonably good solutions for all (or even most) instances in practice. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Raffaele Marino

Maximization of submodular functions under various constraints is a fundamental problem that has been studied extensively. A powerful technique that has emerged and has been shown to be extremely effective for such problems is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman

This paper presents a new combinatorial optimisation task, the Subset Sum Matching Problem (SSMP), which is an abstraction of common financial applications such as trades reconciliation. We present three algorithms, two suboptimal and one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yufei Wu , Manuel R. Torres , Parisa Zehtabi , Alberto Pozanco Lancho , Michael Cashmore , Daniel Borrajo , Manuela Veloso

The automated synthesis of correct-by-construction Boolean functions from logical specifications is known as the Boolean Functional Synthesis (BFS) problem. BFS has many application areas that range from software engineering to circuit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Ravi Raja , Stanly Samuel , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya , Deepak D'Souza , Aditya Kanade

In this paper, we solve a maximization problem where the objective function is quadratic and the constraints set is the reachable values set of a stable discrete-time affine system. This problem is equivalent to solve an infinite number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Assalé Adjé

The performance of Conflict-Driven Clause Learning solvers hinges on internal heuristics, yet the heterogeneity of SAT problems makes a single, universally optimal configuration unattainable. While prior automated methods can find…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Minyu Chen , Guoqiang Li

We identify a decidable synthesis problem for a class of programs of unbounded size with conditionals and iteration that work over infinite data domains. The programs in our class use uninterpreted functions and relations, and abide by a…

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