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Invariant inference algorithms such as interpolation-based inference and IC3/PDR show that it is feasible, in practice, to find inductive invariants for many interesting systems, but non-trivial upper bounds on the computational complexity…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Sharon Shoham

We present a novel approach for generalizing the IC3 algorithm for invariant checking from finite-state to infinite-state transition systems, expressed over some background theories. The procedure is based on a tight integration of IC3 with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Alessandro Cimatti , Alberto Griggio , Sergio Mover , Stefano Tonetta

Synthesis of models and strategies is a very important problem in software engineering. The main element here is checking the satisfiability of formulae expressing the specification of a system to be implemented. This paper puts forward a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Magdalena Kacprzak , Artur Niewiadomski , Wojciech Penczek

Logical reasoning about program data often requires dealing with heap structures as well as scalar data types. Recent advances in Satisfiability Modular Theory (SMT) already offer efficient procedures for dealing with scalars, yet they lack…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Juan Antonio Navarro-Pérez , Andrey Rybalchenko

This paper describes a novel unbounded software model checking approach to find errors in programs written in the C language based on incremental SAT-solving. Instead of using the traditional assumption based API to incremental SAT solvers…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Marko Kleine Büning , Tomas Balyo , Carsten Sinz

We study the satisfiability of randomly generated formulas formed by $M$ clauses of exactly $K$ literals over $N$ Boolean variables. For a given value of $N$ the problem is known to be most difficult with $\alpha=M/N$ close to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Braunstein , M. Mezard , R. Zecchina

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) has an extensive application domain in computer science, especially in electronic design automation applications. Circuit synthesis, optimization, and verification problems can be solved by transforming original…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Te-Hsuan Chen , Ju-Yi Lu

Theorem provers has been used extensively in software engineering for software testing or verification. However, software is now so large and complex that additional architecture is needed to guide theorem provers as they try to generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jianfeng Chen , Xipeng Shen , Tim Menzies

Fundamentally, every static program analyser searches for a proof through a combination of heuristics providing candidate solutions and a candidate validation technique. Essentially, the heuristic reduces a second-order problem to a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Cristina David , Daniel Kroening , Matt Lewis

Automated reasoners, such as SAT/SMT solvers and first-order provers, are becoming the backbones of rigorous systems engineering, being used for example in applications of system verification, program synthesis, and cybersecurity.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Robin Coutelier , Jakob Rath , Michael Rawson , Armin Biere , Laura Kovács

We give a first account of our new parallel SAT solver Gimsatul. Its key feature is to share clauses physically in memory instead of copying them, which is the method of other state-of-the-art multi-threaded SAT solvers to exchange clauses…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Mathias Fleury , Armin Biere

We propose a general framework for solving inverse self-assembly problems, i.e. designing interactions between elementary units such that they assemble spontaneously into a predetermined structure. Our approach uses patchy particles as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-13 John Russo , Flavio Romano , Lukas Kroc , Francesco Sciortino , Lorenzo Rovigatti , Petr Sulc

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

Speculative sampling (SpS) has been successful in accelerating the decoding throughput of auto-regressive large language models by leveraging smaller draft models. SpS strictly enforces the generated distribution to match that of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yongchang Hao , Lili Mou

The classical satisfiability problem (SAT) is used as a natural and general tool to express and solve combinatorial problems that are in NP. We postulate that provability for implicational intuitionistic propositional logic (IIPC) can serve…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Aleksy Schubert , Paweł Urzyczyn , Konrad Zdanowski

Multi-task learning is effective for related applications, but its performance can deteriorate when the target sample size is small. Transfer learning can borrow strength from related studies; yet, many existing methods rely on restrictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Boxin Zhao , Mladen Kolar , Jinchi Lv

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

The Why3 IDE and verification system facilitates the use of a wide range of Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers through a driver-based architecture. We present Where4: a portfolio-based approach to discharge Why3 proof obligations.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Andrew Healy , Rosemary Monahan , James F. Power

We introduce FRAT, a new proof format for unsatisfiable SAT problems, and its associated toolchain. Compared to DRAT, the FRAT format allows solvers to include more information in proofs to reduce the computational cost of subsequent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Seulkee Baek , Mario Carneiro , Marijn J. H. Heule