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Weighted first-order model counting (WFOMC) is a central task in lifted probabilistic inference: It asks for the weighted sum of all models of a first-order sentence over a finite domain. A long line of work has identified domain-liftable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shixin Sun , Astrid Klipfel , Ondřej Kuželka , Yuanhong Wang , Yi Chang

Weighted First-Order Model Counting (WFOMC) computes the weighted sum of the models of a first-order theory on a given finite domain. WFOMC has emerged as a fundamental tool for probabilistic inference. Algorithms for WFOMC that run in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Sagar Malhotra , Luciano Serafini

We consider the problems of weighted constrained sampling and weighted model counting, where we are given a propositional formula and a weight for each world. The first problem consists of sampling worlds with a probability proportional to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Fabrizio Riguzzi

Weighted First-Order Model Counting (WFOMC) computes the weighted sum of the models of a first-order logic theory on a given finite domain. First-Order Logic theories that admit polynomial-time WFOMC w.r.t domain cardinality are called…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Sagar Malhotra , Luciano Serafini

We consider the task of weighted first-order model counting (WFOMC) used for probabilistic inference in the area of statistical relational learning. Given a formula $\phi$, domain size $n$ and a pair of weight functions, what is the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jan Tóth , Ondřej Kuželka

Weighted First Order Model Counting (WFOMC) is fundamental to probabilistic inference in statistical relational learning models. As WFOMC is known to be intractable in general ($\#$P-complete), logical fragments that admit polynomial time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sagar Malhotra , Davide Bizzaro , Luciano Serafini

The Weighted First-Order Model Counting Problem (WFOMC) asks to compute the weighted sum of models of a given first-order logic sentence over a given domain. Conditioning WFOMC on evidence -- fixing the truth values of a set of ground…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Václav Kůla , Qipeng Kuang , Yuyi Wang , Yuanhong Wang , Ondřej Kuželka

It is known due to the work of Van den Broeck et al [KR, 2014] that weighted first-order model counting (WFOMC) in the two-variable fragment of first-order logic can be solved in time polynomial in the number of domain elements. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Ondrej Kuzelka

Weighted model integration (WMI) extends weighted model counting (WMC) in providing a computational abstraction for probabilistic inference in mixed discrete-continuous domains. WMC has emerged as an assembly language for state-of-the-art…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Anton Fuxjaeger , Vaishak Belle

The Weighted First-Order Model Counting Problem (WFOMC) asks to compute the weighted sum of models of a given first-order logic sentence over a given domain. It can be solved in time polynomial in the domain size for sentences from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qipeng Kuang , Ondřej Kuželka , Yuanhong Wang , Yuyi Wang

We study the symmetric weighted first-order model counting task and present ApproxWFOMC, a novel anytime method for efficiently bounding the weighted first-order model count in the presence of an unweighted first-order model counting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Timothy van Bremen , Ondrej Kuzelka

In this paper we study lifted inference for the Weighted First-Order Model Counting problem (WFOMC), which counts the assignments that satisfy a given sentence in first-order logic (FOL); it has applications in Statistical Relational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Eric Gribkoff , Guy Van den Broeck , Dan Suciu

We investigate lifted inference on ordered domains with predecessor relations, where the elements of the domain respect a total (cyclic) order, and every element has a distinct (clockwise) predecessor. Previous work has explored this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Kuncheng Zou , Jiahao Mai , Yonggang Zhang , Yuyi Wang , Ondřej Kuželka , Yuanhong Wang , Yi Chang

The Weighted First-Order Model Counting Problem (WFOMC) asks to compute the weighted sum of models of a given first-order logic sentence over a given domain. The boundary between fragments for which WFOMC can be computed in polynomial time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Qipeng Kuang , Václav Kůla , Ondřej Kuželka , Yuanhong Wang , Yuyi Wang

In this paper, we study the sampling problem for first-order logic proposed recently by Wang et al. -- how to efficiently sample a model of a given first-order sentence on a finite domain? We extend their result for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yuanhong Wang , Juhua Pu , Yuyi Wang , Ondřej Kuželka

First-order model counting (FOMC) is a computational problem that asks to count the models of a sentence in finite-domain first-order logic. In this paper, we argue that the capabilities of FOMC algorithms to date are limited by their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Paulius Dilkas , Vaishak Belle

Weighted model counting (WMC) consists of computing the weighted sum of all satisfying assignments of a propositional formula. WMC is well-known to be #P-hard for exact solving, but admits a fully polynomial randomized approximation scheme…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ralph Abboud , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Radoslav Dimitrov

Machine learning systems have been extensively used as auxiliary tools in domains that require critical decision-making, such as healthcare and criminal justice. The explainability of decisions is crucial for users to develop trust on these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Chen Peng , Zhengqi Dai , Guangping Xia , Yajie Niu , Yihui Lei

First-order model counting emerged recently as a novel reasoning task, at the core of efficient algorithms for probabilistic logics. We present a Skolemization algorithm for model counting problems that eliminates existential quantifiers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Guy Van den Broeck , Wannes Meert , Adnan Darwiche

We study the time complexity of the weighted first-order model counting (WFOMC) over the logical language with two variables and counting quantifiers. The problem is known to be solvable in time polynomial in the domain size. However, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jan Tóth , Ondřej Kuželka
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