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Over the last few decades, many distinct lines of research aimed at automating mathematics have been developed, including computer algebra systems (CASs) for mathematical modelling, automated theorem provers for first-order logic, SAT/SMT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Curtis Bright , Ilias Kotsireas , Vijay Ganesh

The Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem is a computationally challenging decision problem central to many industrial applications. For SAT problems in cryptanalysis, circuit design, and telecommunication, solutions can often be found more…

We present new refinement heuristics for the balanced graph partitioning problem that break with an age-old rule. Traditionally, local search only permits moves that keep the block sizes balanced (below a size constraint). In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nikolai Maas , Lars Gottesbüren , Daniel Seemaier

We discuss the scalable parallel solution of the Poisson equation within a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code for the simulation of electron beams in particle accelerators of irregular shape. The problem is discretized by Finite Differences.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 A. Adelmann , P. Arbenz , Y. Ineichen

In this paper, we address a long-standing challenge: how to achieve both efficiency and scalability in solving semidefinite programming problems. We propose breakthrough acceleration techniques for a wide range of low-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Qiushi Han , Zhenwei Lin , Hanwen Liu , Caihua Chen , Qi Deng , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye

Solving inverse problems and achieving statistical rigour in landscape evolution models requires running many model realizations. Parallel computation is necessary to achieve this in a reasonable time. However, no previous algorithm is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Richard Barnes

We propose HAMSI (Hessian Approximated Multiple Subsets Iteration), which is a provably convergent, second order incremental algorithm for solving large-scale partially separable optimization problems. The algorithm is based on a local…

Local consistencies stronger than arc consistency have received a lot of attention since the early days of CSP research. %because of the strong pruning they can achieve. However, they have not been widely adopted by CSP solvers. This is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Minas Dasygenis , Kostas Stergiou

The practical success of Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers stems from the CDCL (Conflict-Driven Clause Learning) approach to SAT solving. However, from a propositional proof complexity perspective, CDCL is no more powerful than the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Alexey Ignatiev , Antonio Morgado , Joao Marques-Silva

Previous efforts on making Satisfiability (SAT) solving fit for high performance computing (HPC) have lead to super-linear speedups on particular formulae, but for most inputs cannot make efficient use of a large number of processors.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Dominik Schreiber , Peter Sanders

The Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT) is important on artificial intelligence community and the impact of its solving on complex problems. Recently, great breakthroughs have been made respectively on stochastic local search (SLS)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Huimin Fu , Yang Xu , Jun Liu , Guanfeng Wu , Sutcliffe Geoff

Leveraging Trace Theory, we investigate the efficient parallelization of direct solvers for large linear equation systems. Our focus lies on a multi-frontal algorithm, and we present a methodology for achieving near-optimal scheduling on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Jan Trynda , Maciej Woźniak , Sergio Rojas

One of the challenges of high granularity calorimeters, such as that to be built to cover the endcap region in the CMS Phase-2 Upgrade for HL-LHC, is that the large number of channels causes a surge in the computing load when clustering…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 Marco Rovere , Ziheng Chen , Antonio Di Pilato , Felice Pantaleo , Chris Seez

Modern SAT solvers routinely operate at scales that make it impractical to query a neural network for every branching decision. NeuroCore, proposed by Selsam and Bjorner, offered a proof-of-concept that neural networks can still accelerate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jesse Michael Han

In this paper, we propose a hybrid framework for Satisfiability Modulo the Theory of Nonlinear Real Arithmetic (SMT-NRA for short). First, we introduce a two-dimensional cell-jump move, called \emph{$2d$-cell-jump}, generalizing the key…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Tianyi Ding , Haokun Li , Xinpeng Ni , Bican Xia , Tianqi Zhao

We present a multi-block finite-difference solver for massively parallel Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of incompressible flows. The algorithm combines the versatility of a multi-block solver with the method of eigenfunctions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Pedro Costa

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a fundamental NP-complete problem with many applications, including automated planning and scheduling. To solve large instances, SAT solvers have to rely on heuristics, e.g., choosing a branching variable in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mikhail Shirokikh , Ilya Shenbin , Anton Alekseev , Sergey Nikolenko

Our work presents a novel reinforcement learning (RL) based framework to optimize heuristic selection within the conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) process, improving the efficiency of Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving. The proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Muyu Pan , Matthew Walter , Dheeraj Kodakandla , Mahfuza Farooque

Proof-Number Search is a best-first search algorithm with many successful applications, especially in game solving. As large-scale computing clusters become increasingly accessible, parallelization is a natural way to accelerate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tomáš Čížek , Martin Balko , Martin Schmid

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