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The Boolean SATisfiability problem (SAT) is of central importance in computer science. Although SAT is known to be NP-complete, progress on the engineering side, especially that of Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) and Local Search SAT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Anshumali Shrivastava , Moshe Y. Vardi , Zhiwei Zhang

Satisfiability (SAT) is a central problem in computer science, and advances in SAT-solving algorithms have a far-reaching impact across many fields. Recent works have proposed quantum SAT solvers based on Grover's algorithm, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Shang-Wei Lin , Ji-Qing Yan , Yean-Ru Chen , Zhe Hou , David Sanán

A major problem in evaluating stochastic local search algorithms for NP-complete problems is the need for a systematic generation of hard test instances having previously known properties of the optimal solutions. On the basis of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Barthel , A. K. Hartmann , M. Leone , F. Ricci-Tersenghi , M. Weigt , R. Zecchina

Generating diverse solutions to the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is a hard computational problem with practical applications for testing and functional verification of software and hardware designs. We explore the way to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Karlis Freivalds , Sergejs Kozlovics

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 satisfiability problem is one of the most famous problems in computer science. Its NP-completeness has been used to argue that SAT is intractable. However, there have been tremendous advances that allow SAT solvers to solve instances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jan-Hendrik Lorenz , Florian Wörz

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem is of fundamental importance in computer science and many application domains. For Grover's algorithm, solving the SAT problem requires $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{2^n})$ queries--where n denotes the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 He Wang , Jinyang Yao

There are two competing paradigms in successful SAT solvers: Conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) and stochastic local search (SLS). CDCL uses systematic exploration of the search space and has the ability to learn new clauses. SLS…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Jan-Hendrik Lorenz , Florian Wörz

Boolean Satisfiability problems are vital components in Electronic Design Automation, particularly within the Logic Equivalence Checking process. Currently, SAT solvers are employed for these problems and neural network is tried as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tsz Ho Chan , Wenyi Xiao , Junhua Huang , Huiling Zhen , Guangji Tian , Mingxuan Yuan

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problems are critical in fields such as artificial intelligence and cryptography, where efficient solutions are essential. Conventional probabilistic solvers often encounter scalability issues due to complex…

Local search has recently been applied to SMT problems over various arithmetic theories. Among these, nonlinear real arithmetic poses special challenges due to its uncountable solution space and potential need to solve higher-degree…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zhonghan Wang , Bohua Zhan , Bohan Li , Shaowei Cai

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

In this paper we explore whether or not deep neural architectures can learn to classify Boolean satisfiability (SAT). We devote considerable time to discussing the theoretical properties of SAT. Then, we define a graph representation for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Benedikt Bünz , Matthew Lamm

Learning-augmented algorithms are a prominent recent development in beyond worst-case analysis. In this framework, a problem instance is provided with a prediction (``advice'') from a machine-learning oracle, which provides partial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Idan Attias , Xing Gao , Lev Reyzin

Stochastic search algorithms are among the most sucessful approaches for solving hard combinatorial problems. A large class of stochastic search approaches can be cast into the framework of Las Vegas Algorithms (LVAs). As the run-time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Holger H. Hoos , Thomas Stutzle

The Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem stands out as an attractive NP-complete problem in theoretic computer science and plays a central role in a broad spectrum of computing-related applications. Exploiting and tuning SAT solvers under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Weihuang Wen , Tianshu Yu

In the article \The State of SAT", the authors asked whether a procedure dramatically different from DPLL can be found for handling unsatisfiable instances. This study proposes a new linear programming approach to address this issue…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Chengling Fang , Jiang Liu

Boolean satisfiability ({\SAT}) has played a key role in diverse areas spanning testing, formal verification, planning, optimization, inferencing and the like. Apart from the classical problem of checking boolean satisfiability, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Kuldeep S. Meel

We propose an algorithm to explore the global optimization method, using SAT solvers, for training a neural net. Deep Neural Networks have achieved great feats in tasks like-image recognition, speech recognition, etc. Much of their success…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Subham S. Sahoo

Many constraint satisfaction and optimisation problems can be solved effectively by encoding them as instances of the Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT). However, even the simplest types of constraints have many encodings in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Felix Ulrich-Oltean , Peter Nightingale , James Alfred Walker