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Recent work proposed the UCTMAXSAT algorithm to address Maximum Satisfiability Problems (MaxSAT) and shown improved performance over pure Stochastic Local Search algorithms (SLS). UCTMAXSAT is based on Monte Carlo Tree Search but it uses…
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Though numerous solvers have been proposed for the MaxSAT problem, and the benchmark environment such as MaxSAT Evaluations provides a platform for the comparison of the state-of-the-art solvers, existing assessments were usually evaluated…
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