English
Related papers

Related papers: Engineering an Exact Pseudo-Boolean Model Counter

200 papers

Model counting is a fundamental task that involves determining the number of satisfying assignments to a logical formula, typically in conjunctive normal form (CNF). While CNF model counting has received extensive attention over recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Suwei Yang , Kuldeep S. Meel

Pseudo-Boolean model counting involves computing the number of satisfying assignments of a given pseudo-Boolean (PB) formula. In recent years, PB model counting has seen increased interest partly owing to the succinctness of PB formulas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Suwei Yang , Yong Lai , Kuldeep S. Meel

In Weighted Model Counting (WMC), we assign weights to literals and compute the sum of the weights of the models of a given propositional formula where the weight of an assignment is the product of the weights of its literals. The current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yong Lai , Zhenghang Xu , Minghao Yin

Minimal models of a Boolean formula play a pivotal role in various reasoning tasks. While previous research has primarily focused on qualitative analysis over minimal models; our study concentrates on the quantitative aspect, specifically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Mohimenul Kabir , Kuldeep S Meel

Approximate model counting is the task of approximating the number of solutions to an input Boolean formula. The state-of-the-art approximate model counter for formulas in conjunctive normal form (CNF), ApproxMC, provides a scalable means…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yong Kiam Tan , Jiong Yang , Mate Soos , Magnus O. Myreen , Kuldeep S. Meel

Counting the number of models of a Boolean formula is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence and reasoning. Minimal models of a Boolean formula are critical in various reasoning systems, making the counting of minimal models…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mohimenul Kabir

Model counting is the problem of computing the number of satisfying assignments of a given propositional formula. Although exact model counters can be naturally furnished by most of the knowledge compilation (KC) methods, in practice, they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Yong Lai

Propositional model counting} (#SAT), i.e., counting the number of satisfying assignments of a propositional formula, is a problem of significant theoretical and practical interest. Due to the inherent complexity of the problem, approximate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Supratik Chakraborty , Kuldeep S. Meel , Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing many useful properties of Boolean formulas, such as their weighted or unweighted model count, is intractable on general representations. It can become tractable when formulas are expressed in a special form, such as the decision…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Randal E. Bryant , Wojciech Nawrocki , Jeremy Avigad , Marijn J. H. Heule

Model counting is the problem of computing the number of models that satisfy a given propositional theory. It has recently been applied to solving inference tasks in probabilistic logic programming, where the goal is to compute the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Rehan Abdul Aziz , Geoffrey Chu , Christian Muise , Peter Stuckey

We describe how to use propositional model counting for a quantitative analysis of product configuration data. Our approach computes valuable meta information such as the total number of valid configurations or the relative frequency of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-08 Andreas Kübler , Christoph Zengler , Wolfgang Küchlin

Model counting is a fundamental problem in many practical applications, including query evaluation in probabilistic databases and failure-probability estimation of networks. In this work, we focus on a variant of this problem where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Mate Soos , Uddalok Sarkar , Divesh Aggarwal , Sourav Chakraborty , Kuldeep S. Meel , Maciej Obremski

#SMT, or model counting for logical theories, is a well-known hard problem that generalizes such tasks as counting the number of satisfying assignments to a Boolean formula and computing the volume of a polytope. In the realm of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Dmitry Chistikov , Rayna Dimitrova , Rupak Majumdar

Model counting is the task of computing the number of assignments to variables V that satisfy a given propositional theory F. Model counting is an essential tool in probabilistic reasoning. In this paper, we introduce the problem of model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Rehan Abdul Aziz , Geoffrey Chu , Christian Muise , Peter Stuckey

A Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraint is a linear arithmetic constraint over Boolean variables. PB constraints are convenient and widely used in expressing NP-complete problems. We introduce a new, two step, method for transforming PB…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Amir Aavani

First-order model counting (FOMC) is the problem of counting the number of models of a sentence in first-order logic. Since lifted inference techniques rely on reductions to variants of FOMC, the design of scalable methods for FOMC has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ananth K. Kidambi , Guramrit Singh , Paulius Dilkas , Kuldeep S. Meel

Model counting, or counting the satisfying assignments of a Boolean formula, is a fundamental problem with diverse applications. Given #P-hardness of the problem, developing algorithms for approximate counting is an important research area.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Kuldeep S. Meel , Supratik Chakraborty , S. Akshay

The best current methods for exactly computing the number of satisfying assignments, or the satisfying probability, of Boolean formulas can be seen, either directly or indirectly, as building 'decision-DNNF' (decision decomposable negation…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Paul Beame , Jerry Li , Sudeepa Roy , Dan Suciu

A Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraint is a linear inequality constraint over Boolean literals. One of the popular, efficient ideas used to solve PB-problems (a set of PB-constraints) is to translate them to SAT instances (encodings) via, for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Michał Karpiński , Marek Piotrów

Weighted model counting computes the sum of the rational-valued weights associated with the satisfying assignments for a Boolean formula, where the weight of an assignment is given by the product of the weights assigned to the positive and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Randal E. Bryant
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›