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Many computational problems in modern society account to probabilistic reasoning, statistics, and combinatorics. A variety of these real-world questions can be solved by representing the question in (Boolean) formulas and associating the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Florim Hamiti

Constrained counting is important in domains ranging from artificial intelligence to software analysis. There are already a few approaches for counting models over various types of constraints. Recently, hashing-based approaches achieve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Cunjing Ge , Feifei Ma , Tian Liu , Jian Zhang

A parallel method for computing Boolean expressions based on the properties of finite free Boolean algebras is presented. We also show how various finite combinatorial objects can be codded in the formalism of Boolean algebras and counted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Zarko Mijajlovic , Aleksandar Pejovic

Despite the unprecedented success of text-to-image diffusion models, controlling the number of depicted objects using text is surprisingly hard. This is important for various applications from technical documents, to children's books to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Lital Binyamin , Yoad Tewel , Hilit Segev , Eran Hirsch , Royi Rassin , Gal Chechik

Configurable systems typically consist of reusable assets that have dependencies between each other. To specify such dependencies, feature models are commonly used. As feature models in practice are often complex, automated reasoning is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Chico Sundermann , Stefan Vill , Elias Kuiter , Sebastian Krieter , Thomas Thüm , Matthias Tichy

We propose a unifying dynamic-programming framework to compute exact literal-weighted model counts of formulas in conjunctive normal form. At the center of our framework are project-join trees, which specify efficient project-join orders to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jeffrey M. Dudek , Vu H. N. Phan , Moshe Y. Vardi

The problem of counting the number of models of a given Boolean formula has numerous applications, including computing the leakage of deterministic programs in Quantitative Information Flow. Model counting is a hard, #P-complete problem.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Michele Boreale , Daniele Gorla

Given a Boolean formula $\phi$ over $n$ variables, the problem of model counting is to compute the number of solutions of $\phi$. Model counting is a fundamental problem in computer science with wide-ranging applications. Owing to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Diptarka Chakraborty , Sourav Chakraborty , Gunjan Kumar , Kuldeep S. Meel

Query evaluation in tuple-independent probabilistic databases is the problem of computing the probability of an answer to a query given independent probabilities of the individual tuples in a database instance. There are two main approaches…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Paul Beame , Jerry Li , Sudeepa Roy , Dan Suciu

Model checking is a technique to automatically assess whether a model of the behaviour of a system meets its requirements. Evidence explaining why the behaviour does (not) meet its requirements is essential for the user to understand the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anna Stramaglia , Jeroen J. A. Keiren , Maurice Laveaux , Tim A. C. Willemse

Model counting of Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) formulas is a critical problem in applications such as probabilistic inference and network reliability. For example, it is often used for query evaluation in probabilistic databases. Due to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Paul Burkhardt , David G. Harris , Kevin T Schmitt

The problem of model counting, also known as #SAT, is to compute the number of models or satisfying assignments of a given Boolean formula $F$. Model counting is a fundamental problem in computer science with a wide range of applications.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jiong Yang , Kuldeep S. Meel

Model counting is a fundamental problem which has been influential in many applications, from artificial intelligence to formal verification. Due to the intrinsic hardness of model counting, approximate techniques have been developed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yong Lai , Kuldeep S. Meel , Roland H. C. Yap

Model counting is a fundamental problem in automated reasoning with applications in probabilistic inference, network reliability, neural network verification, and more. Although model counting is computationally intractable from a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Arijit Shaw , Kuldeep S. Meel

Vehicle models have a long history of research and as of today are able to model the involved physics in a reasonable manner. However, each new vehicle has its new characteristics or parameters. The identification of these is the main task…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Nicola Henkelmann , Stephan Rhode , Johannes von Keler

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

Data cleaning is naturally framed as probabilistic inference in a generative model of ground-truth data and likely errors, but the diversity of real-world error patterns and the hardness of inference make Bayesian approaches difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Alexander K. Lew , Monica Agrawal , David Sontag , Vikash K. Mansinghka

In problems such as variable selection and graph estimation, models are characterized by Boolean logical structure such as presence or absence of a variable or an edge. Consequently, false positive error or false negative error can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-15 Armeen Taeb , Peter Bühlmann , Venkat Chandrasekaran

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

Application of interpretable machine learning techniques on medical datasets facilitate early and fast diagnoses, along with getting deeper insight into the data. Furthermore, the transparency of these models increase trust among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Sreejita Ghosh , Elizabeth S. Baranowski , Michael Biehl , Wiebke Arlt , Peter Tino , Kerstin Bunte