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Model counting, a fundamental task in computer science, involves determining the number of satisfying assignments to a Boolean formula, typically represented in conjunctive normal form (CNF). While model counting for CNF formulas has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Suwei Yang , Kuldeep S. Meel

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

We present an algorithm to compute exact literal-weighted model counts of Boolean formulas in Conjunctive Normal Form. Our algorithm employs dynamic programming and uses Algebraic Decision Diagrams as the primary data structure. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Jeffrey M. Dudek , Vu H. N. Phan , Moshe Y. Vardi

In Weighted Model Counting (WMC) we assign weights to Boolean literals and we want to compute the sum of the weights of the models of a Boolean function where the weight of a model is the product of the weights of its literals. WMC was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Fabrizio Riguzzi

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

Weighted model counting (WMC) has emerged as a prevalent approach for probabilistic inference. In its most general form, WMC is #P-hard. Weighted DNF counting (weighted #DNF) is a special case, where approximations with probabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Ralph Abboud , Ismail Ilkan Ceylan , Thomas Lukasiewicz

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

Weighted model counting (WMC) has proven effective at a range of tasks within computer science, physics, and beyond. However, existing approaches for using WMC in quantum physics only target specific problem instances, lacking a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Dirck van den Ende , Joon Hyung Lee , Alfons Laarman , Henning Basold

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

Weighted model counting (WMC) consists of computing the weighted sum of all satisfying assignments of a propositional formula. WMC is well-known to be #P-hard for exact solving, but admits a fully polynomial randomized approximation scheme…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ralph Abboud , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Radoslav Dimitrov

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

We consider the problems of weighted constrained sampling and weighted model counting, where we are given a propositional formula and a weight for each world. The first problem consists of sampling worlds with a probability proportional to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Fabrizio Riguzzi

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

Weighted model counting (WMC) is a well-known inference task on knowledge bases, used for probabilistic inference in graphical models. We introduce algebraic model counting (AMC), a generalization of WMC to a semiring structure. We show…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Angelika Kimmig , Guy Van den Broeck , Luc De Raedt

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

Bonnet et al. (FOCS 2020) introduced the graph invariant twin-width and showed that many NP-hard problems are tractable for graphs of bounded twin-width, generalizing similar results for other width measures, including treewidth and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Robert Ganian , Filip Pokrývka , André Schidler , Kirill Simonov , Stefan Szeider

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

Weighted first-order model counting (WFOMC) is a central task in lifted probabilistic inference: It asks for the weighted sum of all models of a first-order sentence over a finite domain. A long line of work has identified domain-liftable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shixin Sun , Astrid Klipfel , Ondřej Kuželka , Yuanhong Wang , Yi Chang

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

Here, in a series of articles, we show methods for calculating propositional statements using algebraic polynomials as symbols for the connectives, which are named operators. These polynomials originate from the transformation between the…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Pelle Brooke Borgeke
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