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As was shown recently, many important AI problems require counting the number of models of propositional formulas. The problem of counting models of such formulas is, according to present knowledge, computationally intractable in a worst…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 E. Birnbaum , E. L. Lozinskii

Logic programs, more specifically, Answer-set programs, can be annotated with probabilities on facts to express uncertainty. We address the problem of propagating weight annotations on facts (eg probabilities) of an ASP to its standard…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Francisco Coelho , Bruno Dinis , Dietmar Seipel , Salvador Abreu

#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

Efficient compression of language model weights is increasingly critical as model scale and deployment grow. Yet, most existing methods rely on handcrafted transforms and heuristics, reflecting the limited understanding of weights as a data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jegwang Ryu , Minkyu Kim , Seungjun Shin , Hee Min Choi , Dokwan Oh , Jaeho Lee

We introduced decomposable negation normal form (DNNF) recently as a tractable form of propositional theories, and provided a number of powerful logical operations that can be performed on it in polynomial time. We also presented an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adnan Darwiche

The integrated conditional moment (ICM) test is a classical and widely used method for assessing the adequacy of regression models. Although it performs well in fixed-dimension settings, its behavior changes dramatically when the predictor…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-17 Yue Hu , Haiqi Li , Xintao Xia

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

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

In observational studies, weighting methods that directly optimize the balance between treatment and covariates have received much attention lately; however these have mainly focused on binary treatments. Inspired by domain adaptation, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Guillaume Martinet

We propose two models of random quantified boolean formulas and their natural random disjunctive logic program counterparts. The models extend the standard models of random k-CNF formulas and the Chen-Interian model of random 2QBFs. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Giovanni Amendola , Francesco Ricca , Miroslaw Truszczynski

The factor modeling for high-dimensional time series is powerful in discovering latent common components for dimension reduction and information extraction. Most available estimation methods can be divided into two categories: the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-26 Xinghao Qiao , Zihan Wang , Qiwei Yao , Bo Zhang

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

Optimizing deep neural networks (DNNs) often suffers from the ill-conditioned problem. We observe that the scaling-based weight space symmetry property in rectified nonlinear network will cause this negative effect. Therefore, we propose to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Lei Huang , Xianglong Liu , Bo Lang , Bo Li

Knowledge compilation concerns with the compilation of representation languages to target languages supporting a wide range of tractable operations arising from diverse areas of computer science. Tractable target compilation languages are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yong Lai , Kuldeep S. Meel , Roland H. C. Yap

This article introduces probabilistic disjunctive normal forms (PDNFs) as a framework for representing and reasoning about uncertainty in logical systems. Unlike classical DNFs, PDNFs assign real-valued weights to variables, encoding…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alexander Kuznetsov

Model counting is a fundamental problem that consists of determining the number of satisfying assignments for a given Boolean formula. The weighted variant, which computes the weighted sum of satisfying assignments, has extensive…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 L. Sunil Chandran , Rishikesh Gajjala , Kuldeep S. Meel

We formulate counting as a sequential decision problem and present a novel crowd counting model solvable by deep reinforcement learning. In contrast to existing counting models that directly output count values, we divide one-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Liang Liu , Hao Lu , Hongwei Zou , Haipeng Xiong , Zhiguo Cao , Chunhua Shen

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

Probabilistic logic programs are logic programs in which some of the facts are annotated with probabilities. This paper investigates how classical inference and learning tasks known from the graphical model community can be tackled for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Daan Fierens , Guy Van den Broeck , Joris Renkens , Dimitar Shterionov , Bernd Gutmann , Ingo Thon , Gerda Janssens , Luc De Raedt

Computational learning theory states that many classes of boolean formulas are learnable in polynomial time. This paper addresses the understudied subject of how, in practice, such formulas can be learned by deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Marcio Nicolau , Anderson R. Tavares , Zhiwei Zhang , Pedro Avelar , João M. Flach , Luis C. Lamb , Moshe Y. Vardi