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In this project, we aimed to improve the runtime of Minisat, a Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) solver that solves the Propositional Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem. We first used a logistic regression model to predict the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Haoze Wu

In this paper we introduce Clause Cuts: linear inequalities obtained from clauses that are logically implied by a CNF formula, resembling strengthened no-good cuts. With these cuts, we tighten mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Max Engelhardt , Milan Adhikari , Jonasz Staszek , Alexander Martin

Optimization problems such as the NP-complete 3-SAT provide an important benchmark for the difficult task of finding ground-states in strongly correlated many-body systems with rugged energy landscapes. The study of random 3-SAT problems as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 J. Schwardt , J. C. Budich

Constraint Programming (CP) solvers typically tackle optimization problems by repeatedly finding solutions to a problem while placing tighter and tighter bounds on the solution cost. This approach is somewhat naive, especially for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Nicholas Downing , Thibaut Feydy , Peter J. Stuckey

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Hui Wang , Abdallah Saffidine , Tristan Cazenave

The remarkable achievements of machine learning techniques in analyzing discrete structures have drawn significant attention towards their integration into combinatorial optimization algorithms. Typically, these methodologies improve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Abdelrahman Hosny , Sherief Reda

Much effort is spent everyday by programmers in trying to reduce long, failing execution traces to the cause of the error. We present a new algorithm for error cause localization based on a reduction to the maximal satisfiability problem…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-03-10 Manu Jose , Rupak Majumdar

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

Symmetries are intrinsic to many combinatorial problems including Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) and Constraint Programming (CP). In SAT, the identification of symmetry breaking predicates (SBPs) is a well-known, often effective, technique…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Joao Marques-Silva , Ines Lynce , Vasco Manquinho

CNF-based SAT and MaxSAT solvers are central to logic synthesis and verification systems. The increasing popularity of these constraint problems in electronic design automation encourages studies on different SAT problems and their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Feng Shi , Chonghan Lee , Mohammad Khairul Bashar , Nikhil Shukla , Song-Chun Zhu , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Existing methods provide varying algorithms for different types of Boolean satisfiability problems (SAT), lacking a general solution framework. Accordingly, this study proposes a unified framework DCSAT based on integer programming and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Anqi Li , Congying Han , Tiande Guo , Haoran Li , Bonan Li

The Model-Constructing Satisfiability Calculus (MCSAT) framework has been applied to SMT problems over various arithmetic theories. NLSAT, an implementation using cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) for explanation, is especially…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhonghan Wang

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving MAX2SAT problems based on combining search methods with semidefinite programming approaches. Semidefinite programming techniques are well-known as a theoretical tool for approximating maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Po-Wei Wang , J. Zico Kolter

The Implicit Hitting Set (HS) approach has shown to be very effective for MaxSAT, Pseudo-boolean optimization and other boolean frameworks. Very recently, it has also shown its potential in the very similar Weighted CSP framework by means…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Emma Rollón , Javier Larrosa , Aleksandra Petrova

Boolean MaxSAT, as well as generalized formulations such as Min-MaxSAT and Max-hybrid-SAT, are fundamental optimization problems in Boolean reasoning. Existing methods for MaxSAT have been successful in solving benchmarks in CNF format.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Moshe Y. Vardi , Zhiwei Zhang

We propose an incomplete algorithm for Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) specifically designed to run on neural network accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs. Given a MaxSAT problem instance in conjunctive normal form, our procedure constructs a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 David Warde-Farley , Vinod Nair , Yujia Li , Ivan Lobov , Felix Gimeno , Simon Osindero

This paper formalizes the optimal base problem, presents an algorithm to solve it, and describes its application to the encoding of Pseudo-Boolean constraints to SAT. We demonstrate the impact of integrating our algorithm within the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Michael Codish , Yoav Fekete , Carsten Fuhs , Peter Schneider-Kamp

We introduce a diversified top-k partial MaxSAT problem, a combination of partial MaxSAT problem and enumeration problem. Given a partial MaxSAT formula F and a positive integer k, the diversified top-k partial MaxSAT is to find k maximal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Junping Zhou , Huanyao Sun , Feifei Ma , Jian Gao , Ke Xu , Minghao Yin

State-of-the-art algorithms for industrial instances of MaxSAT problem rely on iterative calls to a SAT solver. Preprocessing is crucial for the acceleration of SAT solving, and the key preprocessing techniques rely on the application of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Anton Belov , Antonio Morgado , Joao Marques-Silva

The Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT) is important on artificial intelligence community and the impact of its solving on complex problems. Recently, great breakthroughs have been made respectively on stochastic local search (SLS)…

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