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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

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

This paper proposes a novel approach to determining the internal parameters of the hashing-based approximate model counting algorithm $\mathsf{ApproxMC}$. In this problem, the chosen parameter values must ensure that $\mathsf{ApproxMC}$ is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jinping Lei , Toru Takisaka , Junqiang Peng , Mingyu Xiao

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

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

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

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

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

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

Effective usage of approximate circuits for various performance trade-offs requires accurate computation of error. MCAC is a novel model counting framework for exact computation of several average and worst-case error metrics that are used…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-18 S Ramprasath , Sibi Siddharthan , Marrivada Gopala Krishna Sai Charan , Vinita Vasudevan

We consider the problem of actively learning an unknown binary decision tree using only membership queries, a setting in which the learner must reason about a large hypothesis space while maintaining formal guarantees. Rather than…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zunchen Huang , Chenglu Jin

Approximate model counting for bit-vector SMT formulas (generalizing \#SAT) has many applications such as probabilistic inference and quantitative information-flow security, but it is computationally difficult. Adding random parity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Seonmo Kim , Stephen McCamant

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

Many recent algorithms for approximate model counting are based on a reduction to combinatorial searches over random subsets of the space defined by parity or XOR constraints. Long parity constraints (involving many variables) provide…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Shengjia Zhao , Sorathan Chaturapruek , Ashish Sabharwal , Stefano Ermon

Approximate computing (AC) is an emerging paradigm for energy-efficient computation. The basic idea of AC is to sacrifice high precision for low energy by allowing for hardware which only carries out "approximately correct" calculations.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Tobias Isenberg , Marie-Christine Jakobs , Felix Pauck , Heike Wehrheim

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

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

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
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