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We propose a novel framework to analyze symmetry breaking in dynamical systems through the lens of entropy and information transfer. Information transfer quantifies the directional exchange of entropy between observables, allowing us to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Subhrajit Sinha , Parvathi Kooloth

Equivariant neural networks (ENNs) have been shown to be extremely effective in applications involving underlying symmetries. By construction ENNs cannot produce lower symmetry outputs given a higher symmetry input. However, symmetry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 YuQing Xie , Tess Smidt

Many industrial applications require finding solutions to challenging combinatorial problems. Efficient elimination of symmetric solution candidates is one of the key enablers for high-performance solving. However, existing model-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alice Tarzariol , Martin Gebser , Mark Law , Konstantin Schekotihin

Symmetry handling inequalities (SHIs) are an appealing and popular tool for handling symmetries in integer programming. Despite their practical application, little is known about their interaction with optimization problems. This article…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Christopher Hojny , Marc E. Pfetsch , José Verschae

In the context of Answer Set Programming, this paper investigates symmetry-breaking to eliminate symmetric parts of the search space and, thereby, simplify the solution process. We propose a reduction of disjunctive logic programs to a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-12 Christian Drescher , Oana Tifrea , Toby Walsh

Computing differences between tree-structured data is a critical but challenging problem in software analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel tree diffing approach called SatDiff, which reformulates the structural diffing problem into a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chuqin Geng , Haolin Ye , Yihan Zhang , Brigitte Pientka , Xujie Si

Heterogeneous nonmonotonic multi-context systems (MCS) permit different logics to be used in different contexts, and link them via bridge rules. We investigate the role of symmetry detection and symmetry breaking in such systems to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-21 Christian Drescher , Thomas Eiter , Michael Fink , Thomas Krennwallner , Toby Walsh

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) comprise important symmetry properties, which can influence the performance of Monte Carlo methods in Neuroevolution. The problem of the symmetries is also known as the competing conventions problem or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Onay Urfalioglu , Orhan Arikan

Symmetry in integer programming causes redundant search and is often handled with symmetry breaking constraints that remove as many equivalent solutions as possible. We propose an algebraic method which allows to generate a random family of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Madalina Erascu , Johannes Middeke

We develop an entropy based framework for analyzing symmetry breaking in dynamical systems. Information transfer, which measures the directional exchange of entropy between observables, provides a quantitative early indicator of symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-20 Subhrajit Sinha , Parvathi Kooloth

Symmetry breaking is a widely popular approach to enhance solvers in constraint programming, such as those for SAT or MIP. Symmetry breaking predicates (SBPs) typically impose an order on variables and single out the lexicographic leader…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Markus Anders , Sofia Brenner , Gaurav Rattan

Symmetry handling inequalities (SHIs) are a popular tool to handle symmetries in integer programming. Despite their successful application in practice, only little is known about the interaction of SHIs with optimization problems. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Christopher Hojny , Marc E. Pfetsch , José Verschae

Symmetry reduction is a well-known approach for alleviating the state explosion problem in model checking. Automatically identifying symmetries in concurrent systems, however, is computationally expensive. We propose a symbolic framework…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Anthony W. Lin , Truong Khanh Nguyen , Philipp Rümmer , Jun Sun

If supersymmetric particles are discovered, an important problem will be to determine how supersymmetry has been broken. At collider energies, supersymmetry breaking can be parameterised by soft supersymmetry breaking parameters. Several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-07 Jamil Hetzel

The recent development of bootstrap methods based on semidefinite relaxations of positivity constraints has enabled rigorous two-sided bounds on local observables directly in the thermodynamic limit. However, these bounds inevitably become…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Michael G. Scheer , Nisarg Chadha , Da-Chuan Lu , Eslam Khalaf

Symmetry breaking for graphs and other combinatorial objects is notoriously hard. On the one hand, complete symmetry breaks are exponential in size. On the other hand, current, state-of-the-art, partial symmetry breaks are often considered…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Michael Codish , Mikoláš Janota

Ising machines are emerging as a new technology for solving various classes of computationally hard problems of practical importance, yet their limits on structured SAT workloads, representative of numerous real-world applications, remain…

In eXplainable Constraint Solving (XCS), it is common to extract a Minimal Unsatisfiable Subset (MUS) from a set of unsatisfiable constraints. This helps explain to a user why a constraint specification does not admit a solution. Finding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Ignace Bleukx , Hélène Verhaeghe , Bart Bogaerts , Tias Guns

Short spanning trees subject to additional constraints are important building blocks in various approximation algorithms. Especially in the context of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), new techniques for finding spanning trees with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Martin Nägele , Rico Zenklusen

Symmetry in finite model finding problems of many-sorted first-order logic (MSFOL) can be exploited to reduce the number of interpretations considered during search, thereby improving solver performance. In this thesis, we situate symmetry…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Joseph Poremba