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This paper introduces a SAT-based technique that calculates a compact and complete symmetry-break for finite model finding, with the focus on structures with a single binary operation (magmas). Classes of algebraic structures are typically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Marek Dančo , Mikoláš Janota , Michael Codish , João Jorge Araújo

Detecting symmetry from data is a fundamental problem in signal analysis, providing insight into underlying structure and constraints. When data emerge as trajectories of dynamical systems, symmetries encode structural properties of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Ziad Ghanem , Chang Hyunwoong , Preskella Mrad

Solving the three-dimensional (3D) Bratu equation is highly challenging due to the presence of multiple and sharp solutions. Research on this equation began in the late 1990s, but there are no satisfactory results to date. To address this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Muhammad Luthfi Shahab , Hadi Susanto , Haralampos Hatzikirou

There are a huge number of problems, from various areas, being solved by reducing them to SAT. However, for many applications, translation into SAT is performed by specialized, problem-specific tools. In this paper we describe a new system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Predrag Janicic

Symmetry is an important factor in solving many constraint satisfaction problems. One common type of symmetry is when we have symmetric values. In a recent series of papers, we have studied methods to break value symmetries. Our results…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-04 Toby Walsh

There are numerous NP-hard combinatorial problems which involve searching for an undirected graph satisfying a certain property. One way to solve such problems is to translate a problem into an instance of the boolean satisfiability (SAT)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Vyacheslav Moklev , Vladimir Ulyantsev

We propose a fundamental setup for the realization of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and spontaneous antisymmetry breaking (SASB) in the framework of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with the self-attractive and repulsive cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-15 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed , T. J. Taiwo

While static symmetry breaking has been explored in the SAT community for decades, only as of 2010 research has focused on exploiting the same discovered symmetry dynamically, during the run of the SAT solver, by learning extra clauses. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Alexander Ivrii , Ofer Strichman

Modern societies have an abundance of data yet good system models are rare. Unfortunately, many of the current system identification and machine learning techniques fail to generalize outside of the training set, producing models that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Gabriel F. Machado , Morgan Jones

Some old and new ideas on symmetry breaking, based on the presence of extra dimensions that have been the subject of a very fast development and intensive studies during the last years, will be presented in these lectures. Special attention…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Quiros

We describe an algorithm for proving termination of programs abstracted to systems of monotonicity constraints in the integer domain. Monotonicity constraints are a non-trivial extension of the well-known size-change termination method.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-01 Michael Codish , Igor Gonopolskiy , Amir M. Ben-Amram , Carsten Fuhs , Jürgen Giesl

A quantitative measure of symmetry breaking is introduced that allows the quantification of which symmetries are most strongly broken due to the introduction of some kind of defect in a perfect structure. The method uses a statistical…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Ling Lan , Qiang Du , Simon J. L. Billinge

State-of-the-art solvers for symmetry detection in combinatorial objects are becoming increasingly sophisticated software libraries. Most of the solvers were initially designed with inputs from combinatorics in mind (nauty, bliss, Traces,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Markus Anders , Pascal Schweitzer , Julian Stieß

The boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem asks whether there exists an assignment of boolean values to the variables of an arbitrary boolean formula making the formula evaluate to True. It is well-known that all NP-problems can be coded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christopher R. Serrano , Jonathan Gallagher , Kenji Yamada , Alexei Kopylov , Michael A. Warren

Optimization solvers based on methods from constraint programming (OR-Tools, Chuffed, Gecode), optimization modulo theory (Z3), and mathematical programming (CPLEX) are successfully applied nowadays to solve many non-trivial examples.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Bogdan David , Madalina Erascu

SATNet is a differentiable constraint solver with a custom backpropagation algorithm, which can be used as a layer in a deep-learning system. It is a promising proposal for bridging deep learning and logical reasoning. In fact, SATNet has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Sangho Lim , Eun-Gyeol Oh , Hongseok Yang

The paper combines two topics belonging to the general theme of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in systems including two basic competing ingredients: the self-focusing cubic nonlinearity and a double-well-potential (DWP) structure.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-11-30 Boris A. Malomed

The Circuit Satisfiability (CSAT) problem, a variant of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem, plays a critical role in integrated circuit design and verification. However, existing SAT solvers, optimized for Conjunctive Normal Form…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhengyuan Shi , Tiebing Tang , Jiaying Zhu , Sadaf Khan , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Zhufei Chu , Qiang Xu

The soft bootstrap is an on-shell method to constrain the landscape of effective field theories (EFTs) of massless particles via the consistency of the low-energy S-matrix. Given assumptions on the on-shell data (particle spectra, linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Henriette Elvang , Marios Hadjiantonis , Callum R. T. Jones , Shruti Paranjape

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is central to our understanding of physics and explains many natural phenomena, from cosmic scales to subatomic particles. Its use for applications requires devices with a high level of symmetry, but engineered…