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In many combinatorial problems one may need to model the diversity or similarity of assignments in a solution. For example, one may wish to maximise or minimise the number of distinct values in a solution. To formulate problems of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Emmanuel Hebrard , Dániel Marx , Barry O'Sullivan , Igor Razgon

The solution-space structure of the 3-Satisfiability Problem (3-SAT) is studied as a function of the control parameter alpha (ratio of number of clauses to the number of variables) using numerical simulations. For this purpose, one has to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 Alexander Mann , A. K. Hartmann

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is arguably the archetypical NP-complete decision problem. Progress in SAT solving algorithms has motivated an ever increasing number of practical applications in recent years. However, many practical uses of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Joao Marques-Silva , Mikolas Janota

Many procedures for SAT-related problems, in particular for those requiring the complete enumeration of satisfying truth assignments, rely their efficiency and effectiveness on the detection of (possibly small) partial assignments…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Roberto Sebastiani

The graph matching problem aims to discover a latent correspondence between the vertex sets of two observed graphs. This problem has proven to be quite challenging, with few satisfying methods that are computationally tractable and widely…

Computation · Statistics 2018-07-26 Fei Fang , Daniel L. Sussman , Vince Lyzinski

We study parameterized Constraint Satisfaction Problem for infinite constraint languages. The parameters that we study are weight of the satisfying assignment, number of constraints, maximum number of occurrences of a variable in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Ruhollah Majdoddin

We study two-stage adjustable robust linear programming in which the right-hand sides are uncertain and belong to a convex, compact uncertainty set. This problem is NP-hard, and the affine policy is a popular, tractable approximation. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Guanglin Xu , Samuel Burer

We study the computational complexity of fairly allocating indivisible, mixed-manna items. For basic measures of fairness, this problem is hard in general. Thus, research has flourished concerning input classes where efficient algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Klaus Jansen , Alexandra Lassota , Malte Tutas , Adrian Vetta

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) involves deciding, given a set of variables and a set of constraints on the variables, whether or not there is an assignment to the variables satisfying all of the constraints. One formulation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Hubie Chen , Benoit Larose

The promise constraint satisfaction problem (PCSP) is a recently introduced vast generalisation of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) that captures approximability of satisfiable instances. A PCSP instance comes with two forms of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Alex Brandts , Stanislav Živný

The natural generalization of the Boolean satisfiability problem to optimization problems is the task of determining the maximum number of clauses that can simultaneously be satisfied in a propositional formula in conjunctive normal form.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Max Bannach , Pamela Fleischmann , Malte Skambath

The amount of information in satisfiability problem (SAT) is considered. SAT can be polynomial-time solvable when the solving algorithm holds an exponential amount of information. It is also established that SAT Kolmogorov complexity is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Maciej Drozdowski

The fairness-accuracy trade-off is a key challenge in NLP tasks. Current work focuses on finding a single "optimal" solution to balance the two objectives, which is limited considering the diverse solutions on the Pareto front. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yongkang Du , Jieyu Zhao , Yijun Yang , Tianyi Zhou

Boolean Satisfiability solvers have gone through dramatic improvements in their performances and scalability over the last few years by considering symmetries. It has been shown that by using graph symmetries and generating symmetry…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-02 Arup Kumar Ghosh

Many natural combinatorial problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems. This class of problems is known to be NP-complete in general, but certain restrictions on the form of the constraints can ensure tractability. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dmitriy Zhuk

We present here a SAT-based framework for LTLf (Linear Temporal Logic on Finite Traces) satisfiability checking. We use propositional SAT-solving techniques to construct a transition system for the input LTLf formula; satisfiability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Jianwen Li , Kristin Y. Rozier , Geguang Pu , Yueling Zhang , Moshe Y. Vardi

In this work, we study the $d$-Hitting Set and Feedback Vertex Set problems through the paradigm of finding diverse collections of $r$ solutions of size at most $k$ each, which has recently been introduced to the field of parameterized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Julien Baste , Lars Jaffke , Tomáš Masařík , Geevarghese Philip , Günter Rote

We present a novel application of the Kramers-Wannier duality on one of the most important problems of computer science, the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). More specifically, we focus on sharp-SAT or equivalently #SAT - the problem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-10 Joe Mitchell , Benjamin Hsu , Victor Galitski

A variant of the well-known Assignment Problem is studied in this paper, where pairs of assignments are conflicting, and cannot be selected at the same time. This configures a set of hard constraints. The problem, which models real…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

Propositional satisfiability (SAT) is one of the most fundamental problems in computer science. The worst-case hardness of SAT lies at the core of computational complexity theory. The average-case analysis of SAT has triggered the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Tobias Friedrich , Anton Krohmer , Ralf Rothenberger , Thomas Sauerwald , Andrew M. Sutton