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Let F be a uniformly distributed random k-SAT formula with n variables and m clauses. Non-constructive arguments show that F is satisfiable for clause/variable ratios m/n< r(k)~2^k ln 2 with high probability. Yet no efficient algorithm is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Amin Coja-Oghlan

During the past decade, phase-transition phenomena in the random 3-satisfiability (3-SAT) problem has been intensively studied by statistical physics methods. In this work, we study the random 3-SAT problem by the mean-field first-step…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-09-25 Haijun Zhou

We consider the K-satisfiability problem on a regular d-ary rooted tree. For this model, we demonstrate how we can calculate in closed form, the moments of the total number of solutions as a function of d and K, where the average is over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Supriya Krishnamurthy , Sumedha

We compute the probability of satisfiability of a class of random Horn-SAT formulae, motivated by a connection with the nonemptiness problem of finite tree automata. In particular, when the maximum clause length is 3, this model displays a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Cristopher Moore , Gabriel Istrate , Demetrios Demopoulos , Moshe Y. Vardi

The rigorous theoretical analyses of algorithms for #SAT have been proposed in the literature. As we know, previous algorithms for solving #SAT have been analyzed only regarding the number of variables as the parameter. However, the time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Junping Zhou , Minghao Yin , Chunguang Zhou

In the Planar 3-SAT problem, we are given a 3-SAT formula together with its incidence graph, which is planar, and are asked whether this formula is satisfiable. Since Lichtenstein's proof that this problem is NP-complete, it has been used…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Alexander Pilz

Heuristic methods for solution of problems in the NP-Complete class of decision problems often reach exact solutions, but fail badly at "phase boundaries", across which the decision to be reached changes from almost always having one value…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Monasson , R. Zecchina , S. Kirkpatrick , B. Selman , L. Troyansky

For many constraint satisfaction problems, the algorithm which chooses a random assignment achieves the best possible approximation ratio. For instance, a simple random assignment for {\sc Max-E3-Sat} allows 7/8-approximation and for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-17 Eun Jung Kim , Ryan Williams

We show that throughout the satisfiable phase the normalised number of satisfying assignments of a random $2$-SAT formula converges in probability to an expression predicted by the cavity method from statistical physics. The proof is based…

In this manuscript, I present an analysis on the performance of OpenAI O1-preview model in solving random K-SAT instances for K$\in {2,3,4}$ as a function of $\alpha=M/N$ where $M$ is the number of clauses and $N$ is the number of variables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Raffaele Marino

Given $k$ collections of 2SAT clauses on the same set of variables $V$, can we find one assignment that satisfies a large fraction of clauses from each collection? We consider such simultaneous constraint satisfaction problems, and design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Amey Bhangale , Swastik Kopparty , Sushant Sachdeva

This thesis is divided in two parts. The first presents an overview of known results in statistical mechanics of disordered systems and its approach to random combinatorial optimization problems. The second part is a discussion of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-21 Fabrizio Altarelli

Let $Z(F)$ be the number of solutions of a random $k$-satisfiability formula $F$ with $n$ variables and clause density $\alpha$. Assume that the probability that $F$ is unsatisfiable is $O(1/\log(n)^{1+\e})$ for $\e>0$. We show that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-06-23 Emmanuel Abbe , Andrea Montanari

Satisfiability is considered the canonical NP-complete problem and is used as a starting point for hardness reductions in theory, while in practice heuristic SAT solving algorithms can solve large-scale industrial SAT instances very…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Thomas Bläsius , Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Jordi Levy , Ralf Rothenberger

MAX NAE-SAT is a natural optimization problem, closely related to its better-known relative MAX SAT. The approximability status of MAX NAE-SAT is almost completely understood if all clauses have the same size $k$, for some $k\ge 2$. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Joshua Brakensiek , Neng Huang , Aaron Potechin , Uri Zwick

Consider a random $k$-CNF formula $F_{k}(n, rn)$ with $n$ variables and $rn$ clauses. For every truth assignment $\sigma\in \{0, 1\}^{n}$ and every clause $c=\ell_{1}\vee\cdots\vee\ell_{k}$, let $d=d(\sigma, c)$ be the number of satisfied…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Zongsheng Gao , Jun Liu , Ke Xu

We show that the set of atoms of the limiting empirical marginal distribution in the random $2$-SAT model is $\mathbb Q \cap (0,1)$, for all clause-to-variable densities up to the satisfiability threshold. While for densities up to $1/2$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Noela Müller , Ralph Neininger , Haodong Zhu

Inspired by the "power-of-two-choices" model from random graphs, we investigate the possibility of limited choices of online clause choices that could shift the satisfiability threshold in random $k$-SAT.Here, we introduce an assignment…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Arnab Chatterjee

Over the past decade, physicists have developed deep but non-rigorous techniques for studying phase transitions in discrete structures. Recently, their ideas have been harnessed to obtain improved rigorous results on the phase transitions…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Dan Vilenchik

The problem 2-quantum-satisfiability (2-QSAT) is the generalisation of the 2-CNF-SAT problem to quantum bits, and is equivalent to determining whether or not a spin-1/2 Hamiltonian with two-body terms is frustration-free. Similarly to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Niel de Beaudrap