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Many difficult computational problems involve the simultaneous satisfaction of multiple constraints which are individually easy to satisfy. Such problems occur in diffractive imaging, protein folding, constrained optimization (e.g., spin…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-10-01 Simon Gravel , Veit Elser

To test incomplete search algorithms for constraint satisfaction problems such as 3-SAT, we need a source of hard, but satisfiable, benchmark instances. A simple way to do this is to choose a random truth assignment A, and then choose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Haixia Jia , Cristopher Moore , Doug Strain

This work introduces StageSAT, a new approach to solving floating-point satisfiability that bridges SMT solving with numerical optimization. StageSAT reframes a floating-point formula as a series of optimization problems in three stages of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yuanzhuo Zhang , Zhoulai Fu , Binoy Ravindran

We study the behavior of ASAT, a heuristic for solving satisfiability problems by stochastic local search near the SAT/UNSAT transition. The heuristic is focused, i.e. only variables in unsatisfied clauses are updated in each step, and is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 John Ardelius , Erik Aurell

The 3-Satisfiability Problem (3-SAT) is a demanding combinatorial problem, of central importance among the non-deterministic polynomial (NP) complete problems, with applications in circuit design, artificial intelligence and logistics. Even…

Satisfiability problem (SAT) is a cornerstone of computational complexity with broad industrial applications, and it remains challenging to optimize modern SAT solvers in real-world settings due to their intricate architectures. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yiwen Sun , Furong Ye , Zhihan Chen , Ke Wei , Shaowei Cai

Several continuous dynamical systems have recently been proposed as special-purpose analog computers designed to solve combinatorial optimization problems such as $k$-SAT or the Ising problem. While combinatorial optimization problems are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-17 Clemens Gneiting , Farad Khoyratee , Enrico Rinaldi , Khyati Jain , Rishab Khincha , Franco Nori

We propose a version of WalkSAT algorithm, named as BetaWalkSAT. This method uses probabilistic reasoning for biasing the starting state of the local search algorithm. Beta distribution is used to model the belief over boolean values of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Reazul Hasan Russel

The structural phase transitions and computational complexity of random 3-SAT instances are traditionally described using thermodynamic analogies from statistical physics, such as Replica Symmetry Breaking and energy landscapes. While…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yongjian Zhan

Weighted Max-SAT is the optimization version of SAT and many important problems can be naturally encoded as such. Solving weighted Max-SAT is an important problem from both a theoretical and a practical point of view. In recent years, there…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Javier Larrosa , Federico Heras , Simon de Givry

The remarkable achievements of machine learning techniques in analyzing discrete structures have drawn significant attention towards their integration into combinatorial optimization algorithms. Typically, these methodologies improve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Abdelrahman Hosny , Sherief Reda

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) models many important intractable NP-hard problems such as propositional satisfiability problem (SAT). Algorithms with non-trivial upper bounds on running time for restricted SAT with bounded clause…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-01-22 Liang Li , Xin Li , Tian Liu , Ke Xu

The NeuroSAT neural network architecture was recently introduced for predicting properties of propositional formulae. When trained to predict the satisfiability of toy problems, it was shown to find solutions and unsatisfiable cores on its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Daniel Selsam , Nikolaj Bjørner

Partly on the basis of heuristic arguments from physics it has been suggested that the performance of certain types of algorithms on random $k$-SAT formulas is linked to phase transitions that affect the geometry of the set of satisfying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Amir Haqshenas , Samuel Hetterich

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problems are critical in fields such as artificial intelligence and cryptography, where efficient solutions are essential. Conventional probabilistic solvers often encounter scalability issues due to complex…

Efficient sampling of satisfying formulas for circuit satisfiability (CircuitSAT), a well-known NP-complete problem, is essential in modern front-end applications for thorough testing and verification of digital circuits. Generating such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Arash Ardakani , Minwoo Kang , Kevin He , Qijing Huang , Vighnesh Iyer , Suhong Moon , John Wawrzynek

The Boolean SATisfiability problem (SAT) is of central importance in computer science. Although SAT is known to be NP-complete, progress on the engineering side, especially that of Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) and Local Search SAT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Anshumali Shrivastava , Moshe Y. Vardi , Zhiwei Zhang

Partial Maximum Satisfiability (PMS) and Weighted Partial Maximum Satisfiability (WPMS) generalize Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT), with broad real-world applications. Recent advances in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) algorithms for solving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Menghua Jiang , Haokai Gao , Shuhao Chen , Yin Chen

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

We consider the problem of solving floating-point constraints obtained from software verification. We present UppSAT --- a new implementation of a systematic approximation refinement framework [ZWR17] as an abstract SMT solver. Provided…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Aleksandar Zeljic , Peter Backeman , Christoph M. Wintersteiger , Philipp Ruemmer