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Set constraints provide a highly general way to formulate program analyses. However, solving arbitrary boolean combinations of set constraints is NEXPTIME-hard. Moreover, while theoretical algorithms to solve arbitrary set constraints…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Joseph Eremondi

Reasoning about array data structures is a key requirement for many applications in hardware and software verification, especially in combination with machine integers. The Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) theory of extensional arrays…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Mathias Preiner , Aina Niemetz , Clark Barrett

We present an efficient approximate message passing solver for the lifted disjoint paths problem (LDP), a natural but NP-hard model for multiple object tracking (MOT). Our tracker scales to very large instances that come from long and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Andrea Hornakova , Timo Kaiser , Paul Swoboda , Michal Rolinek , Bodo Rosenhahn , Roberto Henschel

Software model checkers based on under-approximations and SMT solvers are very successful at verifying safety (i.e. reachability) properties. They combine two key ideas -- (a) "concreteness": a counterexample in an under-approximation is a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Anvesh Komuravelli , Arie Gurfinkel , Sagar Chaki , Edmund M. Clarke

This work focuses on effectively generating diverse solutions for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) formulas, targeting the theories of bit-vectors, arrays, and uninterpreted functions, which is a critical task in software and hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shuangyu Lyu , Chuan Luo , Ruizhi Shi , Wei Wu , Chanjuan Liu , Chunming Hu

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) refers to the problem of deciding the satisfiability of a formula with respect to certain background first order theories. In this paper, we focus on Satisfiablity Modulo Integer Arithmetic, which is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shaowei Cai , Bohan Li , Xindi Zhang

We present new methods for solving the Satisfiability Modulo Theories problem over the theory of Quantifier-Free Non-linear Integer Arithmetic, SMT(QF-NIA), which consists in deciding the satisfiability of ground formulas with integer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Cristina Borralleras , Daniel Larraz , Albert Oliveras , Enric Rodriguez-Carbonell , Albert Rubio

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental class of convex optimization problems with diverse applications in mathematics, engineering, machine learning, and related disciplines. This paper investigates the application of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Zilong Cui , Ran Gu

Constraint Handling Rules (CHRs) are a high-level rule-based programming language for specification and implementation of constraint solvers. CHR manipulates a global store representing a flat conjunction of constraints. By default, CHR…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-10-22 Gregory J. Duck

Modal logic S5 has attracted significant attention and has led to several practical applications, owing to its simplified approach to dealing with nesting modal operators. Efficient implementations for evaluating satisfiability of S5…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mario Alviano , Sotiris Batsakis , George Baryannis

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers are widely used in hardware verification, cryptanalysis, automatic test-pattern generation, and side-channel reasoning workflows. Modern conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) solvers are highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Melki Bino

We give the first approximation algorithm for mixed packing and covering semidefinite programs (SDPs) with polylogarithmic dependence on width. Mixed packing and covering SDPs constitute a fundamental algorithmic primitive with recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Arun Jambulapati , Yin Tat Lee , Jerry Li , Swati Padmanabhan , Kevin Tian

This paper advocates for the broader application of SMT solvers in everyday programming, challenging the conventional wisdom that these tools are solely for formal methods and verification. We claim that SMT solvers, when seamlessly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Facundo Domínguez , Arnaud Spiwack

Cooperation among constraint solvers is difficult because different solving paradigms have different theoretical foundations. Recent works have shown that abstract interpretation can provide a unifying theory for various constraint solvers.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Pierre Talbot , Éric Monfroy , Charlotte Truchet

The Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem lies at the core of many applications in combinatorial optimization, software verification, cryptography, and machine learning. While state-of-the-art solvers have demonstrated high efficiency in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhiwei Zhang , Samy Wu Fung , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Stanley Osher , Moshe Y. Vardi

We introduce MAmmoTH, a series of open-source large language models (LLMs) specifically tailored for general math problem-solving. The MAmmoTH models are trained on MathInstruct, our meticulously curated instruction tuning dataset.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Xiang Yue , Xingwei Qu , Ge Zhang , Yao Fu , Wenhao Huang , Huan Sun , Yu Su , Wenhu Chen

Mutual coherence is a measure of similarity between two opinions. Although the notion comes from philosophy, it is essential for a wide range of technologies, e.g., the Wahl-O-Mat system. In Germany, this system helps voters to find…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Gregor Betz , Vera Chekan , Tamara Mchedlidze

Symmetry breaking is a popular technique to reduce the search space for SAT solving by exploiting the underlying symmetry over variables and clauses in a formula. The key idea is to first identify sets of assignments which fall in the same…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Saket Dingliwal , Ronak Agarwal , Happy Mittal , Parag Singla

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is ubiquitous in various areas of mathematics and computer science. Many of its variations have been studied including the Counting CSP, where the goal is to find the number of solutions to a CSP…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Amirhossein Kazeminia , Andrei A. Bulatov

We present a novel approach for solving quantified bit-vector formulas in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) based on computing symbolic inverses of bit-vector operators. We derive conditions that precisely characterize when bit-vector…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Aina Niemetz , Mathias Preiner , Andrew Reynolds , Clark Barrett , Cesare Tinelli