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This thesis introduces the "method of structural refinement", which serves as a means of transforming the relational semantics of a modal and/or constructive logic into an 'economical' proof system by connecting two proof-theoretic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Tim Lyon

In this paper we propose the approach for constructing partitionings of hard variants of the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). Such partitionings can be used for solving corresponding SAT instances in parallel. For the same SAT instance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-23 Alexander Semenov , Oleg Zaikin

This paper introduces SATformer, a novel Transformer-based approach for the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem. Rather than solving the problem directly, SATformer approaches the problem from the opposite direction by focusing on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Zhengyuan Shi , Min Li , Yi Liu , Sadaf Khan , Junhua Huang , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Qiang Xu

Verification methods based on SAT, SMT, and Theorem Proving often rely on proofs of unsatisfiability as a powerful tool to extract information in order to reduce the overall effort. For example a proof may be traversed to identify a minimal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-16 S. F. Rollini , R. Bruttomesso , N. Sharygina , A. Tsitovich

With the increasing availability of parallel computing power, there is a growing focus on parallelizing algorithms for important automated reasoning problems such as Boolean satisfiability (SAT). Divide-and-Conquer (D&C) is a popular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Abhishek Nair , Saranyu Chattopadhyay , Haoze Wu , Alex Ozdemir , Clark Barrett

Selecting input features of top relevance has become a popular method for building self-explaining models. In this work, we extend this selective rationalization approach to text matching, where the goal is to jointly select and align text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Kyle Swanson , Lili Yu , Tao Lei

Over the past few decades, combinatorial solvers have seen remarkable performance improvements, enabling their practical use in real-world applications. In some of these applications, ensuring the correctness of the solver's output is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dieter Vandesande , Jordi Coll , Bart Bogaerts

Resolution and superposition are common techniques which have seen widespread use with propositional and first-order logic in modern theorem provers. In these cases, resolution proof production is a key feature of such tools; however, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Jan Gorzny , Ezequiel Postan , Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo

A wide range of constraints can be compactly specified using automata or formal languages. In a sequence of recent papers, we have shown that an effective means to reason with such specifications is to decompose them into primitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-04 Claude-Guy Quimper , Toby Walsh

Synthesis of models and strategies is a very important problem in software engineering. The main element here is checking the satisfiability of formulae expressing the specification of a system to be implemented. This paper puts forward a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Magdalena Kacprzak , Artur Niewiadomski , Wojciech Penczek

Qualitative reasoning involves expressing and deriving knowledge based on qualitative terms such as natural language expressions, rather than strict mathematical quantities. Well over 40 qualitative calculi have been proposed so far, mostly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 George Baryannis , Ilias Tachmazidis , Sotiris Batsakis , Grigoris Antoniou , Mario Alviano , Emmanuel Papadakis

Many logic programming based approaches can be used to describe and solve combinatorial search problems. On the one hand there are definite programs and constraint logic programs that compute a solution as an answer substitution to a query…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nikolay Pelov , Emmanuel De Mot , Maurice Bruynooghe

Symmetry breaking is a crucial technique in modern combinatorial solving, but it is difficult to be sure it is implemented correctly. The most successful approach to deal with bugs is to make solvers certifying, so that they output not just…

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving is a fundamental problem in computer science. Finding efficient algorithms for SAT solving has broad implications in many areas of computer science and beyond. Quantum SAT solvers have been proposed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Shang-Wei Lin , Tzu-Fan Wang , Yean-Ru Chen , Zhe Hou , David Sanán , Yon Shin Teo

The poset cover problem seeks a minimum set of partial orders whose linear extensions cover a given set of linear orders. Recognizing its NP-completeness, we devised a non-trivial reduction to the Boolean satisfiability problem using a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Chih-Cheng Rex Yuan , Bow-Yaw Wang

In these notes we propose a new, simpler proof system for first-order matching logic with application and definedness. The new proof system is inspired by Tarski's axiomatization for first order-logic with equality (simplified by Kalish and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Laurenţiu Leuştean , Dafina Trufaş

We present a mechanized embedding of higher-order logic (HOL) and algebraic data types (ADT) into first-order logic with ZFC axioms. We implement this in the Lisa proof assistant for schematic first-order logic and its library based on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Simon Guilloud , Sankalp Gambhir , Andrea Gilot , Viktor Kunčak

Logical reasoning about program data often requires dealing with heap structures as well as scalar data types. Recent advances in Satisfiability Modular Theory (SMT) already offer efficient procedures for dealing with scalars, yet they lack…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Juan Antonio Navarro-Pérez , Andrey Rybalchenko

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

We analyze how symmetries can be used to compress structures (also known as interpretations) onto a smaller domain without loss of information. This analysis suggests the possibility to solve satisfiability problems in the compressed domain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Pierre Carbonnelle , Gottfried Schenner , Maurice Bruynooghe , Bart Bogaerts , Marc Denecker