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In this article, we show that the completion problem, i.e. the decision problem whether a partial structure can be completed to a full structure, is NP-complete for many combinatorial structures. While the gadgets for most reductions in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Helena Bergold , Manfred Scheucher , Felix Schröder

This paper describes the implementation of a new interior point solver for linear programming for the open-source optimization library HiGHS. The solver uses a direct factorisation to solve the Newton systems, choosing the best approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Filippo Zanetti , Jacek Gondzio

We revisit the satisfiability problem for two-variable logic, denoted by SAT(FO2), which is known to be NEXP-complete. The upper bound is usually derived from its well known Exponential Size Model (ESM) property. Whether it can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ting-Wei Lin , Chia-Hsuan Lu , Tony Tan

We propose a software architecture where SAT solvers act as a shared network resource for distributed business applications. There can be multiple parallel SAT solvers running either on dedicated hardware (a multi-processor system or a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Sergejs Kozlovičs

The practical success of Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers stems from the CDCL (Conflict-Driven Clause Learning) approach to SAT solving. However, from a propositional proof complexity perspective, CDCL is no more powerful than the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Alexey Ignatiev , Antonio Morgado , Joao Marques-Silva

All-Solution Satisfiability (AllSAT) and its extension, All-Solution Satisfiability Modulo Theories (AllSMT), have become more relevant in recent years, mainly in formal verification and artificial intelligence applications. The goal of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Giuseppe Spallitta , Roberto Sebastiani , Armin Biere

We present a topological barrier to efficient computation, revealed by comparing the geometry of 2 SAT and 3 SAT solution spaces. Viewing the set of satisfying assignments as a cubical complex within the Boolean hypercube, we prove that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-20 M. Alasli

While 3-SAT is NP-hard, 2-SAT is solvable in polynomial time. Austrin, Guruswami, and H\r{a}stad roved a result known as "$(2+\varepsilon)$-SAT is NP-hard" [FOCS'14/SICOMP'17]. They showed that the problem of distinguishing k-CNF formulas…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Alex Brandts , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

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

We provide a parameterized polynomial algorithm for the propositional model counting problem #SAT, the runtime of which is single-exponential in the rank-width of a formula. Previously, analogous algorithms have been known -- e.g.~[Fischer,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-06-30 Robert Ganian , Petr Hliněný , Jan Obdržálek

State-of-the-art algorithms for industrial instances of MaxSAT problem rely on iterative calls to a SAT solver. Preprocessing is crucial for the acceleration of SAT solving, and the key preprocessing techniques rely on the application of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Anton Belov , Antonio Morgado , Joao Marques-Silva

Quantum annealers (QAs) are specialized quantum computers that minimize objective functions over discrete variables by physically exploiting quantum effects. Current QA platforms allow for the optimization of quadratic objectives defined…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Zhengbing Bian , Fabian Chudak , William Macready , Aidan Roy , Roberto Sebastiani , Stefano Varotti

It has been shown that Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) problem instances can be effectively solved by partitioning the set of soft clauses into several disjoint sets. The partitioning methods can be based on clause weights (e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Pedro Orvalho , Vasco Manquinho , Ruben Martins

The search of hardware-compatible strategies for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) is an important challenge of today s computing research because of their wide range of applications in real world optimization…

On the one hand, Constraint Satisfaction Problems allow one to declaratively model problems. On the other hand, propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) solvers can handle huge SAT instances. We thus present a technique to declaratively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Frédéric Lardeux , Eric Monfroy , Broderick Crawford , Ricardo Soto

We study $q$-SAT in the multistage model, focusing on the linear-time solvable 2-SAT. Herein, given a sequence of $q$-CNF fomulas and a non-negative integer $d$, the question is whether there is a sequence of satisfying truth assignments…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Till Fluschnik

We have developed a framework to convert an arbitrary integer factorization problem to an executable Ising model by first writing it as an optimization function and then transforming the k-bit coupling ($k\geq 3$) terms to quadratic terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Shuxian Jiang , Keith A. Britt , Alexander J. McCaskey , Travis S. Humble , Sabre Kais

We proposes a novel method that enables Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to solve SAT problems by leveraging a technique developed for applying GNNs to Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP). Specifically, k-CNF formulae are mapped into MILP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Franco Alberto Cardillo , Hamza Khyari , Umberto Straccia

Among $\mathbf{PSPACE}$-complete problems, QSAT, or quantified SAT, is one of the most used to show that the class of problems solvable in polynomial time by families of a given variant of P systems includes the whole $\mathbf{PSPACE}$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Alberto Leporati , Luca Manzoni , Giancarlo Mauri , Antonio E. Porreca , Claudio Zandron

In this paper, we discussed CNF-SAT problem (NP-Complete problem) and analysis two solutions that can solve the problem, the PL-Resolution algorithm and the WalkSAT algorithm. PL-Resolution is a sound and complete algorithm that can be used…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Xili Wang