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Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Still, learning-based approaches to accelerate combinatorial optimization often require solving a large number of difficult instances to collect training data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zohair Shafi , Serdar Kadioglu

We present a general framework for good CNF-representations of boolean constraints, to be used for translating decision problems into SAT problems (i.e., deciding satisfiability for conjunctive normal forms). We apply it to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Matthew Gwynne , Oliver Kullmann

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 present DeepSAT, a novel end-to-end learning framework for the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem. Unlike existing solutions trained on random SAT instances with relatively weak supervision, we propose applying the knowledge of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Min Li , Zhengyuan Shi , Qiuxia Lai , Sadaf Khan , Shaowei Cai , Qiang Xu

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on domain-specific data is the dominant approach for adapting foundation models to specialized tasks. However, it has been observed that SFT models tend to forget knowledge acquired during pretraining. In vision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yifan Hao , Xingyuan Pan , Hanning Zhang , Chenlu Ye , Rui Pan , Tong Zhang

The boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem asks whether there exists an assignment of boolean values to the variables of an arbitrary boolean formula making the formula evaluate to True. It is well-known that all NP-problems can be coded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christopher R. Serrano , Jonathan Gallagher , Kenji Yamada , Alexei Kopylov , Michael A. Warren

In this contribution, we provide a comprehensive evaluation of graph neural networks applied to Boolean satisfiability problems, accompanied by an intuitive explanation of the mechanisms enabling the model to generalize to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 David Mojžíšek , Jan Hůla , Ziwei Li , Ziyu Zhou , Mikoláš Janota

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is arguably the archetypical NP-complete decision problem. Progress in SAT solving algorithms has motivated an ever increasing number of practical applications in recent years. However, many practical uses of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Joao Marques-Silva , Mikolas Janota

Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is one of the core problems in computer science. As one of the fundamental NP-complete problems, it can be used - by known reductions - to represent instances of variety of hard decision problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Michał Karpiński

Foundation models learn highly transferable representations through large-scale pretraining on diverse data. An increasing body of research indicates that these representations exhibit a remarkable degree of similarity across architectures…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jianglin Lu , Hailing Wang , Yi Xu , Yizhou Wang , Kuo Yang , Yun Fu

Foundation models pretrained on large-scale natural images are widely adapted to various cross-domain low-resource downstream tasks, benefiting from generalizable and transferable patterns captured by their representations. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Wenqiang Zu , Shenghao Xie , Hao Chen , Zhiqiang Chen , Liwen Hu , Yuanhao Xi , Yiming Liang , Junliang Ye , Bo Lei , Tiejun Huang , Guoqi Li , Lei Ma

Today's propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers are extremely powerful and can be used as an efficient back-end for solving NP-complete problems. However, many fundamental problems in knowledge representation and reasoning are located at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Ronald de Haan , Stefan Szeider

Shifted combinatorial optimization is a new nonlinear optimization framework which is a broad extension of standard combinatorial optimization, involving the choice of several feasible solutions at a time. This framework captures well…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Jakub Gajarský , Petr Hliněný , Martin Koutecký , Shmuel Onn

Foundation models have demonstrated a remarkable ability to learn rich, transferable representations across diverse modalities such as images, text, and audio. In modern machine learning pipelines, these representations often replace raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Selene Cerna , Sara Si-Moussi , Wilfried Thuiller , Hadrien Hendrikx , Vincent Miele

Tabular Foundation Models have recently established the state of the art in supervised tabular learning, by leveraging pretraining to learn generalizable representations of numerical and categorical structured data. However, they lack…

Unsupervised feature learning often finds low-dimensional embeddings that capture the structure of complex data. For tasks for which prior expert topological knowledge is available, incorporating this into the learned representation may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Robin Vandaele , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys

The classification problem of structured data can be solved with different strategies: a supervised learning approach, starting from a labeled training set, and an unsupervised learning one, where only the structure of the patterns in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-09 Mauro Pastore

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

Metric learning is a fundamental problem in computer vision whereby a model is trained to learn a semantically useful embedding space via ranking losses. Traditionally, the effectiveness of a ranking loss depends on the minibatch size, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Matt Ma , Anton van den Hengel , Stephen Gould

This paper formalizes the optimal base problem, presents an algorithm to solve it, and describes its application to the encoding of Pseudo-Boolean constraints to SAT. We demonstrate the impact of integrating our algorithm within the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Michael Codish , Yoav Fekete , Carsten Fuhs , Peter Schneider-Kamp
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