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This study evaluates Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and its variants for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, testing three configurations: (1) with Supervised Fine Tuning (SFT), (2) without SFT, and (3)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Amir Saeidi , Shivanshu Verma , Md Nayem Uddin , Chitta Baral

Complex reasoning aims to draw a correct inference based on complex rules. As a hallmark of human intelligence, it involves a degree of explicit reading comprehension, interpretation of logical knowledge and complex rule application. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Siyuan Wang , Zhongkun Liu , Wanjun Zhong , Ming Zhou , Zhongyu Wei , Zhumin Chen , Nan Duan

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

Mathematical reasoning is a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs), yet achieving high performance in this domain remains a significant challenge. The auto-regressive generation process often makes LLMs susceptible to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xiaoxuan Lou , Chaojie Wang , Bo An

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 Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) is a well-known example of monotonic reasoning, of intense practical interest due to fast solvers, complemented by rigorous fine-grained complexity results. However, for non-monotonic reasoning,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Victor Lagerkvist , Mohamed Maizia , Johannes Schmidt

The satisfiability problem is one of the most famous problems in computer science. Its NP-completeness has been used to argue that SAT is intractable. However, there have been tremendous advances that allow SAT solvers to solve instances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jan-Hendrik Lorenz , Florian Wörz

In this paper, we provide a deterministic polynomial time algorithm that determines satisfiability of 3-SAT. The complexity analysis for the algorithm takes into account no efficiency and yet provides a low enough bound, that efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ortho Flint , Asanka Wickramasinghe , Jason Brasse , Christopher Fowler

The complexity class $NP$ can be logically characterized both through existential second order logic $SO\exists$, as proven by Fagin, and through simulating a Turing machine via the satisfiability problem of propositional logic SAT, as…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Tuomo Kauranne

This paper considers the question of P = NP in context of the polynomial time SAT algorithm. It posits proposition dependent on existence of conjectured problem that even where the algorithm is shown to solve SAT in polynomial time it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-30 C. Sauerbier

We formally study the logical reasoning capabilities of decoder-only Transformers in the context of the boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem. First, we prove by construction that decoder-only Transformers can decide 3-SAT, in a non-uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Leyan Pan , Vijay Ganesh , Jacob Abernethy , Chris Esposo , Wenke Lee

This article examines the interpretation of the LTL temporal operators over finite and infinite sequences. This is used as the basis for deriving a sound and complete axiomatization for Caret, a recent temporal logic for reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Riccardo Pucella

Chain-of-thought (COT) prompting can help large language models (LLMs) reason toward correct answers, but its efficacy in reasoning toward incorrect answers is unexplored. This process of elimination (PoE), when used with COT, can enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Nishant Balepur , Shramay Palta , Rachel Rudinger

SAT provers are powerful tools for solving real-sized logic problems, but using them requires solid programming knowledge and may be seen w.r.t.\ logic like assembly language w.r.t.\ programming. Something like a high level language was…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Khaled Skander Ben Slimane , Alexis Comte , Olivier Gasquet , Abdelwahab Heba , Olivier Lezaud , Frederic Maris , Mael Valais

This Survey provides an overview of techniques in termination analysis for programs with numerical variables and transitions defined by linear constraints. This subarea of program analysis is challenging due to the existence of undecidable…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Amir M. Ben-Amram , Samir Genaim , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

Monotonic semantic path orders and weighted path orders are powerful reduction orders for proving termination of term rewrite systems. In this paper we present their simple unification as reduction orders and reduction pairs. We also…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Teppei Saito , Nao Hirokawa

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving MAX2SAT problems based on combining search methods with semidefinite programming approaches. Semidefinite programming techniques are well-known as a theoretical tool for approximating maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Po-Wei Wang , J. Zico Kolter

In this paper, we initiate a systematic study of the parametrised complexity in the field of Dependence Logics which finds its origin in the Dependence Logic of V\"a\"an\"anen from 2007. We study a propositional variant of this logic (PDL)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yasir Mahmood , Arne Meier

The rapid development of large language model (LLM) alignment algorithms has resulted in a complex and fragmented landscape, with limited clarity on the effectiveness of different methods and their inter-connections. This paper introduces…

Usual termination proofs for a functional program require to check all the possible reduction paths. Due to an exponential gap between the height and size of such the reduction tree, no naive formalization of termination proofs yields a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Naohi Eguchi