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This paper introduces a local search method for improving an existing program with respect to a measurable objective. Program Optimization with Locally Improving Search (POLIS) exploits the structure of a program, defined by its lines.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Fatemeh Abdollahi , Saqib Ameen , Matthew E. Taylor , Levi H. S. Lelis

In this paper a new dynamic subsumption technique for Boolean CNF formulae is proposed. It exploits simple and sufficient conditions to detect during conflict analysis, clauses from the original formula that can be reduced by subsumption.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-04-02 Youssef Hamadi , Said Jabbour , Lakhdar Sais

Constraint programming uses enumeration and search tree pruning to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In order to speed up this solution process, we investigate the use of semidefinite relaxations within constraint programming. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Willem Jan van Hoeve

We present a SAT framework which allows to investigate properties of simple drawings of the complete graph $K_n$ using the power of AI. In contrast to classic imperative programming, where a program is operated step by step, our framework…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Helena Bergold , Manfred Scheucher

Constructing partitions of colored points is a well-studied problem in discrete and computational geometry. We study the problem of creating a minimum-cardinality partition into monochromatic islands. Our input is a set $S$ of $n$ points in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Steven van den Broek , Wouter Meulemans , Bettina Speckmann

In the constrained synchronization problem we ask if a given automaton admits a synchronizing word coming from a fixed regular constraint language. We show that intersecting a given constraint language with an ideal language decreases the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Stefan Hoffmann

In many schools, courses are given in sections. Prior to timetabling students need to be assigned to individual sections. We give a hybrid approximation sectioning algorithm that minimizes the number of edges (potential conflicts) in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Joshua S. Friedman

We develop new polynomial methods for studying systems of word equations. We use them to improve some earlier results and to analyze how sizes of systems of word equations satisfying certain independence properties depend on the lengths of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Aleksi Saarela

Typically, a practical algorithm of hardware verification obtains a semantic result by being applied to a particular formula $F$. That is, although this algorithm uses the specifics of $F$ (sometimes inadvertently), its result holds for all…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Eugene Goldberg

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

The Model Constructing Satisfiability (MCSat) approach to the SMT problem extends the ideas of CDCL from the SAT level to the theory level. Like SAT, its search is driven by incrementally constructing a model by assigning concrete values to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Enrico Lipparini , Thomas Hader , Ahmed Irfan , Stéphane Graham-Lengrand

Minimal perfect hash functions (MPHFs) are used to provide efficient access to values of large dictionaries (sets of key-value pairs). Discovering new algorithms for building MPHFs is an area of active research, especially from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Sean Weaver , Marijn Heule

Unit resolution can simplify a CNF formula or detect an inconsistency by repeatedly assign the variables occurring in unit clauses. Given any CNF formula sigma, we show that there exists a satisfiable CNF formula psi with size polynomially…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-11-15 Olivier Bailleux

The utility of satisfiability (SAT) as an application focused hard computational problem is well established. We explore the potential of quantum annealing to enhance classical SAT solving, especially where sampling from the space of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Kristen L. Pudenz , Gregory S. Tallant , Todd R. Belote , Steven H. Adachi

The existing neural architecture search algorithms are mostly working on search spaces with short-distance connections. We argue that such designs, though safe and stable, obstacles the search algorithms from exploring more complicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yunjie Tian , Lingxi Xie , Jiemin Fang , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye , Qi Tian

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

The real-world applications in signal processing generally involve estimating the system state or parameters in nonlinear, non-Gaussian dynamic systems. The estimation problem may get even more challenging when there are physical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Nesrine Amor , Ghulam Rasool , Nidhal C. Bouaynaya

Answer set programming (ASP) is a popular declarative programming paradigm with various applications. Programs can easily have many answer sets that cannot be enumerated in practice, but counting still allows quantifying solution spaces. If…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Johannes K. Fichte , Sarah Alice Gaggl , Markus Hecher , Dominik Rusovac

Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure, which depends both on the expansion rate of the Universe and our theory of gravity.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Martin White , Yong-Seon Song , Will J. Percival

In the past few years, neural architecture search (NAS) has become an increasingly important tool within the deep learning community. Despite the many recent successes of NAS, however, most existing approaches operate within highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Charles Jin , Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana , Sudip Roy