Proof complexity and SAT solving

S Buss, J Nordström - Handbook of Satisfiability, 2021 - ebooks.iospress.nl
This chapter gives an overview of proof complexity and connections to SAT solving, focusing
on proof systems such as resolution, Nullstellensatz, polynomial calculus, and cutting planes …

[PDF][PDF] Divide and Conquer: Towards Faster Pseudo-Boolean Solving.

J Elffers, J Nordström - IJCAI, 2018 - it.uu.se
Divide and Conquer: Towards Faster Pseudo-Boolean Solving Page 1 Divide and Conquer:
Towards Faster Pseudo-Boolean Solving Jan Elffers KTH Royal Institute of Technology …

Cutting to the core of pseudo-boolean optimization: Combining core-guided search with cutting planes reasoning

J Devriendt, S Gocht, E Demirović… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Core-guided techniques have revolutionized Boolean satisfiability approaches to
optimization problems (MaxSAT), but the process at the heart of these methods …

CNFgen: A generator of crafted benchmarks

M Lauria, J Elffers, J Nordström, M Vinyals - Theory and Applications of …, 2017 - Springer
We present CNFgen, a generator of combinatorial benchmarks in DIMACS and OPB format.
The proof complexity literature is a rich source not only of hard instances but also of …

[HTML][HTML] Learn to relax: Integrating 0-1 integer linear programming with pseudo-Boolean conflict-driven search

J Devriendt, A Gleixner, J Nordström - Constraints, 2021 - Springer
Conflict-driven pseudo-Boolean solvers optimize 0-1 integer linear programs by extending
the conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) paradigm from SAT solving. Though pseudo …

A generalized method for proving polynomial calculus degree lower bounds

M Mikša, J Nordström - arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.01358, 2015 - arxiv.org
We study the problem of obtaining lower bounds for polynomial calculus (PC) and
polynomial calculus resolution (PCR) on proof degree, and hence by [Impagliazzo et al.'99] …

Using combinatorial benchmarks to probe the reasoning power of pseudo-Boolean solvers

J Elffers, J Giráldez-Cru, J Nordström… - … SAT 2018, Held as Part of …, 2018 - Springer
We study cdcl-cuttingplanes, Open-WBO, and Sat4j, three successful solvers from the
Pseudo-Boolean Competition 2016, and evaluate them by performing experiments on …

Propositional proof systems based on maximum satisfiability

ML Bonet, S Buss, A Ignatiev, A Morgado… - Artificial Intelligence, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper describes the use of dual-rail MaxSAT systems to solve Boolean satisfiability
(SAT), namely to determine if a set of clauses is satisfiable. The MaxSAT problem is the …

On weakening strategies for PB solvers

D Le Berre, P Marquis, R Wallon - … of Satisfiability Testing–SAT 2020: 23rd …, 2020 - Springer
Current pseudo-Boolean solvers implement different variants of the cutting planes proof
system to infer new constraints during conflict analysis. One of these variants is generalized …

[PDF][PDF] On Division Versus Saturation in Pseudo-Boolean Solving.

S Gocht, J Nordström, A Yehudayoff - IJCAI, 2019 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
On Division Versus Saturation in Pseudo-Boolean Solving Page 1 On Division Versus Saturation
in Pseudo-Boolean Solving Stephan Gocht, Jakob Nordström, Amir Yehudayoff 21.05.2019 …