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On hard MAXSAT test problems from SATLIB, the authors' modified algorithms performed better than the original BE-EO algorithm.
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What the paper says, word for word
“Experimental results on the hard MAXSAT instances from SATLIB show that the modified algorithms are superior to the original BE-EO algorithm.”
From Zeng et al. (2011), DOI 10.1631/jzus.c1000313. Quote verified against the OpenAlex abstract on 17 Oct 2026.
MAXSAT:
The maximum satisfiability problem: finding a true/false assignment that satisfies as many of a set of logical clauses as possible.
BE-EO:
Bose-Einstein extremal optimization, a search algorithm that repeatedly alters poorly performing parts of a solution, choosing which using a Bose-Einstein probability distribution.
SATLIB:
A well-known public collection of benchmark satisfiability problems used to test algorithms.
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The paper
Modified extremal optimization for the hard maximum satisfiability problem
Guo‐Qiang Zeng, Yong-Zai Lu and Weijie Mao
Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering · published 2011 · DOI 10.1631/jzus.c1000313
The paper proposes EOSAT, a modified extremal optimization framework for approximating ground states of the hard maximum satisfiability problem, and tests it on SATLIB instances against BE-EO.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 17 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
MAXSAT asks how many logical conditions can be satisfied at once, and is a hard optimisation problem that arises in many areas. The claim is that changing how the search chooses its next move gives better results than the original BE-EO method on the benchmark set used. If it holds, it would add to the evidence that tuning the probability distribution inside extremal optimisation helps on hard combinatorial problems.
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What the authors did
The authors generalised the evolutionary probability distribution used in the Bose-Einstein extremal optimization (BE-EO) algorithm to form EOSAT. They then ran experiments on hard MAXSAT instances from SATLIB.
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What they found
The paper proposes EOSAT, a modified framework that generalises the evolutionary probability distribution in BE-EO.
EOSAT is framed as competing with other popular algorithms such as simulated annealing and WALKSAT.
Experiments on hard MAXSAT instances from SATLIB show the modified algorithms are superior to the original BE-EO algorithm.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"Experimental results on the hard MAXSAT instances from SATLIB show that the modified algorithms are superior to the original BE-EO algorithm."
(Zeng et al., Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2011)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): On hard MAXSAT test problems from SATLIB, the authors' modified algorithms performed better than the original BE-EO algorithm.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if on the same set of hard MAXSAT instances from SATLIB, using identical hyperparameters and number of trials as reported in the paper, the average best solution quality achieved by BE‑EO is equal to or better than that achieved by EOSAT at a 95% confidence level.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Guo‐Qiang Zeng, Yong-Zai Lu and Weijie Mao (2011), Modified extremal optimization for the hard maximum satisfiability problem, Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering. Ecdysis, claim ext:150cce9847faa952. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:150cce9847faa952
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