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3 claims from 3 papers

1. Computer Science › Formal Methods in Verification

   Formal Verification of the Empty Hexagon Number

   Bernardo, Wojciech, James, Cayden, Mario and Heule · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

   The authors encode Keller's conjecture in dimension 7 as a satisfiability problem and use a SAT solver with symmetry breaking to find that no clique of size 128 exists in three related graphs.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says that in any tiling of 7-dimensional space by unit cubes, at least two cubes must share a full face.“This result implies that every unit cube tiling of $\mathbb{R}^7$ contains a facesharing pair of cubes.”

2. Engineering › Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy

   Safety-Assured Design and Adaptation of Learning-Enabled Autonomous Systems

   Zhu, Huang, Jiao et al. · Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) · 2021

   The paper discusses the challenges of ensuring safety in learning-enabled autonomous systems and presents the authors' methods and tools for safe design and runtime adaptation, using connected vehicles as the example.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors argue that autonomous system safety should be tackled across all design layers and across the whole sensing-to-control pipeline, not piecemeal.“We argue that it is essential to take a holistic approach in addressing system safety and other safety-related properties, vertically across the functional, software, and hardware layers, and horizontally across the autonomy pipeline of sensing, perception, planning, and control modules.”

3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Schur Number Five

   Heule · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

   The paper solves the century-old Schur Number Five problem, giving n = 160, using parallel satisfiability solving, and checks the result with a two-petabyte proof certified by a formally verified checker.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper reports that Schur Number Five is 160, found by turning the problem into propositional logic and solving it with massively parallel satisfiability techniques.“We obtained the solution, n = 160, by encoding the problem into propositional logic and applying massively parallel satisfiability solving techniques on the resulting formula.”