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Keyword: random 3-SAT ×Clear all

13 claims from 7 papers

1. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Typical random 3-SAT formulae and the satisfiability threshold

   Dubois, Boufkhad and Mandler · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2002

   The paper presents a new structural approach for estimating the satisfiability threshold of random 3-SAT formulae, and uses it to lower the previous upper bounds to 4.506.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors report that a new structural method lowers the known upper bound on the random 3-SAT satisfiability threshold to 4.506.“We show its efficiency in obtaining a jump from the previous upper bounds, lowering them to 4.506.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors say their method for bounding the random 3-SAT threshold combines with other techniques and also applies to problems such as 3-colourability of random graphs.“The method combines well with other techniques, and also applies to other problems, such as the 3-colourability of random graphs.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Lower bounds for random 3-SAT via differential equations

   Achlioptas · Theoretical Computer Science · 2001

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   1. UncheckedDifferential equations can serve as a general tool for analysing algorithms on random 3-SAT, re-deriving most known lower bounds in one uniform way.“We show how differential equations can serve as a generic tool for analyzing such algorithms by rederiving most of the known lower bounds for random 3-SAT in a simple, uniform manner.”

3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Survey propagation: an algorithm for satisfiability

   Braunstein, Mézard and Zecchina · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2002

   The paper presents survey propagation, a message-passing algorithm that passes surveys over clusters of solutions to tackle random satisfiability problems close to the hard threshold.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors present a new message-passing algorithm that can efficiently find a satisfying assignment for random formulas in the hardest region of the problem.“We introduce a new type of message passing algorithm which allows to find efficiently a satisfiable assignment of the variables in the difficult region.”

4. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Backbone Fragility and the Local Search Cost Peak

   Singer, Gent and Smaill · Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research · 2000

   The paper analyses why the local search algorithm WSat finds some random 3-SAT instances hard, and proposes that large, fragile backbones explain high search costs near the satisfiability threshold.

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   1. UncheckedThe number of solutions predicts WSat's search cost well for small-backbone instances, but much less well for large-backbone ones near and beyond the threshold.“We find that the number of solutions predicts the cost well for small-backbone instances but is much less relevant for the large-backbone instances which appear near the threshold and dominate in the overconstrained region.”
   2. UncheckedBackbone-minimal 3-SAT instances, altered to be more backbone-fragile, are unusually hard for the WSat local search algorithm.“Second, that backbone-minimal instances (which are 3-SAT instances altered so as to be more backbone-fragile) are unusually hard for WSat.”

5. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   On the empirical time complexity of random 3-SAT at the phase transition

   Mu and Hoos · International Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2015

   The paper studies how the running time of several high-performance SAT solvers scales on random 3-SAT at the phase transition, finding polynomial scaling for three local-search solvers and exponential for three complete ones.

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   1. UncheckedFor three complete DPLL-based SAT solvers, the median running time on random 3-SAT at the phase transition appears to grow exponentially with instance size.“An analogous analysis of three complete, DPLL-based solvers - kcnfs, march_hi and march_br - clearly indicates exponential scaling of median running time.”
   2. UncheckedFor three DPLL-based SAT solvers on random 3-SAT at the phase transition, running time scales exponentially on satisfiable and unsatisfiable instances alike.“Moreover, exponential scaling is witnessed for these DPLL-based solvers when solving only satisfiable and only unsatisfiable instances, and the respective scaling models for each solver differ mostly by a constant factor.”

6. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Super solutions of random (3 + p)-SAT

   Bin and Zhou · Theoretical Computer Science · 2019

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   1. UncheckedThe paper states that random (3+p)-SAT has an exact (1,0)-satisfiability threshold of 1/(3(1−p)) when p is at most 3/7.“This paper studies the ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfiability of random ( 3 + p ) -SAT and obtains rigorous results that the exact ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfiability threshold is r p ⁎ = 1 / 3 ( 1 − p ) if p ≤ 3 / 7 .”
   2. UncheckedFor p at least 3/7, the paper gives lower and upper bounds on the (1,0)-satisfiability threshold of random (3+p)-SAT, using two separate techniques.“For p ≥ 3 / 7 , we give lower and upper bounds of the ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfiability threshold, where the lower bound is obtained by using the Unit-Clause algorithm, and the upper bound is obtained by using a novel way to count precisely the subset of all ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfying assignments that satisfy a…”

7. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Relaxed Survey Propagation for The Weighted Maximum Satisfiability Problem

   Leong and Sun · 2014

   The paper presents relaxed survey propagation (RSP), which extends survey propagation to weighted Max-SAT, gives it a cover-based interpretation, and reports that it outperforms other solvers on random instances.

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   1. UncheckedThe relaxed survey propagation (RSP) algorithm is reported to beat state-of-the-art weighted Max-SAT solvers on random weighted Max-SAT instances.“RSP also outperforms state-of-the-art weighted Max-SAT solvers on random weighted Max-SAT instances.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors show that relaxed survey propagation (RSP) can be read as estimating marginals over covers that violate a set of clauses with minimal total weight.“We show that RSP has an interpretation of estimating marginals over covers violating a set of clauses with minimal weight.”
   3. Unchecked“Empirically, we show that RSP outperforms SP-y and other state-of-the-art Max-SAT solvers on random Max-SAT instances.”