| ||||
| ||||
![]() Title:ALIAS: A Modular Tool for Finding Backdoors for SAT Conference:SAT 2018 Tags:backdoor, black-box optimization and SAT Abstract: We present ALIAS, a modular tool aimed at finding backdoors for hard SAT instances. Here by a backdoor for a specific SAT solver and SAT formula we mean a set of its variables, all possible instantiations of which lead to construction of a family of subformulas with the total solving time less than that for an original formula. For a particular backdoor, the tool uses the Monte-Carlo algorithm to estimate the runtime of a solver when partitioning an original problem via said backdoor. Thus, the problem of finding a backdoor is viewed as a black-box optimization problem. The tool's modular structure allows to employ state-of-the-art SAT solvers and black-box optimization heuristics. In practice, for a number of hard SAT instances, the tool made it possible to solve them much faster than using state-of-the-art multithreaded SAT-solvers. ALIAS: A Modular Tool for Finding Backdoors for SAT ![]() ALIAS: A Modular Tool for Finding Backdoors for SAT | ||||
Copyright © 2002 – 2025 EasyChair |