Certified CNF Translations for Pseudo-Boolean Solving

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The dramatic improvements in Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving since the turn of the millennium have made it possible to leverage state-of-the-art conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) solvers for many combinatorial problems in academia and industry, and the use of proof logging has played a crucial role in increasing the confidence that the results these solvers produce are correct. However, the fact that SAT proof logging is performed in conjunctive normal form (CNF) clausal format means that it has not been possible to extend guarantees of correctness to the use of SAT solvers for more expressive combinatorial paradigms, where the first step is an unverified translation of the input to CNF. In this work, we show how cutting-planes-based reasoning can provide proof logging for solvers that translate pseudo-Boolean (a.k.a. 0-1 integer linear) decision problems to CNF and then run CDCL. To support a wide range of encodings, we provide a uniform and easily extensible framework for proof logging of CNF translations. We are hopeful that this is just a first step towards providing a unified proof logging approach that will also extend to maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT) solving and pseudo-Boolean optimization in general.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication25th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, SAT 2022
EditorsKuldeep S. Meel, Ofer Strichman
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
Publication date2022
Article number16
ISBN (Electronic)9783959772426
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event25th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, SAT 2022 - Haifa, Israel
Duration: 2 Aug 20225 Aug 2022

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Conference25th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, SAT 2022
LandIsrael
ByHaifa
Periode02/08/202205/08/2022
SponsorArtificial Intelligence Journal, CAS Merlin, RenYing Technology, SAT Association for the Financial and Organizational
SeriesLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Volume236
ISSN1868-8969

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Stephan Gocht, Ruben Martins, Jakob Nordström, and Andy Oertel.

    Research areas

  • 0-1 integer linear program, certified translation, certifying algorithms, CNF encoding, cutting planes, proof logging, pseudo-Boolean solving

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