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CP
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Understanding Random SAT: Beyond the Clauses-to-Variables Ratio
It is well known that the ratio of the number of clauses to the number of variables in a random k-SAT instance is highly correlated with the instance’s empirical hardness. We con...
Eugene Nudelman, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Holger H. Hoo...
SAT
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
An Empirical Study of Optimal Noise and Runtime Distributions in Local Search
This paper presents a detailed empirical study of local search for Boolean satisfiability (SAT), highlighting several interesting properties, some of which were previously unknown...
Lukas Kroc, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman
JAIR
2000
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13 years 10 months ago
Backbone Fragility and the Local Search Cost Peak
The local search algorithm WSat is one of the most successful algorithms for solving the satisfiability (SAT) problem. It is notably effective at solving hard Random 3-SAT instanc...
Josh Singer, Ian P. Gent, Alan Smaill