We are happy to announce that the following article has been accepted for
publication in the 24th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for
the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS'18), to be held in
Thessaloniki, Greece, from April 14th to April 20th 2018.
"CDCLSym: Introducing Effective Symmetry Breaking in SAT Solving"
Hakan Metin (1), Souheib Baarir (1,2,3),
Maximilien Colange (3), Fabrice Kordon (1)
(1): Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, LIP6 CNRS UMR 7606, France
(2): Université Paris Nanterre
(3): LRDE, EPITA, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Abstract:
SAT solvers are now widely used to solve a large variety of problems,
including
formal verification of systems. SAT problems derived from such applications
often exhibit symmetry properties that could be exploited to speed up their
solving. /Static symmetry breaking /is so far the most popular approach
to take
advantage of symmetries. It relies on a symmetry preprocessor which augments
the initial problem with constraints that force the solver to consider
only a
few configurations among the many symmetric ones.
This paper presents a new way to handle symmetries, that avoids the main
problem of the current static approaches: the prohibitive cost of the
preprocessing phase. Extensive experiments on the benchmarks of last
six SAT
competitions show that our approach is competitive with the best
state-of-the-art static symmetry breaking solutions.
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Maximilien Colange
Assistant Professor
LRDE -- EPITA
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