Double Configuration Checking in Stochastic Local Search for Satisfiability

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Luo, Chuan
Cai, Shaowei
Wu, Wei
Su, Kaile
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Carla E. Brodley, Peter Stone

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2014
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Qu颥c, Canada

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Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms have shown effectiveness on satisfiable instances of the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem. However, their performance is still unsatisfactory on random k-SAT at the phase transition, which is of significance and is one of the empirically hardest distributions of SAT instances. In this paper, we propose a new heuristic called DCCA, which combines two configuration checking (CC) strategies with different definitions of configuration in a novel way. We use the DCCA heuristic to design an efficient SLS solver for SAT dubbed DCCASat. The experiments show that the DCCASat solver significantly outperforms a number of state-of-the-art solvers on extensive random k-SAT benchmarks at the phase transition. Moreover, DCCASat shows good performance on structured benchmarks, and a combination of DCCASat with a complete solver achieves state-of-the-art performance on structured benchmarks.

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Proceedings of Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

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