Noise strategies for improving local search
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Expander graphs
Eigenvalues and expansion of regular graphs
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
An incremental algorithm for a generalization of the shortest-path problem
Journal of Algorithms
Short proofs are narrow—resolution made simple
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Maintaining Shortest Paths in Digraphs with Arbitrary Arc Weights: An Experimental Study
WAE '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Algorithm Engineering
CP '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
CP '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Constraint Satisfaction, Bounded Treewidth, and Finite-Variable Logics
CP '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
A High Girth Graph Construction
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Lower Bounds for Polynomial Calculus: Non-Binomial Case
FOCS '01 Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
A spectral lower bound for the treewidth of a graph and its consequences
Information Processing Letters
On sufficient conditions for unsatisfiability of random formulas
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
A new approach to dynamic all pairs shortest paths
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Regular Random k-SAT: Properties of Balanced Formulas
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Experimental analysis of dynamic all pairs shortest path algorithms
ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)
Random constraint satisfaction: Easy generation of hard (satisfiable) instances
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptographic Hash Functions from Expander Graphs
Journal of Cryptology
Further investigations into regular XORSAT
AAAI'06 proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
On balanced CSPs with high treewidth
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A backbone-search heuristic for efficient solving of hard 3-SAT formulae
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Balance and filtering in structured satisfiable problems
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Combining adaptive noise and look-ahead in local search for SAT
SAT'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Theory and applications of satisfiability testing
Watched literals for constraint propagation in minion
CP'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
On spanners of geometric graphs
SWAT'06 Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian conference on Algorithm Theory
From spin glasses to hard satisfiable formulas
SAT'04 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory - Part 1
ICALP'07 Proceedings of the 34th international conference on Automata, Languages and Programming
Generating highly balanced sudoku problems as hard problems
Journal of Heuristics
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In this paper we provide a new method to generate hard k-SAT instances. Basically, we construct the bipartite incidence graph of a k-SAT instance where the left side represents the clauses and the right side represents the literals of our Boolean formula. Then, the clauses are filled by incrementally connecting both sides while keeping the girth of the graph as high as possible. That assures that the expansion of the graph is also high. It has been shown that high expansion implies high resolution width w. The resolution width characterizes the hardness of an instance Fof nvariables since if every resolution refutation of Fhas width wthen every resolution refutation requires size $2^{\Omega(w^2/n)}$. We have extended this approach to generate hard n-ary CSP instances. Finally, we have also adapted this idea to increase the expansion of the system of linear equations used to generate XOR-SAT instances, being able to produce harder satisfiable instances than former generators.