A Max-SAT inference-based pre-processing for Max-clique

  • Authors:
  • Federico Heras;Javier Larrosa

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • SAT'08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Theory and applications of satisfiability testing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper we propose the use of two resolution-based rules for the Max-SAT encoding of the Maximum Clique Problem. These rules simplify the problem instance in such a way that a lower bound of the optimum becomes explicit. Then, we present a pre-processing procedure that applies such rules. Empirical results show evidence that the lower bound obtained with the pre-processing outperforms previous approaches. Finally, we show that a branch-and-bound Max-SAT solver fed with the simplified problem can be boosted several orders of magnitude.