Reconstructing solutions after blocked clause elimination

  • Authors:
  • Matti Järvisalo;Armin Biere

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland;Institute for Formal Models and Verification, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • SAT'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Preprocessing has proven important in enabling efficient Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving. For many real application scenarios of SAT it is important to be able to extract a full satisfying assignment for original SAT instances from a satisfying assignment for the instances after preprocessing. We show how such full solutions can be efficiently reconstructed from solutions to the conjunctive normal form (CNF) formulas resulting from applying a combination of various CNF preprocessing techniques implemented in the PrecoSAT solver—especially, blocked clause elimination combined with SatElite-style variable elimination and equivalence reasoning.