Computing interpolants without proofs

  • Authors:
  • Hana Chockler;Alexander Ivrii;Arie Matsliah

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research --- Haifa, Israel;IBM Research --- Haifa, Israel;IBM Research --- Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • HVC'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Hardware and Software: verification and testing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We describe an incremental algorithm for computing interpolants for a pair ϕA, ϕB of formulas in propositional logic. In contrast with the common approaches, our method does not require a proof of unsatisfiability of ϕA∧ϕB, and can be realized using any SAT solver as a black box. We achieve this by combining model enumeration with the ability to easily generate interpolants in the special case that one of the formulas is a cube.