{"title":"Exploiting hypergraph partitioning for efficient Boolean satisfiability","authors":"V. Durairaj, P. Kalla","doi":"10.1109/HLDVT.2004.1431257","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents hypergraph partitioning based constraint decomposition procedures to guide Boolean satisfiability search. Variable-constraint relationships are modeled on a hypergraph and partitioning based techniques are employed to decompose the constraints. Subsequently, the decomposition is analyzed to solve the CNF-SAT problem efficiently. The contributions of this research are two-fold: 1) to engineer a constraint decomposition technique using hypergraph partitioning; 2) to engineer a constraint resolution method based on this decomposition. Preliminary experiments show that our approach is fast, scalable and can significantly increase the performance (often orders of magnitude) of the SAT engine.","PeriodicalId":240214,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (IEEE Cat. No.04EX940)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"12","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (IEEE Cat. No.04EX940)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HLDVT.2004.1431257","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents hypergraph partitioning based constraint decomposition procedures to guide Boolean satisfiability search. Variable-constraint relationships are modeled on a hypergraph and partitioning based techniques are employed to decompose the constraints. Subsequently, the decomposition is analyzed to solve the CNF-SAT problem efficiently. The contributions of this research are two-fold: 1) to engineer a constraint decomposition technique using hypergraph partitioning; 2) to engineer a constraint resolution method based on this decomposition. Preliminary experiments show that our approach is fast, scalable and can significantly increase the performance (often orders of magnitude) of the SAT engine.