Title
Experiments with reduction finding
Abstract
Reductions are perhaps the most useful tool in complexity theory and, naturally, it is in general undecidable to determine whether a reduction exists between two given decision problems. However, asking for a reduction on inputs of bounded size is essentially a $\Sigma^p_2$ problem and can in principle be solved by ASP, QBF, or by iterated calls to SAT solvers. We describe our experiences developing and benchmarking automatic reduction finders. We created a dedicated reduction finder that does counter-example guided abstraction refinement by iteratively calling either a SAT solver or BDD package. We benchmark its performance with different SAT solvers and report the tradeoffs between the SAT and BDD approaches. Further, we compare this reduction finder with the direct approach using a number of QBF and ASP solvers. We describe the tradeoffs between the QBF and ASP approaches and show which solvers perform best on our $\Sigma^p_2$ instances. It turns out that even state-of-the-art solvers leave a large room for improvement on problems of this kind. We thus provide our instances as a benchmark for future work on $\Sigma^p_2$ solvers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-39071-5_15
SAT
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
ASP solvers,SAT solvers,SAT solver,state-of-the-art solvers,BDD approach,reduction finder,automatic reduction finder,different SAT solvers,ASP approach,dedicated reduction finder,reduction finding
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
16
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Charles Jordan140.46
Łukasz Kaiser2230789.08