Title
Conflicting rate based branching heuristic for CDCL SAT solvers
Abstract
The modern SAT solvers usually update score of corresponding variables by increasing a bump value on each conflict. Those values are usually constant, but are independent of decision levels and conflicts. Sometimes, it is more efficient for local conflict optimization but weak in global searching. In this paper, we propose a CRB method (Conflicting Rate Branching), which is a variant of VSIDS but different implementation. The CRB updates the score which integrated with the decision level and conflicts whenever a variable is used in conflict analysis. We integrated CRB with MiniSat solvers and evaluated CRB on instances from the SAT Race 2015. Experimental results show that the proposed strategy can solve more instances than EVSIDS and improve performance for both SAT and UNSAT instances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ISKE.2017.8258777
2017 12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sat problem,Boolean satisfiability problem,Branching heuristic,VSIDS,Conflicting rate
Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Algorithm design,Intelligent decision support system,Decision level,Computer science,Probability distribution,Conflict analysis,Branching (version control)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-1830-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qingshan Chen111.38
Yang Xu271183.57
Guanfeng Wu300.34
Xingxing He48413.90