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NLocalSAT: Boosting Local Search with Solution Prediction
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NLocalSAT: Boosting Local Search with Solution Prediction

Wenjie Zhang, Zeyu Sun, Qihao Zhu, Ge Li, Shaowei Cai, Yingfei Xiong and Lu Zhang
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-NINTH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, pp.1177-1183
01/01/2020

Abstract

Computer Science Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications Computer Science, Theory & Methods Science & Technology Technology
The Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) is a famous NP-complete problem in computer science. An effective way for solving a satisfiable SAT problem is the stochastic local search (SLS). However, in this method, the initialization is assigned in a random manner, which impacts the effectiveness of SLS solvers. To address this problem, we propose NLocalSAT. NLocalSAT combines SLS with a solution prediction model, which boosts SLS by changing initialization assignments with a neural network. We evaluated NLocalSAT on five SLS solvers (CCAnr, Sparrow, CPSparrow, YalSAT, and probSAT) with instances in the random track of SAT Competition 2018. The experimental results show that solvers with NLocalSAT achieve 27% similar to 62% improvement over the original SLS solvers.

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