Clausal Forms in MaxSAT and MinSAT

We tackle the problem of reducing non-clausal MaxSAT and MinSAT to clausal MaxSAT and MinSAT. Our motivation is twofold: (i) the clausal form transformations used in SAT are unsound for MaxSAT and MinSAT, because they do not preserve the minimum or maximum number of unsatisfied clauses, and (ii) the...

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Autores: Li, Chu Min, Manyà, Felip, Soler, Joan Ramon, Vidal, Amanda
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/304456
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/304456
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Maximum satisfiability problem
Minimum satisfiability problem
Clausal forms
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Sumario:We tackle the problem of reducing non-clausal MaxSAT and MinSAT to clausal MaxSAT and MinSAT. Our motivation is twofold: (i) the clausal form transformations used in SAT are unsound for MaxSAT and MinSAT, because they do not preserve the minimum or maximum number of unsatisfied clauses, and (ii) the state-of-the-art MaxSAT and MinSAT solvers require as input a multiset of clauses. The main contribution of this paper is the definition of three different cost-preserving transformations. Two transformations extend the usual equivalence preserving transformation used in SAT to MaxSAT and MinSAT. The third one extends the well-known Tseitin transformation. Furthermore, we report on an empirical comparison of the performance of the proposed transformations when solved with a state-of-the-art MaxSAT solver.