Summary of Rethinking the Soft Conflict Pseudo Boolean Constraint on Maxsat Local Search Solvers, by Jiongzhi Zheng and Zhuo Chen and Chu-min Li and Kun He
Rethinking the Soft Conflict Pseudo Boolean Constraint on MaxSAT Local Search Solvers
by Jiongzhi Zheng, Zhuo Chen, Chu-Min Li, Kun He
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach is presented in this paper, combining two key techniques from complete and local search algorithms for Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) to improve solution quality. The authors propose transferring Soft conflict Pseudo Boolean (SPB) constraints into clause weighting systems, allowing local search methods to better guide the search directions. An adaptive clause weighting strategy is also introduced, breaking away from traditional constant value adjustments. This new approach, called SPB-MaxSAT, demonstrates excellent performance in extensive experiments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper improves the way we solve a tricky problem called MaxSAT. Right now, there are two main ways to do it: one that checks all possibilities and another that tries different solutions until it finds a good one. The authors combined these two ideas to create a new method that can find better solutions more quickly. They also came up with a way to adjust the importance of certain clues as they search for a solution, which helps them get even better results. |
