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Reconstructing Solutions after Blocked Clause Elimination

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Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT 2010 (SAT 2010)

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Preprocessing has proven important in enabling efficient Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving. For many real application scenarios of SAT it is important to be able to extract a full satisfying assignment for original SAT instances from a satisfying assignment for the instances after preprocessing. We show how such full solutions can be efficiently reconstructed from solutions to the conjunctive normal form (CNF) formulas resulting from applying a combination of various CNF preprocessing techniques implemented in the PrecoSAT solver—especially, blocked clause elimination combined with SatElite-style variable elimination and equivalence reasoning.

First author financially supported by Academy of Finland (grant 132812).

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Järvisalo, M., Biere, A. (2010). Reconstructing Solutions after Blocked Clause Elimination. In: Strichman, O., Szeider, S. (eds) Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT 2010. SAT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6175. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14186-7_30

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