FLOC 2018: FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE 2018
A New Probabilistic Algorithm for Approximate Model Counting

Authors: Cunjing Ge, Feifei Ma, Tian Liu, Jian Zhang and Xutong Ma

Paper Information

Title:A New Probabilistic Algorithm for Approximate Model Counting
Authors:Cunjing Ge, Feifei Ma, Tian Liu, Jian Zhang and Xutong Ma
Proceedings:PRUV PRUV 2018 Proceedings
Editors: Thomas Lukasiewicz, Rafael PeƱaloza and Anni-Yasmin Turhan
Keywords:Model Counting, Probabilistic Algorithm, Hashing-based Algorithm
Abstract:

ABSTRACT. t. Constrained counting is important in domains ranging from artificial intelligence to software analysis. There are already a few approaches for counting models over various types of constraints. Recently, hashing-based approaches achieve success but still rely on solution enumeration. In the IJCAR version, a probabilistic approximate model counter is proposed, which is also a hashingbased universal framework, but with only satisfiability queries. A dynamic stopping criteria, for the algorithm, is presented, which has not been studied yet in previous works of hashing-based approaches. Although the algorithm lacks theoretical guarantee, it works well in practice. In this paper, we further extend our approach to SMT(LIA) formulas with a new encoding technique.

Pages:15
Talk:Jul 19 16:30 (Session 136D: PRUV regular papers)
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