The enigma of SAT hill-climbing procedures:

Abstract: "In this paper, we investigate a family of hill- climbing procedures related to GSAT, a greedy random hill-climbing procedure for satisfiability. These procedures are able to solve large and difficult satisfiability problems beyond the range of conventional procedures like Davis-Putna...

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Main Authors: Gent, Ian P. (Author), Walsh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh 1992
Series:University <Edinburgh> / Department of Artificial Intelligence: DAI research paper 605
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Summary:Abstract: "In this paper, we investigate a family of hill- climbing procedures related to GSAT, a greedy random hill-climbing procedure for satisfiability. These procedures are able to solve large and difficult satisfiability problems beyond the range of conventional procedures like Davis-Putnam. We explore the role of greediness, randomness, and hill-climbing in the effectiveness of these procedures. We show that neither greediness nor randomness is crucial to GSAT's performance, and that hill-climbing's importance is limited to a short initial phase of search. In addition, we observe some remarkable and possibly universal features of their search for a satisfying truth assignment."
Physical Description:14 S.