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REPORTS > KEYWORD > QBF PROOF SYSTEMS:
Reports tagged with QBF proof systems:
TR16-011 | 27th January 2016
Olaf Beyersdorff, Ján Pich

Understanding Gentzen and Frege systems for QBF

Recently Beyersdorff, Bonacina, and Chew (ITCS'16) introduced a natural class of Frege systems for quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) and showed strong lower bounds for restricted versions of these systems. Here we provide a comprehensive analysis of the new extended Frege system from Beyersdorff et al., denoted EF+$\forall$red, which is a ... more >>>


TR18-102 | 15th May 2018
Olaf Beyersdorff, Leroy Chew, Judith Clymo, Meena Mahajan

Short Proofs in QBF Expansion

For quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) there are two main different approaches to solving: QCDCL and expansion solving. In this paper we compare the underlying proof systems and show that expansion systems admit strictly shorter proofs than CDCL systems for formulas of bounded quantifier complexity, thus pointing towards potential advantages of ... more >>>


TR19-076 | 24th May 2019
Leroy Chew, Judith Clymo

The Equivalences of Refutational QRAT

The solving of Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) has been advanced considerably in the last two decades. In response to this, several proof systems have been put forward to universally verify QBF solvers.
QRAT by Heule et al. is one such example of this and builds on technology from DRAT, ... more >>>


TR20-036 | 9th March 2020
Olaf Beyersdorff, Joshua Blinkhorn, Tomáš Peitl

Strong (D)QBF Dependency Schemes via Tautology-free Resolution Paths

We suggest a general framework to study dependency schemes for dependency quantified Boolean formulas (DQBF). As our main contribution, we exhibit a new tautology-free DQBF dependency scheme that generalises the reflexive resolution path dependency scheme. We establish soundness of the tautology-free scheme, implying that it can be used in any ... more >>>


TR20-053 | 16th April 2020
Olaf Beyersdorff, Benjamin Böhm

Understanding the Relative Strength of QBF CDCL Solvers and QBF Resolution

QBF solvers implementing the QCDCL paradigm are powerful algorithms that
successfully tackle many computationally complex applications. However, our
theoretical understanding of the strength and limitations of these QCDCL
solvers is very limited.

In this paper we suggest to formally model QCDCL solvers as proof systems. We
define different policies that ... more >>>


TR21-109 | 20th July 2021
Sravanthi Chede, Anil Shukla

QRAT Polynomially Simulates Merge Resolution.

Merge Resolution (MRes [Beyersdorff et al. J. Autom. Reason.'2021] ) is a refutational proof system for quantified Boolean formulas (QBF). Each line of MRes consists of clauses with only existential literals, together with information of countermodels stored as merge maps. As a result, MRes has strategy extraction by design. The ... more >>>


TR21-131 | 10th September 2021
Olaf Beyersdorff, Benjamin Böhm

QCDCL with Cube Learning or Pure Literal Elimination - What is best?

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Quantified conflict-driven clause learning (QCDCL) is one of the main approaches for solving quantified Boolean formulas (QBF). We formalise and investigate several versions of QCDCL that include cube learning and/or pure-literal elimination, and formally compare the resulting solving models via proof complexity techniques. Our results show that almost all of ... more >>>


TR21-135 | 6th September 2021
Olaf Beyersdorff, Joshua Blinkhorn, Tomáš Peitl

Strong (D)QBF Dependency Schemes via Implication-free Resolution Paths

We suggest a general framework to study dependency schemes for dependency quantified Boolean formulas (DQBF). As our main contribution, we exhibit a new infinite collection of implication-free DQBF dependency schemes that generalise the reflexive resolution path dependency scheme. We establish soundness of all these schemes, implying that they can be ... more >>>


TR21-144 | 13th October 2021
Leroy Chew, Friedrich Slivovsky

Towards Uniform Certification in QBF

We pioneer a new technique that allows us to prove a multitude of previously open simulations in QBF proof complexity. In particular, we show that extended QBF Frege p-simulates clausal proof systems such as IR-Calculus, IRM-Calculus, Long-Distance Q-Resolution, and Merge Resolution.
These results are obtained by taking a technique ... more >>>


TR22-080 | 25th May 2022
Meena Mahajan, Gaurav Sood

QBF Merge Resolution is powerful but unnatural

The Merge Resolution proof system (M-Res) for QBFs, proposed by Beyersdorff et al. in 2019, explicitly builds partial strategies inside refutations. The original motivation for this approach was to overcome the limitations encountered in long-distance Q-Resolution proof system (LD-Q-Res), where the syntactic side-conditions, while prohibiting all unsound resolutions, also end ... more >>>


TR23-051 | 18th April 2023
Benjamin Böhm, Olaf Beyersdorff

QCDCL vs QBF Resolution: Further Insights

We continue the investigation on the relations of QCDCL and QBF resolution systems. In particular, we introduce QCDCL versions that tightly characterise QU-Resolution and (a slight variant of) long-distance Q-Resolution. We show that most QCDCL variants - parameterised by different policies for decisions, unit propagations and reductions -- lead to ... more >>>




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