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标题：Evidence for Long-Tails in SLS Algorithms
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作者：Wörz, Florian ; Lorenz, Jan-Hendrik
期刊名称：LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
电子版ISSN：1868-8969
出版年度：2021
卷号：204
DOI：10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.82
语种：English
出版社：Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
摘要：Stochastic local search (SLS) is a successful paradigm for solving the satisfiability problem of propositional logic. A recent development in this area involves solving not the original instance, but a modified, yet logically equivalent one [Jan{-}Hendrik Lorenz and Florian Wörz, 2020]. Empirically, this technique was found to be promising as it improves the performance of state-of-the-art SLS solvers.Currently, there is only a shallow understanding of how this modification technique affects the runtimes of SLS solvers. Thus, we model this modification process and conduct an empirical analysis of the hardness of logically equivalent formulas. Our results are twofold. First, if the modification process is treated as a random process, a lognormal distribution perfectly characterizes the hardness; implying that the hardness is long-tailed. This means that the modification technique can be further improved by implementing an additional restart mechanism. Thus, as a second contribution, we theoretically prove that all algorithms exhibiting this long-tail property can be further improved by restarts. Consequently, all SAT solvers employing this modification technique can be enhanced.
关键词：Stochastic Local Search;Runtime Distribution;Statistical Analysis;Lognormal Distribution;Long-Tailed Distribution;SAT Solving