GO-MOCE: Greedy Order Method of Conditional Expectations for Max Sat

Daniel Berend, Shahar Golan, Yochai Twitto

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Abstract

In this paper we present and study a new algorithm for the Maximum Satisfiability (Max Sat) problem. The algorithm is based on the Method of Conditional Expectations (MOCE, also known as Johnson's Algorithm) and applies a greedy variable ordering to MOCE. Thus, we name it Greedy Order MOCE (GO-MOCE). We also suggest a combination of GO-MOCE with CCLS, a state-of-the-art solver. We refer to this combined solver as GO-MOCE-CCLS. We conduct a comprehensive comparative evaluation of GO-MOCE versus MOCE on random instances and on public competition benchmark instances. We show that GO-MOCE reduces the number of unsatisfied clauses by tens of percents, while keeping the runtime almost the same. The worst case time complexity of GO-MOCE is linear. We also show that GO-MOCE-CCLS improves on CCLS consistently by up to about 80%. We study the asymptotic performance of GO-MOCE. To this end, we introduce three measures for evaluating the asymptotic performance of algorithms for Max Sat. We point out to further possible improvements of GO-MOCE, based on an empirical study of the main quantities managed by GO-MOCE during its execution.

Original languageEnglish
Article number100685
JournalDiscrete Optimization
Volume43
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2022

Keywords

  • Analysis of algorithms
  • Combinatorial Optimization
  • Maximum Satisfiability
  • Probabilistic algorithms
  • The Method of Conditional Expectations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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