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Accumulating Pruning Constraints: New Exact Polynomial-Space Algorithms for Max 2-SAT
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We present deterministic polynomial-space algorithms that solve Max 2-SAT on $n$ variables exactly in time $\Ostar(2^{(1-γ)n})$, for a fixed $γ>0$, on several classes of instances whose clause density may grow with $n$. Our main tool extends the classic DPLL branching algorithm. When the search gives a variable its less promising value, comparing the two values of the variable yields a pruning constraint that is satisfied by some optimal assignment. Accumulating these constraints along each branch prunes all but an exponentially small fraction of the assignments. The classes are formulas with many biased variables, semirandom 2-CNF formulas, and Max-Cut on regular expander graphs and on graphs generated by a stochastic block model. In a semirandom formula, the pairs of variables that may share a clause are arbitrary, and the clauses on these pairs are random. For semirandom formulas and block-model graphs, the algorithms are still exact on every input, and the time bound holds with high probability over the input. To our knowledge, these are the first polynomial-space algorithms with such a running time for nontrivial classes of dense Max 2-SAT instances. Beyond these classes, the pruning constraints can be added to any branching algorithm for Max 2-SAT, and we expect them to be of practical relevance for general formulas, in particular for sparse ones, where each constraint involves only a few variables.
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Accumulating Pruning Constraints: New Exact Polynomial-Space Algorithms for Max 2-SAT
We present deterministic polynomial-space algorithms that solve Max 2-SAT on $n$ variables exactly in time $\Ostar(2^{(1-γ)n})$, for a fixed $γ>0$, on several classes of instances whose clause density may grow with $n$. Our main tool extends the classic DPLL branching algorithm. When the search gives a variable its less promising value, comparing the two values of the variable yields a pruning constraint that is satisfied by some optimal assignment. Accumulating these constraints along each branch prunes all but an exponentially small fraction of the assignments. The classes are formulas with many biased variables, semirandom 2-CNF formulas, and Max-Cut on regular expander graphs and on graphs generated by a stochastic block model. In a semirandom formula, the pairs of variables that may share a clause are arbitrary, and the clauses on these pairs are random. For semirandom formulas and block-model graphs, the algorithms are still exact on every input, and the time bound holds with high probability over the input. To our knowledge, these are the first polynomial-space algorithms with such a running time for nontrivial classes of dense Max 2-SAT instances. Beyond these classes, the pruning constraints can be added to any branching algorithm for Max 2-SAT, and we expect them to be of practical relevance for general formulas, in particular for sparse ones, where each constraint involves only a few variables.
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