Search methods

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Saka
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Search methods

Post by Saka » May 1st, 2018, 4:42 am

What are some methods of searching that programs such as zfind and gfind use? LLS is pretty obvious (SAT solver) but what about zfind, gfind, qfind, and WLS?

I ask because I'd like to try making my own search program, perhaps for LTL rules.

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Post by calcyman » May 1st, 2018, 11:48 am

David Eppstein wrote a paper explaining how gfind works:

https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0004003

WLS/JLS/lifesrc are similar to LLS, but using an ad hoc solver instead of a commercial SAT solver. Then zfind and ikpx are similar to gfind, but replacing the de Bruijn graph with a large lookup table and an incremental SAT solver, respectively. Finally, qfind is just a parallelised combination of breadth-first and depth-first searching, based on the zfind methodology.
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