I worked on improving the way the formulas are converted to CNF. Using
Tseitin-Transformation
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseitin-Transformation>the conversion to
CNF can be optimized (a lot). The summary for the test is
as follows:

Atoms: 20, Clauses: 100 (Using a propositional statement generator), a =
average number of arguments to And/Or

for a=2: Both algorithms producing almost similar results. Normal producing
better results with DPLL2 while Tseitin producing better results with DPLL
for a=3: Tseitin producing much better result than normal (Both algorithms)
for a=4 and above: Tseitin showing remarkable improvement over normal

A sample test:
No. of formulas = 10, a=3
Tseitin: 1,982,682 uS
Normal: 6,989,382 uS

Will post the detailed test results once I finish testing more formally


SD
Soumya Dipta Biswas
BITS, Pilani - K. K. Birla Goa Campus
Contact: +918087953906
E-Mail: [email protected]


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ondrej has a branch that uses pycosat in SymPy. But I think we found
> for the problems I've tried so far in my newassump branch it didn't
> really make a difference. That could change if they get larger,
> though.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Sachin Joglekar
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > @Aaron, I don't think getting rid of PropKB is a good idea. But what IS
> > needed is to make sure its foolproof. A PropKB(propositional knowledge
> base)
> > is essentially a tool to check whether a set of logic expressions 'A'
> > _entail_ a certain expression 'B'. Essentially, whether ALL models of A
> are
> > models of B. This is a nice tool to use for deductions. Currently, it
> calls
> > the dpll algo, but I guess wrongly. So that should be fixed.
> >
> > About satisfiable(), and especially for the assumptions system, may I
> > suggest looking at other, lighter SAT solvers like MiniSAT? We may have
> to
> > confirm the soundness and completeness, but thats still an avenue to
> > explore.
> >
> > @Soumya, I would suggest you send a PR with what modifications you
> propose,
> > and we take it from there.
> >
> >
> > On Friday, January 24, 2014 1:05:18 PM UTC+5:30, Soumya Biswas wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> There are a couple of things present in the Logic module that I would
> like
> >> to discuss:
> >>
> >> 1. Ask Function in PropKB:
> >> If KB 'A' entails formula 'B' then A U {~B} is unsatisfiable. However
> the
> >> current code seems to check if A U {B} is satisfiable. To the best of my
> >> understanding, this will give the right answer in many case, but not
> all.
> >>
> >> 2. Ask Function on a PropKB with no clauses:
> >> The function returns False if there are no clauses. Theoretically, an
> >> empty clause is unsatisfiable but empty clause set is valid. Hence, it
> is
> >> satisfiable in all interpretations. So it only entails formulas that are
> >> satisfiable in all interpretation i.e. valid. So shouldn't an empty KB
> >> entail a tautology?
> >>
> >> 3. DNF Satisfiability:
> >> As discussed before, the time taken by to_cnf is actually more than the
> >> time taken by the SAT solver. A relatively quick and dirty way to decide
> >> whether the formula resembles CNF or DNF can be to compare the number of
> >> conjuncts and disjuncts present in the formula. This seems to be giving
> >> reasonable results. So, I want to change the code to do this: If more
> >> conjunctive then dpll, else dnf sat. DNF Satisfiability seems to be a
> linear
> >> problem and would be easier to compute. Is this okay?
> >>
> >> I am done with the code for the above issues and will send a PR once
> >> someone confirms my ideas.
> >
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