,
Daniel Le Berre
,
Magnus O. Myreen
,
Jakob Nordström
,
Andy Oertel
,
Yong Kiam Tan
,
Marc Vinyals
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Certifying solvers have long been standard for decision problems in Boolean satisfiability (SAT), allowing for proof logging and checking with very limited overhead, but developing similar tools for combinatorial optimization has remained a challenge. A recent promising approach covering a wide range of solving paradigms is pseudo-Boolean proof logging, but this has mostly consisted of proof-of-concept works far from delivering the performance required for real-world deployment. In this work, we present an efficient toolchain based on VeriPB and CakePB for formally verified pseudo-Boolean optimization. We implement proof logging for the full range of techniques in the state-of-the-art solvers RoundingSat and Sat4j, including core-guided search and linear programming integration with Farkas certificates and cut generation. Our experimental evaluation shows that proof logging and checking performance in this much more expressive paradigm is now quite close to the level of SAT solving, and hence is clearly practically feasible.
@InProceedings{koops_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2025.21,
author = {Koops, Wietze and Le Berre, Daniel and Myreen, Magnus O. and Nordstr\"{o}m, Jakob and Oertel, Andy and Tan, Yong Kiam and Vinyals, Marc},
title = {{Practically Feasible Proof Logging for Pseudo-Boolean Optimization}},
booktitle = {31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025)},
pages = {21:1--21:27},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-380-5},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2025},
volume = {340},
editor = {de la Banda, Maria Garcia},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2025.21},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-238825},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2025.21},
annote = {Keywords: proof logging, certifying algorithms, combinatorial optimization, certification, pseudo-Boolean solving, 0-1 integer linear programming}
}
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