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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2024.25

Trusted Scalable SAT Solving with On-The-Fly LRAT Checking

Authors: Dominik Schreiber

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 305, 27th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2024)

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Recent advances have enabled powerful distributed SAT solvers to emit proofs of unsatisfiability, which renders them as trustworthy as sequential solvers. However, this mode of operation is still lacking behind conventional distributed solving in terms of scalability. We argue that the core limiting factor of such approaches is the requirement of a single, persistent artifact at the end of solving that is then checked independently (and sequentially). As an alternative, we propose a bottleneck-free setup that exploits recent advancements in producing and processing LRAT information to immediately check all solvers' reasoning on-the-fly during solving. In terms of clause sharing, our approach transfers the guarantee of a derived clause’s soundness from the sending to the receiving side via cryptographic signatures. Experiments with up to 2432 cores (32 nodes) indicate that our approach reduces the running time overhead incurred by proof checking by an order of magnitude, down to a median overhead of ≤ 42% over non trusted solving.

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Dominik Schreiber. Trusted Scalable SAT Solving with On-The-Fly LRAT Checking. In 27th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 305, pp. 25:1-25:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{schreiber:LIPIcs.SAT.2024.25,
  author =	{Schreiber, Dominik},
  title =	{{Trusted Scalable SAT Solving with On-The-Fly LRAT Checking}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2024)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-334-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{305},
  editor =	{Chakraborty, Supratik and Jiang, Jie-Hong Roland},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2024.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-205477},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2024.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: SAT solving, distributed algorithms, proofs}
}

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