EURO 2025 Leeds
Abstract Submission

25. SAT Information size and its implications for industrial optimization

Invited abstract in session WA-38: Industrial Optimization, stream Data Science meets Optimization.

Wednesday, 8:30-10:00
Room: Michael Sadler LG19

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Maciej Drozdowski
Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology

Abstract

The amount of information in satisfiability problem (SAT) is considered. It is argued that the amount of information in SAT grows at least exponentially with the size of the input instance. This is juxtaposed with the limited information content of the input instances, algorithms and external information sources that can be used at the runtime. It is argued that this available information quantity, in some cases, is insufficient in solving SAT. It is also claimed that combinatorial problems like SAT, are ultimately not learnable. This poses a question of the scalability of, e.g., machine learning methods in solving hard combinatorial problems.

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Status: accepted


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