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Takumi Shimoda

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Decoupling Generation and Evaluation for Parallel Greedy Best-First Search(extended version)

In order to understand and control the search behavior of parallel search, recent work has proposed a class of constrained parallel greedy best-first search algorithms which only expands states that satisfy some constraint.However, enforcing such constraints can be costly, as threads must be waiting idly until a state that satisfies the expansion constraint is available. We propose an improvement to constrained parallel search which decouples state generation and state evaluation and significantly improves state evaluation rate, resulting in better search performance.

cs.AI↗

Parallel Greedy Best-First Search with a Bound on Expansions Relative to Sequential Search

Parallelization of non-admissible search algorithms such as GBFS poses a challenge because straightforward parallelization can result in search behavior which significantly deviates from sequential search. Previous work proposed PUHF, a parallel search algorithm which is constrained to only expand states that can be expanded by some tie-breaking strategy for GBFS. We show that despite this constraint, the number of states expanded by PUHF is not bounded by a constant multiple of the number of states expanded by sequential GBFS with the worst-case tie-breaking strategy. We propose and experimentally evaluate One Bench At a Time (OBAT), a parallel greedy search which guarantees that the number of states expanded is within a constant factor of the number of states expanded by sequential GBFS with some tie-breaking policy.

cs.DS↗

Symbolic Automatic Relations and Their Applications to SMT and CHC Solving

Despite the recent advance of automated program verification, reasoning about recursive data structures remains as a challenge for verification tools and their backends such as SMT and CHC solvers. To address the challenge, we introduce the notion of symbolic automatic relations (SARs), which combines symbolic automata and automatic relations, and inherits their good properties such as the closure under Boolean operations. We consider the satisfiability problem for SARs, and show that it is undecidable in general, but that we can construct a sound (but incomplete) and automated satisfiability checker by a reduction to CHC solving. We discuss applications to SMT and CHC solving on data structures, and show the effectiveness of our approach through experiments.

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