diff-SAT – A Software for Sampling and Probabilistic Reasoning for SAT and Answer Set Programming
This paper describes diff-SAT, an Answer Set and SAT solver which combines regular solving with the capability to use probabilistic clauses, facts and rules, and to sample an optimal world-view (multiset of satisfying Boolean variable assignments or answer sets) subject to user-provided probabilistic constraints. The sampling process minimizes a user-defined differentiable objective function using a gradient descent based optimization method called Differentiable Satisfiability Solving (∂SAT) respectively Differentiable Answer Set Programming (∂ASP). Use cases are i.a. probabilistic logic programming (in form of Probabilistic Answer Set Programming), Probabilistic Boolean Satisfiability solving (PSAT), and distribution-aware sampling of model multisets (answer sets or Boolean interpretations).
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