PlanckSat 🔬

PlanckSat is just a set of small features and quality-of-life improvements on top of the state-of-the-art MiniSat solver.

Feature list

• PlanckSat builds on macOS (tested on a MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon). We support building the plancksat binary; building of dynamic libraries is currently out of the scope of this project. Linux users may still want to use the original Makefile, kept as Makefile.bak.

• PlanckSat's output strives to follow DIMACS conventions, as specified here. Specifically: the solution line starts with an s and contains SATISFIABLE, UNSATISFIABLE or UNKNOWN (instead of INDETERMINATE); the values line starts with a v; and all other output lines start with a c *for comment).

• -model tells PlanckSat to print the satisfying assignment (if any) to standard output. The default is -no-model.

• -rnd-pol lets PlanckSat randomize the polarity of a variable upon branching, unless the user had set a preferred modality for that variable (see -try-assume below). The default is -no-rnd-pol.

• -assume "<LITERALS>" tells PlanckSat to solve under the given (strong) assumptions. Essentially, every literal in LITERALS is added to the problem as a separate unit clause.

• -try-assume "<LITERALS> tells PlanckSat to try using the suggested polarities for some variables. However, if the formula is unsatisfiable under all these (weak) assumptions, the solver may drop one or more until a solution is found or the formula is found to be UNSAT even after all weak assumptions have been dropped.

Examples

• Basic invocation:

  plancksat a.cnf

  Note that the default values have been chosen to keep in line with the behaviour of vanilla MiniSat. In other words, invoking minisat or plancksat with the same command-line arguments should lead to the same results (modulo the DIMACS-compliant output).

• Strong and weak assumptions:

  plancksat a.cnf -assume "1 2 -3" -try-assume "4 -5"

  This tells PlanckSat to solve a.cnf under the assumption that 1 and 2 be true, and 3 be false. In other words, we are really solving the formula <a.cnf> /\ (1) /\ (2) /\ (-3). Additionally, we would prefer the solution (if any) to have an asserted 4 and a negated 5.

Building

To build a plancksat binary, execute the following commands:

make config prefix=$PREFIX
make 

The binary will be placed at $PREFIX/release/bin/plancksat

Linux users may prefer using the original Makefile and follow the original MiniSat README.

Changelog

• v1.1: -try-assume-from
• v1.0: -assume, -model, -rnd-pol, -try-assume, DIMACS-compliant output