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Studies in Solution Sampling

Vibhav Gogate and Rina Dechter

Abstract
We introduce novel algorithms for generating random solutions from a uniform distribution over the solutions of a boolean satisfiability problem. Our algorithms operate in two phases. In the first phase, we use a recently introduced SampleSearch scheme to generate biased samples while in the second phase we correct the bias by using either Sampling/Importance Resampling or the Metropolis- Hastings method. Unlike state-of-the-art algorithms, our algorithms guarantee convergence in the limit. Our empirical results demonstrate the superior performance of our new algorithms over several competing schemes.

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University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3425
Dr. Rina Dechter
dechter at ics.uci.edu