aspeed: solver scheduling via answer set programming

DOI10.1017/S1471068414000015zbMATH Open1379.68283DBLPjournals/tplp/HoosKLS15arXiv1401.1024OpenAlexW2170245713WikidataQ59585916 ScholiaQ59585916MaRDI QIDQ4592974FDOQ4592974

Holger H. Hoos, Marius Lindauer, Roland Kaminski, Torsten Schaub

Publication date: 9 November 2017

Published in: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Although Boolean Constraint Technology has made tremendous progress over the last decade, the efficacy of state-of-the-art solvers is known to vary considerably across different types of problem instances and is known to depend strongly on algorithm parameters. This problem was addressed by means of a simple, yet effective approach using handmade, uniform and unordered schedules of multiple solvers in ppfolio, which showed very impressive performance in the 2011 SAT Competition. Inspired by this, we take advantage of the modeling and solving capacities of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to automatically determine more refined, that is, non-uniform and ordered solver schedules from existing benchmarking data. We begin by formulating the determination of such schedules as multi-criteria optimization problems and provide corresponding ASP encodings. The resulting encodings are easily customizable for different settings and the computation of optimum schedules can mostly be done in the blink of an eye, even when dealing with large runtime data sets stemming from many solvers on hundreds to thousands of instances. Also, the fact that our approach can be customized easily enabled us to swiftly adapt it to generate parallel schedules for multi-processor machines.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1024

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zbMATH Keywords

answer set programmingalgorithm schedulesportfolio-based solving

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problem solving in the context of artificial intelligence (heuristics, search strategies, etc.) (68T20) Logic programming (68N17)

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Cited In (8)

• Multi-level Algorithm Selection for ASP
• Why CP Portfolio Solvers Are (under)Utilized? Issues and Challenges
• The algorithm selection competitions 2015 and 2017
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• Selecting algorithms for large berth allocation problems

Uses Software

• Paramils
• SATzilla
• Potassco
• irace
• Sugar
• SMAC

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