Efficient Solution of Max-sat and Sat via Higher Order Boltzmann Machines
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High order Boltzmann machines (HOBM) have been proposed some time ago, but few applications have been reported. SAT is the canonical NP-complete problem. MAX-SAT is a generalization of SAT in sense that its solution provides answers to SAT. In this paper we propose a mapping on the MAX-SAT problem, in the propositional calculus setting, into HOBM combinatorial optimization problem. The approximate solution of MAX-SAT can be used as an approximate answer to the SAT question. An extensive experimental study of the behavior of HOBM for this problem has been conducted.
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