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Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) Group

Some Highlights

About the MIAO Research Group

The Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) research group is based on both sides of the Öresund Bridge at Lund University and the University of Copenhagen. We are closely affiliated with the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre, and are part of a world-leading environment in algorithms and complexity theory encompassing also the IT University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). We aim to attract top talent from around the world to an ambitious, creative, collaborative, and fun environment. Using the power of mathematics, we strive to create fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms and complexity theory. While the focus in on foundational research, algorithms and complexity researchers in Copenhagen have a track record of surprising algorithmic discoveries leading to major industrial applications.

The MIAO research group has a unique profile in that we are doing cutting-edge research both on the mathematical foundations of efficient computation and on state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This creates a very special environment, where we do not only conduct in-depth research on different theoretical and applied topics, but where different lines of research cross-fertilise each other and unexpected and exciting synergies often arise. Much of the activities of the group revolve around powerful algorithmic paradigms such as, e.g., Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving, Gröbner basis computations, integer linear programming, and constraint programming. This leads to classical questions in computational complexity theory—though often with new, fascinating twists—but also involves work on devising clever algorithms that can exploit the power of such paradigms in practice.

On the theory side, most of our work has been in proof complexity, i.e., the study of formal systems for reasoning about logic formulas and other types of problems from the point of view of computational complexity. Proof complexity has connections to foundational questions in computational complexity theory, but another important motivation is algorithm analysis. All algorithms use some kind of method of reasoning to compute solutions to problems, and proof complexity can be used to analyse the potential and limitations of such methods (and thereby of the algorithms using them). As often happens in theoretical computer science, our research in proof complexity has revealed deep, and often quite surprising, connections to other areas such as, e.g., circuit complexity, communication complexity, hardness of approximation, and finite model theory, and so we are also interested in such areas. See the slides for the talk Proof Complexity and SAT Solving PDF for an overview of this area (with a bias towards connections to algorithms).

On the practical side, we want to gain a more rigorous scientific understanding, and improve the efficiency, of modern algorithms for automated reasoning and combinatorial optimization. We are particularly interested in designing algorithms that can exploit sophisticated mathematical techniques to achieve exponential improvements in performance compared to the current state of the art—something that theoretical research suggests should be possible, but that has so far been hard to achieve in practice. Combining ideas from SAT solving and mixed integer linear programming (MIP), we have constructed a new 0-1 integer linear programming solver RoundingSat. This solver is already world-leading when it comes to pseudo-Boolean solving, but our goal is to develop it further, integrating ideas also from MaxSAT solving, MIP solving, and possibly also constraint programming (CP), ultimately hoping to go significantly beyond the current state of the art. For more information about this line of research, see the Indian SAT+SMT Winter School 2022 lectures on SAT solving, pseudo-Boolean solving, pseudo-Boolean optimization, and mixed integer linear programming and pseudo-Boolean solving/optimization, as well as the demo session (with slides for part 1 PDF, part 2 PDF, part 3 PDF, and part 4 PDF of the lectures).

In the last few years we have also made research breakthroughs on how to verify the correctness of state-of-the-art algorithms for combinatorial solving and optimization. Such algorithms are often highly complex, and even mature commercial solvers are known to sometimes produce wrong results. Our goal is to usher in a new generation of certifying combinatorial solvers with so-called proof logging, meaning that the solvers output not only a result but also a simple, machine-verifiable proof that the claimed result is correct. For such a certifying solver, the workflow becomes as follows:

  1. Run the solver on a problem instance to obtain not only a computed result, but also a proof of correctness.
  2. Feed the problem, the result, and the proof of correctness to a special, dedicated proof checker for verification.
  3. Accept the result if the proof checker says that the proof is valid.

Importantly, these machine-verifiable proofs should be very easy to generate and should require low overhead on the solver side, but should also be very easy to check efficiently on the proof checker side, and should still provide 100% formal guarantees of correctness. This might sound just a little bit too good to be true, but the tool VeriPB that we have developed can now provide efficient proof logging for several combinatorial solving paradigms that have previously been beyond reach, and we have recently received several prestigious awards for our work. VeriPB was also used as one of the proof checkers in the SAT Competition 2023, allowing solver authors for the first time to use also the most advanced SAT techniques (such as Gaussian elimination and fully general symmetry breaking) that have lacked efficient support in previous SAT proof logging tools. See our video tutorial Combinatorial solving with provably correct results with accompanying slides PDF for more details.

Principal Investigator

Jakob Nordström, professor at the University of Copenhagen and Lund University

Researchers

The MIAO group has the pleasure of collaborating closely with Susanna F. de Rezende, and all PhD students in Copenhagen and Lund are jointly advised by Susanna and Jakob regardless of their sources of funding.

  • Shuo Pang, postdoctoral researcher (since 2022)
  • Noel Arteche, PhD student (since 2022)
  • Benjamin Bogø, PhD student (starting in December 2024)
  • Jonas Conneryd, PhD student (since 2021)
  • David Engström, PhD student (since 2024)
  • Yassine Ghannane, PhD student (since 2023)
  • Duri Andrea Janett, PhD student (since 2023)
  • Rui Ji, PhD student (since 2024)
  • Wietze Koops, PhD student (since 2024)
  • Andy Oertel, PhD student (since 2021)

Friends of MIAO

We are fortunate to be able to interact closely with several researchers in computational complexity theory at Lund University, the University of Copenhagen, and the IT University of Copenhagen:

BSc and MSc Students (Current and Former)

Group Alumni

Long-Term Visitors

(Visitors for one month or more.)

  • Simon Dold, Universität Basel, October 2024 – January 2025
  • Marc Vinyals, May 2022
  • Massimo Lauria, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, August-October 2016
  • Alexander Razborov, University of Chicago, March-April 2015
  • Ilario Bonacina, Sapienza – Università di Roma, January-May 2014
  • Navid Talebanfard, Aarhus University, January-March 2014
  • Yuval Filmus, University of Toronto, November-December 2012
  • Bangsheng Tang, Tsinghua University, January-February 2012
  • Chris Beck, Princeton University, January-February 2012
  • Trinh Huynh, University of Washington and ETH Zurich, August-September 2011

Short-Term Visitors

Funding

Our research have at different stages been generously funded by

  • a Junior Researcher Position Grant from the Swedish Research Council,
  • a Starting Independent Researcher Grant from the European Research Council,
  • a Breakthrough Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council,
  • a Grant for Research Projects with High Scientific Potential from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (co-PI),
  • a Consolidator Grant from the Swedish Research Council,
  • a Postdoctoral Scholarship Program in Mathematics Grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation,
  • a Research project 2 grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark,
  • an academic doctoral student grant from the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP).

Workshops

Workshops, seminar weeks, et cetera co-organized by Jakob Nordström:

Publications

Below follows a list of publications, sorted in reverse chronological order, emanating from the MIAO research group. As a general rule, these papers are copyright by their respective publishers but are free for personal use.

Please note that the list below is updated at somewhat irregular intervals. The last proper update was in September 2024. See www.jakobnordstrom.se/publications for a full list of Jakob Nordström's publications (which is updated more frequently, but does not contain papers by other members of the group on which Jakob Nordström is not a co-author).

2024

  • Jeremias Berg, Bart Bogaerts, Jakob Nordström, Andy Oertel, Tobias Paxian, and Dieter Vandesande. Certifying Without Loss of Generality Reasoning in Solution-Improving Maximum Satisfiability. In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '24), pages 4:1-4:28, September 2024. PDF
  • Emir Demirović, Ciaran McCreesh, Matthew McIlree, Jakob Nordström, Andy Oertel, and Konstantin Sidorov. Pseudo-Boolean Reasoning About States and Transitions to Certify Dynamic Programming and Decision Diagram Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '24), pages 9:1-9:21, September 2024. PDF
  • Hannes Ihalainen, Andy Oertel, Yong Kiam Tan, Jeremias Berg, Matti Järvisalo, Magnus O. Myreen, and Jakob Nordström. Certified MaxSAT Preprocessing. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR '24), pages 396-418, July 2024. PDF
  • Alexander Hoen, Andy Oertel, Ambros Gleixner, and Jakob Nordström. Certifying MIP-based Presolve Reductions for 0-1 Integer Linear Programs. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR '24), pages 310-328, May 2024. PDF
  • Matthew McIlree, Ciaran McCreesh, and Jakob Nordström. Proof Logging for the Circuit Constraint. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR '24), pages 38-55, May 2024. PDF
  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Or Meir, Jakob Nordström, Toniann Pitassi, and Robert Robere. KRW Composition Theorems via Lifting. Computational Complexity, volume 33, pages 4:1-4:97, April 2024. PDF
  • Stephan Gocht, Ciaran McCreesh, Magnus O. Myreen, Jakob Nordström, Andy Oertel, and Yong Kiam Tan. End-to-End Verification for Subgraph Solving. In Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '24), pages 8038-8047, February 2024. PDF

2023

  • Jonas Conneryd, Susanna F. de Rezende, Jakob Nordström, Shuo Pang, and Kilian Risse. Graph Colouring Is Hard on Average for Polynomial Calculus and Nullstellensatz. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS '23), pages 1-11, November 2023. PDF
  • Christoph Berkholz and Jakob Nordström. Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on Quantifier Depth and Weisfeiler-Leman Refinement Steps. Journal of the ACM, volume 70, issue 5, pages 32:1-32:32, October 2023. PDF
  • Gioni Mexi, Timo Berthold, Ambros Gleixner, and Jakob Nordström. Improving Conflict Analysis in MIP Solvers by Pseudo-Boolean Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '23), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 280, pages 27:1-27:19, August 2023. PDF
  • Stephan Gocht, Ruben Martins, Jakob Nordström, and Andy Oertel. Certified CNF Translations for Pseudo-Boolean Solving (Extended Abstract). Best Papers from Sister Conferences Track in the Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '23), pages 6436-6441, August 2023. PDF
  • Bart Bogaerts, Stephan Gocht, Ciaran McCreesh, and Jakob Nordström. Certified Dominance and Symmetry Breaking for Combinatorial Optimisation. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, volume 77, pages 1539-1589, August 2023. PDF
  • Jeremias Berg, Bart Bogaerts, Jakob Nordström, Andy Oertel, and Dieter Vandesande. Certified Core-Guided MaxSAT Solving. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-29), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 14132, pages 1-22, July 2023. PDF

2022

  • Stephan Gocht, Ciaran McCreesh, and Jakob Nordström. An Auditable Constraint Programming Solver. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '22), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 235, pages 25:1-25:18, August 2022. PDF
  • Stephan Gocht, Ruben Martins, Jakob Nordström, and Andy Oertel. Certified CNF Translations for Pseudo-Boolean Solving. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '22), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 236, pages 16:1-16:25, August 2022. PDF SAT '22 best paper award.
  • Daniela Kaufmann, Paul Beame, Armin Biere and Jakob Nordström. Adding Dual Variables to Algebraic Reasoning for Gate-Level Multiplier Verification. In Proceedings of the 25th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE '22), pages 1435-1440, March 2022. PDF
  • Bart Bogaerts, Stephan Gocht, Ciaran McCreesh, and Jakob Nordström. Certified Symmetry and Dominance Breaking for Combinatorial Optimisation. In Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '22), pages 3698-3707, February 2022. PDF AAAI '22 distinguished paper award.

2021

  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Massimo Lauria, Jakob Nordström, and Dmitry Sokolov. The Power of Negative Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Computational Complexity Conference (CCC '21), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 200, pages 40:1-40:24, July 2021. PDF
  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Mika Göös, Jakob Nordström, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere, and Dmitry Sokolov. Automating Algebraic Proof Systems is NP-Hard. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '21), pages 209-222, June 2021. PDF
  • Albert Atserias, Ilario Bonacina, Susanna F. de Rezende, Massimo Lauria, Jakob Nordström, and Alexander Razborov. Clique Is Hard on Average for Regular Resolution. In Journal of the ACM, volume 68, issue 4, pages 23:1-23:26, August 2021. PDF
  • Jo Devriendt, Stephan Gocht, Emir Demirović, Jakob Nordström, and Peter Stuckey. Cutting to the Core of Pseudo-Boolean Optimization: Combining Core-Guided Search with Cutting Planes Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '21), pages 3750-3758, February 2021. PDF
  • Stephan Gocht and Jakob Nordström. Certifying Parity Reasoning Efficiently Using Pseudo-Boolean Proofs. In Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '21), pages 3768-3777, February 2021. PDF
  • Sam Buss and Jakob Nordström. Proof Complexity and SAT Solving. In Armin Biere, Marijn Heule, Hans van Maaren, and Toby Walsh (editors), Handbook of Satisfiability, 2nd edition, Chapter 7, pages 233-350. IOS Press, 2021. PDF
  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Or Meir, Jakob Nordström, and Robert Robere. Nullstellensatz Size-Degree Trade-offs from Reversible Pebbling. Computational Complexity, volume 30, issue 1, pages 4:1-4:45, June 2021. PDF
  • Jo Devriendt, Ambros Gleixner, and Jakob Nordström. Learn to Relax: Integrating 0-1 Integer Linear Programming with Conflict-Driven Pseudo-Boolean Search. Constraints, January 2021. (Special issue for CPAIOR '20.) PDF
  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. How Limited Interaction Hinders Real Communication (and What It Means for Proof and Circuit Complexity). Technical Report TR21-006, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC), January 2021. PDF

2020

  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Or Meir, Jakob Nordström, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere, and Marc Vinyals. Lifting with Simple Gadgets and Applications to Circuit and Proof Complexity. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS '20), pages 24-30, November 2020. PDF
  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Or Meir, Jakob Nordström, Toniann Pitassi, and Robert Robere. KRW Composition Theorems via Lifting. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS '20), pages 43-49, November 2020. PDF
  • Vincent Liew, Paul Beame, Jo Devriendt, Jan Elffers, and Jakob Nordström. Verifying Properties of Bit-vector Multiplication Using Cutting Planes Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD '20), pages 194-204, September 2020. PDF
  • Jo Devriendt, Ambros Gleixner, and Jakob Nordström. Learn to Relax: Integrating 0-1 Integer Linear Programming with Conflict-Driven Pseudo-Boolean Search. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR '20), pages xxiv-xxv, September 2020. PDF
  • Stephan Gocht, Ciaran McCreesh and Jakob Nordström. VeriPB: The Easy Way to Make Your Combinatorial Search Algorithm Trustworthy. From Constraint Programming to Trustworthy AI, workshop at the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '20), September 2020. PDF (See also the video from the workshop.)
  • Jo Devriendt. Watched Propagation of 0-1 Integer Linear Constraints. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '20), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 12333, pages 160-176, September 2020. PDF
  • Stephan Gocht, Ross McBride, Ciaran McCreesh, Jakob Nordström, Patrick Prosser, and James Trimble. Certifying Solvers for Clique and Maximum Common (Connected) Subgraph Problems. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '20), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 12333, pages 338-357, September 2020. PDF
  • Janne I. Kokkala and Jakob Nordström. Using Resolution Proofs to Analyse CDCL Solvers. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '20), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 12333, pages 427-444, September 2020. PDF
  • Buser Say, Jo Devriendt, Jakob Nordström, and Peter Stuckey. Theoretical and Experimental Results for Planning with Learned Binarized Neural Network Transition Models. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '20), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 12333, pages 917-934, September 2020. PDF
  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Jakob Nordström, Kilian Risse, and Dmitry Sokolov. Exponential Resolution Lower Bounds for Weak Pigeonhole Principle and Perfect Matching Formulas over Sparse Graphs. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Computational Complexity Conference (CCC '20), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 169, pages 28:1-28:24, July 2020. PDF
  • Mate Soos, Stephan Gocht, and Kuldeep S. Meel. Tinted, Detached, and Lazy CNF-XOR Solving and Its Applications to Counting and Sampling. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV '20), Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 12224, pages 463-484, July 2020. PDF
  • Dmitry Sokolov. (Semi)Algebraic Proofs over {±1}Variables. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '20), pages 78-90, June 2020. PDF
  • Marc Vinyals, Jan Elffers, Jan Johannsen, and Jakob Nordström. Simplified and Improved Separations Between Regular and General Resolution by Lifting. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '20), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 12178, pages 182-200, July 2020. PDF
  • Stephan Gocht, Ciaran McCreesh, and Jakob Nordström. Subgraph Isomorphism Meets Cutting Planes: Solving with Certified Solutions. In Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '20), pages 1134-1140, July 2020. PDF
  • Christoph Berkholz and Jakob Nordström. Supercritical Space-Width Trade-offs for Resolution. SIAM Journal on Computing, volume 49, issue 1, pages 98-118, February 2020. PDF
  • Jan Elffers, Stephan Gocht, Ciaran McCreesh, and Jakob Nordström. Justifying All Differences Using Pseudo-Boolean Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '20), pages 1486-1494, February 2020. PDF
  • Jan Elffers and Jakob Nordström. A Cardinal Improvement to Pseudo-Boolean Solving. In Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '20), pages 1495-1503, February 2020. PDF
  • Guillaume Lagarde, Jakob Nordström, Dmitry Sokolov, and Joseph Swernofsky. Trade-offs Between Size and Degree in Polynomial Calculus. In Proceedings of the 11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS '20), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 151, pages 72:1-72:16, January 2020. PDF

2019

  • Bernhard Beckert, Thorsten Bormer, Stephan Gocht, Mihai Herda, Daniel Lentzsch, and Mattias Ulbrich. Using Relational Verification for Program Slicing. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM '19), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 11724, pages 353-372, September 2019. PDF
  • Stephan Gocht, Jakob Nordström, and Amir Yehudayoff. On Division Versus Saturation in Pseudo-Boolean Solving. In Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '19), pages 1711-1718, August 2019. PDF
  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Jakob Nordström, Or Meir, and Robert Robere. Nullstellensatz Size-Degree Trade-offs from Reversible Pebbling. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computational Complexity Conference (CCC '19), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 137, pages 18:1-18:26, July 2019. PDF
  • Tu-San Pham, Jo Devriendt, and Patrick De Causmaecker. Declarative Local Search for Predicate Logic. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR '19), pages 340-346, June 2019. PDF
  • Marjolein Deryck, Joost Vennekens, Jo Devriendt, and Simon Marynissen. Legislation in the Knowledge Base Paradigm: Interactive Decision Enactment for Registration Duties. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC '19), pages 174-177, January-February 2019. PDF
  • Mika Göös, Pritish Kamath, Robert Robere, and Dmitry Sokolov. Adventures in Monotone Complexity and TFNP. In Proceedings of the 10th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS '19), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 124, pages 38:1-38:19, January 2019. PDF

2018

  • Jan Elffers and Jakob Nordström. Divide and Conquer: Towards Faster Pseudo-Boolean Solving. In Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '18), pages 1291-1299, July 2018. PDF
  • Jan Elffers, Jesús Giráldez-Cru, Stephan Gocht, Jakob Nordström, and Laurent Simon. Seeking Practical CDCL Insights from Theoretical SAT Benchmarks. In Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '18), pages 1300-1308, July 2018. PDF
  • Jan Elffers, Jesús Giráldez-Cru, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. Using Combinatorial Benchmarks to Probe the Reasoning Power of Pseudo-Boolean Solvers. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '18), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 10929, pages 75-93, July 2018. PDF
  • Marc Vinyals, Jan Elffers, Jesús Giráldez-Cru, Stephan Gocht, and Jakob Nordström. In Between Resolution and Cutting Planes: A Study of Proof Systems for Pseudo-Boolean SAT Solving. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '18), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 10929, pages 292-310, July 2018. PDF
  • Albert Atserias, Ilario Bonacina, Susanna F. de Rezende, Massimo Lauria, Jakob Nordström, and Alexander Razborov. Clique Is Hard on Average for Regular Resolution. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '18), pages 866-877, June 2018. PDF
  • Ankit Garg, Mika Göös, Pritish Kamath, and Dmitry Sokolov. Monotone circuit lower bounds from resolution. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '18), pages 902-911, June 2018. PDF
  • Arkadev Chattopadhyay, Michal Koucký, Bruno Loff, and Sagnik Mukhopadhyay. Simulation Beats Richness: New Data-Structure Lower Bounds. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '18), pages 1013-1020, June 2018. PDF
  • Sam Buss, Dmitry Itsykson, Alexander Knop, and Dmitry Sokolov. Reordering Rule Makes OBDD Proof Systems Stronger. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Computational Complexity Conference (CCC '17), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 102, pages 16:1-16:24, June 2018. PDF

2017

  • Ilario Bonacina. Space in Weak Propositional Proof Systems. Springer, 2017. PDF
  • Massimo Lauria and Jakob Nordström. Tight Size-Degree Bounds for Sums-of-Squares Proofs. Computational Complexity, volume 26, issue 3, pages 911-948, December 2017. PDF
  • Ilario Bonacina and Navid Talebanfard. Strong ETH and Resolution via Games and the Multiplicity of Strategies. Algorithmica, volume 79, issue 1, pages 29-41, September 2017. PDF
  • Carlos Ansótegui, Maria Luisa Bonet, Jesús Giráldez-Cru, and Jordi Levy. Structure Features for SAT Instances Classification Journal of Applied Logic, volume 23, pages 27-39, September 2017. PDF
  • Jesús Giráldez-Cru and Jordi Levy. Locality in Random SAT Instances. In Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '17), pages 638-644, August 2017. PDF
  • Massimo Lauria, Jan Elffers, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. CNFgen: A Generator of Crafted Benchmarks. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '17), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 10491, pages 464-473, August 2017. PDF
  • Guillaume Baud-Berthier, Jesús Giráldez-Cru, and Laurent Simon. On the Community Structure of Bounded Model Checking SAT Problems. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '17), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 10491, pages 65-82, August 2017. PDF
  • Patrick Bennett, Ilario Bonacina, Nicola Galesi, Tony Huynh, Mike Molloy, and Paul Wollan. Space proof complexity for random 3-CNFs. Information and Computation, volume 255, part 1, pages 165-176, August 2017. PDF
  • Massimo Lauria and Jakob Nordström. Graph Colouring is Hard for Algorithms Based on Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and Gröbner Bases. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Computational Complexity Conference (CCC '17), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 79, pages 2:1-2:20, July 2017. PDF
  • Massimo Lauria, Pavel Pudlák, Vojtěch Rödl and Neil Thapen. The Complexity of Proving That a Graph Is Ramsey. Combinatorica, volume 37, issue 2, pages 253-268, April 2017. PDF
  • Joël Alwen, Susanna F. de Rezende, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. Cumulative Space in Black-White Pebbling and Resolution. In Proceedings of the 8th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS '17), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 67, pages 38:1-38:21, January 2017. PDF

2016

  • Susanna F. de Rezende, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. How Limited Interaction Hinders Real Communication (and What It Means for Proof and Circuit Complexity). In Proceedings of the 57th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS '16), pages 295-304, October 2016. PDF
  • Ilario Bonacina, Nicola Galesi, and Neil Thapen. Total Space in Resolution. SIAM Journal on Computing, volume 45, issue 5, pages 1894-1909, October 2016. PDF
  • Christoph Berkholz and Jakob Nordström. Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on Quantifier Depth and Weisfeiler-Leman Refinement Steps. Technical Report TR16-135, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC), August 2016. PDF
  • Christoph Berkholz and Jakob Nordström. Supercritical Space-Width Trade-offs for Resolution. In Proceedings of the 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '16), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 55, pages 57:1-57:14, July 2016. PDF
  • Ilario Bonacina. Total Space in Resolution Is at Least Width Squared. In Proceedings of the 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '16), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 55, pages 56:1-56:13, July 2016. PDF
  • Jan Elffers, Jan Johannsen, Massimo Lauria, Thomas Magnard, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. Trade-offs Between Time and Memory in a Tighter Model of CDCL SAT Solvers. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '16), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 9710, pages 160-176, July 2016. PDF
  • Christoph Berkholz and Jakob Nordström. Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on Quantifier Depth and Weisfeiler-Leman Refinement Steps. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS '16), July 2016. PDF
  • Massimo Lauria. A Rank Lower Bound for Cutting Planes Proofs of Ramsey's Theorem. ACM Transactions on Computation Theory, volume 8, issue 4, article 17, June 2016. PDF
  • Albert Atserias, Massimo Lauria, and Jakob Nordström. Narrow Proofs May Be Maximally Long. In ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, volume 17, issue 3, article 19, May 2016. PDF
  • Yuval Filmus, Pavel Hrubeš, and Massimo Lauria. Semantic Versus Syntactic Cutting Planes. In Proceedings of the 33rd Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS '16), pages 35:1-35:13, February 2016. PDF
  • Ilario Bonacina and Navid Talebanfard. Improving Resolution Width Lower Bounds for k-CNFs with Applications to the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis. Information Processing Letters, volume 116, issue 2, pages 120-124, February 2016. PDF
  • Olaf Beyersdorff, Ilario Bonacina, and Leroy Chew. Lower Bounds: From Circuits to QBF Proof Systems. In Proceedings of the 7th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS '16), pages 249-260, January 2016. PDF

2015

  • Siu Man Chan, Massimo Lauria, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. Hardness of Approximation in PSPACE and Separation Results for Pebble Games (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 56th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS '15), pages 466-485, October 2015. PDF
  • Ilario Bonacina and Navid Talebanfard. Strong ETH and Resolution via Games and the Multiplicity of Strategies. In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC '15), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 43, pages 248-257, September 2015. PDF
  • Yuval Filmus, Massimo Lauria, Jakob Nordström, Noga Ron-Zewi, and Neil Thapen. Space Complexity in Polynomial Calculus. SIAM Journal on Computing, volume 44, issue 4, pages 1119-1153, August 2015. PDF
  • Yuval Filmus, Massimo Lauria, Mladen Mikša, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. From Small Space to Small Width in Resolution. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, volume 16, issue 4, article 28, July 2015. PDF
  • Jakob Nordström. On the Interplay Between Proof Complexity and SAT Solving. ACM SIGLOG News, volume 2, number 3, pages 19-44, July 2015. PDF (Lightly edited version with some typos fixed.)
  • Massimo Lauria and Jakob Nordström. Tight Size-Degree Bounds for Sums-of-Squares Proofs. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computational Complexity Conference (CCC '15), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 33, pages 448-466, June 2015. PDF
  • Mladen Mikša and Jakob Nordström. A Generalized Method for Proving Polynomial Calculus Degree Lower Bounds. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computational Complexity Conference (CCC '15), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), volume 33, pages 467-487, June 2015. PDF

2014

  • Jakob Nordström. A (Biased) Proof Complexity Survey for SAT Practitioners. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '14), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 8561, pages 1-6, July 2014. PDF
  • Mladen Mikša and Jakob Nordström. Long Proofs of (Seemingly) Simple Formulas. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '14), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 8561, pages 121-137, July 2014. PDF
  • Albert Atserias, Massimo Lauria, and Jakob Nordström. Narrow Proofs May Be Maximally Long (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC '14), pages 286-297, June 2014. PDF
  • Yuval Filmus, Massimo Lauria, Mladen Mikša, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. From Small Space to Small Width in Resolution. In Proceedings of the 31st Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS '14), pages 300-311, March 2014. PDF

2013

  • Jakob Nordström. Pebble Games, Proof Complexity, and Time-Space Trade-offs. Logical Methods in Computer Science, volume 9, issue 3, article 15, September 2013. PDF
  • Olaf Beyersdorff, Nicola Galesi, and Massimo Lauria. A Characterization of Tree-Like Resolution Size. In Information Processing Letters, volume 113, number 18, pages 666-671, September 2013. PDF
  • Olaf Beyersdorff, Nicola Galesi, and Massimo Lauria. Parameterized Complexity of DPLL Search Procedures In ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, volume 14, issue 3, article 23, August 2013. PDF
  • Massimo Lauria. A Rank Lower Bound for Cutting Planes Proofs of Ramsey Theorem. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT '13), pages 351-364, July 2013. PDF
  • Yuval Filmus, Massimo Lauria, Mladen Mikša, Jakob Nordström, and Marc Vinyals. Towards an Understanding of Polynomial Calculus: New Separations and Lower Bounds (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 40th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '13), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 7965, pages 437-448, July 2013. PDF
  • Massimo Lauria, Pavel Pudlak, Vojtěch Rödl, and Neil Thapen. The Complexity of Proving That a Graph Is Ramsey. In Proceedings of the 40th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '13), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 7965, pages 684-695, July 2013. PDF
  • Chris Beck, Jakob Nordström, and Bangsheng Tang. Some Trade-off Results for Polynomial Calculus (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 45th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '13), pages 813-822, June 2013. PDF
  • Jakob Nordström and Johan Håstad. Towards an Optimal Separation of Space and Length in Resolution. Theory of Computing, volume 9, article 14, pages 471-557, May 2013. PDF

2012

  • Yuval Filmus, Massimo Lauria, Jakob Nordström, Noga Ron-Zewi, and Neil Thapen. Space Complexity in Polynomial Calculus. Technical Report TR12-132, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC), October 2012. PDF
  • Matti Järvisalo, Arie Matsliah, Jakob Nordström, and Stanislav Živný. Relating Proof Complexity Measures and Practical Hardness of SAT. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '12), pages 316-331, October 2012. PDF
  • Olaf Beyersdorff, Nicola Galesi, Massimo Lauria, and Alexander A. Razborov. Parameterized Bounded-depth Frege Is Not Optimal. In ACM Transaction on Computational Theory, volume 4, issue 3, article 7, September 2012. PDF
  • Yuval Filmus, Massimo Lauria, Jakob Nordström, Neil Thapen, and Noga Ron-Zewi. Space Complexity in Polynomial Calculus (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC '12), pages 334-344, June 2012. PDF
  • Trinh Huynh and Jakob Nordström. On the Virtue of Succinct Proofs: Amplifying Communication Complexity Hardness to Time-Space Trade-offs in Proof Complexity (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 44th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '12), pages 233-248, May 2012. PDF
  • Jakob Nordström. On the Relative Strength of Pebbling and Resolution. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, volume 13, issue 2, article 16, April 2012. PDF

2011

  • Jakob Nordström and Alexander Razborov. On Minimal Unsatisfiability and Time-Space Trade-offs for k-DNF Resolution. In Proceedings of the 38th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '11), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 6755, pages 642-653, July 2011. PDF
  • Eli Ben-Sasson and Jakob Nordström. Understanding Space in Proof Complexity: Separations and Trade-offs via Substitutions (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Innovations in Computer Science (ICS '11), pages 401-416, January 2011. PDF
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