CPMpy pysat interface (cpmpy.solvers.pysat)

Interface to PySAT’s API

PySAT is a Python (2.7, 3.4+) toolkit, which aims at providing a simple and unified interface to a number of state-of-art Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers as well as to a variety of cardinality and pseudo-Boolean encodings. https://pysathq.github.io/

This solver can be used if the model only has Boolean variables, and only logical constraints (and,or,implies,==,!=) or cardinality constraints.

Documentation of the solver’s own Python API: https://pysathq.github.io/docs/html/api/solvers.html

WARNING: CPMpy uses ‘model’ to refer to a constraint specification, the PySAT docs use ‘model’ to refer to a solution.

List of classes

CPM_pysat

Interface to PySAT's API

class cpmpy.solvers.pysat.CPM_pysat(cpm_model=None, subsolver=None)[source]

Interface to PySAT’s API

Requires that the ‘python-sat’ python package is installed: $ pip install python-sat

See detailed installation instructions at: https://pysathq.github.io/installation.html

Creates the following attributes (see parent constructor for more): pysat_vpool: a pysat.formula.IDPool for the variable mapping pysat_solver: a pysat.solver.Solver() (default: glucose4)

The DirectConstraint, when used, calls a function on the pysat_solver object.

get_core()[source]

For use with s.solve(assumptions=[…]). Only meaningful if the solver returned UNSAT. In that case, get_core() returns a small subset of assumption variables that are unsat together.

CPMpy will return only those assumptions which are False (in the UNSAT core)

Note that there is no guarantee that the core is minimal. More advanced Minimal Unsatisfiable Subset are available in the ‘examples’ folder on GitHub

has_objective()

Returns whether the solver has an objective function or not.

maximize(expr)

Post the given expression to the solver as objective to maximize

maximize() can be called multiple times, only the last one is stored

minimize(expr)

Post the given expression to the solver as objective to minimize

minimize() can be called multiple times, only the last one is stored

objective(expr, minimize)

Post the given expression to the solver as objective to minimize/maximize

  • expr: Expression, the CPMpy expression that represents the objective function

  • minimize: Bool, whether it is a minimization problem (True) or maximization problem (False)

‘objective()’ can be called multiple times, only the last one is stored

objective_value()

Returns the value of the objective function of the latest solver run on this model

Returns

an integer or ‘None’ if it is not run, or a satisfaction problem

solution_hint(cpm_vars, vals)[source]

PySAT supports warmstarting the solver with a feasible solution

In PySAT, this is called setting the ‘phases’ or the ‘polarities’ of literals

Parameters
  • cpm_vars – list of CPMpy variables

  • vals – list of (corresponding) values for the variables

solve(time_limit=None, assumptions=None)[source]

Call the PySAT solver

Arguments: - time_limit: maximum solve time in seconds (float, optional). Auto-interrups in case the

runtime exceeds given time_limit. Warning: the time_limit is not very accurate at subsecond level

  • assumptions: list of CPMpy Boolean variables that are assumed to be true.

    For use with s.get_core(): if the model is UNSAT, get_core() returns a small subset of assumption variables that are unsat together. Note: the PySAT interface is statefull, so you can incrementally call solve() with assumptions and it will reuse learned clauses

solveAll(display=None, time_limit=None, solution_limit=None, call_from_model=False, **kwargs)

Compute all solutions and optionally display the solutions.

This is the generic implementation, solvers can overwrite this with a more efficient native implementation

Arguments:
  • display: either a list of CPMpy expressions, OR a callback function, called with the variables after value-mapping

    default/None: nothing displayed

  • time_limit: stop after this many seconds (default: None)

  • solution_limit: stop after this many solutions (default: None)

  • call_from_model: whether the method is called from a CPMpy Model instance or not

  • any other keyword argument

Returns: number of solutions found

solver_var(cpm_var)[source]

Creates solver variable for cpmpy variable or returns from cache if previously created

Transforms cpm_var into CNF literal using self.pysat_vpool (positive or negative integer)

so vpool is the varmap (we don’t use _varmap here)

solver_vars(cpm_vars)

Like solver_var() but for arbitrary shaped lists/tensors

static solvernames()[source]

Returns solvers supported by PySAT on your system

status()
static supported()[source]

Check for support in current system setup. Return True if the system has package installed or supports solver, else returns False.

Returns:

[bool]: Solver support by current system setup.

transform(cpm_expr)[source]

Transform arbitrary CPMpy expressions to constraints the solver supports

Implemented through chaining multiple solver-independent transformation functions from the cpmpy/transformations/ directory.

See the ‘Adding a new solver’ docs on readthedocs for more information.

Parameters

cpm_expr (Expression or list of Expression) – CPMpy expression, or list thereof

Returns

list of Expression