Computer Science > Logic in Computer Science
[Submitted on 23 Aug 2020]
Title:An Incremental Abstraction Scheme for Solving Hard SMT-Instances over Bit-Vectors
View PDFAbstract:Decision procedures for SMT problems based on the theory of bit-vectors are a fundamental component in state-of-the-art software and hardware verifiers. While very efficient in general, certain SMT instances are still challenging for state-of-the-art solvers (especially when such instances include computationally costly functions). In this work, we present an approach for the quantifier-free bit-vector theory (QF_BV in SMT-LIB) based on incremental SMT solving and abstraction refinement. We define four concrete approximation steps for the multiplication, division and remainder operators and combine them into an incremental abstraction scheme. We implement this scheme in a prototype extending the SMT solver Boolector and measure both the overall performance and the performance of the single approximation steps. The evaluation shows that our abstraction scheme contributes to solving more unsatisfiable benchmark instances, including seven instances with unknown status in SMT-LIB.
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From: Paul Samuel Maria Teuber [view email][v1] Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:48:58 UTC (114 KB)
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