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The GRAT Tool Chain

Efficient (UN)SAT Certificate Checking with Formal Correctness Guarantees
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Abstract

We present the GRAT tool chain, which provides an efficient and formally verified SAT and UNSAT certificate checker. It utilizes a two phase approach: The highly optimized gratgen tool converts a DRAT certificate to a GRAT certificate, which is then checked by the formally verified gratchk tool.

On a realistic benchmark suite drawn from the 2016 SAT competition, our approach is faster than the unverified standard tool drat-trim, and significantly faster than the formally verified LRAT tool. An optional multithreaded mode allows for even faster checking of a single certificate.

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Acknowledgement

We thank Simon Wimmer for proofreading, and the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments.

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  1. 1.Technische Universität MünchenMunichGermany

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