Engineering an Efficient Approximate DNF-Counter

Document Type

Conference Article

Publication Title

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Model counting is a fundamental problem in many practical applications, including query evaluation in probabilistic databases and failure-probability estimation of networks. In this work, we focus on a variant of this problem where the underlying formula is expressed in Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF), also known as #DNF. This problem has been shown to be #P-complete, making it often intractable to solve exactly. Much research has therefore focused on obtaining approximate solutions, particularly in the form of (ε, δ) approximations. The primary contribution of this paper is a new approach, called pepin, an approximate #DNF counter that significantly outperforms prior state of the art approaches. Our work is based on the recent breakthrough in the context of union of sets in the streaming model. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through extensive experiments and show that it provides an affirmative answer to the challenge of efficiently computing #DNF.

First Page

2031

Last Page

2038

Publication Date

1-1-2023

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