Add the ability to customize incremental pre-processing simplification for the SMTLIB2 front-end. The main new capability is to use pre-processing tactics in incremental mode that were previously not available. The main new capabilities are
- solve-eqs
- reduce-args
- elim-unconstrained
There are several more. Documentation and exposed simplifiers are populated incrementally. The current set of supported simplifiers can be inspected by using z3 with the --simplifiers flag or referring to https://microsoft.github.io/z3guide/docs/strategies/simplifiers
Some pending features are:
- add the ability to update parameters to simplifiers similar to how tactics can be controlled using parameters.
- expose simplification solvers over the binary API.
- convert reduce-args to a simplifier. Currently exposed as reduce-args2 tactic until the old tactic code gets removed.
- bug fixes in model_reconstruction trail
- allow multiple defs to be added with same pool of removed formulas
- fix tracking of function symbols instead of expressions to filter replay
- add nla_divisions to track (cheap) divisibility lemmas.
-
- increase build version to 4.12.1. This prepares updated release for MacOs-11 build on x86
- move literal propagation mode in euf-egraph to a callback and traversal of equivalence class. Track antecedent by newest equality instead of root. This makes equality propagation to literals have similar behavior as in legacy solver and appears to result in a speedup (10% fewer conflicts on QF_UF/QG-classification/qg5/iso_icl478.smt2 in preliminary testing)
- fix interaction of pre-processing and assumptions. Pre-processing has to freeze assumption literals so they don't get eliminated. This is similar to dependencies that are already frozen.
This would crash before:
(declare-fun x () (_ BitVec 4))
(assert (not (bvule x #x1)))
(apply elim-uncnstr2)
That's because the index_set iterator was querying qtail to compute the end of the iteration
But the problem is that elim-uncnstr2 may add new fmls to the goal, as in this case.
The bvule is replaced with an 'or', but since it's negated, it turns into 2 goals
Solve the issue by freezing the qtail for the iteration loop.
This is the right behavior for elim-uncnstr2, as it can't rewrite exprs that haven't been analyzed before
@NikolajBjorner please check if this the right behavior for the other simplifiers. Thank you
rename size() to qtail() and introduce shortcuts
ensure tactic goals are not updated if they are in inconsistent state (because indices could be invalidated)
- add sat.smt option to enable the new incremental core (it is not ready for mainstream consumption as cloning and other features are not implemented and it hasn't been tested in any detail yet).
- move "name" into attribute on simplifier so it can be reused for diagnostics by the seq-simplifier.
other updates:
- change signature of advance_qhead to simplify call sites
- have model reconstruction replay work on a tail of dependent_expr state, while adding formulas to the tail.
the solve_eqs_tactic is to be replaced by a re-implementation that uses solve_eqs in the simplifiers directory.
The re-implementation should address efficiency issues with the previous code.
At this point it punts on low level proofs. The plan is to use coarser
dependency tracking instead of low level proofs for pre-processing. Dependencies can be converted into a proof hint representation that can be checked using a stronger checker.
simplifiers layer is a common substrate for global non-incremental and incremental processing.
The first two layers are new, but others are to be ported form tactics.
- bv::slice - rewrites equations to cut-dice-slice bit-vector extractions until they align. It creates opportunities for rewriting portions of bit-vectors to common sub-expressions, including values.
- euf::completion - generalizes the KB simplifcation from asserted formulas to use the E-graph to establish a global and order-independent canonization.
The interface dependent_expr_simplifier is amenable to forming tactics. Plugins for asserted-formulas is also possible but not yet realized.
