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Using the Logic Monad in Haskell


Recently, I implemented a naïve DPLL Sat Solver in Haskell, adapted from John Harrison's Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning.

DPLL is a variety of backtrack search, so I want to experiment with using the Logic monad from Oleg Kiselyov et al. I don't really understand what I need to change, however.

Here's the code I've got.

  • What code do I need to change to use the Logic monad?
  • Bonus: Is there any concrete performance benefit to using the Logic monad?

{-# LANGUAGE MonadComprehensions #-}
module DPLL where
import Prelude hiding (foldr)
import Control.Monad (join,mplus,mzero,guard,msum)
import Data.Set.Monad (Set, (\\), member, partition, toList, foldr)
import Data.Maybe (listToMaybe)

-- "Literal" propositions are either true or false
data Lit p = T p | F p deriving (Show,Ord,Eq)

neg :: Lit p -> Lit p
neg (T p) = F p
neg (F p) = T p

-- We model DPLL like a sequent calculus
-- LHS: a set of assumptions / partial model (set of literals)
-- RHS: a set of goals 
data Sequent p = (Set (Lit p)) :|-: Set (Set (Lit p)) deriving Show

{- --------------------------- Goal Reduction Rules -------------------------- -}
{- "Unit Propogation" takes literal x and A :|-: B to A,x :|-: B',
 - where B' has no clauses with x, 
 - and all instances of -x are deleted -}
unitP :: Ord p => Lit p -> Sequent p -> Sequent p
unitP x (assms :|-:  clauses) = (assms' :|-:  clauses')
  where
    assms' = (return x) `mplus` assms
    clauses_ = [ c | c <- clauses, not (x `member` c) ]
    clauses' = [ [ u | u <- c, u /= neg x] | c <- clauses_ ]

{- Find literals that only occur positively or negatively
 - and perform unit propogation on these -}
pureRule :: Ord p => Sequent p -> Maybe (Sequent p)
pureRule sequent@(_ :|-:  clauses) = 
  let 
    sign (T _) = True
    sign (F _) = False
    -- Partition the positive and negative formulae
    (positive,negative) = partition sign (join clauses)
    -- Compute the literals that are purely positive/negative
    purePositive = positive \\ (fmap neg negative)
    pureNegative = negative \\ (fmap neg positive)
    pure = purePositive `mplus` pureNegative 
    -- Unit Propagate the pure literals
    sequent' = foldr unitP sequent pure
  in if (pure /= mzero) then Just sequent'
     else Nothing

{- Add any singleton clauses to the assumptions 
 - and simplify the clauses -}
oneRule :: Ord p => Sequent p -> Maybe (Sequent p)
oneRule sequent@(_ :|-:  clauses) = 
   do
   -- Extract literals that occur alone and choose one
   let singletons = join [ c | c <- clauses, isSingle c ]
   x <- (listToMaybe . toList) singletons
   -- Return the new simplified problem
   return $ unitP x sequent
   where
     isSingle c = case (toList c) of { [a] -> True ; _ -> False }

{- ------------------------------ DPLL Algorithm ----------------------------- -}
dpll :: Ord p => Set (Set (Lit p)) -> Maybe (Set (Lit p))
dpll goalClauses = dpll' $ mzero :|-: goalClauses
  where 
     dpll' sequent@(assms :|-: clauses) = do 
       -- Fail early if falsum is a subgoal
       guard $ not (mzero `member` clauses)
       case (toList . join) $ clauses of
         -- Return the assumptions if there are no subgoals left
         []  -> return assms
         -- Otherwise try various tactics for resolving goals
         x:_ -> dpll' =<< msum [ pureRule sequent
                               , oneRule sequent
                               , return $ unitP x sequent
                               , return $ unitP (neg x) sequent ]

Solution

  • Ok, changing your code to use Logic turned out to be entirely trivial. I went through and rewrote everything to use plain Set functions rather than the Set monad, because you're not really using Set monadically in a uniform way, and certainly not for the backtracking logic. The monad comprehensions were also more clearly written as maps and filters and the like. This didn't need to happen, but it did help me sort through what was happening, and it certainly made evident that the one real remaining monad, that used for backtracking, was just Maybe.

    In any case, you can just generalize the type signature of pureRule, oneRule, and dpll to operate over not just Maybe, but any m with the constraint MonadPlus m =>.

    Then, in pureRule, your types won't match because you construct Maybes explicitly, so go and change it a bit:

    in if (pure /= mzero) then Just sequent'
       else Nothing
    

    becomes

    in if (not $ S.null pure) then return sequent' else mzero
    

    And in oneRule, similarly change the usage of listToMaybe to an explicit match so

       x <- (listToMaybe . toList) singletons
    

    becomes

     case singletons of
       x:_ -> return $ unitP x sequent  -- Return the new simplified problem
       [] -> mzero
    

    And, outside of the type signature change, dpll needs no changes at all!

    Now, your code operates over both Maybe and Logic!

    to run the Logic code, you can use a function like the following:

    dpllLogic s = observe $ dpll' s
    

    You can use observeAll or the like to see more results.

    For reference, here's the complete working code:

    {-# LANGUAGE MonadComprehensions #-}
    module DPLL where
    import Prelude hiding (foldr)
    import Control.Monad (join,mplus,mzero,guard,msum)
    import Data.Set (Set, (\\), member, partition, toList, foldr)
    import qualified Data.Set as S
    import Data.Maybe (listToMaybe)
    import Control.Monad.Logic
    
    -- "Literal" propositions are either true or false
    data Lit p = T p | F p deriving (Show,Ord,Eq)
    
    neg :: Lit p -> Lit p
    neg (T p) = F p
    neg (F p) = T p
    
    -- We model DPLL like a sequent calculus
    -- LHS: a set of assumptions / partial model (set of literals)
    -- RHS: a set of goals
    data Sequent p = (Set (Lit p)) :|-: Set (Set (Lit p)) --deriving Show
    
    {- --------------------------- Goal Reduction Rules -------------------------- -}
    {- "Unit Propogation" takes literal x and A :|-: B to A,x :|-: B',
     - where B' has no clauses with x,
     - and all instances of -x are deleted -}
    unitP :: Ord p => Lit p -> Sequent p -> Sequent p
    unitP x (assms :|-:  clauses) = (assms' :|-:  clauses')
      where
        assms' = S.insert x assms
        clauses_ = S.filter (not . (x `member`)) clauses
        clauses' = S.map (S.filter (/= neg x)) clauses_
    
    {- Find literals that only occur positively or negatively
     - and perform unit propogation on these -}
    pureRule sequent@(_ :|-:  clauses) =
      let
        sign (T _) = True
        sign (F _) = False
        -- Partition the positive and negative formulae
        (positive,negative) = partition sign (S.unions . S.toList $ clauses)
        -- Compute the literals that are purely positive/negative
        purePositive = positive \\ (S.map neg negative)
        pureNegative = negative \\ (S.map neg positive)
        pure = purePositive `S.union` pureNegative
        -- Unit Propagate the pure literals
        sequent' = foldr unitP sequent pure
      in if (not $ S.null pure) then return sequent'
         else mzero
    
    {- Add any singleton clauses to the assumptions
     - and simplify the clauses -}
    oneRule sequent@(_ :|-:  clauses) =
       do
       -- Extract literals that occur alone and choose one
       let singletons = concatMap toList . filter isSingle $ S.toList clauses
       case singletons of
         x:_ -> return $ unitP x sequent  -- Return the new simplified problem
         [] -> mzero
       where
         isSingle c = case (toList c) of { [a] -> True ; _ -> False }
    
    {- ------------------------------ DPLL Algorithm ----------------------------- -}
    dpll goalClauses = dpll' $ S.empty :|-: goalClauses
      where
         dpll' sequent@(assms :|-: clauses) = do
           -- Fail early if falsum is a subgoal
           guard $ not (S.empty `member` clauses)
           case concatMap S.toList $ S.toList clauses of
             -- Return the assumptions if there are no subgoals left
             []  -> return assms
             -- Otherwise try various tactics for resolving goals
             x:_ -> dpll' =<< msum [ pureRule sequent
                                    , oneRule sequent
                                    , return $ unitP x sequent
                                    , return $ unitP (neg x) sequent ]
    
    dpllLogic s = observe $ dpll s