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Adiar 1.1

Zero-Suppressed Decision Diagrams in External Memory

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We outline how support for Zero-suppressed Decision Diagrams (ZDDs) has been achieved for the external memory BDD package Adiar. This allows one to use ZDDs to solve various problems despite their size exceed the machine’s limit of internal memory.

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Data Availability Statement

The data presented in Sect. 3 is available at [18] while the code to obtain this data is provided at [17].

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Marijn Heule and Randal E. Bryant for requesting ZDDs are added to= Adiar. Thanks to the Centre for Scientific Computing, Aarhus, (phys.au.dk/forskning/cscaa/) for running our benchmarks.

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Sølvsten, S.C., van de Pol, J. (2023). Adiar 1.1. In: Rozier, K.Y., Chaudhuri, S. (eds) NASA Formal Methods. NFM 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13903. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33170-1_28

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