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Property Directed Reachability with Extended Resolution
Andrew Luka, Yakir Vizel
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Property Directed Reachability (\textsc{Pdr}), also known as IC3, is a state-of-the-art model checking algorithm widely used for verifying safety properties. While \textsc{Pdr} is effective in finding inductive invariants, its underlying proof system, Resolution, limits its ability to construct short proofs for certain verification problems. This paper introduces \textsc{PdrER}, a novel generalization of \textsc{Pdr} that uses Extended Resolution (ER), a proof system exponentially stronger than Resolution, when constructing a proof of correctness. \PdrEV leverages ER to construct shorter bounded proofs of correctness, enabling it to discover more compact inductive invariants. While \PdrEV is based on \textsc{Pdr}, it includes algorithmic enhancements that had to be made in order to efficiently use ER in the context of model checking. We implemented \textsc{PdrER} in a new open-source verification framework and evaluated it on the Hardware Model Checking Competition benchmarks from 2019, 2020 and 2024. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that \textsc{PdrER} outperforms \textsc{Pdr}, solving more instances in less time and uniquely solving problems that \textsc{Pdr} cannot solve within a given time limit. We argue that this paper represents a significant step toward making strong proof systems practically usable in model checking.
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