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Record W6929021048 · doi:10.48448/mvcq-4k93

Towards Real-Time Approximate Counting

2025· other· en· W6929021048 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

VenueUnderline Science Inc. · 2025
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCounting problemSpeedupTask (project management)Counting processBoolean functionTrue quantified Boolean formula

Abstract

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Model counting is task of counting the number of satisfying assignments of a Boolean formula. Since counting is intractable in general, most applications use $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-approximations, where the output is within a $(1+\varepsilon)$-factor of the count with probability at least $1-\delta$. Many demanding applications make thousands of counting queries, and the state-of-the-art approximate counter, ApproxMC, makes hundreds of calls to SAT solvers to answer a single approximate counting query. The sheer number of SAT calls, poses a significant challenge to the existing approaches. In this work, we propose an approximation scheme, RealMC, that is tailored to such demanding applications with low time limits. Compared to ApproxMC, RealMC makes 14$\times$ fewer SAT calls while providing the same guarantees as ApproxMC in the constant-factor regime. In an evaluation over 2,247 instances, RealMC solved 271 more and achieved a $2\times$ speedup against ApproxMC.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.023
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.037

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.023
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.008
Open science0.0040.005
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.280 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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