Solver Isomap for QF_BV

In this diagram two solvers are close if they are similar with respect to their solving times at the competitions. See below for a detailed explanation. The trail connects the annual versions of a solver.

  1. Fetch all the competition results for the given logic.
  2. If requested (it is), remove the solvers that have less than 100 benchmarks in common with 50% of the other solvers.
  3. Compute the distance between each solver pair. It is the cosine distance between the wall-clock time of the common benchmarks. More precisely, when if two solvers have n benchmarks in common, we use an n-dimensional space. The coordinate of each solver is the wall-clock time for each benchmarks regardless of the result. The cosine distance is then the angle between the two solvers at the origin.
  4. Compute a standard Isomap from the cosine distances.

Solvers removed in step 2:

  • Yices 2006 (2006-08-21)
  • MathSAT 2006 (2006-08-21)
  • CVC3 2006 (2006-08-21)
  • NuSMV 2006 (2006-08-21)
  • BAT 2006 (2006-08-21)
  • STP 2006 (2006-08-21)
  • Yices 2007 (2007-07-03)
  • Z3 2007 (2007-07-03)
  • Spear 2007 (2007-07-03)
  • MathSAT 2009 (2009-08-02)
  • CVC3 2009 (2009-08-02)
  • STP 2009 (2009-08-02)
  • Boolector 2009 (2009-08-02)
  • SWORD 2009 (2009-08-02)
  • Beaver 2009 (2009-08-02)
  • Yices2 2009 (2009-08-02)
  • OpenSMT 2009 (2009-08-02)
  • CVC3 2010 (2010-07-15)
  • STP 2010 (2010-07-15)
  • SONOLAR 2010 (2010-07-15)
  • Abziz 2011 (2011-06-30)
  • 4Simp 2011 (2011-06-30)
  • STP 2011 (2011-07-14)