Solver Isomap for QF_BVFP

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:

  • MathSAT 2015 (2015-07-02)
  • Z3 2015 (2015-07-02)
  • MathSAT 2016 (2016-07-02)
  • Z3 2016 (2016-07-02)
  • XSat 2017 (2017-07-23)