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What's New: Version 45 (Released 26 February 2004)
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Source code distribution (compiles under Linux, Ansi Unix, and Windows NT/XP)
Download Linux binary - Walksat
Download Linux binary - Makewff
Note: the random number code for the NT versions needs to be improved, after millions of flips it appears to cycle. Please use only the Unix versions for large-scale published experiments.
Before Walksat came GSAT. Here's the original GSAT source. It should work, but is no longer being updated.
A version of walksat for weighted maxsat.
Bart Selman, Henry Kautz, and Bram Cohen. Final version appears in Cliques, Coloring, and Satisfiability: Second DIMACS Implementation Challenge, October 11-13, 1993. David S. Johnson and Michael A. Trick, ed. DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 26, AMS, 1996. Appendix Appendix summarizing results of walksat on challenge instances.
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