AI RESEARCH
Solving Combinatorial Counting Problems with Weighted First-Order Model Counting
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.24845v1 Announce Type: new Combinatorial counting problems pervade artificial intelligence, statistics, and discrete mathematics. Whether the task is enumerating subsets, multisets, permutations, partitions, or compositions under structural and arithmetic constraints, solving it remains a stubbornly manual exercise. Closed-form derivations are powerful but brittle, while naive encodings to propositional model counting or constraint satisfaction destroy the exchangeability that makes counting tractable in the first place.