Support placeholders with #external declarations

This adds support for declaring predicates as placeholders through the
“#external” directive in the input language of clingo.

Placeholders are not subject to completion. This prevents predicates
that represent instance-specific facts from being assumed as universally
false by default negation when translating an encoding.

This stretches clingo’s usual syntax a bit to make the implementation
lightweight. In order to declare a predicate with a specific arity as a
placeholder, the following statement needs to be added to the program:

    #external <predicate name>(<arity>).

Multiple unit tests cover cases where placeholders are used or not as
well as a more complex graph coloring example.
This commit is contained in:
2018-04-05 23:22:25 +02:00
parent c91cbaf58b
commit c294a29cb2
9 changed files with 192 additions and 32 deletions

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@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ struct CollectFreeVariablesVisitor
struct CollectPredicateSignaturesVisitor : public RecursiveFormulaVisitor<CollectPredicateSignaturesVisitor>
{
static void accept(const Predicate &predicate, const Formula &, std::vector<PredicateSignature> &predicateSignatures)
static void accept(const Predicate &predicate, const Formula &, std::vector<PredicateSignature> &predicateSignatures, Context &context)
{
const auto predicateSignatureMatches =
[&predicate](const auto &predicateSignature)
@@ -206,12 +206,35 @@ struct CollectPredicateSignaturesVisitor : public RecursiveFormulaVisitor<Collec
return;
// TODO: avoid copies
predicateSignatures.emplace_back(std::string(predicate.name), predicate.arity());
auto predicateSignature = PredicateSignature(std::string(predicate.name), predicate.arity());
// Ignore predicates that are declared #external
if (context.externalPredicateSignatures)
{
const auto matchesPredicateSignature =
[&](const auto &otherPredicateSignature)
{
return ast::matches(predicateSignature, otherPredicateSignature.predicateSignature);
};
auto &externalPredicateSignatures = context.externalPredicateSignatures.value();
const auto matchingExternalPredicateSignature =
std::find_if(externalPredicateSignatures.begin(), externalPredicateSignatures.end(), matchesPredicateSignature);
if (matchingExternalPredicateSignature != externalPredicateSignatures.end())
{
matchingExternalPredicateSignature->used = true;
return;
}
}
predicateSignatures.emplace_back(std::move(predicateSignature));
}
// Ignore all other types of expressions
template<class T>
static void accept(const T &, const Formula &, std::vector<PredicateSignature> &)
static void accept(const T &, const Formula &, std::vector<PredicateSignature> &, const Context &)
{
}
};
@@ -240,10 +263,10 @@ bool matches(const PredicateSignature &lhs, const PredicateSignature &rhs)
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// TODO: remove const_cast
void collectPredicateSignatures(const Formula &formula, std::vector<PredicateSignature> &predicateSignatures)
void collectPredicateSignatures(const Formula &formula, std::vector<PredicateSignature> &predicateSignatures, Context &context)
{
auto &formulaMutable = const_cast<Formula &>(formula);
formulaMutable.accept(CollectPredicateSignaturesVisitor(), formulaMutable, predicateSignatures);
formulaMutable.accept(CollectPredicateSignaturesVisitor(), formulaMutable, predicateSignatures, context);
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ std::vector<ast::Formula> complete(std::vector<ast::ScopedFormula> &&scopedFormu
// Get a list of all predicates
for (const auto &scopedFormula : scopedFormulas)
ast::collectPredicateSignatures(scopedFormula.formula, predicateSignatures);
ast::collectPredicateSignatures(scopedFormula.formula, predicateSignatures, context);
std::sort(predicateSignatures.begin(), predicateSignatures.end(),
[](const auto &lhs, const auto &rhs)

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@@ -194,41 +194,40 @@ void eliminateHiddenPredicates(const std::vector<ast::PredicateSignature> &predi
return;
}
const auto &visiblePredicateSignatures = context.visiblePredicateSignatures.value();
// Check for undeclared predicates that are requested to be shown
for (const auto &visiblePredicateSignature : visiblePredicateSignatures)
{
const auto matchesPredicateSignature =
[&](const auto &predicateSignature)
{
return ast::matches(predicateSignature, visiblePredicateSignature);
};
const auto matchingPredicateSignature =
std::find_if(predicateSignatures.cbegin(), predicateSignatures.cend(), matchesPredicateSignature);
if (matchingPredicateSignature == predicateSignatures.cend())
context.logger.log(output::Priority::Warning) << "cannot show undeclared predicate “" << visiblePredicateSignature.name << "/" << visiblePredicateSignature.arity <<"";
}
auto &visiblePredicateSignatures = context.visiblePredicateSignatures.value();
// Replace all occurrences of hidden predicates
for (size_t i = 0; i < predicateSignatures.size(); i++)
{
auto &predicateSignature = predicateSignatures[i];
const auto matchesVisiblePredicateSignature =
[&](const auto &visiblePredicateSignature)
const auto matchesPredicateSignature =
[&](const auto &otherPredicateSignature)
{
return ast::matches(predicateSignature, visiblePredicateSignature);
return ast::matches(predicateSignature, otherPredicateSignature.predicateSignature);
};
const auto matchingPredicateSignature =
std::find_if(visiblePredicateSignatures.cbegin(), visiblePredicateSignatures.cend(), matchesVisiblePredicateSignature);
const auto matchingVisiblePredicateSignature =
std::find_if(visiblePredicateSignatures.begin(), visiblePredicateSignatures.end(), matchesPredicateSignature);
// If the predicate ought to be visible, dont eliminate it
if (matchingPredicateSignature != visiblePredicateSignatures.cend())
if (matchingVisiblePredicateSignature != visiblePredicateSignatures.end())
{
matchingVisiblePredicateSignature->used = true;
continue;
}
// Check that the predicate is not declared #external
if (context.externalPredicateSignatures)
{
const auto &externalPredicateSignatures = context.externalPredicateSignatures.value();
const auto matchingExternalPredicateSignature =
std::find_if(externalPredicateSignatures.cbegin(), externalPredicateSignatures.cend(), matchesPredicateSignature);
if (matchingExternalPredicateSignature != externalPredicateSignatures.cend())
continue;
}
context.logger.log(output::Priority::Debug) << "eliminating “" << predicateSignature.name << "/" << predicateSignature.arity << "";

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@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ void translate(const char *fileName, std::istream &stream, Context &context)
if (context.visiblePredicateSignatures)
context.logger.log(output::Priority::Warning) << "#show statements are ignored because completion is not enabled";
if (context.externalPredicateSignatures)
context.logger.log(output::Priority::Warning) << "#external statements are ignored because completion is not enabled";
for (const auto &scopedFormula : scopedFormulas)
{
ast::print(context.logger.outputStream(), scopedFormula.formula, printContext);
@@ -82,6 +85,26 @@ void translate(const char *fileName, std::istream &stream, Context &context)
// Perform completion
auto completedFormulas = complete(std::move(scopedFormulas), context);
// Check for #show statements with undeclared predicates
if (context.visiblePredicateSignatures)
for (const auto &predicateSignature : context.visiblePredicateSignatures.value())
if (!predicateSignature.used)
context.logger.log(output::Priority::Warning)
<< "#show declaration of “"
<< predicateSignature.predicateSignature.name
<< "/" << predicateSignature.predicateSignature.arity
<< "” does not match any eligible predicate";
// Check for #external statements with undeclared predicates
if (context.externalPredicateSignatures)
for (const auto &predicateSignature : context.externalPredicateSignatures.value())
if (!predicateSignature.used)
context.logger.log(output::Priority::Warning)
<< "#external declaration of “"
<< predicateSignature.predicateSignature.name
<< "/" << predicateSignature.predicateSignature.arity
<< "” does not match any eligible predicate";
// Simplify output if specified
if (context.performSimplification)
for (auto &completedFormula : completedFormulas)