Survey propagation works primarily with random SAT instances, but isn't competitive with SAT instances that arise in industrial verification, where CDCL shines. Some gossip: survey propagation was proposed by Mezard, Parisi, and Zecchina [1], and
G. Parisi won the physics Nobel price in 2021 [2].
[1] M. Mezard, G. Parisi, R. Zecchina, Analytic and Algorithmic Solution of Random Satisfiability Problems. https://aiichironakano.github.io/cs653/Mezard-RSAT-Science02...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Parisi