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A practical heuristic for finding graph minors

Quantum Physics 2014-06-12 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms Combinatorics

Abstract

We present a heuristic algorithm for finding a graph HH as a minor of a graph GG that is practical for sparse GG and HH with hundreds of vertices. We also explain the practical importance of finding graph minors in mapping quadratic pseudo-boolean optimization problems onto an adiabatic quantum annealer.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1406.2741,
  title  = {A practical heuristic for finding graph minors},
  author = {Jun Cai and William G. Macready and Aidan Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.2741},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

16 pages, 7 figures

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