English

Belief propagation for graph partitioning

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2010-06-16 v1 Statistical Mechanics Discrete Mathematics Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

We study the belief propagation algorithm for the graph bi-partitioning problem, i.e. the ground state of the ferromagnetic Ising model at a fixed magnetization. Application of a message passing scheme to a model with a fixed global parameter is not banal and we show that the magnetization can in fact be fixed in a local way within the belief propagation equations. Our method provides the full phase diagram of the bi-partitioning problem on random graphs, as well as an efficient heuristic solver that we anticipate to be useful in a wide range of application of the partitioning problem.

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@article{arxiv.0912.3563,
  title  = {Belief propagation for graph partitioning},
  author = {P. Sulc and L. Zdeborova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3563},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

16 pages, 4 figures

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