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The multilevel heuristic is the dominant strategy for high-quality sequential and parallel graph partitioning. Partition refinement is a key step of multilevel graph partitioning. In this work, we present Jet, a new parallel algorithm for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Michael S. Gilbert , Kamesh Madduri , Erik G. Boman , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

For distributed graph processing on massive graphs, a graph is partitioned into multiple equally-sized parts which are distributed among machines in a compute cluster. In the last decade, many partitioning algorithms have been developed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Nikolai Merkel , Ruben Mayer , Tawkir Ahmed Fakir , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Edge-centric distributed computations have appeared as a recent technique to improve the shortcomings of think-like-a-vertex algorithms on large scale-free networks. In order to increase parallelism on this model, edge partitioning -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Schlag , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier , Darren Strash

Partitioning graphs into blocks of roughly equal size is widely used when processing large graphs. Currently there is a gap in the space of available partitioning algorithms. On the one hand, there are streaming algorithms that have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Christian Schulz

We adapt multilevel, force-directed graph layout techniques to visualizing dynamic graphs in which vertices and edges are added and removed in an online fashion (i.e., unpredictably). We maintain multiple levels of coarseness using a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-12-11 Todd L. Veldhuizen

We propose an adaptive graph coarsening method to jointly learn graph neural network (GNN) parameters and merge nodes via K-means clustering during training. As real-world graphs grow larger, processing them directly becomes increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Rostyslav Olshevskyi , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

In the recent years we have witnessed a rapid development of new algorithmic techniques for parameterized algorithms for graph separation problems. We present experimental evaluation of two cornerstone theoretical results in this area:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Ziobro

This paper presents the results of an experimental study of graph partitioning. We describe a new heuristic technique, path optimization, and its application to two variations of graph partitioning: the max_cut problem and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Jonathan Berry , Mark Goldberg

Graphs naturally appear in several real-world contexts including social networks, the web network, and telecommunication networks. While the analysis and the understanding of graph structures have been a central area of study in algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Gramoz Goranci

We study a graph partitioning problem motivated by the simulation of the physical movement of multi-body systems on an atomistic level, where the forces are calculated from a quantum mechanical description of the electrons. Several advanced…

Many applications produce massive complex networks whose analysis would benefit from parallel processing. Parallel algorithms, in turn, often require a suitable network partition. For solving optimization tasks such as graph partitioning on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Roland Glantz , Henning Meyerhenke , Christian Schulz

The ability to compute similarity scores between graphs based on metrics such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) is important in many real-world applications. Computing exact GED values is typically an NP-hard problem and traditional algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Haoyan Xu , Runjian Chen , Yueyang Wang , Ziheng Duan , Jie Feng

Large-scale parallel numerical simulations are essential for a wide range of engineering problems that involve complex, coupled physical processes interacting across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. The data structures involved…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Fande Kong , Roy H. Stogner , Derek R. Gaston , John W. Peterson , Cody J. Permann , Andrew E. Slaughter , Richard C. Martineau

The availability of larger and larger graph datasets, growing exponentially over the years, has created several new algorithmic challenges to be addressed. Sequential approaches have become unfeasible, while interest on parallel and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Alessio Guerrieri , Alberto Montresor

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can simulate large molecular complexes over extended timescales by reducing degrees of freedom. A critical step in CG modeling is the selection of the CG mapping algorithm, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-23 Soumya Mondal , Subhanu Halder , Debarchan Basu , Sandeep Kumar , Tarak Karmakar

We present multiscale graph-based reduction algorithms for upscaling heterogeneous and anisotropic diffusion problems. The proposed coarsening approaches begin by constructing a partitioning of the computational domain into a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Maria Vasilyeva , James Brannick , Ben S. Southworth

We present a multi-level graph partitioning algorithm using novel local improvement algorithms and global search strategies transferred from the multi-grid community. Local improvement algorithms are based max-flow min-cut computations and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-05 Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

The dynamic scaling of distributed computations plays an important role in the utilization of elastic computational resources, such as the cloud. It enables the provisioning and de-provisioning of resources to match dynamic resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Masatoshi Hanai , Nikos Tziritas , Toyotaro Suzumura , Wentong Cai , Georgios Theodoropoulos

We study multilevel techniques, commonly used in PDE multigrid literature, to solve structured optimization problems. For a given hierarchy of levels, we formulate a coarse model that approximates the problem at each level and provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Ferdinand Vanmaele , Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

We present a multi-level graph partitioning algorithm based on the extreme idea to contract only a single edge on each level of the hierarchy. This obviates the need for a matching algorithm and promises very good partitioning quality since…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-26 Vitaly Osipov , Peter Sanders