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We develop a novel distributed algorithm for the minimum cut problem. We primarily aim at solving large sparse problems. Assuming vertices of the graph are partitioned into several regions, the algorithm performs path augmentations inside…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-07 Alexander Shekhovtsov , Vaclav Hlavac

The Maximum Flow (Max-Flow) problem is a cornerstone in graph theory and combinatorial optimization, aiming to determine the largest possible flow from a designated source node to a sink node within a capacitated flow network. It has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shruthi Kannappan , Ashwina Kumar , Rupesh Nasre

We show that the pseudoflow algorithm for maximum flow is particularly efficient for the bipartite matching problem both in theory and in practice. We develop several implementations of the pseudoflow algorithm for bipartite matching, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-10 Bala G. Chandran , Dorit S. Hochbaum

Flow-based methods for local graph clustering have received significant recent attention for their theoretical cut improvement and runtime guarantees. In this work we present two improvements for using flow-based methods in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Nate Veldt , Christine Klymko , David Gleich

In this paper, a cooperative task computation framework exploits the computation resource in UEs to accomplish more tasks meanwhile minimizes the power consumption of UEs. The system cost includes the cost of UEs' power consumption and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yijin Pan , Cunhua Pan , Kezhi Wang , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang

In this work we focus on the problem of minimizing the sum of convex cost functions in a distributed fashion over a peer-to-peer network. In particular, we are interested in the case in which communications between nodes are prone to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Nicola Bastianello , Ruggero Carli , Luca Schenato , Marco Todescato

The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) is a computational technique of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) that has gained popularity due to its high parallelism and ability to handle complex geometries with minimal effort. Although LBM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Luigi Crisci , Biagio Cosenza , Giorgio Amati , Matteo Turisini

This paper presents a framework that supports the implementation of parallel solutions for the widespread parametric maximum flow computational routines used in image segmentation algorithms. The framework is based on supergraphs, a special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Vlad Olaru , Mihai Florea , Cristian Sminchisescu

It has been verified that the linear programming (LP) is able to formulate many real-life optimization problems, which can obtain the optimum by resorting to corresponding solvers such as OptVerse, Gurobi and CPLEX. In the past decades, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Xijun Li , Qingyu Qu , Fangzhou Zhu , Jia Zeng , Mingxuan Yuan , Kun Mao , Jie Wang

The efficient solution of large sparse saddle point systems is very important in computational fluid mechanics. The discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods have become increasingly popular for incompressible flow problems but their…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Denis Demidov , Lin Mu , Bin Wang

In a previous paper, we have achieved the performance analysis of staggered Lagrange-remap schemes, a class of solvers widely used for Hydrodynamics applications. This paper is devoted to the rethinking and redesign of the Lagrange-remap…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Florian De Vuyst , Thibault Gasc , Renaud Motte , Mathieu Peybernes , Raphael Poncet

The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly boosted performance in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the deployment of high-performance LLMs incurs substantial costs, primarily due to the increased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Saehan Jo , Immanuel Trummer

This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework and a suite of highly efficient, parallelizable algorithms for solving the large-scale multicommodity flow (MCF) feasibility problem. We reframe the classical constraint-satisfaction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Pengfei Liu

Payment channel networks use off-chain transactions to provide virtually arbitrary transaction rates. In this paper, we provide a new perspective on payment channels and consider them as a flow network. We propose an extended push-relabel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Elias Rohrer , Jann-Frederik Laß , Florian Tschorsch

Flow delegation is a flexible technique to mitigate flow table capacity bottlenecks in Software-defined Networks (SDN). Such bottlenecks occur when SDN switches provide insufficient flow table capacity which leads to performance degradation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Robert Bauer , Martina Zitterbart

We combine several recent advancements to solve $(1+\varepsilon)$-transshipment and $(1+\varepsilon)$-maximum flow with a parallel algorithm with $\tilde{O}(1/\varepsilon)$ depth and $\tilde{O}(m/\varepsilon)$ work. We achieve this by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Christoph Grunau , Rasmus Kyng , Goran Zuzic

The Holomorphic Embedding Load flow Method (HELM) employs complex analysis to solve the load flow problem. It guarantees finding the correct solution when it exists, and identifying when a solution does not exist. The method, however, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Majid Heidarifar , Panagiotis Andrianesis , Michael Caramanis

In this paper, we present a new push-relabel algorithm for the maximum flow problem on flow networks with $n$ vertices and $m$ arcs. Our algorithm computes a maximum flow in $O(mn)$ time on sparse networks where $m = O(n)$. To our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Rahul Mehta

Maxflow is a fundamental problem in graph theory and combinatorial optimisation, used to determine the maximum flow from a source node to a sink node in a flow network. It finds applications in diverse domains, including computer networks,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shruthi Kannappan , Ashwina Kumar , Rupesh Nasre

Balancing resource efficiency and fairness is critical in networked systems that support modern learning applications. We introduce the Fair Minimum Labeling (FML) problem: the task of designing a minimum-cost temporal edge activation plan…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Lutz Oettershagen , Othon Michail