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We consider the problem of query-efficient global max-cut on a weighted undirected graph in the value oracle model examined by [RSW18]. Graph algorithms in this cut query model and other query models have recently been studied for various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Orestis Plevrakis , Seyoon Ragavan , S. Matthew Weinberg

In the problem (Unweighted) Max-Cut we are given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and asked for a set $S \subseteq V$ such that the number of edges from $S$ to $V \setminus S$ is maximal. In this paper we consider an even harder problem: (Weighted)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hauke Brinkop , Klaus Jansen

We investigate the statistical properties of cut sizes generated by heuristic algorithms which solve approximately the graph bisection problem. On an ensemble of sparse random graphs, we find empirically that the distribution of the cut…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. R. Schreiber , O. C. Martin

For Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs with average degree $\gamma$, and uniformly random $\gamma$-regular graph on $n$ vertices, we prove that with high probability the size of both the Max-Cut and maximum bisection are…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Amir Dembo , Andrea Montanari , Subhabrata Sen

We consider the problem of estimating the value of MAX-CUT in a graph in the streaming model of computation. At one extreme, there is a trivial $2$-approximation for this problem that uses only $O(\log n)$ space, namely, count the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Michael Kapralov , Dmitry Krachun

The mincut graph bisection problem involves partitioning the n vertices of a graph into disjoint subsets, each containing exactly n/2 vertices, while minimizing the number of "cut" edges with an endpoint in each subset. When considered over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-27 Allon G. Percus , Gabriel Istrate , Bruno Goncalves , Robert Z. Sumi , Stefan Boettcher

We consider the problem of estimating the value of max cut in a graph in the streaming model of computation. At one extreme, there is a trivial $2$-approximation for this problem that uses only $O(\log n)$ space, namely, count the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna , Madhu Sudan

An instance of the Connected Maximum Cut problem consists of an undirected graph G = (V, E) and the goal is to find a subset of vertices S $\subseteq$ V that maximizes the number of edges in the cut \delta(S) such that the induced graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Guy Kortsarz , Robert MacDavid , Manish Purohit , Kanthi Sarpatwar

We design new algorithms for approximating 2CSPs on graphs with bounded threshold rank, that is, whose normalized adjacency matrix has few eigenvalues larger than $\varepsilon$, smaller than $-\varepsilon$, or both. Unlike on worst-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Prashanti Anderson , Samuel B. Hopkins , Amit Rajaraman , David Steurer

Given a graph $G$ of degree $k$ over $n$ vertices, we consider the problem of computing a near maximum cut or a near minimum bisection in polynomial time. For graphs of girth $2L$, we develop a local message passing algorithm whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Ahmed El Alaoui , Andrea Montanari , Mark Sellke

We derive a new lower bound for the bandwidth of a graph that is based on a new lower bound for the minimum cut problem. Our new semidefinite programming relaxation of the minimum cut problem is obtained by strengthening the known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Edwin R. van Dam , Renata Sotirov

In this work, we resolve the query complexity of global minimum cut problem for a graph by designing a randomized algorithm for approximating the size of minimum cut in a graph, where the graph can be accessed through local queries like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Arijit Bishnu , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Manaswi Paraashar

This paper is devoted to the distributed complexity of finding an approximation of the maximum cut in graphs. A classical algorithm consists in letting each vertex choose its side of the cut uniformly at random. This does not require any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Étienne Bamas , Louis Esperet

The problem of computing the vertex expansion of a graph is an NP-hard problem. The current best worst-case approximation guarantees for computing the vertex expansion of a graph are a $O(\sqrt{\log n})$-approximation algorithm due to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Anand Louis , Rakesh Venkat

We consider the problem of sampling from data defined on the nodes of a weighted graph, where the edge weights capture the data correlation structure. As shown recently, using spectral graph theory one can define a cut-off frequency for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Ilan Shomorony , A. Salman Avestimehr

We give a new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation for sparsest cut problem on graphs where small sets expand significantly more than the sparsest cut (sets of size $n/r$ expand by a factor $\sqrt{\log n\log r}$ bigger, for some small $r$; this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Ali Kemal Sinop

In the NP-hard Max $c$-Cut problem, one is given an undirected edge-weighted graph $G$ and aims to color the vertices of $G$ with $c$ colors such that the total weight of edges with distinctly colored endpoints is maximal. The case with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jaroslav Garvardt , Niels Grüttemeier , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz

Asymptotic properties of random regular graphs are object of extensive study in mathematics. In this note we argue, based on theory of spin glasses, that in random regular graphs the maximum cut size asymptotically equals the number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-02-25 Lenka Zdeborová , Stefan Boettcher

MaxCut is a classical NP-complete problem and a crucial building block in many combinatorial algorithms. The famous Edwards-Erd\H{o}s bound states that any connected graph on n vertices with m edges contains a cut of size at least $m/2 +…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jonas Lill , Kalina Petrova , Simon Weber

In the context of random regular graphs, the size of the maximum cut is probably the second most studied graph parameter after the independence ratio. Zdeborov\'a and Boettcher used the cavity method, a non-rigorous statistical physics…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Viktor Harangi