English
Related papers

Related papers: A Multiple Search Operator Heuristic for the Max-k…

200 papers

We consider the Max-$3$-Section problem, where we are given an undirected graph $ G=(V,E)$ equipped with non-negative edge weights $w :E\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ and the goal is to find a partition of $V$ into three equisized parts while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Dor Katzelnick , Aditya Pillai , Roy Schwartz , Mohit Singh

The input to the Multiway Cut problem is a weighted undirected graph, with nonnegative edge weights, and $k$ designated terminals. The goal is to partition the vertices of the graph into $k$ parts, each containing exactly one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joshua Brakensiek , Neng Huang , Aaron Potechin , Uri Zwick

We address counting and optimization variants of multicriteria global min-cut and size-constrained min-$k$-cut in hypergraphs. 1. For an $r$-rank $n$-vertex hypergraph endowed with $t$ hyperedge-cost functions, we show that the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Calvin Beideman , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Chao Xu

Given a graph, the sparsest cut problem asks for a subset of vertices whose edge expansion (the normalized cut given by the subset) is minimized. In this paper, we study a generalization of this problem seeking for $ k $ disjoint subsets of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Ramin Javadi , Saleh Ashkboos

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

This work presents a maximum entropy principle based algorithm for solving minimum multiway $k$-cut problem defined over static and dynamic {\em digraphs}. A multiway $k$-cut problem requires partitioning the set of nodes in a graph into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Mayank Baranwal , Amber Srivastava , Srinivasa Salapaka

We study two variants of \textsc{Maximum Cut}, which we call \textsc{Connected Maximum Cut} and \textsc{Maximum Minimal Cut}, in this paper. In these problems, given an unweighted graph, the goal is to compute a maximum cut satisfying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Hiroshi Eto , Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi

The weighted MAX k-CUT problem involves partitioning a weighted undirected graph into k subsets, or colors, to maximize the sum of the weights of edges between vertices in different subsets. This problem has significant applications across…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Franz G. Fuchs , Ruben P. Bassa , Frida Lien

We propose two fixed-parameter tractable algorithms for the weighted Max-Cut problem on embedded 1-planar graphs parameterized by the crossing number $k$ of the given embedding. A graph is called 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Christine Dahn , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel , Julian Schilling

In the $k$-cut problem, we are given an edge-weighted graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and have to remove a set of edges with minimum total weight so that $G$ has at least $k$ connected components. The current best algorithms are an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li

Max-k-Cut and correlation clustering are fundamental graph partitioning problems. For a graph with G=(V,E) with n vertices, the methods with the best approximation guarantees for Max-k-Cut and the Max-Agree variant of correlation clustering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Nimita Shinde , Vishnu Narayanan , James Saunderson

Enumerating maximal $k$-biplexes (MBPs) of a bipartite graph has been used for applications such as fraud detection. Nevertheless, there usually exists an exponential number of MBPs, which brings up two issues when enumerating MBPs, namely…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Kaiqiang Yu , Cheng Long

A multigraph $G = (V, E)$ is $(k, \ell)$-sparse if every subset $X \subseteq V$ induces at most $\max\{k|X| - \ell, 0\}$ edges. Finding a maximum-size $(k, \ell)$-sparse subgraph is a classical problem in rigidity theory and combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Péter Madarasi

In this paper we design {\sf FPT}-algorithms for two parameterized problems. The first is \textsc{List Digraph Homomorphism}: given two digraphs $G$ and $H$ and a list of allowed vertices of $H$ for every vertex of $G$, the question is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Eunjung Kim , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

The maximum clique (MC) problem is a challenging graph mining problem which, due to its NP-hard nature, can take a substantial amount of execution time. The MC problem is dominated by set intersection operations similar to Maximal Clique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hans Vandierendonck

For an edge-weighted connected undirected graph, the minimum $k$-way cut problem is to find a subset of edges of minimum total weight whose removal separates the graph into $k$ connected components. The problem is NP-hard when $k$ is part…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Mingyu Xiao , Leizhen Cai , Andrew C. Yao

The most commonly used method to tackle the graph partitioning problem in practice is the multilevel approach. During a coarsening phase, a multilevel graph partitioning algorithm reduces the graph size by iteratively contracting nodes and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Henning Meyerhenke , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

In the simultaneous Max-Cut problem, we are given $k$ weighted graphs on the same set of $n$ vertices, and the goal is to find a cut of the vertex set so that the minimum, over the $k$ graphs, of the cut value is as large as possible.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Amey Bhangale , Subhash Khot , Swastik Kopparty , Sushant Sachdeva , Devanathan Thiruvenkatachari

We study the boundary of tractability for the Max-Cut problem in graphs. Our main result shows that Max-Cut above the Edwards-Erd\H{o}s bound is fixed-parameter tractable: we give an algorithm that for any connected graph with n vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Robert Crowston , Mark Jones , Matthias Mnich

We consider the Hypergraph-$k$-cut problem. The input consists of a hypergraph $G=(V,E)$ with non-negative hyperedge-costs $c: E\rightarrow R_+$ and a positive integer $k$. The objective is to find a least-cost subset $F\subseteq E$ such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Chandra Chekuri