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Hypergraph partitioning is a pervasive NP-hard problem, and accelerating its computation on GPU can both slice time-to-solution and raise quality of results. In this work, we implement a multi-level hypergraph partitioning algorithm on GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano

We study the balanced $k$-way hypergraph partitioning problem, with a special focus on its practical applications to manycore scheduling. Given a hypergraph on $n$ nodes, our goal is to partition the node set into $k$ parts of size at most…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Pál András Papp , Georg Anegg , A. N. Yzelman

State-of-the-art hypergraph partitioners utilize a multilevel paradigm to construct progressively coarser hypergraphs across multiple layers, guiding cut refinements at each level of the hierarchy. Traditionally, these partitioners employ…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hamed Sajadinia , Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

We present TeraPart, a memory-efficient multilevel graph partitioning method that is designed to scale to extremely large graphs. In balanced graph partitioning, the goal is to divide the vertices into $k$ blocks with balanced size while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Daniel Salwasser , Daniel Seemaier , Lars Gottesbüren , Peter Sanders

Balanced hypergraph partitioning is a classical NP-hard optimization problem with applications in various domains such as VLSI design, simulating quantum circuits, optimizing data placement in distributed databases or minimizing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Lars Gottesbüren , Michael Hamann

Distributed systems that manage and process graph-structured data internally solve a graph partitioning problem to minimize their communication overhead and query run-time. Besides computational complexity -- optimal graph partitioning is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Partitioning graphs into blocks of roughly equal size such that few edges run between blocks is a frequently needed operation when processing graphs on a parallel computer. When a topology of a distributed system is known an important task…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke , Jesper Larsson Träff , Christian Schulz

Hypergraph partitioning is used in many problem domains including VLSI design, linear algebra, Boolean satisfiability, and data mining. Most versions of this problem are NP-complete or NP-hard, so practical hypergraph partitioners generate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sepideh Maleki , Udit Agarwal , Martin Burtscher , Keshav Pingali

The current landscape of balanced graph partitioning is divided into high-quality but expensive multilevel algorithms and cheaper approaches with linear running time, such as single-level algorithms and streaming algorithms. We demonstrate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Lars Gottesbüren , Nikolai Maas , Dominik Rosch , Peter Sanders , Daniel Seemaier

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

Partitioning graphs into blocks of roughly equal size such that few edges run between blocks is a frequently needed operation in processing graphs. Recently, size, variety, and structural complexity of these networks has grown dramatically.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Yaroslav Akhremtsev , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

We design and implement a distributed algorithm for balanced $k$-way hypergraph partitioning that minimizes fanout, a fundamental hypergraph quantity also known as the communication volume and ($k-1$)-cut metric, by optimizing a novel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Igor Kabiljo , Brian Karrer , Mayank Pundir , Sergey Pupyrev , Alon Shalita , Alessandro Presta , Yaroslav Akhremtsev

Many important real-world applications-such as social networks or distributed data bases-can be modeled as hypergraphs. In such a model, vertices represent entities-such as users or data records-whereas hyperedges model a group membership…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Christian Mayer , Ruben Mayer , Sukanya Bhowmik , Lukas Epple , Kurt Rothermel

The graph partitioning problem is a well-known NP-hard problem. In this paper, we formulate a 0-1 quadratic integer programming model for the graph partitioning problem with vertex weight constraints and fixed vertex constraints, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Wumwi Sun , Hongwei Liu , Xiaoyu Wang

The modeling flexibility provided by hypergraphs has drawn a lot of interest from the combinatorial scientific community, leading to novel models and algorithms, their applications, and development of associated tools. Hypergraphs are now a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Enver Kayaaslan , Ali Pinar , Umit V. Catalyurek , Cevdet Aykanat

Minimizing wire-lengths is one of the most important objectives in circuit design. The process involves initially placing the logical units (cells) of a circuit onto a physical layout, and subsequently routing the wires to connect the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Tobias Heuer

Graph partitioning schedules parallel calculations like sparse matrix-vector multiply (SpMV). We consider contiguous partitions, where the $m$ rows (or columns) of a sparse matrix with $N$ nonzeros are split into $K$ parts without…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Willow Ahrens

Graph partitioning has long been seen as a viable approach to address Graph DBMS scalability. A partitioning, however, may introduce extra query processing latency unless it is sensitive to a specific query workload, and optimised to…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Hugo Firth , Paolo Missier

Processing large complex networks like social networks or web graphs has recently attracted considerable interest. In order to do this in parallel, we need to partition them into pieces of about equal size. Unfortunately, previous parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Henning Meyerhenke , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

The problem of multiway partitioning of an undirected graph is considered. A spectral method is used, where the k > 2 largest eigenvalues of the normalized adjacency matrix (equivalently, the k smallest eigenvalues of the normalized graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Lars Eldén