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The balanced hypergraph partitioning problem is to partition a hypergraph into $k$ disjoint blocks of bounded size such that the sum of the number of blocks connected by each hyperedge is minimized. We present an improvement to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Lars Gottesbüren , Michael Hamann , Sebastian Schlag , Dorothea Wagner

This paper proposes an efficient hypergraph partitioning framework based on a novel multi-objective non-convex constrained relaxation model. A modified accelerated proximal gradient algorithm is employed to generate diverse $k$-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yingying Li , Mingxuan Xie , Hailong You , Yongqiang Yao , Hongwei Liu

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

In this study, we address the complex issue of graph clustering in signed graphs, which are characterized by positive and negative weighted edges representing attraction and repulsion among nodes, respectively. The primary objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Felix Hausberger , Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Christian Schulz

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 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

We present a deterministic parallel multilevel algorithm for balanced hypergraph partitioning that matches the state of the art for non-deterministic algorithms. Deterministic parallel algorithms produce the same result in each invocation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Robert Krause , Lars Gottesbüren , Nikolai Maas

Hypergraph partitioning is a recurring NP-hard problem in engineering; its efficient solution at scale hinges on parallelism. This work proposes a GPU-centric algorithm for multi-level hypergraph partitioning aimed at a specific set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano

Hypergraph partitioning is an important problem in machine learning, computer vision and network analytics. A widely used method for hypergraph partitioning relies on minimizing a normalized sum of the costs of partitioning hyperedges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Pan Li , Olgica Milenkovic

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

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

(Hyper)Graph decomposition is a family of problems that aim to break down large (hyper)graphs into smaller sub(hyper)graphs for easier analysis. The importance of this lies in its ability to enable efficient computation on large and complex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Marcelo Fonseca Faraj

We describe an approach to parallel graph partitioning that scales to hundreds of processors and produces a high solution quality. For example, for many instances from Walshaw's benchmark collection we improve the best known partitioning.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-04-08 Manuel Holtgrewe , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

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

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

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 refinement framework for multilevel hypergraph partitioning that uses max-flow computations on pairs of blocks to improve the solution quality of a $k$-way partition. The framework generalizes the flow-based improvement…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Sebastian Schlag

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

Computing maximum weight independent sets in graphs is an important NP-hard optimization problem. The problem is particularly difficult to solve in large graphs for which data reduction techniques do not work well. To be more precise,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Ernestine Großmann , Sebastian Lamm , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

State-of-the-art hypergraph partitioners follow the multilevel paradigm that constructs multiple levels of progressively coarser hypergraphs that are used to drive cut refinement on each level of the hierarchy. Multilevel partitioners are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ismail Bustany , Andrew B. Kahng , Ioannis Koutis , Bodhisatta Pramanik , Zhiang Wang