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In this paper, we propose HyperFlowCutter, an algorithm for balanced hypergraph bipartitioning. It is based on minimum S-T hyperedge cuts and maximum flows. It computes a sequence of bipartitions that optimize cut size and balance in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Lars Gottesbüren , Michael Hamann , Dorothea Wagner

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

Balanced hypergraph partitioning is an NP-hard problem with many applications, e.g., optimizing communication in distributed data placement problems. The goal is to place all nodes across $k$ different blocks of bounded size, such that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Nikolai Maas , Peter Sanders , Sebastian Schlag

This paper considers the balanced hypergraph partitioning problem, which asks for partitioning the vertices into $k$ disjoint blocks of bounded size while minimizing an objective function over the hyperedges. Here, we consider the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Sebastian Schlag , Tobias Heuer , Lars Gottesbüren , Yaroslav Akhremtsev , Christian Schulz , Peter Sanders

We present a shared-memory algorithm to compute high-quality solutions to the balanced $k$-way hypergraph partitioning problem. This problem asks for a partition of the vertex set into $k$ disjoint blocks of bounded size that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Sebastian Schlag

We present a shared-memory parallelization of flow-based refinement, which is considered the most powerful iterative improvement technique for hypergraph partitioning at the moment. Flow-based refinement works on bipartitions, so current…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders

The balanced hypergraph partitioning problem (HGP) is to partition the vertex set of a hypergraph into k disjoint blocks of bounded weight, while minimizing an objective function defined on the hyperedges. Whereas real-world applications…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Tobias Heuer , Nikolai Maas , Sebastian Schlag

We develop a multilevel algorithm for hypergraph partitioning that contracts the vertices one at a time. Using several caching and lazy-evaluation techniques during coarsening and refinement, we reduce the running time by up to two-orders…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Sebastian Schlag , Vitali Henne , Tobias Heuer , Henning Meyerhenke , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

Hypergraph partitioning is an important preprocessing step for optimizing data placement and minimizing communication volumes in high-performance computing applications. To cope with ever growing problem sizes, it has become increasingly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Sebastian Schlag

Partitioning a graph into blocks of "roughly equal" weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with a wide range of applications. In particular, the problem is a building block in applications that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier

We propose a balanced coarsening scheme for multilevel hypergraph partitioning. In addition, an initial partitioning algorithm is designed to improve the quality of k-way hypergraph partitioning. By assigning vertex weights through the LPT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Zhicheng Guo , Jiaxuan Zhao , Licheng Jiao , Xu Liu

Multi-constraint hypergraph partitioning is a generalization of balanced partitioning, where the vertex set of a hypergraph is partitioned such that the inter-block connectivity of hyperedges is minimized while balancing the vertices with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Nikolai Maas

Hypergraphs allow modeling problems with multi-way high-order relationships. However, the computational cost of most existing hypergraph-based algorithms can be heavily dependent upon the input hypergraph sizes. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Aghdaei , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

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

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

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

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

This paper presents a novel distributed approach for solving AC power flow (PF) problems. The optimization problem is reformulated into a distributed form using a communication structure corresponding to a hypergraph, by which complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Xinliang Dai , Yingzhao Lian , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones , Veit Hagenmeyer

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

Partitioning the vertices of a (hyper)graph into k roughly balanced blocks such that few (hyper)edges run between blocks is a key problem for large-scale distributed processing. A current trend for partitioning huge (hyper)graphs using low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Kamal Eyubov , Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Christian Schulz
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