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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

The graph partitioning problem has many applications in scientific computing such as computer aided design, data mining, image compression and other applications with sparse-matrix vector multiplications as a kernel operation. In many cases…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Foad Lotfifar , Matthew Johnson

Balanced partitioning is often a crucial first step in solving large-scale graph optimization problems, e.g., in some cases, a big graph can be chopped into pieces that fit on one machine to be processed independently before stitching the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Kevin Aydin , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

This paper presents a framework that supports the implementation of parallel solutions for the widespread parametric maximum flow computational routines used in image segmentation algorithms. The framework is based on supergraphs, a special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Vlad Olaru , Mihai Florea , Cristian Sminchisescu

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

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

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

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

Problems in scientific computing, such as distributing large sparse matrix operations, have analogous formulations as hypergraph partitioning problems. A hypergraph is a generalization of a traditional graph wherein "hyperedges" may connect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Justin Sybrandt , Ruslan Shaydulin , Ilya Safro

In recent years, significant advances have been made in the design and evaluation of balanced (hyper)graph partitioning algorithms. We survey trends of the last decade in practical algorithms for balanced (hyper)graph partitioning together…

Hypergraphs have gained increasing attention in the machine learning community lately due to their superiority over graphs in capturing super-dyadic interactions among entities. In this work, we propose a novel approach for the partitioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Deepak Maurya , Balaraman Ravindran

Hypergraph partitioning is a fundamental optimization problem with applications in data management and other domains involving higher-order relations. In this paper, we study balanced hypergraph partitioning from the perspective of quantum…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yiran Li , Y. Batuhan Yilmaz , Michael Silver , Zachary Vernec , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

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

Hypergraph partitioning has a wide range of important applications such as VLSI design or scientific computing. With focus on solution quality, we develop the first multilevel memetic algorithm to tackle the problem. Key components of our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Robin Andre , Sebastian Schlag , 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

Motivated by performance optimization of large-scale graph processing systems that distribute the graph across multiple machines, we consider the balanced graph partitioning problem. Compared to the previous work, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Sergey Pupyrev , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

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

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

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

Balanced graph partitioning is a critical step for many large-scale distributed computations with relational data. As graph datasets have grown in size and density, a range of highly-scalable balanced partitioning algorithms have appeared…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Amel Awadelkarim , Johan Ugander