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Fair graph partition of social networks is a crucial step toward ensuring fair and non-discriminatory treatments in unsupervised user analysis. Current fair partition methods typically consider node balance, a notion pursuing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Tingwei Liu , Peizhao Li , Hongfu Liu

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple undirected graph with $n$ vertices then a set partition $\pi=\{V_1, ..., V_k\}$ of the vertex set of $G$ is a connected set partition if each subgraph $G[V_j]$ induced by the blocks $V_j$ of $\pi$ is connected for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Frank Simon , Peter Tittmann , Martin Trinks

In communication field, an important issue is to group users and base stations to as many as possible subnetworks satisfying certain interference constraints. These problems are usually formulated as a graph partition problems which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Chicheng Ma , Yucong Tang , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan , Bo Bai

A common way of partitioning graphs is through minimum cuts. One drawback of classical minimum cut methods is that they tend to produce small groups, which is why more balanced variants such as normalized and ratio cuts have seen more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Chakib Fettal , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif

Many data types arising from data mining applications can be modeled as bipartite graphs, examples include terms and documents in a text corpus, customers and purchasing items in market basket analysis and reviewers and movies in a movie…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 H. Zha , X. He , C. Ding , M. Gu , H. Simon

In this study, a graph-computing based grid splitting detection algorithm is proposed for contingency analysis in a graph-based EMS (Energy Management System). The graph model of a power system is established by storing its bus-branch…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yongli Zhu , Lingpeng Shi , Renchang Dai , Guangyi Liu

Graph partitioning is the problem of dividing the nodes of a graph into balanced partitions while minimizing the edge cut across the partitions. Due to its combinatorial nature, many approximate solutions have been developed, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

Matching and partitioning problems are fundamentals of computer vision applications with examples in multilabel segmentation, stereo estimation and optical-flow computation. These tasks can be posed as non-convex energy minimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Jonas Geiping , Fjedor Gaede , Hartmut Bauermeister , Michael Moeller

A split graph is a graph whose vertex set can be partitioned into a clique and a stable set. Given a graph $G$ and weight function $w: V(G) \to \mathbb{Q}_{\geq 0}$, the Split Vertex Deletion (SVD) problem asks to find a minimum weight set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Matthew Drescher , Samuel Fiorini , Tony Huynh

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

Vertex splitting replaces a vertex by two copies and partitions its incident edges amongst the copies. This problem has been studied as a graph editing operation to achieve desired properties with as few splits as possible, most often…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Martin Gronemann , Martin Nöllenburg , Anaïs Villedieu

$ \def\vecc#1{\boldsymbol{#1}} $We design a polynomial time algorithm that for any weighted undirected graph $G = (V, E,\vecc w)$ and sufficiently large $\delta > 1$, partitions $V$ into subsets $V_1, \ldots, V_h$ for some $h\geq 1$, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Vedat Levi Alev , Nima Anari , Lap Chi Lau , Shayan Oveis Gharan

Time-evolving large graph has received attention due to their participation in real-world applications such as social networks and PageRank calculation. It is necessary to partition a large-scale dynamic graph in a streaming manner to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Md Anwarul Kaium Patwary , Saurabh Garg , Sudheer Kumar Battula , Byeong Kang

We define and study a spectral recombination algorithm, SpecReCom, for partitioning a graph into a given number of connected parts. It is straightforward to introduce additional constraints such as the requirement that the weight (or number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ewan Davies , Ryan Job , Maxine Kampbell , Hannah Kim , Hyojin Seo

A graph is well-covered if all its maximal independent sets have the same cardinality. This well studied concept was introduced by Plummer in 1970 and naturally generalizes to the weighted case. Given a graph $G$, a real-valued vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Martin Milanič , Nevena Pivač

Let $B=(X,Y,E)$ be a bipartite graph. A half-square of $B$ has one color class of $B$ as vertex set, say $X$; two vertices are adjacent whenever they have a common neighbor in $Y$. Every planar graph is a half-square of a planar bipartite…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Hoang-Oanh Le , Van Bang Le

This paper presents an optimal network topology control framework using cutting-plane methods for efficient network partitioning with controllable edges. The objective is to enable real-time reconfiguration of interconnected sub-networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Harsha Nagarajan , Robert Ferrando , Russell Bent , David Fobes

We consider the problem of partitioning a graph into a non-fixed number of non-overlapping subgraphs of maximum density. The density of a partition is the sum of the densities of the subgraphs, where the density of a subgraph is its average…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Cristina Bazgan , Katrin Casel , Pierre Cazals

Packing disjoint subgraphs in a given graph is a fundamental problem with many applications. Motivated by political districting, we focus on connected subgraphs that are compact (e.g., having constant radius from a single center vertex) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ho-Lin Chen , Po-Yu Chou , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Jie Gao , Shang-En Huang , Fang-Yi Yu

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov