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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

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

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 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 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 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

Partitioning a graph into blocks of roughly equal weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with numerous practical applications. While shared-memory parallel partitioners have recently matured to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 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

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

Computing fixed-radius near-neighbor graphs is an important first step for many data analysis algorithms. Near-neighbor graphs connect points that are close under some metric, endowing point clouds with a combinatorial structure. As…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Gabriel Raulet , Dmitriy Morozov , Aydin Buluc , Katherine Yelick

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

We design and implement an efficient parallel algorithm for finding a perfect matching in a weighted bipartite graph such that weights on the edges of the matching are large. This problem differs from the maximum weight matching problem,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Ariful Azad , Aydın Buluc , Xiaoye S. Li , Xinliang Wang , Johannes Langguth

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

Modern large-scale scientific applications consist of thousands to millions of individual tasks. These tasks involve not only computation but also communication with one another. Typically, the communication pattern between tasks is sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Christian Schulz , Henning Woydt

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

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

We develop a multilevel algorithm for hypergraph partitioning that contracts the vertices one at a time and thus allows very high quality. This includes a rating function that avoids nonuniform vertex weights, an efficient "semi-dynamic"…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Vitali Henne , Henning Meyerhenke , Peter Sanders , Sebastian Schlag , Christian Schulz

Large-scale parallel numerical simulations are essential for a wide range of engineering problems that involve complex, coupled physical processes interacting across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. The data structures involved…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Fande Kong , Roy H. Stogner , Derek R. Gaston , John W. Peterson , Cody J. Permann , Andrew E. Slaughter , Richard C. Martineau

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

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