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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Hypergraph Partitioning (HGP) problem is a well-studied problem that finds applications in a variety of domains. The literature on the HGP problem has heavily focused on developing fast heuristic approaches. In several application…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Utku Umur Acikalin , Bugra Caskurlu

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

Graph partitioning (GP) and vertex connectivity have traditionally been two distinct fields of study. This paper introduces the highly connected graph partitioning (HCGP) problem, which partitions a graph into compact, size balanced, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Rahul Swamy , Douglas M. King , Sheldon H. Jacobson

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

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

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

Many important real-world applications-such as social networks or distributed data bases-can be modeled as hypergraphs. In such a model, vertices represent entities-such as users or data records-whereas hyperedges model a group membership…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Christian Mayer , Ruben Mayer , Sukanya Bhowmik , Lukas Epple , Kurt Rothermel

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
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