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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

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

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

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

Hypergraph partitioning is used in many problem domains including VLSI design, linear algebra, Boolean satisfiability, and data mining. Most versions of this problem are NP-complete or NP-hard, so practical hypergraph partitioners generate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sepideh Maleki , Udit Agarwal , Martin Burtscher , Keshav Pingali

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 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 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 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

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

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

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 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

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

Computing high-quality graph partitions is a challenging problem with numerous applications. In this paper, we present a novel meta-heuristic for the balanced graph partitioning problem. Our approach is based on integer linear programs that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Alexandra Henzinger , Alexander Noe , Christian Schulz

We describe an approach to parallel graph partitioning that scales to hundreds of processors and produces a high solution quality. For example, for many instances from Walshaw's benchmark collection we improve the best known partitioning.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-04-08 Manuel Holtgrewe , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) extends linear programming by incorporating both continuous and integer decision variables, making it widely used in production planning, logistics scheduling, and resource allocation. However, MIP remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyu Zhang , Di Huang , Yue Liu , Shuo Wang , Zhenyu Pu , Zhiyuan Liu

This article describes a geometric partitioning software that can be used for quick computation of data partitions on many-core HPC machines. It is most suited for dynamic applications with load distributions that vary with time.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aparna Sasidharan

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
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