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Extremal optimization is a new general-purpose method for approximating solutions to hard optimization problems. We study the method in detail by way of the NP-hard graph partitioning problem. We discuss the scaling behavior of extremal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Boettcher , A. G. Percus

Hypergraph partitioning is an NP-hard problem that occurs in many computer science applications where it is necessary to reduce large problems into a number of smaller, computationally tractable sub-problems. Current techniques use a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Richard J. Preen , Jim Smith

In the realm of distributed systems tasked with managing and processing large-scale graph-structured data, optimizing graph partitioning stands as a pivotal challenge. The primary goal is to minimize communication overhead and runtime cost.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zezhong Ding , Yongan Xiang , Shangyou Wang , Xike Xie , S. Kevin Zhou

The performance of distributed averaging depends heavily on the underlying topology. In various fields, including compressed sensing, multi-party computation, and abstract graph theory, graphs may be expected to be free of short cycles,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Florine W. Dekker , Zekeriya Erkin , Mauro Conti

Graph partitioning (GP) is a classic problem that divides the node set of a graph into densely-connected blocks. Following the IEEE HPEC Graph Challenge and recent advances in pre-training techniques (e.g., large-language models), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Meng Qin , Chaorui Zhang , Yu Gao , Yibin Ding , Weipeng Jiang , Weixi Zhang , Wei Han , Bo Bai

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used for learning on graph-structured data, but scaling GNN training to massive graphs remains challenging. To enable scalable distributed training, graphs are divided into smaller partitions that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Nikolai Merkel , Ruben Mayer , Volker Markl , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

In this paper, we propose Revolver, a parallel graph partitioning algorithm capable of partitioning large-scale graphs on a single shared-memory machine. Revolver employs an asynchronous processing framework, which leverages reinforcement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Mohammad Hasanzadeh Mofrad , Rami Melhem , Mohammad Hammoud

Graph partitioning, a well studied problem of parallel computing has many applications in diversified fields such as distributed computing, social network analysis, data mining and many other domains. In this paper, we introduce FGPGA, an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Md. Lisul Islam , Novia Nurain , Swakkhar Shatabda , M Sohel Rahman

We consider the problem of graph generation guided by network statistics, i.e., the generation of graphs which have given values of various numerical measures that characterize networks, such as the clustering coefficient and the number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jérôme Kunegis , Jun Sun , Eiko Yoneki

Motivated by the increasing need to understand the algorithmic foundations of distributed large-scale graph computations, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing where $k \geq 2$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

We present a multi-level graph partitioning algorithm based on the extreme idea to contract only a single edge on each level of the hierarchy. This obviates the need for a matching algorithm and promises very good partitioning quality since…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-26 Vitaly Osipov , Peter Sanders

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

Graph partitioning is one of an important set of well-known compute-intense (NP-hard) graph problems that devolve to discrete constrained optimization. We sampled solutions to the problem via two different quantum-ready methods to…

The multilevel heuristic is the dominant strategy for high-quality sequential and parallel graph partitioning. Partition refinement is a key step of multilevel graph partitioning. In this work, we present Jet, a new parallel algorithm for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Michael S. Gilbert , Kamesh Madduri , Erik G. Boman , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

Convolutional graph networks are used in particle physics for effective event reconstructions and classifications. However, their performances can be limited by the considerable amount of sensors used in modern particle detectors if applied…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-10 M. Bachlechner , T. Birkenfeld , P. Soldin , A. Stahl , C. Wiebusch

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

An exact algorithm is presented for solving edge weighted graph partitioning problems. The algorithm is based on a branch and bound method applied to a continuous quadratic programming formulation of the problem. Lower bounds are obtained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-12-10 William Hager , Dzung Phan , Hongchao Zhang

We study the percolation properties of graph partitioning on random regular graphs with N vertices of degree $k$. Optimal graph partitioning is directly related to optimal attack and immunization of complex networks. We find that for any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-07 Gerald Paul , Reuven Cohen , Sameet Sreenivasan , Shlomo Havlin , H. Eugene Stanley

In this work, we present the first efficient and practical algorithm for estimating the number of triangles in a graph stream using predictions. Our algorithm combines waiting room sampling and reservoir sampling with a predictor for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Cristian Boldrin , Fabio Vandin

Cell formation is a critical step in the design of cellular manufacturing systems. Recently, it was tackled using a cut-based-graph-partitioning model. This model meets real-life production systems requirements as it uses the actual amount…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Boulif Menouar