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We consider the problem of enumerating optimal solutions for two hypergraph $k$-partitioning problems -- namely, Hypergraph-$k$-Cut and Minmax-Hypergraph-$k$-Partition. The input in hypergraph $k$-partitioning problems is a hypergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Calvin Beideman , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Weihang Wang

We study the problem of learning an unknown graph provided via an oracle using a quantum algorithm. We consider three query models. In the first model ("OR queries"), the oracle returns whether a given subset of the vertices contains any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Ashley Montanaro , Changpeng Shao

We study a variant of the subgraph isomorphism problem that is of high interest to the quantum computing community. Our results give an algorithm to perform pattern matching in quantum circuits for many patterns simultaneously,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Luca Mondada , Pablo Andrés-Martínez

The aim of the paper is to propose a bounded-error quantum polynomial time (BQP) algorithm for the max-bisection and the min-bisection problems. The max-bisection and the min-bisection problems are fundamental NP-hard problems. Given a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Ahmed Younes

We introduce a quantum algorithm that produces approximate solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. The algorithm depends on a positive integer p and the quality of the approximation improves as p is increased. The quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-17 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann

We introduce a method for solving the Max-Cut problem using a variational algorithm and a continuous-variables quantum computing approach. The quantum circuit consists of two parts: the first one embeds a graph into a circuit using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Michał Stęchły , Ntwali Bashige , Przemysław Chojecki

We consider the Global Minimum Vertex-Cut problem: given an undirected vertex-weighted graph $G$, compute a minimum-weight subset of its vertices whose removal disconnects $G$. The problem is closely related to Global Minimum Edge-Cut,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Julia Chuzhoy , Ohad Trabelsi

We introduce a method to solve the MaxCut problem efficiently based on quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE). We employ a linear Ansatz for unitary updates and an initial state involving no entanglement, as well as an…

In this paper we present an efficiently scaling quantum algorithm which finds the size of the maximum common edge subgraph for a pair of arbitrary graphs and thus provides a meaningful measure of graph similarity. The algorithm makes use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 M. Chiew , K. de Lacy , C. H. Yu , S. Marsh , J. B. Wang

This paper presents an $O^{*}(1.42^{n})$ time algorithm for the Maximum Cut problem on split graphs, along with a subexponential time algorithm for its decision variant.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Marko Lalovic

Consider the following "local" cut-detection problem in a directed graph: We are given a starting vertex $s$ and need to detect whether there is a cut with at most $k$ edges crossing the cut such that the side of the cut containing $s$ has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Sebastian Forster , Liu Yang

We consider the classical minimum and maximum cut problems: find a partition of vertices of a graph into two disjoint subsets that minimize or maximize the sum of the weights of edges with endpoints in different subsets. It is known that if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Andrei V. Nikolaev , Alexander V. Korostil

A \emph{co-bipartite chain} graph is a co-bipartite graph in which the neighborhoods of the vertices in each clique can be linearly ordered with respect to inclusion. It is known that the maximum cut problem (MaxCut) is NP-Hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Arman Boyacı , Tınaz Ekim , Mordechai Shalom

We describe a new approximation algorithm for Max Cut. Our algorithm runs in $\tilde O(n^2)$ time, where $n$ is the number of vertices, and achieves an approximation ratio of $.531$. On instances in which an optimal solution cuts a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-08 Luca Trevisan

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, informatics, and many other areas. Although there exist several algorithms with acceptable runtimes for certain classes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

As two fundamental problems, graph cuts and graph matching have been investigated over decades, resulting in vast literature in these two topics respectively. However the way of jointly applying and solving graph cuts and matching receives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tianshu Yu , Junchi Yan , Jieyi Zhao , Baoxin Li

Mining cohesive subgraphs from a graph is a fundamental problem in graph data analysis. One notable cohesive structure is $\gamma$-quasi-clique (QC), where each vertex connects at least a fraction $\gamma$ of the other vertices inside.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kaiqiang Yu , Cheng Long

Finding maximum-weight independent sets in graphs is an important NP-hard optimization problem. Given a vertex-weighted graph $G$, the task is to find a subset of pairwise non-adjacent vertices of $G$ with maximum weight. Most recently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Mattthias Schimek

We investigate the Maximum Cut (MaxCut) problem on different graph classes with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) using symmetries. In particular, heuristics on the relationship between graph symmetries and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Leonardo Lavagna , Simone Piperno , Andrea Ceschini , Massimo Panella

Quantum algorithms have the potential to provide exponential speedups over some of the best known classical algorithms. These speedups may enable quantum devices to solve currently intractable problems such as those in the fields of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Ciarán Ryan-Anderson