Title
An exact algorithm for graph partitioning
Abstract
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 by decomposing the objective function into convex and concave parts and replacing the concave part by an affine underestimate. It is shown that the best affine underestimate can be expressed in terms of the center and the radius of the smallest sphere containing the feasible set. The concave term is obtained either by a constant diagonal shift associated with the smallest eigenvalue of the objective function Hessian, or by a diagonal shift obtained by solving a semidefinite programming problem. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithm is competitive with state-of-the-art graph partitioning codes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s10107-011-0503-x
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
quadratic program,lower bound,graph partitioning,objective function,branch and bound
Affine transformation,Diagonal,Discrete mathematics,Mathematical optimization,Combinatorics,Exact algorithm,Hessian matrix,Feasible region,Quadratic programming,Graph partition,Mathematics,Semidefinite programming
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
137
1-2
1436-4646
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.72
30
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William W. Hager11603214.67
Dzung Phan2272.66
Hongchao Zhang31096.41