Title
Accelerating Local Search for the Maximum Independent Set Problem.
Abstract
Computing high-quality independent sets quickly is an important problem in combinatorial optimization. Several recent algorithms have shown that kernelization techniques can be used to find exact maximum independent sets in medium-sized sparse graphs, as well as high-quality independent sets in huge sparse graphs that are intractable for exact exponential-time algorithms. However, a major drawback of these algorithms is that they require significant preprocessing overhead, and therefore cannot be used to find a high-quality independent set quickly. In this paper, we show that performing simple kernelization techniques in an online fashion significantly boosts the performance of local search, and is much faster than pre-computing a kernel using advanced techniques. In addition, we show that cutting high-degree vertices can boost local search performance even further, especially on huge sparse complex networks. Our experiments show that we can drastically speed up the computation of large independent sets compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms, while also producing results that are very close to the best known solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-38851-9_9
SEA
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Maximum independent set,Minimum vertex cover,Local search,Kernelization,Reduction
Conference
abs/1602.01659
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
6
0.44
References 
Authors
25
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jakob Dahlum160.44
sebastian lamm2344.10
peter sanders336129.35
Christian Schulz424024.10
Darren Strash523817.72
Renato F. Werneck6174384.33