An adaptive spectral heuristic for partitioning random graphs

  • Authors:
  • Amin Coja-Oghlan

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'06 Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Automata, Languages and Programming - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We study random instances of a general graph partitioning problem: the vertex set of the random input graph G consists of k classes V1,...,Vk, and Vi-Vj-edges are present with probabilities pij independently. The main result is that with high probability a partition S1,...,Sk of G that coincides with V1,...,Vk on a huge subgraph core(G) can be computed in polynomial time via spectral techniques. The result covers the case of sparse graphs (average degree O(1)) as well as the massive case (average degree #V(G)–O(1)). Furthermore, the spectral algorithm is adaptive in the sense that it does not require any information about the desired partition beyond the number k of classes.