학술논문

Spectral partitioning of random graphs
Document Type
Conference
Author
Source
Proceedings 42nd IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science Cluster Computing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE International Conference on. :529-537 2001
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Partitioning algorithms
Computer science
Simulated annealing
Temperature
Algorithm design and analysis
Language
ISSN
1552-5244
Abstract
Problems such as bisection, graph coloring, and clique are generally believed hard in the worst case. However, they can be solved if the input data is drawn randomly from a distribution over graphs containing acceptable solutions. In this paper we show that a simple spectral algorithm can solve all three problems above in the average case, as well as a more general problem of partitioning graphs based on edge density. In nearly all cases our approach meets or exceeds previous parameters, while introducing substantial generality. We apply spectral techniques, using foremost the observation that in all of these problems, the expected adjacency matrix is a low rank matrix wherein the structure of the solution is evident.