Spin Glass approach to the feedback vertex set problem

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DOI10.1140/EPJB/E2013-40690-1zbMATH Open1515.82158arXiv1307.6948OpenAlexW2010280523MaRDI QIDQ6176705FDOQ6176705


Authors: Haijun Zhou Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 July 2023

Published in: The European Physical Journal B. Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A feedback vertex set (FVS) of an undirected graph is a set of vertices that contains at least one vertex of each cycle of the graph. The feedback vertex set problem consists of constructing a FVS of size less than a certain given value. This combinatorial optimization problem has many practical applications, but it is in the nondeterministic polynomial-complete class of worst-case computational complexity. In this paper we define a spin glass model for the FVS problem and then study this model on the ensemble of finite-connectivity random graphs. In our model the global cycle constraints are represented through the local constraints on all the edges of the graph, and they are then treated by distributed message-passing procedures such as belief propagation. Our belief propagation-guided decimation algorithm can construct nearly optimal feedback vertex sets for single random graph instances and regular lattices. We also design a spin glass model for the FVS problem on a directed graph. Our work will be very useful for identifying the set of vertices that contribute most significantly to the dynamical complexity of a large networked system.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6948




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