A simple iterative algorithm for maxcut

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Authors Sihong Shao, Dong Zhang, Weixi Zhang

Publication date 17 March 2018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Fractional programming (90C32) Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C85) Nonconvex programming, global optimization (90C26) Combinatorial optimization (90C27)

Abstract: We propose a simple iterative (SI) algorithm for the maxcut problem through fully using an equivalent continuous formulation. It does not need rounding at all and has advantages that all subproblems have explicit analytic solutions, the cut values are monotonically updated and the iteration points converge to a local optima in finite steps via an appropriate subgradient selection. Numerical experiments on G-set demonstrate the performance. In particular, the ratios between the best cut values achieved by SI and those by some advanced combinatorial algorithms in [Ann. Oper. Res. 248 (2017) 365] are at least $0.986$ and can be further improved to at least $0.997$ by a preliminary attempt to break out of local optima.

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