A Simple Iterative Algorithm for Maxcut

A Simple Iterative Algorithm for Maxcut

Year:    2024

Author:    Sihong Shao, Dong Zhang, Weixi Zhang

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 42 (2024), Iss. 5 : pp. 1277–1304

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), 365–403] 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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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2303-m2021-0309

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 42 (2024), Iss. 5 : pp. 1277–1304

Published online:    2024-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    28

Keywords:    Maxcut Iterative algorithm Exact solution Subgradient selection Fractional programming.

Author Details

Sihong Shao

Dong Zhang

Weixi Zhang