Hybrid local search algorithms on Graph Coloring Problem

Author(s):  
Cagri Yesil ◽  
Buse Yilmaz ◽  
Emin Erkan Korkmaz
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 2433-2441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiyuan Wang ◽  
Shaowei Cai ◽  
Shiwei Pan ◽  
Ximing Li ◽  
Monghao Yin

The weighted graph coloring problem (WGCP) is an important extension of the graph coloring problem (GCP) with wide applications. Compared to GCP, where numerous methods have been developed and even massive graphs with millions of vertices can be solved well, fewer works have been done for WGCP, and no solution is available for solving WGCP for massive graphs. This paper explores techniques for solving WGCP, including a lower bound and a reduction rule based on clique sampling, and a local search algorithm based on two selection rules and a new variant of configuration checking. This results in our algorithm RedLS (Reduction plus Local Search). Experiments are conducted to compare RedLS with the state-of-the-art algorithms on massive graphs as well as conventional benchmarks studied in previous works. RedLS exhibits very good performance and robustness. It significantly outperforms previous algorithms on all benchmarks.


2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 1127-1139
Author(s):  
Da-Ming ZHU ◽  
Shao-Han MA ◽  
Ping-Ping ZHANG

2008 ◽  
Vol 105 (40) ◽  
pp. 15253-15257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Alava ◽  
John Ardelius ◽  
Erik Aurell ◽  
Petteri Kaski ◽  
Supriya Krishnamurthy ◽  
...  

We study the performance of stochastic local search algorithms for random instances of the K-satisfiability (K-SAT) problem. We present a stochastic local search algorithm, ChainSAT, which moves in the energy landscape of a problem instance by never going upwards in energy. ChainSAT is a focused algorithm in the sense that it focuses on variables occurring in unsatisfied clauses. We show by extensive numerical investigations that ChainSAT and other focused algorithms solve large K-SAT instances almost surely in linear time, up to high clause-to-variable ratios α; for example, for K = 4 we observe linear-time performance well beyond the recently postulated clustering and condensation transitions in the solution space. The performance of ChainSAT is a surprise given that by design the algorithm gets trapped into the first local energy minimum it encounters, yet no such minima are encountered. We also study the geometry of the solution space as accessed by stochastic local search algorithms.


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