
doi: 10.1137/070705994
handle: 1721.1/97225
Summary: Consider an \(n\)-vertex, \(m\)-edge, undirected graph with integral capacities and max-flow value \(v\). We give a new \(\tilde{O}(m + nv)\)-time maximum flow algorithm. After assigning certain special sampling probabilities to edges in \(\tilde{O}(m)\) time, our algorithm is very simple: repeatedly find an augmenting path in a random sample of edges from the residual graph. Breaking from past work, we demonstrate that we can benefit by random sampling from directed (residual) graphs. We also slightly improve an algorithm for approximating flows of arbitrary value, finding a flow of value \((1-\epsilon)\) times the maximum in \(\tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n/\epsilon})\) time.
Connectivity, Extremal problems in graph theory, Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity, random sampling, Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects), Enumeration in graph theory, Approximation algorithms, minimum cut, maximum flow random graph, Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects), connectivity, cut enumeration, network reliability, Analysis of algorithms, Flows in graphs
Connectivity, Extremal problems in graph theory, Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity, random sampling, Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects), Enumeration in graph theory, Approximation algorithms, minimum cut, maximum flow random graph, Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects), connectivity, cut enumeration, network reliability, Analysis of algorithms, Flows in graphs
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