The simplest model of this form is for the graph bisection problem. This is the problem of partitioning the vertices of a graph into two equal-sized sets while minimizing the number of edges bridging the sets. To create an instance of the planted bisection problem, we first choose a paritition of the vertices into equal-sized sets V 1 and V 2. When then choose probabilities p > q, and place edg...

We give an overview of multilevel methods, such as V-cycle multigrid and BPX preconditioner, for solving various partial differential equations (including H(grad), H(curl) and H(div) systems) on quasi-uniform meshes and extend them to graded meshes and completely unstructured grids. We first discuss the classical multigrid theory on the basis of the method of subspace correction of Xu and a key...

K-way hypergraph partitioning has an ever-growing use in parallelization of scientific computing applications. We claim that hypergraph partitioning with multiple constraints and fixed vertices should be implemented using direct K-way refinement, instead of the widely adopted recursive bisection paradigm. Our arguments are based on the fact that recursive-bisection-based partitioning algorithms...