A Parallelisable Multi-level Banded Diffusion Scheme for Computing Balanced Partitions with Smooth Boundaries

Graph partitioning algorithms have yet to be improved, because graph-based local optimization algorithms do not compute smooth and globally-optimal frontiers, while global optimization algorithms are too expensive to be of practical use on large graphs. This paper presents a way to integrate a global optimization, diffusion algorithm in a banded multi-level framework, which dramatically reduces problem size while yielding balanced partitions with smooth boundaries. Since all of these algorithms do parallelize well, high-quality parallel graph partitioners built using these algorithms will have the same quality as state-of-the-art sequential partitioners