Graph coloring with physics-inspired graph neural networks

Autor: Martin J. A. Schuetz, J. Kyle Brubaker, Zhihuai Zhu, Helmut G. Katzgraber
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical Review Research, Vol 4, Iss 4, p 043131 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.043131
Popis: We show how graph neural networks can be used to solve the canonical graph coloring problem. We frame graph coloring as a multiclass node classification problem and utilize an unsupervised training strategy based on the statistical physics Potts model. Generalizations to other multiclass problems such as community detection, data clustering, and the minimum clique cover problem are straightforward. We provide numerical benchmark results and illustrate our approach with an end-to-end application for a real-world scheduling use case within a comprehensive encode-process-decode framework. Our optimization approach performs on par or outperforms existing solvers, with the ability to scale to problems with millions of variables.
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