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Minimum cut

In graph theory, a minimum cut or min-cut of a graph is a cut (a partition of the vertices of a graph into two disjoint subsets) that is minimal in some metric. In the simplest unweighted min-cut problem, the goal is to minimize the number of edges connecting the two parts.

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Without terminal nodes

K-cut

With terminal nodes

Applications

Number of minimum cuts

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Minimum cut

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples23
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
Components1

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Minimum cut

Top relations

has application · 7
Minimum cut → Due, Graph, In, It, Minimum, Segmentation-based, This
related to Without terminal nodes · 6
Minimum cut → Any, In, Karger's, Stoer-Wagner, The, When
related to k-cut · 4
Minimum cut → For, However, In, NP-hard
related to With terminal nodes · 3
Minimum cut → As, In, The
related to Number of minimum cuts · 1
Minimum cut → This
see also · 1
Minimum cut → Maximum

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Important terminology

cut minimum problem graph vertices min-cut two partition edges weighted cuts number cost displaystyle goal terminals weights maximum nodes also

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
balancing the sizes of the two sides of the cutinstance ofApplicationsGraph partition problems are a family of combinatorial optimization problems in which a graph is to be partitioned into two or more parts with additional constraints0.80text
Minimum cuthas applicationGraph0.60section
Minimum cuthas applicationSegmentation-based0.60section
Minimum cuthas applicationIt0.60section
Minimum cuthas applicationThis0.60section
Minimum cuthas applicationDue0.60section
Minimum cuthas applicationMinimum0.60section
Minimum cuthas applicationIn0.60section
Minimum cutrelated to k-cutFor0.60section
Minimum cutrelated to k-cutIn0.60section
Minimum cutrelated to k-cutHowever0.60section
Minimum cutrelated to k-cutNP-hard0.60section

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