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Max Flow and Min Cut
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Maximum Flow and Minimum Cut
Max flow and min cut.
Two very rich algorithmic problems.
Cornerstone problems in combinatorial optimization.
Beautiful mathematical duality.
Nontrivial applications / reductions.
Data mining.
Open-pit mining.
Project selection.
Airline scheduling.
Bipartite matching.
Baseball elimination.
Image segmentation.
Network connectivity.
Network reliability.
Distributed computing.
Egalitarian stable matching.
Security of statistical data.
Network intrusion detection.
Multi-camera scene reconstruction.
Many many more …
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Flow network.
Abstraction for material flowing through the edges.
G = (V, E) = directed graph, no parallel edges.
Two distinguished nodes: s = source, t = sink.
c(e) = capacity of edge e.
Minimum Cut Problem
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Def. An s-t cut is a partition (A, B) of V with s A and t B.
Def. The capacity of a cut (A, B) is:
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Def. An s-t cut is a partition (A, B) of V with s A and t B.
Def. The capacity of a cut (A, B) is:
cap(A, B) c(e)e out of A
Capacity = 9 + 15 + 8 + 30= 62
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Min s-t cut problem. Find an s-t cut of minimum capacity.
Minimum Cut Problem
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Def. An s-t flow is a function that satisfies:
For each e E: [capacity]
For each v V – {s, t}: [conservation]
Def. The value of a flow f is:
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Def. An s-t flow is a function that satisfies:
For each e E: [capacity]
For each v V – {s, t}: [conservation]
Def. The value of a flow f is:
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Max flow problem. Find s-t flow of maximum value.
Maximum Flow Problem
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Flow value lemma. Let f be any flow, and let (A, B) be any s-t cut.
Then, the net flow sent across the cut is equal to the amount leaving s.
Flows and Cuts
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Flow value lemma. Let f be any flow, and let (A, B) be any s-t cut.
Then, the net flow sent across the cut is equal to the amount leaving s.
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Flow value lemma. Let f be any flow, and let (A, B) be any s-t cut.
Then, the net flow sent across the cut is equal to the amount leaving s.
Flows and Cuts
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Flows and Cuts
Flow value lemma. Let f be any flow, and let (A, B) be any s-t cut. Then
Pf.
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Flows and Cuts
Weak duality. Let f be any flow, and let (A, B) be any s-t cut. Then the
value of the flow is at most the capacity of the cut.
Cut capacity = 30 Flow value 30
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Weak duality. Let f be any flow. Then, for any s-t cut (A, B) we have
v(f) cap(A, B).
Pf.
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Certificate of Optimality
Corollary. Let f be any flow, and let (A, B) be any cut.
If v(f) = cap(A, B), then f is a max flow and (A, B) is a min cut.
Value of flow = 28Cut capacity = 28 Flow value 28
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Towards a Max Flow Algorithm
Greedy algorithm.
Start with f(e) = 0 for all edge e E.
Find an s-t path P where each edge has f(e) < c(e).
Augment flow along path P.
Repeat until you get stuck.
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Towards a Max Flow Algorithm
Greedy algorithm.
Start with f(e) = 0 for all edge e E.
Find an s-t path P where each edge has f(e) < c(e).
Augment flow along path P.
Repeat until you get stuck.
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Towards a Max Flow Algorithm
Greedy algorithm.
Start with f(e) = 0 for all edge e E.
Find an s-t path P where each edge has f(e) < c(e).
Augment flow along path P.
Repeat until you get stuck.
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Residual Graph
Original edge: e = (u, v) E.
Flow f(e), capacity c(e).
Residual edge.
"Undo" flow sent.
e = (u, v) and eR = (v, u).
Residual capacity:
Residual graph: Gf = (V, Ef ).
Residual edges with positive residual capacity.
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Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm
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Augmenting Path Algorithm
Augment(f, c, P) {
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Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem
Augmenting path theorem. Flow f is a max flow iff there are no
augmenting paths.
Max-flow min-cut theorem. [Elias-Feinstein-Shannon 1956, Ford-Fulkerson 1956]
The value of the max flow is equal to the value of the min cut.
Pf. We prove both simultaneously by showing TFAE:
(i) There exists a cut (A, B) such that v(f) = cap(A, B).
(ii) Flow f is a max flow.
(iii) There is no augmenting path relative to f.
(i) (ii) This was the corollary to weak duality lemma.
(ii) (iii) We show contrapositive.
Let f be a flow. If there exists an augmenting path, then we can
improve f by sending flow along path.
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Proof of Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem
(iii) (i)
Let f be a flow with no augmenting paths.
Let A be set of vertices reachable from s in residual graph.
By definition of A, s A.
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Running Time
Assumption. All capacities are integers between 1 and C.
Invariant. Every flow value f(e) and every residual capacity cf (e)
remains an integer throughout the algorithm.
Theorem. The algorithm terminates in at most v(f*) nC iterations.
Pf. Each augmentation increase value by at least 1. ▪
Corollary. If C = 1, Ford-Fulkerson runs in O(mn) time.
Integrality theorem. If all capacities are integers, then there exists a
max flow f for which every flow value f(e) is an integer.
Pf. Since algorithm terminates, theorem follows from invariant. ▪
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Choosing Good Augmenting Paths
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Ford-Fulkerson: Exponential Number of Augmentations
Q. Is generic Ford-Fulkerson algorithm polynomial in input size?
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Choosing Good Augmenting Paths
Use care when selecting augmenting paths.
Some choices lead to exponential algorithms.
Clever choices lead to polynomial algorithms.
If capacities are irrational, algorithm not guaranteed to terminate!
Goal: choose augmenting paths so that:
Can find augmenting paths efficiently.
Few iterations.
Choose augmenting paths with: [Edmonds-Karp 1972, Dinitz 1970]
Max bottleneck capacity.
Sufficiently large bottleneck capacity.
Fewest number of edges.
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Capacity Scaling
Intuition. Choosing path with highest bottleneck capacity increases
flow by max possible amount.
Don't worry about finding exact highest bottleneck path.
Maintain scaling parameter .
Let Gf () be the subgraph of the residual graph consisting of only
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Capacity Scaling
Scaling-Max-Flow(G, s, t, c) {
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Capacity Scaling: Correctness
Assumption. All edge capacities are integers between 1 and C.
Integrality invariant. All flow and residual capacity values are integral.
Correctness. If the algorithm terminates, then f is a max flow.
Pf.
By integrality invariant, when = 1 Gf() = Gf.
Upon termination of = 1 phase, there are no augmenting paths. ▪
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Capacity Scaling: Running Time
Lemma 1. The outer while loop repeats 1 + log2 C times.
Pf. Initially C < 2C. decreases by a factor of 2 each iteration. ▪
Lemma 2. Let f be the flow at the end of a -scaling phase. Then the
value of the maximum flow is at most v(f) + m .
Lemma 3. There are at most 2m augmentations per scaling phase.
Let f be the flow at the end of the previous scaling phase.
L2 v(f*) v(f) + m (2).
Each augmentation in a -phase increases v(f) by at least . ▪
Theorem. The scaling max-flow algorithm finds a max flow in O(m log C)
augmentations. It can be implemented to run in O(m2 log C) time. ▪
proof on next slide
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Capacity Scaling: Running Time
Lemma 2. Let f be the flow at the end of a -scaling phase. Then value
of the maximum flow is at most v(f) + m .
Pf. (almost identical to proof of max-flow min-cut theorem)
We show that at the end of a -phase, there exists a cut (A, B)
such that cap(A, B) v(f) + m .
Choose A to be the set of nodes reachable from s in Gf().
By definition of A, s A.
By definition of f, t A.
v( f ) f (e)e out of A
f (e)e in to A
(c(e)e out of A
) e in to A
c(e)e out of A
e out of A
e in to A
cap(A, B) - m
original network
s
t
A B
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References
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References
Sections 7.1-3 of the text book “algorithm design” by Jon Kleinberg
and Eva Tardos
The original slides were prepared by Kevin Wayne. The slides are
distributed by Pearson Addison-Wesley.