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Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for the Max-Cut Problem

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Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition (GbRPR 2013)

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In this paper, we investigate the Max-Cut problem and propose a probabilistic heuristic to address its classic and weighted version. Our approach is based on the Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) that creates a population of individuals capable of evolving at each generation towards the global solution. We have applied the Max-Cut problem for image segmentation and defined the edges’ weights as a modified function of the L2 norm between the RGB values of nodes. The main goal of this paper is to introduce a heuristic for Max-Cut and additionally to investigate how it can be applied in the segmentation context.

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  1. Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Samuel de Sousa, Yll Haxhimusa & Walter G. Kropatsch

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  1. Dept. of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 9-11, 186-3, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Walter G. Kropatsch , Nicole M. Artner  & Yll Haxhimusa ,  & 

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Münster, Einsteinstr. 62, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Xiaoyi Jiang

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de Sousa, S., Haxhimusa, Y., Kropatsch, W.G. (2013). Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for the Max-Cut Problem. In: Kropatsch, W.G., Artner, N.M., Haxhimusa, Y., Jiang, X. (eds) Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition. GbRPR 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7877. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38221-5_26

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