This paper examines the Balanced Submodular Flow Problem, that is the problem of finding a feasible submodular flow minimizing the difference between the flow values along the edges. A min-max formula is given to the problem and an algorithm is presented to solve it using $O(m^2)$ submodular function minimizations. Then, these result are extended to the weighted version of the problem. Finally, the Balanced Integer Submodular Flow Problem is discussed.
翻译:本文研究平衡子模流问题,即寻找一条可行子模流,使得各边上的流值差异最小化的问题。针对该问题给出了一个极小-极大公式,并提出了一种通过O(m²)次子模函数最小化来求解的算法。随后,这些结果被推广到该问题的加权版本。最后,讨论了平衡整数子模流问题。