Question
A 1989 paper by Jerrum and Sinclair reduces a problem about finding these things to ferromagnetic instances of the Ising model to show that finding the partition function of the latter is #P-complete. A poly-time approximation ratio of 0.878 achieved by the Goemans-Williamson algorithm for a problem about these things is optimal only if the unique game conjecture holds. The size of one type of these things is equal to the total number of disjoint paths by Menger’s theorem. The Stoer-Wagner algorithm finds one of these things for (*) undirected graphs recursively, while Karger’s algorithm computes it probabilistically. The “minimum” one of these things can be produced from the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm via a namesake theorem that relates it to the maximum flow. For 10 points, name these partitions of a graph into two disjoint subsets of vertices. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 122.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 96.67 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 100% | 119.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 67% | 117.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 80.00 |
Buzzes
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Ian Tullis | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Cry of the Common Loon | 32 | -5 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 36 | 15 |
Aditya Gangrade | Pahkin' the Ahgo | Import Pandas | 51 | 15 |
Henry Cafaro | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU Rebirth | 77 | -5 |
Agnijo Bannerjee | Simple Vibes | Limp Francekit | 79 | -5 |
Conor Thompson | Thompson et al. | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 81 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Stanford+ | 86 | -5 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 88 | 10 |
Arjun Vijaykumar | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 93 | -5 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 96 | -5 |
Jeremy Cummings | WashU | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 98 | -5 |
Ariel Faeder | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | UBC | 98 | -5 |
Albert Zhang | Walston et. al. | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 102 | -5 |
Leo Tao | Clown Squad | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 107 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northeast by Northwestern | hawk two of | 108 | -5 |
Zach Joseph | Notre Dame | Clown Senpais | 108 | -5 |
Adam Silverman | |madam| | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | 109 | -5 |
Jaimie Carlson | Banned from ARGOS | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 110 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | Berkeley | 113 | 10 |
Eric Chen | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 119 | 10 |
Eric Mukherjee | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 119 | 10 |
Billy Busse | BHSU Rebirth | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 120 | 10 |
Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | Cope is the thing with feathers | just one more half-dot bro | 120 | -5 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Defying Suavity | 124 | 10 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | |madam| | 129 | 10 |
Dan Ni | hawk two of | Northeast by Northwestern | 134 | 10 |
Andrew Hunter | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | WashU | 136 | 10 |
Sky Hong | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 136 | 0 |
Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Walston et. al. | 136 | 0 |
Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | Cope is the thing with feathers | 136 | 0 |
Taylor Harvey | Cry of the Common Loon | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 136 | 10 |
John Chen | UBC | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 136 | 0 |
Munir Siddiqui | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | Thompson et al. | 136 | 0 |