I thought matching was a dual of max flow, so weighted matching was a dual of min cost max flow (relabling edges with infinity minus cost).
The simplest algorithm to implement would be Ford-Fulkerson with Floyd-Warshall to find augmenting paths. The most efficient would be Dinic's, I think? On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <_...@lvh.cc> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:02:01 PM UTC+1, Paul deGrandis wrote: > >> I've written general versions of Blossom and Blossom V in the past, and >> every so often a similar question comes up on this mailing list. >> > > I'm guessing that wasn't in clojure? :-( > > Do you happen to know what happens when you throw Blossom V at a graph > that doesn't have a perfect matching? E.g. for my use case, hotel room > pairing, there's a 1/2 chance the graph ends up having an odd number of > nodes... IIUC it won't terminate, but you can detect that it won't, so then > you can just give the best-effort solution anyway? > > >> I'd personally love to see both algorithms contributed to Loom if OP is >> up for the task. >> > > I'm afraid I've got a convex optimization problem in terms of financial > aid grant sizes to solve first before I can start writing that code :-) > > cheers > lvh > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
