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Improved Approximation Algorithms for Multiway Cut by Lar...
Joshua Brakensiek, Neng Huang, Aaron Potechin, Uri Zwick · 2026-03-31 · via cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

The input to the Multiway Cut problem is a weighted undirected graph, with nonnegative edge weights, and $k$ designated terminals. The goal is to partition the vertices of the graph into $k$ parts, each containing exactly one of the terminals, such that the sum of weights of the edges connecting vertices in different parts of the partition is minimized. The problem is APX-hard for $k\ge3$. The currently best known approximation algorithm for the problem for arbitrary $k$, obtained by Sharma and Vondrák [STOC 2014] more than a decade ago, has an approximation ratio of 1.2965. We present an algorithm with an improved approximation ratio of 1.2787. Also, for small values of $k \ge 4$ we obtain the first improvements in 25 years over the currently best approximation ratios obtained by Karger et al. [STOC 1999]. (For $k=3$ an optimal approximation algorithm is known.) Our main technical contributions are new insights on rounding the LP relaxation of Călinescu, Karloff, and Rabani [STOC 1998], whose integrality ratio matches Multiway Cut's approximability ratio, assuming the Unique Games Conjecture [Manokaran et al., STOC 2008]. First, we introduce a generalized form of a rounding scheme suggested by Kleinberg and Tardos [FOCS 1999] and use it to replace the Exponential Clocks rounding scheme used by Buchbinder et al. [STOC 2013] and by Sharma and Vondrák. Second, while previous algorithms use a mixture of two, three, or four basic rounding schemes, each from a different family of rounding schemes, our algorithm uses a computationally-discovered mixture of hundreds of basic rounding schemes, each parametrized by a random variable with a distinct probability distribution, including in particular many different rounding schemes from the same family. We give a completely rigorous analysis of our improved algorithms using a combination of analytical techniques and interval arithmetic.