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By Kerpoo, history, 8 years ago, In English

I love this implementation of Edmond's Blossoms :-)

Edmond's Blossoms algorithm give a maximum matching in general graphs (non-bipartite)

CODE

thanks a lot to boleyn.su

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8 years ago, # |
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سلام من چند وقت پیش تو یک گروه تلگرام ACM عض بودم که شما هم اونجا ضو بودید ولی من ناخواسته لفت دادم و دیگه نتونستم عضو بشم حالا اگه شما هنوز عضو هستید لینک گروه رو بزارید ایجا تا ما هم دوباره عضو بشیم خیلی ممنون

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    Thanks, now I see.

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      Lost in translation:

      "Hi I some time ago I was a member telegram that you were a member there, but I did and I missed unwanted Left Party, let's go now if you do not already created links to our Group to become a member again thank you very much".

      Why is it so hard for people to write in english?

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    Thanks brother

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Hi, can someone please tell me if the above code is suitable for a weighted matching?

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    No, it isn't but there is another version of this algorithm that works for weighted graphs.

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      Thanks for the fast answer! Where do I find that version?

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        Probably not useful in competitive programming, but check Kolmogorov's implementation and paper.

        Note: Python implementation that can be adapted for online contests.

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          Thanks again! It's not for competition so I'm glad for any usable to implement :)

          Can you also provide something written in c++? In the second link there is in return a link for a c++ library, called lemon, including a weighted edmond algorithm. Do you have any experience with that or is there something even better? I did some search and as far as I can suggest this seems to be the best. Boost library does not support a weighted version and NetworkX/NetworkKit are also written in phython. So I assume lemon is the best way to go?

          The Blossom 5 looks very good, but to be honest, this is way over my head even I "only" have to implement it. But it looks interesting.

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            I don't have experience with Lemon but I believe it can be trusted (I couldn't find anything better after a very quick search).

            I have experience with NetworkX and if you are fine will calling Python functions from a C++ problem then I suggest you use it (it is really awesome once you get used to it).

            BTW, Kolmogorov's implementation is in C++. If you're working on some project, I suggest you use a library with a nice API, but you can also use that implementation.

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A good place to test your code.

Input format goes like:

vertex count, edge count

u, v: there's an undirected edge connecting vertex u and v. It's guaranteed that u != v, and no edge would appear twice.

Output format goes like:

The number of edges in the matching.

The vertex matched to each vertex. For unmatched vertex output 0.

Weighted matching can be tested here.

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Goes into inf loop for the input :

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    For anyone looking at this code, I proved with this input and it did not get into a infinite loop. I actually got the correct answer instantly:

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