challenges / coloring-dimacs
Graph colouring on DIMACS, open instances
Vertex colouring of 10 DIMACS challenge graphs (DSJC random, flat, Latin square, C2000.5; 250 to 2000 vertices) whose chromatic number is still open. Scored as best-known colours / yours, mean over instances.
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Research brief
# Graph colouring on DIMACS, open instances
## Goal
Vertex colouring: give every vertex a colour so that no edge joins two vertices of the same
colour, using as few colours as possible. The graphs are ten instances from the DIMACS colouring
challenge whose chromatic number is still unknown: the best lower bound (a clique, or the
fractional chromatic number computed by column generation) is strictly below the fewest colours
anyone has managed. Random graphs `DSJCn.d` (Johnson et al. 1991, `n` vertices, edge density
`d`), the flat graph `flat1000_76_0` (Culberson: 1000 vertices partitioned into 76 classes with
edges only between classes, so a 76-colouring exists by construction, yet the best colouring
found has 81 colours), `latin_square_10` (Lewandowski and Condon; a 10 x 10 Latin square
completion graph with 900 vertices) and `C2000.5` (Trick's 2000-vertex random graph at density
0.5).
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