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Maximum Adjacency Ordering

(Picking vertices to cut)

Start with an arbitrary vertex in the ordering. Repeatedly add the vertex with the maximum total weight of edges to already-added vertices. This is a greedy selection process. The last two vertices added are tt (last) and ss (second-to-last). Compute the minimum ss-tt cut (which is the sum of weights of edges from tt to already-added vertices).

This gives you a cut candidate. This cut is a candidate for the global minimum cut. Track the smallest cut found across all iterations of the algorithm.