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Constrained stress majorization is a promising new technique for integrating application specific layout constraints into force-directed graph layout. We significantly improve the speed and convergence properties of the constrained stress-majorization technique for graph layout by employing a diagonal scaling of the stress function. Diagonal scaling requires the active-set quadratic programming solver used in the projection step to be extended to handle separation constraints with scaled variables, i.e. of the form s i y i + g ij ≤ s j y j . The changes, although relatively small, are quite subtle and explained in detail.
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Dwyer, T., Marriott, K. (2008). Constrained Stress Majorization Using Diagonally Scaled Gradient Projection. In: Hong, SH., Nishizeki, T., Quan, W. (eds) Graph Drawing. GD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4875. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77537-9_23
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