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Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible, I have a cold and might not be thinking straight) ...

Max-Flow runs on directed graphs. These are undirected graphs.




You can compute the max-flow of an undirected graph. The edges have capacities and in the undirected case you assume that capacity can be used in both 'directions'.


Also, the problem is to find a global min-cut, which requires all-pairs max flow.


Not actually all-pairs max flow, you can fix the source and consider all possible sinks. In the AoC problem we also know that the min-cut is 3, so we can abort the flow algorithm as soon as we have found a 4-flow.




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