Munkres Assignment Algorithm

An efficient implementation of the Munkres algorithm for the assignment problem.

Munkres algorithm (also known as Hungarian algorithm) is an efficient algorithm to solve the assignment problem in polynomial-time. The algorithm has many applications in combinatorial optimization, for example in Traveling Salesman problem.

There are a few submissions in the File Exchange for the Munkres algorithm. However, most of them are not efficient. Therefore, I decided to develop my own code. By comparing with existing programms, this code is about two to 5 times faster. For instance, for a 400 x 400 random example, this code can solve it in 4 to 6 seconds, whilst other programs have to take about 17 to 35 seconds.