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Breadth-first search (BFS) is a fundamental graph algorithm that presents significant challenges for parallel implementation due to irregular memory access patterns, load imbalance and synchronization overhead. In this paper, we introduce a…
Graphs and their traversal is becoming significant as it is applicable to various areas of mathematics, science and technology. Various problems in fields as varied as biochemistry (genomics), electrical engineering (communication…
The Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm is the foundation and building block of many higher graph-based operations such as spanning trees, shortest paths and betweenness centrality. The importance of this algorithm increases each day due…
Breadth-First Search (BFS) is a building block used in a wide array of graph analytics and is used in various network analysis domains: social, road, transportation, communication, and much more. Over the last two decades, network sizes…
For parallel breadth first search (BFS) algorithm on large-scale distributed memory systems, communication often costs significantly more than arithmetic and limits the scalability of the algorithm. In this paper we sufficiently reduce the…
We present a work-efficient parallel level-synchronous Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm for shared-memory architectures which achieves the theoretical lower bound on parallel running time. The optimality holds regardless of the shape of…
Breadth-first search (BFS) is known as a basic search strategy for learning graph properties. As the scales of graph databases have increased tremendously in recent years, large-scale graphs G are often disk-resident. Obtaining the BFS…
This note recapitulates an algorithmic observation for ordered Depth-First Search (DFS) in directed graphs that immediately leads to a parallel algorithm with linear speed-up for a range of processors for non-sparse graphs. The note extends…
We present an efficient distributed memory parallel algorithm for computing connected components in undirected graphs based on Shiloach-Vishkin's PRAM approach. We discuss multiple optimization techniques that reduce communication volume as…
On a GPU cluster, the ratio of high computing power to communication bandwidth makes scaling breadth-first search (BFS) on a scale-free graph extremely challenging. By separating high and low out-degree vertices, we present an…
There has been a rise in the popularity of algebraic methods for graph algorithms given the development of the GraphBLAS library and other sparse matrix methods. An exemplar for these approaches is Breadth-First Search (BFS). The algebraic…
The Breadth-First Search (BFS) algorithm is an important building block for graph analysis of large datasets. The BFS parallelisation has been shown to be challenging because of its inherent characteristics, including irregular memory…
Breadth First Search (BFS) is a building block for graph algorithms and has recently been used for large scale analysis of information in a variety of applications including social networks, graph databases and web searching. Due to its…
In the big data era, graph computing is widely used to exploit the hidden value in real-world graphs in various scenarios such as social networks, knowledge graphs, web searching, and recommendation systems. However, the random memory…
Breadth-first Search (BFS) is one of the most important graph processing subroutines, especially for computing the unweighted distance. Many applications may require running BFS from multiple sources. Sequentially, when running BFS on a…
Large scale-free graphs are famously difficult to process efficiently: the skewed vertex degree distribution makes it difficult to obtain balanced partitioning. Our research instead aims to turn this into an advantage by partitioning the…
Probabilistic breadth-first traversals (BPTs) are used in many network science and graph machine learning applications. In this paper, we are motivated by the application of BPTs in stochastic diffusion-based graph problems such as…
While it is well-known and acknowledged that the performance of graph algorithms is heavily dependent on the input data, there has been surprisingly little research to quantify and predict the impact the graph structure has on performance.…
To find a shortest path between two nodes $s_0$ and $s_1$ in a given graph, a classical approach is to start a Breadth-First Search (BFS) from $s_0$ and run it until the search discovers $s_1$. Alternatively, one can start two Breadth-First…
The BFS algorithm is a basic graph data processing algorithm and many other graph data processing algorithms have similar architectural features with BFS algorithm and can be built on the basis of BFS algorithm model. We analyze the…