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In computer networks, participants may cooperate in processing tasks, so that loads are balanced among them. We present local distributed algorithms that (repeatedly) use local imbalance criteria to transfer loads concurrently across the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Manish Kumar

In this paper, we present an approximation of the matching coverage on large bipartite graphs, for {\em local} online matching algorithms based on the sole knowledge of the remaining degree of the nodes of the graph at hand. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Mohamed Habib Aliou Diallo Aoudi , Pascal Moyal , Vincent Robin

Recently, \citeauthor*{akbari2021locality}~(ICALP 2023) studied the locality of graph problems in distributed, sequential, dynamic, and online settings from a {unified} point of view. They designed a novel $O(\log n)$-locality deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yi-Jun Chang , Gopinath Mishra , Hung Thuan Nguyen , Mingyang Yang , Yu-Cheng Yeh

We propose a new (theoretical) computational model for the study of massive data processing with limited computational resources. Our model measures the complexity of reading the very large data sets in terms of the data size N and analyzes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Jianer Chen , Ying Guo , Qin Huang

The question of what can be computed, and how efficiently, are at the core of computer science. Not surprisingly, in distributed systems and networking research, an equally fundamental question is what can be computed in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Fabian Kuhn , Thomas Moscibroda , Roger Wattenhofer

We study which property testing and sublinear time algorithms can be transformed into graph streaming algorithms for random order streams. Our main result is that for bounded degree graphs, any property that is constant-query testable in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Morteza Monemizadeh , S. Muthukrishnan , Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

We obtain better algorithms for computing more balanced orientations and degree splits in LOCAL. Important to our result is a connection to the hypergraph sinkless orientation problem [BMNSU, SODA'25] We design an algorithm of complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yannic Maus , Alexandre Nolin , Florian Schager

We propose a model for online graph problems where algorithms are given access to an oracle that predicts (e.g., based on modeling assumptions or on past data) the degrees of nodes in the graph. Within this model, we study the classic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Anders Aamand , Justin Y. Chen , Piotr Indyk

The last five years of research on distributed graph algorithms have seen huge leaps of progress, both regarding algorithmic improvements and impossibility results: new strong lower bounds have emerged for many central problems and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Sebastian Brandt , Yannic Maus , Ananth Narayanan , Florian Schager , Jara Uitto

We present a polylogarithmic local computation matching algorithm which guarantees a $(1-\eps)$-approximation to the maximum matching in graphs of bounded degree.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Yishay Mansour , Shai Vardi

We study the fair k-set selection problem where we aim to select $k$ sets from a given set system such that the (weighted) occurrence times that each element appears in these $k$ selected sets are balanced, i.e., the maximum (weighted)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shi Li , Chenyang Xu , Ruilong Zhang

A local algorithm is a distributed algorithm that completes after a constant number of synchronous communication rounds. We present local approximation algorithms for the minimum dominating set problem and the maximum matching problem in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Matti Åstrand , Valentin Polishchuk , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

We develop a new algorithmic technique that allows to transfer some constant time approximation algorithms for general graphs into random order streaming algorithms. We illustrate our technique by proving that in random order streams with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

Applications in data-parallel computing typically consist of multiple stages. In each stage, a set of intermediate parallel data flows (Coflow) is produced and transferred between servers to enable starting of next stage. While there has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Mehrnoosh Shafiee , Javad Ghaderi

Locally-biased graph algorithms are algorithms that attempt to find local or small-scale structure in a large data graph. In some cases, this can be accomplished by adding some sort of locality constraint and calling a traditional graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Kimon Fountoulakis , David Gleich , Michael Mahoney

Recently Rubinfeld et al. (ICS 2011, pp. 223--238) proposed a new model of sublinear algorithms called \emph{local computation algorithms}. In this model, a computation problem $F$ may have more than one legal solution and each of them…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Noga Alon , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Shai Vardi , Ning Xie

This work studies distributed algorithms for locally optimal load-balancing: We are given a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$, and each node has up to $L$ units of load. The task is to distribute the load more evenly so that the loads of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Laurent Feuilloley , Juho Hirvonen , Jukka Suomela

Online optimization problems arise in many resource allocation tasks, where the future demands for each resource and the associated utility functions change over time and are not known apriori, yet resources need to be allocated at every…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Reza Eghbali , Jon Swenson , Maryam Fazel

One of the main strengths of online algorithms is their ability to adapt to arbitrary data sequences. This is especially important in nonparametric settings, where performance is measured against rich classes of comparator functions that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Ilja Kuzborskij , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

We study the problem of multiway number partition optimization, which has a myriad of applications in the decision, learning and optimization literature. Even though the original multiway partitioning problem is NP-hard and requires…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu