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We present a deterministic algorithm for computing the sensitivity of a minimum spanning tree (MST) or shortest path tree in $O(m\log\alpha(m,n))$ time, where $\alpha$ is the inverse-Ackermann function. This improves upon a long standing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Seth Pettie

We present a novel self-stabilizing algorithm for minimum spanning tree (MST) construction. The space complexity of our solution is $O(\log^2n)$ bits and it converges in $O(n^2)$ rounds. Thus, this algorithm improves the convergence time of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Lélia Blin , Shlomi Dolev , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Stephane Rovedakis

In the CONGEST model, a communications network is an undirected graph whose $n$ nodes are processors and whose $m$ edges are the communications links between processors. At any given time step, a message of size $O(\log n)$ may be sent by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Valerie King , Shay Kutten , Mikkel Thorup

The Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree (PCST) problem is a generalization of the Steiner Tree problem that has applications in network design, content distribution networks, and many more. There are a few centralized approximation algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Parikshit Saikia , Sushanta Karmakar , Aris T. Pagourtzis

We consider the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem under the restriction that for every vertex v, the edges of the tree that are adjacent to v satisfy a given family of constraints. A famous example thereof is the classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Rico Zenklusen

We show that many classical optimization problems --- such as $(1\pm\epsilon)$-approximate maximum flow, shortest path, and transshipment --- can be computed in $\newcommand{\tmix}{{\tau_{\text{mix}}}}\tmix(G)\cdot n^{o(1)}$ rounds of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jason Li

The minimum-cost $k$-edge-connected spanning subgraph ($k$-ECSS) problem is a generalization and strengthening of the well-studied minimum-cost spanning tree (MST) problem. While the round complexity of distributedly computing the latter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Michal Dory , Mohsen Ghaffari

In this work we consider the Metric Steiner Forest problem in the sublinear time model. Given a set $V$ of $n$ points in a metric space where distances are provided by means of query access to an $n\times n$ distance matrix, along with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sepideh Mahabadi , Mohammad Roghani , Jakub Tarnawski , Ali Vakilian

A long series of recent results and breakthroughs have led to faster and better distributed approximation algorithms for single source shortest paths (SSSP) and related problems in the CONGEST model. The runtime of all these algorithms,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Bernhard Haeupler , Jason Li

The $CONGEST$ model for distributed network computing is well suited for analyzing the impact of limiting the throughput of a network on its capacity to solve tasks efficiently. For many "global" problems there exists a lower bound of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Dennis Olivetti

We give algorithms for geometric graph problems in the modern parallel models inspired by MapReduce. For example, for the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem over a set of points in the two-dimensional space, our algorithm computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Alexandr Andoni , Aleksandar Nikolov , Krzysztof Onak , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

We present a new algorithm for generating a uniformly random spanning tree in an undirected graph. Our algorithm samples such a tree in expected $\tilde{O}(m^{4/3})$ time. This improves over the best previously known bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Aleksander Madry , Damian Straszak , Jakub Tarnawski

We consider the ``minimum degree spanning tree'' problem. As input, we receive an undirected, connected graph $G=(V, E)$ with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, and our task is to find a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ that minimizes $\max_{u \in V}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sayan Bhattacharya , Ermiya Farokhnejad , Haoze Wang

Network interdiction problems are a natural way to study the sensitivity of a network optimization problem with respect to the removal of a limited set of edges or vertices. One of the oldest and best-studied interdiction problems is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Rico Zenklusen

The minimum spanning tree (MST) construction is a classical problem in Distributed Computing for creating a globally minimized structure distributedly. Self-stabilization is versatile technique for forward recovery that permits to handle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Lélia Blin , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Stephane Rovedakis , Sébastien Tixeuil

Fischer has shown how to compute a minimum weight spanning tree of degree at most $b \Delta^* + \lceil \log\_b n\rceil$ in time $O(n^{4 + 1/\ln b})$ for any constant $b > 1$, where $\Delta^*$ is the value of an optimal solution and $n$ is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christian Lavault , Mario Valencia-Pabon

The minimum spanning tree (MST) is a combinatorial optimization problem: given a connected graph with a real weight ("cost") on each edge, find the spanning tree that minimizes the sum of the total cost of the occupied edges. We consider…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-26 T. S. Jackson , N. Read

The semi-streaming model is a variant of the streaming model frequently used for the computation of graph problems. It allows the edges of an $n$-node input graph to be read sequentially in $p$ passes using $\tilde{O}(n)$ space. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yi-Jun Chang , Martin Farach-Colton , Tsan-Sheng Hsu , Meng-Tsung Tsai

In this paper, we set forth a new algorithm for generating approximately uniformly random spanning trees in undirected graphs. We show how to sample from a distribution that is within a multiplicative $(1+\delta)$ of uniform in expected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-12 Jonathan A. Kelner , Aleksander Madry

We consider two natural variants of the problem of minimum spanning tree (MST) of a graph in the parallel setting: MST verification (verifying if a given tree is an MST) and the sensitivity analysis of an MST (finding the lowest cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee