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Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Anay Mehrotra , Vibhor Porwal , Raghunath Tewari

In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm must process any $n$-vertex graph by making one or few passes over a stream of its edges, use $O(n \cdot \text{polylog }n)$ words of space, and at the end of the last pass, output a solution to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Sepehr Assadi , Gary Hoppenworth , Janani Sundaresan

We give lower bounds on the communication complexity of graph problems in the multi-party blackboard model. In this model, the edges of an $n$-vertex input graph are partitioned among $k$ parties, who communicate solely by writing messages…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Christian Konrad , Peter Robinson , Viktor Zamaraev

We consider the problem of estimating the value of max cut in a graph in the streaming model of computation. At one extreme, there is a trivial $2$-approximation for this problem that uses only $O(\log n)$ space, namely, count the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna , Madhu Sudan

In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory sublinear in the input size. This model poses significant challenges for constructing long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Christian Konrad , Chhaya Trehan

Sketching and streaming algorithms are in the forefront of current research directions for cut problems in graphs. In the streaming model, we show that $(1-\epsilon)$-approximation for Max-Cut must use $n^{1-O(\epsilon)}$ space; moreover,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dmitry Kogan , Robert Krauthgamer

We prove multi-pass streaming lower bounds for uniformity testing over a domain of size $2m$. The tester receives a stream of $n$ i.i.d. samples and must distinguish (i) the uniform distribution on $[2m]$ from (ii) a Paninski-style planted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Qian Li , Xin Lyu

We prove that any semi-streaming algorithm for $(1-\epsilon)$-approximation of maximum bipartite matching requires \[ \Omega(\frac{\log{(1/\epsilon)}}{{\log{(1/\beta)}}}) \] passes, where $\beta \in (0,1)$ is the largest parameter so that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

We study the communication complexity and streaming complexity of approximating unweighted semi-matchings. A semi-matching in a bipartite graph G = (A, B, E), with n = |A|, is a subset of edges S that matches all A vertices to B vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Christian Konrad , Adi Rosén

Given a graph and a subset of its nodes, referred to as source nodes, the minimum broadcast problem asks for the minimum number of steps in which a signal can be transmitted from the sources to all other nodes in the graph. In each step,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Marika Ivanova , Dag Haugland , Bård Hennning Tvedt

In a streaming constraint satisfaction problem (streaming CSP), a $p$-pass algorithm receives the constraints of an instance sequentially, making $p$ passes over the input in a fixed order, with the goal of approximating the maximum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yumou Fei , Dor Minzer , Shuo Wang

In this note, we show that three graph properties - strong connectivity, acyclicity, and reachability from a vertex $s$ to all vertices - each require a working memory of $\Omega (\epsilon m)$ on a graph with $m$ edges to be determined…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Glencora Borradaile , Claire Mathieu , Theresa Migler

In this paper, we consider the question of computing sparse subgraphs for any input directed graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, that preserves reachability and/or strong connectivity structures. We show $O(n+\min\{|{\cal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Diptarka Chakraborty , Keerti Choudhary

We prove a hypercontractive inequality for matrix-valued functions defined over large alphabets. In order to do so, we prove a generalization of the powerful $2$-uniform convexity inequality for trace norms of Ball, Carlen, Lieb…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Joao F. Doriguello

We propose two one-pass streaming algorithms for the $\mathcal{NP}$-hard hypergraph matching problem. The first algorithm stores a small subset of potential matching edges in a stack using dual variables to select edges. It has an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Henrik Reinstädtler , S M Ferdous , Alex Pothen , Bora Uçar , Christian Schulz

We continue the study of the communication complexity of gap cycle counting problems. These problems have been introduced by Verbin and Yu [SODA 2011] and have found numerous applications in proving streaming lower bounds. In the noisy gap…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

In the load-balancing problem, we have an $n$-vertex bipartite graph $G=(L, R, E)$ between a set of clients and servers. The goal is to find an assignment of all clients to the servers, while minimizing the maximum load on each server,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sepehr Assadi , Aaron Bernstein , Zachary Langley , Lap Chi Lau , Robert Wang

In the context of communication complexity, we explore protocols for graph coloring, focusing on the vertex and edge coloring problems in $n$-vertex graphs $G$ with a maximum degree $\Delta$. We consider a scenario where the edges of $G$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yi-Jun Chang , Gopinath Mishra , Hung Thuan Nguyen , Farrel D Salim

In the semi-streaming model for processing massive graphs, an algorithm makes multiple passes over the edges of a given $n$-vertex graph and is tasked with computing the solution to a problem using $O(n \cdot \text{polylog}(n))$ space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Sepehr Assadi , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu , Janani Sundaresan

We present a streaming algorithm for the vertex connectivity problem in dynamic streams with a (nearly) optimal space bound: for any $n$-vertex graph $G$ and any integer $k \geq 1$, our algorithm with high probability outputs whether or not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Sepehr Assadi , Vihan Shah