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We give new, improved bounds for approximating the sparsest cut value or in other words the conductance $\phi$ of a graph in the CONGEST model. As our main result, we present an algorithm running in $O(\log^2 n/\phi)$ rounds in which every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yannic Maus , Tijn de Vos

Consider the following "local" cut-detection problem in a directed graph: We are given a seed vertex $x$ and need to remove at most $k$ edges so that at most $\nu$ edges can be reached from $x$ (a "local" cut) or output $\bot$ to indicate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Sebastian Forster , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Liu Yang , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

We show a flow-augmentation algorithm in directed graphs: There exists a randomized polynomial-time algorithm that, given a directed graph $G$, two vertices $s,t \in V(G)$, and an integer $k$, adds (randomly) to $G$ a number of arcs such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Kratsch , Marcin Pilipczuk , Magnus Wahlström

Local graph partitioning is a key graph mining tool that allows researchers to identify small groups of interrelated nodes (e.g. people) and their connective edges (e.g. interactions). Because local graph partitioning is primarily focused…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Scott Freitas , Hanghang Tong , Nan Cao , Yinglong Xia

We present a multi-level graph partitioning algorithm using novel local improvement algorithms and global search strategies transferred from the multi-grid community. Local improvement algorithms are based max-flow min-cut computations and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-05 Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

The multi-commodity flow-cut gap is a fundamental parameter that affects the performance of several divide \& conquer algorithms, and has been extensively studied for various classes of undirected graphs. It has been shown by Linial, London…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Local clustering aims to identify a cluster within a given graph that includes a designated seed node or a significant portion of a group of seed nodes. This cluster should be well-characterized, i.e., it has a high number of internal edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Adil Chhabra , Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Christian Schulz

It is a well known fact that sequential algorithms which exhibit a strong "local" nature can be adapted to the distributed setting given a legal graph coloring. The running time of the distributed algorithm will then be at least the number…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Gregory Schwartzman

We give the first almost-linear total time algorithm for deciding if a flow of cost at most $F$ still exists in a directed graph, with edge costs and capacities, undergoing decremental updates, i.e., edge deletions, capacity decreases, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jan van den Brand , Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Yang P. Liu , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva

In this paper, we develop a distributed algorithm for solving a class of distributed convex optimization problems where the local objective functions can be a general nonsmooth function, and all equalities and inequalities are network-wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Yeong-Ung Kim , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Hypergraphs are a useful abstraction for modeling multiway relationships in data, and hypergraph clustering is the task of detecting groups of closely related nodes in such data. Graph clustering has been studied extensively, and there are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

We present new refinement heuristics for the balanced graph partitioning problem that break with an age-old rule. Traditionally, local search only permits moves that keep the block sizes balanced (below a size constraint). In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nikolai Maas , Lars Gottesbüren , Daniel Seemaier

The gap between the known randomized and deterministic local distributed algorithms underlies arguably the most fundamental and central open question in distributed graph algorithms. In this paper, we develop a generic and clean recipe for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Mohsen Ghaffari , David G. Harris , Fabian Kuhn

The locality of a graph problem is the smallest distance $T$ such that each node can choose its own part of the solution based on its radius-$T$ neighborhood. In many settings, a graph problem can be solved efficiently with a distributed or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yi-Jun Chang , Jan Studený , Jukka Suomela

Hypergraphs allow modeling problems with multi-way high-order relationships. However, the computational cost of most existing hypergraph-based algorithms can be heavily dependent upon the input hypergraph sizes. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Aghdaei , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

We present a new, simple, algorithm for the local vertex connectivity problem (LocalVC) introduced by Nanongkai~et~al. [STOC'19]. Roughly, given an undirected unweighted graph $G$, a seed vertex $x$, a target volume $\nu$, and a target…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

We give a new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation for sparsest cut problem on graphs where small sets expand significantly more than the sparsest cut (sets of size $n/r$ expand by a factor $\sqrt{\log n\log r}$ bigger, for some small $r$; this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Ali Kemal Sinop

In this work we study local computation with advice: the goal is to solve a graph problem $\Pi$ with a distributed algorithm in $T(\Delta)$ communication rounds, for some function $T$ that only depends on the maximum degree $\Delta$ of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Krzysztof Nowicki , Dennis Olivetti , Eva Rotenberg , Jukka Suomela

In this article, we present our improved algorithm for error localization from counterexamples, LocFaults, flow-driven and constraint-based. This algorithm analyzes the paths of CFG (Control Flow Graph) of the erroneous program to calculate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Mohammed Bekkouche , Hélène Collavizza , Michel Rueher

We design Local LMO - a new projection-free gradient-type method for constrained optimization. The key algorithmic idea is to replace the global linear minimization oracle over the constraint set used by Frank-Wolfe (FW) with a local linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Peter Richtárik , Kaja Gruntkowska , Hanmin Li