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This paper revisits the 2-approximation algorithm for $k$-MST presented by Garg in light of a recent paper of Paul et al.. In the $k$-MST problem, the goal is to return a tree spanning $k$ vertices of minimum total edge cost. Paul et al.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Emmett Breen , Renee Mirka , Zichen Wang , David P. Williamson

A fundamental problem in wireless networks is the \emph{minimum spanning tree} (MST) problem: given a set $V$ of wireless nodes, compute a spanning tree $T$, so that the total cost of $T$ is minimized. In recent years, there has been a lot…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Maleq Khan , V. S. Anil Kumar , Gopal Pandurangan , Guanhong Pei

Distributed graph algorithms that separately optimize for either the number of rounds used or the total number of messages sent have been studied extensively. However, algorithms simultaneously efficient with respect to both measures have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Bernhard Haeupler , D. Ellis Hershkowitz , David Wajc

Dimensionality reduction is a crucial first step for many unsupervised learning tasks including anomaly detection and clustering. Autoencoder is a popular mechanism to accomplish dimensionality reduction. In order to make dimensionality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Imtiaz Ahmed , Travis Galoppo , Xia Hu , Yu Ding

Identifying the connected components of a graph, apart from being a fundamental problem with countless applications, is a key primitive for many other algorithms. In this paper, we consider this problem in parallel settings. Particularly,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Soheil Behnezhad , Laxman Dhulipala , Hossein Esfandiari , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

In this paper, we study the form over the minimum spanning tree problem (MST) from which we will derive an intuitively generalized model and new methods with the upper bound of runtimes of logarithm. The new pattern we made has taken…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Yong Tan

Given an undirected, weighted graph, the minimum spanning tree (MST) is a tree that connects all of the vertices of the graph with minimum sum of edge weights. In real world applications, network designers often seek to quickly find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 David A. Bader , Paul Burkhardt

We study dynamic graph algorithms in the Massively Parallel Computation model, which was inspired by practical data processing systems. Our goal is to provide algorithms that can efficiently handle large batches of edge insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Krzysztof Nowicki , Krzysztof Onak

The Euclidean Steiner tree problem asks to find a min-cost metric graph that connects a given set of \emph{terminal} points $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, possibly using points not in $X$ which are called Steiner points. Even though near-linear…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-01 T-H. Hubert Chan , Gramoz Goranci , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Bo Wang , Quan Xue

We develop and extensively evaluate highly scalable distributed-memory algorithms for computing minimum spanning trees (MSTs). At the heart of our solutions is a scalable variant of Boruvka's algorithm. For partitioned graphs with many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Peter Sanders , Matthias Schimek

$\newcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon}$ In this paper, we consider two important problems defined on finite metric spaces, and provide efficient new algorithms and approximation schemes for these problems on inputs given as graph shortest path…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-23 David Eppstein , Sariel Har-Peled , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

In this paper, we investigate three fundamental problems in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model: (i) grid graph connectivity, (ii) approximate Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (EMST), and (iii) approximate DBSCAN. Our first result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Junhao Gan , Anthony Wirth , Zhuo Zhang

This paper presents new parallel algorithms for generating Euclidean minimum spanning trees and spatial clustering hierarchies (known as HDBSCAN$^*$). Our approach is based on generating a well-separated pair decomposition followed by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yiqiu Wang , Shangdi Yu , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

Minimum Spanning Trees are a well-studied subset of graph problems. While classical algorithms have existed to solve these problems for decades, new variations and application areas are constantly being discovered. When dealing with large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Arjun Bhalla

We present Fast Approximate Minimum Spanning Tree (FAMST), a novel algorithm that addresses the computational challenges of constructing Minimum Spanning Trees (MSTs) for large-scale and high-dimensional datasets. FAMST utilizes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mahmood K. M. Almansoori , Miklos Telek

As massive graphs become more prevalent, there is a rapidly growing need for scalable algorithms that solve classical graph problems, such as maximum matching and minimum vertex cover, on large datasets. For massive inputs, several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Aaron Bernstein , Vahab Mirrokni , Cliff Stein

The minimum degree spanning tree (MDST) problem requires the construction of a spanning tree $T$ for graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices, such that the maximum degree $d$ of $T$ is the smallest among all spanning trees of $G$. In this paper,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Michael Dinitz , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Calvin Newport

Computing fixed-radius near-neighbor graphs is an important first step for many data analysis algorithms. Near-neighbor graphs connect points that are close under some metric, endowing point clouds with a combinatorial structure. As…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Gabriel Raulet , Dmitriy Morozov , Aydin Buluc , Katherine Yelick

The approximate single-source shortest-path problem is as follows: given a graph with nonnegative edge weights and a designated source vertex $s$, return estimates of the distances from~$s$ to each other vertex such that the estimate falls…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Nairen Cao , Jeremy T. Fineman , Katina Russell

Distributed processing frameworks, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, and Spark are popular systems for processing large amounts of data. The design of efficient algorithms in these frameworks is a challenging problem, as the systems both require…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Silvio Lattanzi , Saeed Seddighin , Cliff Stein