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Most algorithms for decentralized learning employ a consensus or diffusion mechanism to drive agents to a common solution of a global optimization problem. Generally this takes the form of linear averaging, at a rate of contraction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Aaron Fainman , Stefan Vlaski

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

Node coloring is the task of assigning colors to the nodes of a graph such that no two adjacent nodes have the same color, while using as few colors as possible. It is the most widely studied instance of graph coloring and of central…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Knut Vanderbush , Melanie Weber

Recent improvements on the deterministic complexities of fundamental graph problems in the LOCAL model of distributed computing have yielded state-of-the-art upper bounds of $\tilde{O}(\log^{5/3} n)$ rounds for maximal independent set (MIS)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yann Bourreau , Sebastian Brandt , Alexandre Nolin

The distributed (Delta + 1)-coloring problem is one of most fundamental and well-studied problems of Distributed Algorithms. Starting with the work of Cole and Vishkin in 86, there was a long line of gradually improving algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-26 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin

In this work, we present a fast distributed algorithm for local potential problems: these are graph problems where the task is to find a locally optimal solution where no node can unilaterally improve the utility in its local neighborhood…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alkida Balliu , Thomas Boudier , Francesco d'Amore , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Gustav Schmid , Jukka Suomela

For $p\in \mathbb{N}$, a coloring $\lambda$ of the vertices of a graph $G$ is {\em{$p$-centered}} if for every connected subgraph~$H$ of $G$, either $H$ receives more than $p$ colors under $\lambda$ or there is a color that appears exactly…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Michał Pilipczuk , Sebastian Siebertz

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with a set of vertices $V$ and a set of edges $E$, a graph coloring problem involves finding a partition of the vertices into different independent sets. In this paper we present a new framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Olivier Goudet , Cyril Grelier , Jin-Kao Hao

An assignment of colours to the vertices of a graph is stable if any two vertices of the same colour have identically coloured neighbourhoods. The goal of colour refinement is to find a stable colouring that uses a minimum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Christoph Berkholz , Paul Bonsma , Martin Grohe

With few exceptions (namely, algorithms for maximal matching, $2$-approximate vertex cover, and certain constant-stretch spanners), all known fully dynamic algorithms in general graphs require (amortized) $\Omega(\log n)$ update/query time.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

In the $\ell$-Coloring Problem, we are given a graph on $n$ nodes, and tasked with determining if its vertices can be properly colored using $\ell$ colors. In this paper we study below-guarantee graph coloring, which tests whether an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shyan Akmal , Tomohiro Koana

A proper coloring of a graph is \emph{conflict-free} if, for every non-isolated vertex, some color is used exactly once on its neighborhood. Caro, Petru\v{s}evski, and \v{S}krekovski proved that every graph $G$ has a proper conflict-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Daniel W. Cranston , Chun-Hung Liu

We present trade-offs in the incremental and fully dynamic settings to maintian a proper coloring. For any fully dynamic $2$-coloring algorithm, the maximum of the update time, number of recolorings, and query time is $\Omega(\log n)$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Manas Jyoti Kashyop , N. S. Narayanaswamy , Meghana Nasre , Sai Mohith Potluri

Colouring sparse graphs under various restrictions is a theoretical problem of significant practical relevance. Here we consider the problem of maximizing the number of different colours available at the nodes and their neighbourhoods,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-13 K. Y. Michael Wong , David Saad

We present a randomized algorithm that takes as input an undirected $n$-vertex graph $G$ with maximum degree $\Delta$ and an integer $k > 3\Delta$, and returns a random proper $k$-coloring of $G$. The distribution of the coloring is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Siddharth Bhandari , Sayantan Chakraborty

We show how graph neural networks can be used to solve the canonical graph coloring problem. We frame graph coloring as a multi-class node classification problem and utilize an unsupervised training strategy based on the statistical physics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Martin J. A. Schuetz , J. Kyle Brubaker , Zhihuai Zhu , Helmut G. Katzgraber

We develop sequential algorithms for constructing edge-colorings of graphs and multigraphs efficiently and using few colors. Our primary focus is edge-coloring arbitrary simple graphs using $d+1$ colors, where $d$ is the largest vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Corwin Sinnamon

Given a graph $G$ and color set $\{1, \ldots, k\}$, a $\textit{proper coloring}$ is an assignment of a color to each vertex of $G$ such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color. The problem of drawing a proper…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mark Huber

The distributed coloring problem is at the core of the area of distributed graph algorithms and it is a problem that has seen tremendous progress over the last few years. Much of the remarkable recent progress on deterministic distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Marc Fuchs , Fabian Kuhn

A $k$-deck of a (coloured) graph is a multiset of its induced $k$-vertex subgraphs. Given a graph $G$, when is it possible to reconstruct with high probability a uniformly random colouring of its vertices in $r$ colours from its $k$-deck?…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Yury Demidovich , Yaroslav Panichkin , Maksim Zhukovskii