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A common step in algorithms related to shortest paths in undirected graphs is that, we select a subset of vertices as centers, then grow a ball around each vertex until a center is reached. We want the balls to be as small as possible. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Shuyi Yan

We consider discrete, iterative load balancing via matchings on arbitrary graphs. Initially each node holds a certain number of tokens, defining the load of the node, and the objective is to redistribute the tokens such that eventually each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Petra Berenbrink , Robert Elsässer , Tom Friedetzky , Hamed Hosseinpour , Dominik Kaaser , Peter Kling , Thomas Sauerwald

We establish and generalise several bounds for various random walk quantities including the mixing time and the maximum hitting time. Unlike previous analyses, our derivations are based on rather intuitive notions of local expansion…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Thomas Sauerwald , Luca Zanetti

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

Given in the plane a set $S$ of $n$ points and a set of disks centered at these points, the disk graph $G(S)$ induced by these disks has vertex set $S$ and an edge between two vertices if their disks intersect. Note that the disks may have…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Bruce W. Brewer , Haitao Wang

We consider the Backup Placement problem in networks in the $\mathcal{CONGEST}$ distributed setting. Given a network graph $G = (V,E)$, the goal of each vertex $v \in V$ is selecting a neighbor, such that the maximum number of vertices in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Leonid Barenboim , Gal Oren

This paper considers the problem of distributed optimization over time-varying graphs. For the case of undirected graphs, we introduce a distributed algorithm, referred to as DIGing, based on a combination of a distributed inexact gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Angelia Nedich , Alex Olshevsky , Wei Shi

Graphlets are induced subgraph patterns that are crucial to the understanding of the structure and function of a large network. A lot of efforts have been devoted to calculating graphlet statistics where random walk based approaches are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Simiao Jiao , Zihui Xue , Xiaowei Chen , Yuedong Xu

A random graph order is a partial order achieved by independently sprinkling relations on a vertex set (each with probability $p$) and adding relations to satisfy the requirement of transitivity. A \textit{post} is an element in a partially…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-25 Luca Bombelli , Itai Seggev , Sam Watson

We present fast and efficient randomized distributed algorithms to find Hamiltonian cycles in random graphs. In particular, we present a randomized distributed algorithm for the $G(n,p)$ random graph model, with number of nodes $n$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Soumyottam Chatterjee , Reza Fathi , Gopal Pandurangan , Nguyen Dinh Pham

Recently, random walks on dynamic graphs have been studied because of their adaptivity to the time-varying structure of real-world networks. In general, there is a tremendous gap between static and dynamic graph settings for the lazy simple…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Nobutaka Shimizu , Takeharu Shiraga

In this paper, we revisit the problem of sampling edges in an unknown graph $G = (V, E)$ from a distribution that is (pointwise) almost uniform over $E$. We consider the case where there is some a priori upper bound on the arboriciy of $G$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

We derive new results for the performance of a simple greedy algorithm for finding large independent sets and matchings in constant degree regular graphs. We show that for $r$-regular graphs with $n$ nodes and girth at least $g$, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-09 David Gamarnik , David Goldberg

We focus on the problem of performing random walks efficiently in a distributed network. Given bandwidth constraints, the goal is to minimize the number of rounds required to obtain a random walk sample. We first present a fast sublinear…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-03 Atish Das Sarma , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Prasad Tetali

This paper initiates the study of the classic balanced graph partitioning problem from an online perspective: Given an arbitrary sequence of pairwise communication requests between $n$ nodes, with patterns that may change over time, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Chen Avin , Marcin Bienkowski , Andreas Loukas , Maciej Pacut , Stefan Schmid

We provide a deterministic $\tilde{O}(\log N)$-space algorithm for estimating random walk probabilities on undirected graphs, and more generally Eulerian directed graphs, to within inverse polynomial additive error…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-14 AmirMahdi Ahmadinejad , Jonathan Kelner , Jack Murtagh , John Peebles , Aaron Sidford , Salil Vadhan

In this paper, we study the maximum clique problem on hyperbolic random graphs. A hyperbolic random graph is a mathematical model for analyzing scale-free networks since it effectively explains the power-law degree distribution of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Eunjin Oh , Seunghyeok Oh

Let G be a fixed connected multigraph with no loops. A random n-lift of G is obtained by replacing each vertex of G by a set of n vertices (where these sets are pairwise disjoint) and replacing each edge by a randomly chosen perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-28 Catherine Greenhill , Svante Janson , Andrzej Rucinski

The theory of rapid mixing random walks plays a fundamental role in the study of modern randomised algorithms. Usually, the mixing time is measured with respect to the worst initial position. It is well known that the presence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Patrick Morris , Guillem Perarnau , Oriol Serra

This paper presents a distributed algorithm on wireless ad-hoc networks that runs in polylogarithmic number of rounds in the size of the network and constructs a linear size, lightweight, (1+\epsilon)-spanner for any given \epsilon > 0. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-03-17 Mirela Damian , Saurav Pandit , Sriram Pemmaraju