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We study the design of fixed-parameter algorithms for problems already known to be solvable in polynomial time. The main motivation is to get more efficient algorithms for problems with unattractive polynomial running times. Here, we focus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , George B. Mertzios , Rolf Niedermeier

Given a static vertex-selection problem (e.g. independent set, dominating set) on a graph, we can define a corresponding temporally satisfying reconfiguration problem on a temporal graph which asks for a sequence of solutions to the…

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Identifying the sets of operations that can be executed simultaneously is an important problem appearing in many parallel applications. By modeling the operations and their interactions as a graph, one can identify the independent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-28 Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce , Erik Saule , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

To enumerate 3-manifold triangulations with a given property, one typically begins with a set of potential face pairing graphs (also known as dual 1-skeletons), and then attempts to flesh each graph out into full triangulations using an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Benjamin A. Burton , William Pettersson

Fixed-parameter tractability analysis and scheduling are two core domains of combinatorial optimization which led to deep understanding of many important algorithmic questions. However, even though fixed-parameter algorithms are appealing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Matthias Mnich , Andreas Wiese

This paper deals with the complexity of some natural graph problems when parametrized by {measures that are restrictions of} clique-width, such as modular-width and neighborhood diversity. The main contribution of this paper is to introduce…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Adele Anna Rescigno

We initiate a thorough study of \emph{distributed property testing} -- producing algorithms for the approximation problems of property testing in the CONGEST model. In particular, for the so-called \emph{dense} testing model we emulate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Keren Censor-Hillel , Eldar Fischer , Gregory Schwartzman , Yadu Vasudev

Massively-parallel graph algorithms have received extensive attention over the past decade, with research focusing on three memory regimes: the superlinear regime, the near-linear regime, and the sublinear regime. The sublinear regime is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Orr Fischer , Adi Horowitz , Rotem Oshman

In this paper, we present a fast exemplar-based image colorization approach using color embeddings named Color2Embed. Generally, due to the difficulty of obtaining input and ground truth image pairs, it is hard to train a exemplar-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hengyuan Zhao , Wenhao Wu , Yihao Liu , Dongliang He

Let $G$ be a graph such that each vertex has its list of available colors, and assume that each list is a subset of the common set consisting of $k$ colors. For two given list colorings of $G$, we study the problem of transforming one into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Tatsuhiko Hatanaka , Takehiro Ito , Xiao Zhou

Petford and Welsh introduced a sequential heuristic algorithm for (approximately) solving the NP-hard graph coloring problem. The algorithm is based on the antivoter model and mimics the behaviour of a physical process based on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Boštjan Gabrovšek , Janez Žerovnik

The large models, as predicted by scaling raw forecasts, have made groundbreaking progress in many fields, particularly in natural language generation tasks, where they have approached or even surpassed human levels. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Luping Wang , Sheng Chen , Linnan Jiang , Shu Pan , Runze Cai , Sen Yang , Fei Yang

In Defective Coloring we are given a graph $G = (V, E)$ and two integers $\chi_d, \Delta^*$ and are asked if we can partition $V$ into $\chi_d$ color classes, so that each class induces a graph of maximum degree $\Delta^*$. We investigate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Rémy Belmonte , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

For over a decade now we have been witnessing the success of {\em massive parallel computation} (MPC) frameworks, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Dryad, or Spark. One of the reasons for their success is the fact that these frameworks are able to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Artur Czumaj , Jakub Łącki , Aleksander Mądry , Slobodan Mitrović , Krzysztof Onak , Piotr Sankowski

Any graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ admits a proper vertex coloring with $\Delta + 1$ colors that can be found via a simple sequential greedy algorithm in linear time and space. But can one find such a coloring via a sublinear algorithm?…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Sepehr Assadi , Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna

During recent years the field of fine-grained complexity has bloomed to produce a plethora of results, with both applied and theoretical impact on the computer science community. The cornerstone of the framework is the notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Elli Anastasiadi , Antonis Antonopoulos , Aris Pagourtzis , Stavros Petsalakis

Parametric linear programming is central in polyhedral computations and in certain control applications.We propose a task-based scheme for parallelizing it, with quasi-linear speedup over large problems.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Camille Coti , David Monniaux , Hang Yu

Parallel computing is a standard approach to achieving high-performance computing (HPC). Three commonly used methods to implement parallel computing include: 1) applying multithreading technology on single-core or multi-core CPUs; 2)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xinyao Yi

Graph clustering is a fundamental task in network analysis where the goal is to detect sets of nodes that are well-connected to each other but sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. We present faster approximation algorithms for an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Vedangi Bengali , Nate Veldt

In distributed ML applications, shared parameters are usually replicated among computing nodes to minimize network overhead. Therefore, proper consistency model must be carefully chosen to ensure algorithm's correctness and provide high…

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