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Counting triangles in a graph and incident to each vertex is a fundamental and frequently considered task of graph analysis. We consider how to efficiently do this for huge graphs using massively parallel distributed-memory machines.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Peter Sanders , Tim Niklas Uhl

We study the communication complexity of a number of graph properties where the edges of the graph $G$ are distributed between Alice and Bob (i.e., each receives some of the edges as input). Our main results are: * An Omega(n) lower bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-23 Gabor Ivanyos , Hartmut Klauck , Troy Lee , Miklos Santha , Ronald de Wolf

This paper revisits the study of (minimum) broadcast graphs, i.e., graphs enabling fast information dissemination from every source node to all the other nodes (and having minimum number of edges for this property). This study is performed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Pierre Fraigniaud , Hovhannes A. Harutyunyan

We give lower bounds on the communication complexity required to solve several computational problems in a distributed-memory parallel machine, namely standard matrix multiplication, stencil computations, comparison sorting, and the Fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Michele Scquizzato , Francesco Silvestri

We define the Streaming Communication model that combines the main aspects of communication complexity and streaming. We consider two agents that want to compute some function that depends on inputs that are distributed to each agent. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Lucas Boczkowski , Iordanis Kerenidis , Frédéric Magniez

Inspired by distributed resource allocation problems in dynamic topology networks, we initiate the study of distributed consensus with finite messaging passing. We first find a sufficient condition on the network graph for which no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Debashis Dash , Ashutosh Sabharwal

Hypergraphs are widely adopted tools to examine systems with higher-order interactions. Despite recent advancements in methods for community detection in these systems, we still lack a theoretical analysis of their detectability limits.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Alessandro Lonardi , Caterina De Bacco

Communication complexity refers to the minimum rate of public communication required for generating a maximal-rate secret key (SK) in the multiterminal source model of Csiszar and Narayan. Tyagi recently characterized this communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Manuj Mukherjee , Navin Kashyap

The most celebrated and extensively studied model of distributed computing is the {\em message-passing model,} in which each vertex/node of the (distributed network) graph corresponds to a static computational device that communicates with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

In this paper, we revisit the communication vs. distributed computing trade-off, studied within the framework of MapReduce in [1]. An implicit assumption in the aforementioned work is that each server performs all possible computations on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Mohammed Karmoose , Christina Fragouli

The question of how much communication is required between collaborating parties to compute a function of their data is of fundamental importance in the fields of theoretical computer science and information theory. In this work, the focus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Shijin Rajakrishnan , Sundara Rajan S , Vinod Prabhakaran

Spikes are the currency in central nervous systems for information transmission and processing. They are also believed to play an essential role in low-power consumption of the biological systems, whose efficiency attracts increasing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qiang Yu , Shenglan Li , Huajin Tang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Kay Chen Tan

We study lower bounds on information dissemination in adversarial dynamic networks. Initially, k pieces of information (henceforth called tokens) are distributed among n nodes. The tokens need to be broadcast to all nodes through a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Bernhard Haeupler , Fabian Kuhn

The main result of this paper is an optimal strong direct product result for the two-party public-coin randomized communication complexity of the Tribes function. This is proved by providing an alternate proof of the optimal lower bound of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Prahladh Harsha , Rahul Jain

This paper seeks to address the question of designing distributed algorithms for the setting of compact memory i.e. sublinear bits working memory for arbitrary connected networks. The nodes in our networks may have much lower internal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Armando Castañeda , Jonas Lefèvre , Amitabh Trehan

We propose a linear algebraic method, rooted in the spectral properties of graphs, that can be used to prove lower bounds in communication complexity. Our proof technique effectively marries spectral bounds with information-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Geoffroy Caillat-Grenier , Andrei Romashchenko

The Gap-Hamming-Distance problem arose in the context of proving space lower bounds for a number of key problems in the data stream model. In this problem, Alice and Bob have to decide whether the Hamming distance between their $n$-bit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Joshua Brody , Amit Chakrabarti

In this paper, we study the quantity of computational resources (state machine states and/or probabilistic transition precision) needed to solve specific problems in a single hop network where nodes communicate using only beeps. We begin by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Seth Gilbert , Calvin Newport

We consider a scenario of broadcasting information over a network of nodes connected by noiseless communication links. A source node in the network has some data packets to broadcast. It encodes these data packets into $n$ coded packets in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 B. R. Vinay Kumar , Navin Kashyap

We consider the distributed wake-up problem with advice, where nodes are equipped with initial knowledge about the network at large. After the adversary awakens a subset of nodes, an oracle computes a bit string (``the advice'') for each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Peter Robinson , Ming Ming Tan