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Graph-searching algorithms play a crucial role in various computational domains, enabling efficient exploration and pathfinding in structured data. Traditional approaches, such as Depth-First Search (DFS) and Breadth-First Search (BFS),…

To solve many problems on graphs, graph traversals are used, the usual variants of which are the depth-first search and the breadth-first search. Implementing a graph traversal we consequently reach all vertices of the graph that belong to…

To harness modern multicore processors, it is imperative to develop parallel versions of fundamental algorithms. In this paper, we compare different approaches to parallel best-first search in a shared-memory setting. We present a new…

A common technique to speed up shortest path queries in graphs is to use a bidirectional search, i.e., performing a forward search from the start and a backward search from the destination until a common vertex on a shortest path is found.…

Bayesian networks (BNs) are a widely used graphical model in machine learning for representing knowledge with uncertainty. The mainstream BN structure learning methods require performing a large number of conditional independence (CI)…

The GraphBLAS community has demonstrated the power of linear algebra-leveraged graph algorithms, such as matrix-vector products for breadth-first search (BFS) traversals. This paper investigates the algebraic conditions needed for such…

In this paper, we resolve a long-standing question in self-stabilization by demonstrating that it is indeed possible to construct a spanning tree in a semi-uniform network using constant memory per node. We introduce a self-stabilizing…

Different from other deep scalable architecture-based NAS approaches, Broad Neural Architecture Search (BNAS) proposes a broad scalable architecture which consists of convolution and enhancement blocks, dubbed Broad Convolutional Neural…

In the push for exascale computing, energy efficiency is of utmost concern. System architectures often adopt accelerators to hasten application execution at the cost of power. The Intel Xeon Phi co-processor is unique accelerator that…

Manycores are consolidating in HPC community as a way of improving performance while keeping power efficiency. Knights Landing is the recently released second generation of Intel Xeon Phi architecture. While optimizing applications on CPUs,…

We present an in-place depth first search (DFS) and an in-place breadth first search (BFS) that runs on a word RAM in linear time such that, if the adjacency arrays of the input graph are given in a sorted order, the input is restored after…

This paper introduces a search algorithm for index structures based on a B+ tree, specifically optimized for execution on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Our implementation efficiently traverses and reuses tree nodes by processing a…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are gaining increasing popularity as a promising approach to machine learning on graphs. Unlike traditional graph workloads where each vertex/edge is associated with a scalar, GNNs attach a feature tensor to…

Many-core accelerators, as represented by the XeonPhi coprocessors and GPGPUs, allow software to exploit spatial and temporal sharing of computing resources to improve the overall system performance. To unlock this performance potential…

Vector similarity search is a critical component of modern AI systems, but traditional CPU-based implementations face fundamental scalability bottlenecks for billion-scale corpora due to prohibitive computational overhead and memory…

Biconnectivity is one of the most fundamental graph problems. The canonical parallel biconnectivity algorithm is the Tarjan-Vishkin algorithm, which has $O(n+m)$ optimal work (number of operations) and polylogarithmic span (longest…

Branch-and-Bound (B&B) algorithms are time intensive tree-based exploration methods for solving to optimality combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of GPU computing as a major complementary way to speed…

A* is one of the most popular Best First Search (BFS) techniques for graphs. It combines the cost-based search of Breadth First Search with a computed heuristic for each node to attempt to locate the goal path faster than traditional…

Vector search underpins modern information-retrieval systems, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and search engines over unstructured text and images. As datasets scale to billions of vectors, disk-based vector search…

We investigate and characterize the performance of an important class of operations on GPUs and Many Integrated Core (MIC) architectures. Our work is motivated by applications that analyze low-dimensional spatial datasets captured by high…