English
Related papers

Related papers: A Simple and Strongly-Local Flow-Based Method for …

200 papers

The main goal in distributed symmetry-breaking is to understand the locality of problems; i.e., the radius of the neighborhood that a node needs to explore in order to arrive at its part of a global solution. In this work, we study the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Seri Khoury , Manish Purohit , Aaron Schild , Joshua Wang

Motivated by the need to extract meaning from large amounts of complex structured data, we consider three critical problems on graphs: localization, decomposition, and dictionary learning of piecewise-constant signals. These graph-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Siheng Chen , Yaoqing Yang , José. M. F. Moura , Jelena Kovačević

In this work we study local computation with advice: the goal is to solve a graph problem $\Pi$ with a distributed algorithm in $T(\Delta)$ communication rounds, for some function $T$ that only depends on the maximum degree $\Delta$ of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Krzysztof Nowicki , Dennis Olivetti , Eva Rotenberg , Jukka Suomela

Prevailing methods for graphs require abundant label and edge information for learning. When data for a new task are scarce, meta-learning can learn from prior experiences and form much-needed inductive biases for fast adaption to new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Kexin Huang , Marinka Zitnik

We propose a theoretical framework for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on large input graphs via training on small, fixed-size sampled subgraphs. This framework is applicable to a wide range of models, including popular sampling-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yeganeh Alimohammadi , Luana Ruiz , Amin Saberi

Current modularity-based community detection algorithms attempt to find cluster memberships that maximize modularity within a fixed graph topology. Diverging from this conventional approach, our work introduces a novel strategy that employs…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-02-27 Yongyu Wang , Shiqi Hao , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaotian Zhuang

Federated graph learning (FGL) has become an important research topic in response to the increasing scale and the distributed nature of graph-structured data in the real world. In FGL, a global graph is distributed across different clients,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Binchi Zhang , Minnan Luo , Shangbin Feng , Ziqi Liu , Jun Zhou , Qinghua Zheng

The process of selecting points for training a machine learning model is often a challenging task. Many times, we will have a lot of data, but for training, we require the labels and labeling is often costly. So we need to select the points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 CR Sandeep , Asif Salim , R Sethunadh , S Sumitra

In this paper, we present a novel learning framework for finding shortest paths in graphs utilizing Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets). First, we examine theoretical properties of GFlowNets in non-acyclic environments in relation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nikita Morozov , Ian Maksimov , Daniil Tiapkin , Sergey Samsonov

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider a relaxed version of this problem in the setting of local algorithms. The relaxation is that the constructed subgraph is a sparse spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Graph learning is often a necessary step in processing or representing structured data, when the underlying graph is not given explicitly. Graph learning is generally performed centrally with a full knowledge of the graph signals, namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Signal processing on graph is attracting more and more attentions. For a graph signal in the low-frequency subspace, the missing data associated with unsampled vertices can be reconstructed through the sampled data by exploiting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Xiaohan Wang , Pengfei Liu , Yuantao Gu

A local algorithm is a distributed algorithm that completes after a constant number of synchronous communication rounds. We present local approximation algorithms for the minimum dominating set problem and the maximum matching problem in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Matti Åstrand , Valentin Polishchuk , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

Given a graph $G$ of degree $k$ over $n$ vertices, we consider the problem of computing a near maximum cut or a near minimum bisection in polynomial time. For graphs of girth $2L$, we develop a local message passing algorithm whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Ahmed El Alaoui , Andrea Montanari , Mark Sellke

We prove that given any $\alpha$-approximation LOCAL algorithm for Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) on planar graphs, we can construct an $f(g)$-round $(3\alpha+1)$-approximation LOCAL algorithm for MDS on graphs embeddable in a given Euler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Marthe Bonamy , Avinandan Das , Cyril Gavoille , Timothé Picavet , Jukka Suomela , Alexandra Wesolek

We present a multi-level graph partitioning algorithm using novel local improvement algorithms and global search strategies transferred from the multi-grid community. Local improvement algorithms are based max-flow min-cut computations and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-05 Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

We present a near-linear-time algorithm that, given a bridgeless cubic graph, finds a perfect matching intersecting every 3-edge-cut in exactly one edge. This improves over a cubic algorithm of Boyd et al. for the same problem, and over our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Babak Ghanbari , Robert Šámal

Suppose we want to construct some structure on a bounded-degree graph, e.g., an almost maximum matching, and we want to decide about each edge depending only on its constant-radius neighborhood. We examine and compare the strengths of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Endre Csóka

Traditional deep network training methods optimize a monolithic objective function jointly for all the components. This can lead to various inefficiencies in terms of potential parallelization. Local learning is an approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Adeetya Patel , Michael Eickenberg , Eugene Belilovsky

This paper is devoted to the distributed complexity of finding an approximation of the maximum cut in graphs. A classical algorithm consists in letting each vertex choose its side of the cut uniformly at random. This does not require any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Étienne Bamas , Louis Esperet