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We present a complete classification of the deterministic distributed time complexity for a family of graph problems: binary labeling problems in trees. These are locally checkable problems that can be encoded with an alphabet of size two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Yuval Efron , Juho Hirvonen , Yannic Maus , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

In graph theory, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph. For some small classes of graphs, the problem can be solved in polynomial time [2, 4], but it remains NP-hard on general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Lajos L. Pongrácz

Graph spanners are fundamental graph structures with a wide range of applications in distributed networks. We consider a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over every edge (the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Ofer Grossman , Merav Parter

Avraham et al. [AFK+15] presented an alternative approach to parametric search, called \emph{bifurcation}, that performs faster under certain circumstances. Intuitively, when the underlying decider execution can be rolled back cheaply and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Sariel Har-Peled

We consider the problem of learning causal networks with interventions, when each intervention is limited in size under Pearl's Structural Equation Model with independent errors (SEM-IE). The objective is to minimize the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Murat Kocaoglu , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sriram Vishwanath

In the graph label selection problem, one is given an $n$-vertex graph and a budget $k$, and seeks to select $k$ vertices whose labels enable accurate prediction of the labels on the remaining vertices. This problem formalizes distilling a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Josia John , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg

Given a traversal algorithm, cover time is the expected number of steps needed to visit all nodes in a given graph. A smaller cover time means a higher exploration efficiency of traversal algorithm. Although random walk algorithms have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Guanhua Fang , Gennady Samorodnitsky , Zhiqiang Xu

We consider a search problem on trees in which the goal is to find an adversarially placed treasure, while relying on local, partial information. Specifically, each node in the tree holds a pointer to one of its neighbors, termed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Lucas Boczkowski , Uriel Feige , Amos Korman , Yoav Rodeh

We give a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate distance oracle with $O(1)$ query time for an undirected planar graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and non-negative edge lengths. For $\epsilon>0$ and any two vertices $u$ and $v$ in $G$, our oracle gives a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Qian-Ping Gu , Gengchun Xu

An $(n,d,\lambda)$-graph is a $d$ regular graph on $n$ vertices in which the absolute value of any nontrivial eigenvalue is at most $\lambda$. For any constant $d \geq 3$, $\epsilon>0$ and all sufficiently large $n$ we show that there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Noga Alon

In this paper we consider the fundamental problem of approximating the diameter $D$ of directed or undirected graphs. In a seminal paper, Aingworth, Chekuri, Indyk and Motwani [SIAM J. Comput. 1999] presented an algorithm that computes in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Liam Roditty , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Temporal graphs (in which edges are active at specified times) are of particular relevance for spreading processes on graphs, e.g.~the spread of disease or dissemination of information. Motivated by real-world applications, modification of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman

We propose a fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining reachability information in directed graphs. The proposed deterministic dynamic algorithm has an update time of $O((ins*n^{2}) + (del * (m+n*log(n))))$ where $m$ is the current number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-11-22 Venkata Seshu Kumar Kurapati

We study spreading processes in temporal graphs, i. e., graphs whose connections change over time. These processes naturally model real-world phenomena such as infectious diseases or information flows. More precisely, we investigate how…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Hendrik Molter , Malte Renken , Philipp Zschoche

We consider the problem of resource discovery in distributed systems. In particular we give an algorithm, such that each node in a network discovers the address of any other node in the network. We model the knowledge of the nodes as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-10 Sebastian Kniesburges , Andreas Koutsopoulos , Christian Scheideler

The rotor router model is a popular deterministic analogue of a random walk on a graph. Instead of moving to a random neighbor, the neighbors are served in a fixed order. We examine how fast this "deterministic random walk" covers all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Tobias Friedrich , Thomas Sauerwald

The paper focuses on two problems: (i) how to orient the edges of an undirected graph in order to maximize the number of ordered vertex pairs (x,y) such that there is a directed path from x to y, and (ii) how to orient the edges so as to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 S. L. Hakimi , E. Schmeichel , Neal E. Young

Kallampally and Tewari showed in 2016 that there can be a trade-off between determinism and time in space-bounded computations. This they did by describing an unambiguous non-deterministic algorithm to solve Directed Graph Reachability that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ronak Bhadra , Raghunath Tewari

Temporal graphs are a class of graphs defined by a constant set of vertices and a changing set of edges, each of which is known as a timestep. These graphs are well motivated in modelling real-world networks, where connections may change…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Duncan Adamson

Computing a (short) path between two vertices is one of the most fundamental primitives in graph algorithmics. In recent years, the study of paths in temporal graphs, that is, graphs where the vertex set is fixed but the edge set changes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Arnaud Casteigts , Anne-Sophie Himmel , Hendrik Molter , Philipp Zschoche