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There has been significant progress in understanding the parallelism inherent to iterative sequential algorithms: for many classic algorithms, the depth of the dependence structure is now well understood, and scheduling techniques have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Dan Alistarh , Trevor Brown , Justin Kopinsky , Giorgi Nadiradze

In the semi-streaming model for processing massive graphs, an algorithm makes multiple passes over the edges of a given $n$-vertex graph and is tasked with computing the solution to a problem using $O(n \cdot \text{polylog}(n))$ space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Sepehr Assadi , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu , Janani Sundaresan

Max Independent Set (MIS) is a paradigmatic problem in theoretical computer science and numerous studies tackle its resolution by exact algorithms with non-trivial worst-case complexity. The best such complexity is, to our knowledge, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-01-13 Nicolas Bourgeois , Bruno Escoffier , Vangelis Th. Paschos , Johan M. M van Rooij

Many randomized algorithms can be derandomized efficiently using either the method of conditional expectations or probability spaces with low (almost-) independence. A series of papers, beginning with Luby (1993) and continuing with Berger…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

The gap between the known randomized and deterministic local distributed algorithms underlies arguably the most fundamental and central open question in distributed graph algorithms. In this paper, we develop a generic and clean recipe for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Mohsen Ghaffari , David G. Harris , Fabian Kuhn

We design a Quasi-Polynomial time deterministic approximation algorithm for computing the integral of a multi-dimensional separable function, supported by some underlying hyper-graph structure, appropriately defined. Equivalently, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Gamarnik , Devin Smedira

We present a novel technique for work-efficient parallel derandomization, for algorithms that rely on the concentration of measure bounds such as Chernoff, Hoeffding, and Bernstein inequalities. Our method increases the algorithm's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Václav Rozhoň

Maximum Independent Set (MIS for short) is in general graphs the paradigmatic $W[1]$-hard problem. In stark contrast, polynomial-time algorithms are known when the inputs are restricted to structured graph classes such as, for instance,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Édouard Bonnet , Nicolas Bousquet , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

In the past years, many quantum algorithms have been proposed to tackle hard combinatorial problems. These algorithms, which have been studied in depth in complexity theory, are at the heart of many industrial applications. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Constantin Dalyac , Loic Henriet

The node-averaged complexity of a distributed algorithm running on a graph $G=(V,E)$ is the average over the times at which the nodes $V$ of $G$ finish their computation and commit to their outputs. We study the node-averaged complexity for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Alkida Balliu , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti

We present a simple polylogarithmic-time deterministic distributed algorithm for network decomposition. This improves on a celebrated $2^{O(\sqrt{\log n})}$-time algorithm of Panconesi and Srinivasan [STOC'92] and settles a central and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Václav Rozhoň , Mohsen Ghaffari

The transversal hypergraph problem is the task of enumerating the minimal hitting sets of a hypergraph. It is a long-standing open question whether this can be done in output-polynomial time. For hypergraphs whose solutions have bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Thomas Bläsius , Tobias Friedrich , Julius Lischeid , Kitty Meeks , Martin Schirneck

We study the problem of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) in the standard LOCAL model of distributed computing. Classical algorithms by Luby [JACM'86] and Alon, Babai, and Itai [JALG'86] find an MIS in $O(\log n)$ rounds in $n$-node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Seri Khoury , Aaron Schild

$ \renewcommand{\tilde}{\widetilde} $We present an $\tilde{O}(\log^2 n)$ round deterministic distributed algorithm for the maximal independent set problem. By known reductions, this round complexity extends also to maximal matching,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau

Two of the most fundamental distributed symmetry-breaking problems are that of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) and a maximal matching (MM) in a graph. It is a major open question whether these problems can be solved in constant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Keren Censor-Hillel , Tomer Even , Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson

The maximum independent set problem is one of the most important problems in graph algorithms and has been extensively studied in the line of research on the worst-case analysis of exact algorithms for NP-hard problems. In the weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Sen Huang , Mingyu Xiao , Xiaoyu Chen

Daum et al. [PODC'13] presented an algorithm that computes a maximal independent set (MIS) within $O(\log^2 n/F+\log n \mathrm{polyloglog} n)$ rounds in an $n$-node multichannel radio network with $F$ communication channels. The paper uses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Sebastian Daum , Fabian Kuhn

The problem of distributed maximal independent set (MIS) is investigated on inhomogeneous random graphs with power-law weights by which the scale-free networks can be produced. Such a particular problem has been solved on graphs with $n$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Hasan Heydari , S. Mahmoud Taheri , Kaveh Kavousi

Maximal Independent Set (MIS) is one of the fundamental and most well-studied problems in distributed graph algorithms. Even after four decades of intensive research, the best-known (randomized) MIS algorithms have $O(\log{n})$ round…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Fabien Dufoulon , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

The Metropolis process (MP) and Simulated Annealing (SA) are stochastic local search heuristics that are often used in solving combinatorial optimization problems. Despite significant interest, there are very few theoretical results…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zongchen Chen , Dan Mikulincer , Daniel Reichman , Alexander S. Wein