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We present a self-stabilizing protocol for an overlay network that constructs the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) for an underlay that is modeled by a weighted tree. The weight of an overlay edge between two nodes is the weighted length of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Thorsten Götte , Christian Scheideler , Alexander Setzer

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Nikos Parotsidis , Jakub Tarnawski

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for parallel Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS). It is based on the pipeline pattern and allows flexible management of the control flow of the operations in parallel MCTS. The pipeline pattern provides…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-04 S. Ali Mirsoleimani , Aske Plaat , Jaap van den Herik , Jos Vermaseren

We present a novel lossless universal source coding algorithm that uses parallel computational units to increase the throughput. The length-$N$ input sequence is partitioned into $B$ blocks. Processing each block independently of the other…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-27 Nikhil Krishnan , Dror Baron , Mehmet Kıvanç Mıhçak

This paper presents a novel meta algorithm, Partition-Merge (PM), which takes existing centralized algorithms for graph computation and makes them distributed and faster. In a nutshell, PM divides the graph into small subgraphs using our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Vincent Blondel , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli , Devavrat Shah

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

In the minimum spanning tree (MST) interdiction problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge weights, and want to find some $X\subseteq E$ satisfying a knapsack constraint such that the MST weight in $(V,E\setminus X)$ is maximized.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Noah Weninger , Ricardo Fukasawa

For parallel breadth first search (BFS) algorithm on large-scale distributed memory systems, communication often costs significantly more than arithmetic and limits the scalability of the algorithm. In this paper we sufficiently reduce the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-29 Huiwei Lv , Guangming Tan , Mingyu Chen , Ninghui Sun

For a connected graph, a vertex separator is a set of vertices whose removal creates at least two components. A vertex separator $S$ is minimal if it contains no other separator as a strict subset and a minimum vertex separator is a minimal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Vandhana. C , S. Hima Bindhu , P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan , B. Supraja

Finding the number of triangles in a network is an important problem in the analysis of complex networks. The number of triangles also has important applications in data mining. Existing distributed memory parallel algorithms for counting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Shaikh Arifuzzaman , Maleq Khan , Madhav Marathe

This paper revisits the 2-approximation algorithm for $k$-MST presented by Garg in light of a recent paper of Paul et al.. In the $k$-MST problem, the goal is to return a tree spanning $k$ vertices of minimum total edge cost. Paul et al.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Emmett Breen , Renee Mirka , Zichen Wang , David P. Williamson

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithmic framework to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper presents a novel approach, named the Group Marching Tree (GMT*) algorithm, to planning on GPUs at rates amenable to application within control loops, allowing planning in real-world settings via repeated computation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Brian Ichter , Edward Schmerling , Marco Pavone

Given an undirected graph with costs associated with each edge as well as each pair of edges, the quadratic minimum spanning tree problem (QMSTP) consists of determining a spanning tree of minimum total cost. This problem can be used to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Zhang-Hua Fu , Jin-Kao Hao

Hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) is a popular algorithm for clustering data, but despite its importance, no dynamic algorithms for HAC with good theoretical guarantees exist. In this paper, we study dynamic HAC on edge-weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Tom Tseng , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

In the length-constrained minimum spanning tree (MST) problem, we are given an $n$-node edge-weighted graph $G$ and a length constraint $h \geq 1$. Our goal is to find a spanning tree of $G$ whose diameter is at most $h$ with minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-17 D Ellis Hershkowitz , Richard Z Huang

We propose a new and strengthened Branch-and-Bound (BnB) algorithm for the maximum common (connected) induced subgraph problem based on two new operators, Long-Short Memory (LSM) and Leaf vertex Union Match (LUM). Given two graphs for which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jianrong Zhou , Kun He , Jiongzhi Zheng , Chu-Min Li , Yanli Liu

Discrete ordinates $S_N$ transport solvers on unstructured meshes pose a challenge to scale due to complex data dependencies, memory access patterns and a high-dimensional domain. In this paper, we review the performance bottlenecks within…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Alex Elwood , Tom Deakin , Justin Lovegrove , Chris Nelson

In the Steiner Tree problem we are given an edge weighted undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ and a set of terminals $R \subseteq V$. The task is to find a connected subgraph of $G$ containing $R$ and minimizing the sum of weights of its edges. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Radek Hušek , Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík

Recent years have witnessed a surge of biological interest in the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem for its relevance to automatic model construction using the distances between data points. Despite the increasing use of MST algorithms…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-02 Momoko Hayamizu , Hiroshi Endo , Kenji Fukumizu