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Social Graph Analytics applications are very often built using off-the-shelf analytics frameworks. These, however, are profiled and optimized for the general case and have to perform for all kinds of graphs. This paper investigates how…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Iacovos Kolokasis , Polyvios Pratikakis

We present an algorithm that efficiently computes nearly-optimal solutions to a class of combinatorial reconfiguration problems on weighted, undirected graphs. Inspired by societally relevant applications in networked infrastructure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Samuel Talkington , Dmitrii M. Ostrovskii , Daniel K. Molzahn

Decentralized Federated Graph Learning (DFGL) overcomes potential bottlenecks of the parameter server in FGL by establishing a peer-to-peer (P2P) communication network among workers. However, while extensive cross-worker communication of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Shilong Wang , Jianchun Liu , Hongli Xu , Chenxia Tang , Qianpiao Ma , Liusheng Huang

We present near-optimal algorithms for detecting small vertex cuts in the CONGEST model of distributed computing. Despite extensive research in this area, our understanding of the vertex connectivity of a graph is still incomplete,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Merav Parter , Asaf Petruschka

We study stochastic graph optimization problems in a novel distributed setting. As in the standard centralized setting, a random subgraph $G^*$ of a known base graph $G$ is realized by including each edge $e$ independently with a known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Keren Censor-Hillel , Aditi Dudeja , George Giakkoupis

Data shuffling between distributed cluster of nodes is one of the critical steps in implementing large-scale learning algorithms. Randomly shuffling the data-set among a cluster of workers allows different nodes to obtain fresh data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon

This paper considers a distributed convex optimization problem with inequality constraints over time-varying unbalanced digraphs, where the cost function is a sum of local objectives, and each node of the graph only knows its local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Pei Xie , Keyou You , Roberto Tempo , Shiji Song , Cheng Wu

Decentralized stochastic optimization methods have gained a lot of attention recently, mainly because of their cheap per iteration cost, data locality, and their communication-efficiency. In this paper we introduce a unified convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Anastasia Koloskova , Nicolas Loizou , Sadra Boreiri , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

Learning a graph topology to reveal the underlying relationship between data entities plays an important role in various machine learning and data analysis tasks. Under the assumption that structured data vary smoothly over a graph, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-23 Xingyue Pu , Tianyue Cao , Xiaoyun Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen

In this work we introduce a new notion: local mechanisms. These are truthful mechanisms that have an implementation as fast distributed algorithms and non-trivial approximation guarantees. We show how monotone distributed optimisation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Juho Hirvonen , Sara Ranjbaran

We consider a multi-agent network where each node has a stochastic (local) cost function that depends on the decision variable of that node and a random variable, and further the decision variables of neighboring nodes are pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Navjot Singh , Xuanyu Cao , Suhas Diggavi , Tamer Basar

This work concerns the analysis and design of distributed first-order optimization algorithms over time-varying graphs. The goal of such algorithms is to optimize a global function that is the average of local functions using only local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Akhil Sundararajan , Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

We describe a distributed randomized algorithm computing approximate distances and routes that approximate shortest paths. Let n denote the number of nodes in the graph, and let HD denote the hop diameter of the graph, i.e., the diameter of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-05 Christoph Lenzen , Boaz Patt-Shamir

One fundamental problem in decentralized multi-agent optimization is the trade-off between gradient/sampling complexity and communication complexity. We propose new algorithms whose gradient and sampling complexities are graph topology…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Guanghui Lan , Yuyuan Ouyang , Yi Zhou

Load balancing is among the basic primitives in distributed computing. In this paper, we consider this problem when executed locally on a network with nodes prone to failures. We show that there exist lightweight network topologies that are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jan Olkowski

This paper presents near-optimal deterministic parallel and distributed algorithms for computing $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate single-source shortest paths in any undirected weighted graph. On a high level, we deterministically reduce this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Václav Rozhoň , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Goran Zuzic , Jason Li

Efficient planning and sequence selection are central to intelligence, yet current approaches remain largely incompatible with biological computation. Classical graph algorithms like Dijkstra's or A* require global state and biologically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Simen Storesund , Kristian Valset Aars , Robin Dietrich , Nicolai Waniek

Gossip algorithms have recently received significant attention, mainly because they constitute simple and robust message-passing schemes for distributed information processing over networks. However for many topologies that are realistic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-20 F. Benezit , A. G. Dimakis , P. Thiran , M. Vetterli

Graph partitioning schedules parallel calculations like sparse matrix-vector multiply (SpMV). We consider contiguous partitions, where the $m$ rows (or columns) of a sparse matrix with $N$ nonzeros are split into $K$ parts without…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Willow Ahrens

We consider the Backup Placement problem in networks in the $\mathcal{CONGEST}$ distributed setting. Given a network graph $G = (V,E)$, the goal of each vertex $v \in V$ is selecting a neighbor, such that the maximum number of vertices in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Leonid Barenboim , Gal Oren