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We develop a general deterministic distributed method for locally rounding fractional solutions of graph problems for which the analysis can be broken down into analyzing pairs of vertices. Roughly speaking, the method can transform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Salwa Faour , Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Fabian Kuhn , Václav Rozhoň

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

We consider the problem of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) in the discrete beeping model. At each time, a node in the network can either beep (i.e., emit a signal) or be silent. Silent nodes can only differentiate between no…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-10 Alejandro Cornejo , Bernhard Haeupler , 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

The success of modern parallel paradigms such as MapReduce, Hadoop, or Spark, has attracted a significant attention to the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model over the past few years, especially on graph problems. In this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Richard M. Karp

We study the problem of broadcasting multiple messages in the CONGEST model. In this problem, a dedicated source node $s$ possesses a set $M$ of messages with every message of size $O(\log n)$ where $n$ is the total number of nodes. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Anton Paramonov , Roger Wattenhofer

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a $\beta$-ruling set is a subset $S\subseteq V$ that is i) independent, and ii) every node $v\in V$ has a node of $S$ within distance $\beta$. In this paper we present almost optimal distributed algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Malte Baumecker , Yannic Maus , Jara Uitto

We study the deterministic complexity of the $2$-Ruling Set problem in the model of Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) with linear and strongly sublinear local memory. Linear MPC: We present a constant-round deterministic algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jeff Giliberti , Zahra Parsaeian

The $CONGEST$ model for distributed network computing is well suited for analyzing the impact of limiting the throughput of a network on its capacity to solve tasks efficiently. For many "global" problems there exists a lower bound of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Dennis Olivetti

By far the most fruitful technique for showing lower bounds for the CONGEST model is reductions to two-party communication complexity. This technique has yielded nearly tight results for various fundamental problems such as distance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yuval Efron , Ofer Grossman , Seri Khoury

This paper studies lower bounds for fundamental optimization problems in the CONGEST model. We show that solving problems exactly in this model can be a hard task, by providing $\tilde{\Omega}(n^2)$ lower bounds for cornerstone problems,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Nir Bachrach , Keren Censor-Hillel , Michal Dory , Yuval Efron , Dean Leitersdorf , Ami Paz

We investigate the distributed complexity of maximal matching and maximal independent set (MIS) in hypergraphs in the LOCAL model. A maximal matching of a hypergraph $H=(V_H,E_H)$ is a maximal disjoint set $M\subseteq E_H$ of hyperedges and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti

We present a simple distributed $\Delta$-approximation algorithm for maximum weight independent set (MaxIS) in the $\mathsf{CONGEST}$ model which completes in $O(\texttt{MIS}(G)\cdot \log W)$ rounds, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Reuven Bar-Yehuda , Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Gregory Schwartzman

A graph $G$ with $n$ vertices is called an outerstring graph if it has an intersection representation of a set of $n$ curves inside a disk such that one endpoint of every curve is attached to the boundary of the disk. Given an outerstring…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi , J. Mark Keil , Anil Maheshwari , Saeed Mehrabi , Debajyoti Mondal , Michiel Smid

In this paper, we investigate a distributed maximal independent set (MIS) reconfiguration problem, in which there are two maximal independent sets for which every node is given its membership status, and the nodes need to communicate with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mikaël Rabie

We adapt a recent algorithm by Ghaffari [SODA'16] for computing a Maximal Independent Set in the LOCAL model, so that it works in the significantly weaker BEEP model. For networks with maximum degree $\Delta$, our algorithm terminates…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Stephan Holzer , Nancy Lynch

This paper presents constant-time and near-constant-time distributed algorithms for a variety of problems in the congested clique model. We show how to compute a 3-ruling set in expected $O(\log \log \log n)$ rounds and using this, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-12 James W. Hegeman , Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Vivek B. Sardeshmukh

We study a Faulty Congested Clique model, in which an adversary may fail nodes in the network throughout the computation. We show that any task of $O(n\log{n})$-bit input per node can be solved in roughly $n$ rounds, where $n$ is the size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Keren Censor-Hillel , Pedro Soto

For a well-studied family of domination-type problems, in bounded-treewidth graphs, we investigate whether it is possible to find faster algorithms. For sets $\sigma,\rho$ of non-negative integers, a $(\sigma,\rho)$-set of a graph $G$ is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jacob Focke , Dániel Marx , Fionn Mc Inerney , Daniel Neuen , Govind S. Sankar , Philipp Schepper , Philip Wellnitz

This paper improves and in two cases nearly settles, up to logarithmically lower-order factors, the deterministic complexity of some of the most central problems in distributed graph algorithms, which have been studied for over three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau