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In this paper we consider graph algorithms in models of computation where the space usage (random accessible storage, in addition to the read only input) is sublinear in the number of edges $m$ and the access to input data is constrained.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

In this work, we present a constant-round algorithm for the $2$-ruling set problem in the Congested Clique model. As a direct consequence, we obtain a constant round algorithm in the MPC model with linear space-per-machine and optimal total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Mélanie Cambus , Fabian Kuhn , Shreyas Pai , Jara Uitto

In this paper, we investigate three fundamental problems in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model: (i) grid graph connectivity, (ii) approximate Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (EMST), and (iii) approximate DBSCAN. Our first result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Junhao Gan , Anthony Wirth , Zhuo Zhang

We study the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model. Our focus is particularly on the *strictly sublinear* regime of MPC where the space per machine is $O(n^\delta)$. Here $n$ is the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Rajesh Jayaram , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Peilin Zhong

Distributed processing frameworks, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, and Spark are popular systems for processing large amounts of data. The design of efficient algorithms in these frameworks is a challenging problem, as the systems both require…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Silvio Lattanzi , Saeed Seddighin , Cliff Stein

We study Euclidean $k$-Means under the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, focusing on the \emph{fully-scalable} setting. Our main result is a fully-scalable $O((\log n/\log\log n)^2)$-approximation in $O(1)$ rounds. Previously,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Yaonan Jin , Jianing Lou , Weicheng Wang

We present fast algorithms for approximate shortest paths in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model. We provide randomized algorithms that take $poly(\log{\log{n}})$ rounds in the near-linear memory MPC model. Our results are for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Michal Dory , Shaked Matar

Roughgarden, Vassilvitskii, and Wang (JACM 18) recently introduced a novel framework for proving lower bounds for Massively Parallel Computation using techniques from boolean function complexity. We extend their framework in two different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Moses Charikar , Weiyun Ma , Li-Yang Tan

We present a deterministic algorithm for solving a wide range of dynamic programming problems in trees in $O(\log D)$ rounds in the massively parallel computation model (MPC), with $O(n^\delta)$ words of local memory per machine, for any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Chetan Gupta , Rustam Latypov , Yannic Maus , Shreyas Pai , Simo Särkkä , Jan Studený , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto , Hossein Vahidi

We consider the classic $k$-center problem {in the constant dimensional Euclidean space} under a parallel setting, on the low-local-space Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, with local space per machine of ${O}(n^{\delta})$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra

Recently, studying fundamental graph problems in the \emph{Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) framework, inspired by the MapReduce paradigm, has gained a lot of attention. An assumption common to a vast majority of approaches is to allow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Sebastian Brandt , Manuela Fischer , Jara Uitto

In the classical longest palindromic substring (LPS) problem, we are given a string $S$ of length $n$, and the task is to output a longest palindromic substring in $S$. Gilbert, Hajiaghayi, Saleh, and Seddighin [SPAA 2023] showed how to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Solon P. Pissis

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental problem with applications to community detection, clustering, and data mining. Our work focuses on finding approximate densest subgraphs in directed graphs in computational models for processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan , Mahdi Qaempanah , Mohammad Amin Raeisi

Graph problems are troublesome when it comes to MapReduce. Typically, to be able to design algorithms that make use of the advantages of MapReduce, assumptions beyond what the model imposes, such as the density of the input graph, are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

Motivated by recent progress on symmetry breaking problems such as maximal independent set (MIS) and maximal matching in the low-memory Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model (e.g., Behnezhad et al.~PODC 2019; Ghaffari-Uitto SODA 2019),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Kishore Kothapalli , Shreyas Pai , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

We consider the problem of designing deterministic graph algorithms for the model of Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) that improve with the sparsity of the input graph, as measured by the notion of arboricity. For the problems of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Manuela Fischer , Jeff Giliberti , Christoph Grunau

Computing the connected components of a graph is a fundamental problem in algorithmic graph theory. A major question in this area is whether we can compute connected components in $o(\log n)$ parallel time. Recent works showed an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Alireza Farhadi , S. Cliff Liu , Elaine Shi

We initiate the study of graph algorithms in the streaming setting on massive distributed and parallel systems inspired by practical data processing systems. The objective is to design algorithms that can efficiently process evolving graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee

We consider two natural variants of the problem of minimum spanning tree (MST) of a graph in the parallel setting: MST verification (verifying if a given tree is an MST) and the sensitivity analysis of an MST (finding the lowest cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee

We study the classic Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. Given a set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points, the goal is to produce a spanning tree for $X$ with weight within a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rajesh Jayaram , Vahab Mirrokni , Shyam Narayanan , Peilin Zhong