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Vizing's theorem states that any $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be edge colored using at most $\Delta + 1$ different colors. Vizing's original proof is easily translated into a deterministic $O(mn)$ time algorithm.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Shay Solomon , Tianyi Zhang

In this paper, we present improved algorithms for the $(\Delta+1)$ (vertex) coloring problem in the Congested-Clique model of distributed computing. In this model, the input is a graph on $n$ nodes, initially each node knows only its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Merav Parter

We present a randomized distributed algorithm that computes a $\Delta$-coloring in any non-complete graph with maximum degree $\Delta \geq 4$ in $O(\log \Delta) + 2^{O(\sqrt{\log\log n})}$ rounds, as well as a randomized algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Mohsen Ghaffari , Juho Hirvonen , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus

The last five years of research on distributed graph algorithms have seen huge leaps of progress, both regarding algorithmic improvements and impossibility results: new strong lower bounds have emerged for many central problems and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Sebastian Brandt , Yannic Maus , Ananth Narayanan , Florian Schager , Jara Uitto

Distributed vertex coloring is one of the classic problems and probably also the most widely studied problems in the area of distributed graph algorithms. We present a new randomized distributed vertex coloring algorithm for the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Tigran Tonoyan

A graph is weakly $2$-colored if the nodes are labeled with colors black and white such that each black node is adjacent to at least one white node and vice versa. In this work we study the distributed computational complexity of weak…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Alkida Balliu , Juho Hirvonen , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

Coloring unit-disk graphs efficiently is an important problem in the global and distributed setting, with applications in radio channel assignment problems when the communication relies on omni-directional antennas of the same power. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Louis Esperet , Sébastien Julliot , Arnaud de Mesmay

Vizing's celebrated theorem states that every simple graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ admits a $(\Delta+1)$ edge coloring which can be found in $O(m \cdot n)$ time on $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs. This is just one color more than the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sepehr Assadi

The degree splitting problem requires coloring the edges of a graph red or blue such that each node has almost the same number of edges in each color, up to a small additive discrepancy. The directed variant of the problem requires…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Mohsen Ghaffari , Juho Hirvonen , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

We provide a $O(\log^6 \log n)$-round randomized algorithm for distance-2 coloring in CONGEST with $\Delta^2+1$ colors. For $\Delta\gg\operatorname{poly}\log n$, this improves exponentially on the $O(\log\Delta+\operatorname{poly}\log\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Alexandre Nolin

Vizing's theorem asserts the existence of a $(\Delta+1)$-edge coloring for any graph $G$, where $\Delta = \Delta(G)$ denotes the maximum degree of $G$. Several polynomial time $(\Delta+1)$-edge coloring algorithms are known, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Nadav Panski , Shay Solomon

This paper explores the application of a new algebraic method of color exchanges to the edge coloring of simple graphs. Vizing's theorem states that the edge coloring of a simple graph $G$ requires either $\Delta$ or $\Delta+1$ colors,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-12 Tony T. Lee , Yujie Wan , Hao Guan

We show an $\Omega\big(\Delta^{\frac{1}{3}-\frac{\eta}{3}}\big)$ lower bound on the runtime of any deterministic distributed $\mathcal{O}\big(\Delta^{1+\eta}\big)$-graph coloring algorithm in a weak variant of the \LOCAL\ model. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Dan Hefetz , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Angelika Steger

We study connections between distributed local algorithms, finitary factors of iid processes, and descriptive combinatorics in the context of regular trees. We extend the Borel determinacy technique of Marks coming from descriptive…

Given a dynamic graph subject to edge insertions and deletions, we show how to update an implicit representation of a proper vertex colouring, such that colours of vertices are computable upon query time. We give a deterministic algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Aleksander B. G. Christiansen , Krzysztof D. Nowicki , Eva Rotenberg

We present a simple randomized algorithm that can efficiently maintain a $(\Delta+1)$ coloring as the graph undergoes edge insertion and deletion updates, where $\Delta$ denotes an upper bound on the maximum degree. A key advantage is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

The celebrated Time Hierarchy Theorem for Turing machines states, informally, that more problems can be solved given more time. The extent to which a time hierarchy-type theorem holds in the distributed LOCAL model has been open for many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Yi-Jun Chang , Seth Pettie

Balliu et al. (DISC 2020) classified the hardness of solving binary labeling problems with distributed graph algorithms; in these problems the task is to select a subset of edges in a $2$-colored tree in which white nodes of degree $d$ and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Henrik Lievonen , Timothé Picavet , Jukka Suomela

$ \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

In the \emph{dynamic edge coloring} problem, one has to maintain a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ with at most $\Delta+c$ colors, given updates to the edges of the graph. An important objective is to minimize the \emph{recourse}, which is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haim Kaplan , David Naori , Yaniv Sadeh