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Dijkstra's algorithm for the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem is notoriously hard to parallelize in $o(n)$ depth, $n$ being the number of vertices in the input graph, without increasing the required parallel work unreasonably.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Michael Kainer , Jesper Larsson Träff

We present a space and time efficient practical parallel algorithm for approximating the diameter of massive weighted undirected graphs on distributed platforms supporting a MapReduce-like abstraction. The core of the algorithm is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

A fundamental question that shrouds the emergence of massively parallel computing (MPC) platforms is how can the additional power of the MPC paradigm be leveraged to achieve faster algorithms compared to classical parallel models such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Sepehr Assadi , Xiaorui Sun , Omri Weinstein

We give algorithms for geometric graph problems in the modern parallel models inspired by MapReduce. For example, for the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem over a set of points in the two-dimensional space, our algorithm computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Alexandr Andoni , Aleksandar Nikolov , Krzysztof Onak , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Over the last two decades, frameworks for distributed-memory parallel computation, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark and Dryad, have gained significant popularity with the growing prevalence of large network datasets. The Massively Parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Quanquan C. Liu , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We present a randomized $O(m \log^2 n)$ work, $O(\text{polylog } n)$ depth parallel algorithm for minimum cut. This algorithm matches the work bounds of a recent sequential algorithm by Gawrychowski, Mozes, and Weimann [ICALP'20], and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Daniel Anderson , Guy E. Blelloch

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental algorithmic tool in data mining, community detection, and clustering. In this problem, one aims to find an induced subgraph whose edge-to-vertex ratio is maximized. We study the directed case of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan

The directed graph reachability problem takes as input an $n$-vertex directed graph $G=(V,E)$, and two distinguished vertices $s$ and $t$. The problem is to determine whether there exists a path from $s$ to $t$ in $G$. This is a canonical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Ryo Ashida , Kotaro Nakagawa

The reachability problem asks to decide if there exists a path from one vertex to another in a digraph. In a grid digraph, the vertices are the points of a two-dimensional square grid, and an edge can occur between a vertex and its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rahul Jain , Raghunath Tewari

We present the first parallel fixed-parameter algorithm for subgraph isomorphism in planar graphs, bounded-genus graphs, and, more generally, all minor-closed graphs of locally bounded treewidth. Our randomized low depth algorithm has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Lukas Gianinazzi , Torsten Hoefler

We study fundamental graph parameters such as the Diameter and Radius in directed graphs, when distances are measured using a somewhat unorthodox but natural measure: the distance between $u$ and $v$ is the minimum of the shortest path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nikhil Vyas , Nicole Wein , Yinzhan Xu , Yuancheng Yu

We consider the classical Minimum Balanced Cut problem: given a graph $G$, compute a partition of its vertices into two subsets of roughly equal volume, while minimizing the number of edges connecting the subsets. We present the first {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Julia Chuzhoy , Yu Gao , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We develop parallel algorithms for simulating zeroth-order (aka gradient-free) Metropolis Markov chains based on the Picard map. For Random Walk Metropolis Markov chains targeting log-concave distributions $\pi$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, our…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-10 Sebastiano Grazzi , Giacomo Zanella

Computing fixed-radius near-neighbor graphs is an important first step for many data analysis algorithms. Near-neighbor graphs connect points that are close under some metric, endowing point clouds with a combinatorial structure. As…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Gabriel Raulet , Dmitriy Morozov , Aydin Buluc , Katherine Yelick

To design efficient parallel algorithms, some recent papers showed that many sequential iterative algorithms can be directly parallelized but there are still challenges in achieving work-efficiency and high-parallelism. Work-efficiency can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Zheqi Shen , Zijin Wan , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

Given an undirected, weighted graph, with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and two special vertices $s$ and $t$, the problem is to find the shortest path between them. We give two bounded-error quantum algorithms with improved runtime in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Adam Wesołowski , Stephen Piddock

Finding connected components in a graph is a fundamental problem in graph analysis. In this work, we present a novel minimum-mapping based Contour algorithm to efficiently solve the connectivity problem. We prove that the Contour algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Zhihui Du , Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez , Fuhuan Li , Mohammad Dindoost , David A. Bader

We initiate the study of approximation algorithms and computational barriers for constructing sparse $\alpha$-navigable graphs [IX23, DGM+24], a core primitive underlying recent advances in graph-based nearest neighbor search. Given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Sanjeev Khanna , Ashwin Padaki , Erik Waingarten

We present a randomized algorithm that computes a constant approximation of a graph's arboricity, using $\tilde{O}(n/\lambda)$ queries to adjacency lists and in the same time bound. Here, $n$ and $\lambda$ denote the number of nodes and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jiangqi Dai , Mohsen Ghaffari , Julian Portmann

One of the most fundamental problems in computer science is the reachability problem: Given a directed graph and two vertices s and t, can s reach t via a path? We revisit existing techniques and combine them with new approaches to support…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kathrin Hanauer , Christian Schulz , Jonathan Trummer