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Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Yudong Chen , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

Finding sparse cuts is an important tool in analyzing large-scale distributed networks such as the Internet and Peer-to-Peer networks, as well as large-scale graphs such as the web graph, online social communities, and VLSI circuits. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Atish Das Sarma , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan

The main goal in distributed symmetry-breaking is to understand the locality of problems; i.e., the radius of the neighborhood that a node needs to explore in order to arrive at its part of a global solution. In this work, we study the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Seri Khoury , Manish Purohit , Aaron Schild , Joshua Wang

Finding a maximal independent set (MIS) in a graph is a cornerstone task in distributed computing. The local nature of an MIS allows for fast solutions in a static distributed setting, which are logarithmic in the number of nodes or in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Keren Censor-Hillel , Elad Haramaty , Zohar Karnin

We initiate the study of deterministic distributed graph algorithms with predictions in synchronous message passing systems. The process at each node in the graph is given a prediction, which is some extra information about the problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Joan Boyar , Faith Ellen , Kim S. Larsen

This paper is devoted to the distributed complexity of finding an approximation of the maximum cut in graphs. A classical algorithm consists in letting each vertex choose its side of the cut uniformly at random. This does not require any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Étienne Bamas , Louis Esperet

We study the problem of executing an application represented by a precedence task graph on a parallel machine composed of standard computing cores and accelerators. Contrary to most existing approaches, we distinguish the allocation and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Marcos Amaris , Giorgio Lucarelli , Clément Mommessin , Denis Trystram

In this paper we study the adaptivity of submodular maximization. Adaptivity quantifies the number of sequential rounds that an algorithm makes when function evaluations can be executed in parallel. Adaptivity is a fundamental concept that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Eric Balkanski , Aviad Rubinstein , Yaron Singer

In this paper we consider distributed optimization problems in which the cost function is separable, i.e., a sum of possibly non-smooth functions all sharing a common variable, and can be split into a strongly convex term and a convex one.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

For input $x$, let $F(x)$ denote the set of outputs that are the "legal" answers for a computational problem $F$. Suppose $x$ and members of $F(x)$ are so large that there is not time to read them in their entirety. We propose a model of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-08 Ronitt Rubinfeld , Gil Tamir , Shai Vardi , Ning Xie

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

We address the problem of computing the distribution of induced connected subgraphs, aka \emph{graphlets} or \emph{motifs}, in large graphs. The current state-of-the-art algorithms estimate the motif counts via uniform sampling, by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Marco Bressan , Stefano Leucci , Alessandro Panconesi

A local algorithm is a distributed algorithm where each node must operate solely based on the information that was available at system startup within a constant-size neighbourhood of the node. We study the applicability of local algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Patrik Floréen , Petteri Kaski , Topi Musto , Jukka Suomela

This paper is an attempt to remedy the problem of slow convergence for first-order numerical algorithms by proposing an adaptive conditioning heuristic. First, we propose a parallelizable numerical algorithm that is capable of solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Muhammad Adil , Sasan Tavakkol , Ramtin Madani

We consider a class of discrete optimization problems that aim to maximize a submodular objective function subject to a distributed partition matroid constraint. More precisely, we consider a networked scenario in which multiple agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Alexander Robey , Arman Adibi , Brent Schlotfeldt , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani

In this paper, we consider algorithms for edge-coloring multigraphs $G$ of bounded maximum degree, i.e., $\Delta(G) = O(1)$. Shannon's theorem states that any multigraph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be properly edge-colored with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Abhishek Dhawan

Graph learning is often a necessary step in processing or representing structured data, when the underlying graph is not given explicitly. Graph learning is generally performed centrally with a full knowledge of the graph signals, namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Applications in machine learning, optimization, and control require the sequential selection of a few system elements, such as sensors, data, or actuators, to optimize the system performance across multiple time steps. However, in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-17 Vasileios Tzoumas , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

Algorithms for clustering points in metric spaces is a long-studied area of research. Clustering has seen a multitude of work both theoretically, in understanding the approximation guarantees possible for many objective functions such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Maria-Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Colin White

Building on the previous work of Lee et al. and Ferdinand et al. on coded computation, we propose a sequential approximation framework for solving optimization problems in a distributed manner. In a distributed computation system, latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jingge Zhu , Ye Pu , Vipul Gupta , Claire Tomlin , Kannan Ramchandran