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We study fundamental graph problems such as graph connectivity, minimum spanning forest (MSF), and approximate maximum (weight) matching in a distributed setting. In particular, we focus on the Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Soheil Behnezhad , Laxman Dhulipala , Hossein Esfandiari , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Warren Schudy

We consider the problem of designing fundamental graph algorithms on the model of Massive Parallel Computation (MPC). The input to the problem is an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and with $D$ being the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj

We give a maximal independent set (MIS) algorithm that runs in $O(\log \log \Delta)$ rounds in the congested clique model, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the input graph. This improves upon the $O(\frac{\log(\Delta) \cdot \log \log…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Christian Konrad

We present the first algorithm for maintaining a maximal independent set (MIS) of a fully dynamic graph---which undergoes both edge insertions and deletions---in polylogarithmic time. Our algorithm is randomized and, per update, takes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Cliff Stein , Madhu Sudan

The goal of this paper is to understand the complexity of symmetry breaking problems, specifically maximal independent set (MIS) and the closely related $\beta$-ruling set problem, in two computational models suited for large-scale graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Christian Konrad , Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Talal Riaz , Peter Robinson

Computing problems that handle large amounts of data necessitate the use of lossless data compression for efficient storage and transmission. We present a novel lossless universal data compression algorithm that uses parallel computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nikhil Krishnan , Dror Baron

Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) is an important graph algorithm that has wide ranging applications in the areas of computer networks, VLSI routing, wireless communications among others. Today virtually every computer is built out of multi-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula

The recent development of deep learning methods provides a new approach to optimize the belief propagation (BP) decoding of linear codes. However, the limitation of existing works is that the scale of neural networks increases rapidly with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Jincheng Dai , Kailin Tan , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Mingzhe Chen , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

The Maximal Independent Set (MIS) problem is one of the basics in the study of locality in distributed graph algorithms. This paper presents an extremely simple randomized algorithm providing a near-optimal local complexity for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Mohsen Ghaffari

Memory system is often the main bottleneck in chipmultiprocessor (CMP) systems in terms of latency, bandwidth and efficiency, and recently additionally facing capacity and power problems in an era of big data. A lot of research works have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Licheng Chen , Tianyue Lu , Yanan Wang , Mingyu Chen , Yuan Ruan , Zehan Cui , Yongbing Huang , Mingyang Chen , Jiutian Zhang , Yungang Bao

Many modern parallel systems, such as MapReduce, Hadoop and Spark, can be modeled well by the MPC model. The MPC model captures well coarse-grained computation on large data --- data is distributed to processors, each of which has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Alexandr Andoni , Clifford Stein , Peilin Zhong

Processing large-scale graph datasets is computationally intensive and time-consuming. Processor-centric CPU and GPU architectures, commonly used for graph applications, often face bottlenecks caused by extensive data movement between the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Marzieh Barkhordar , Alireza Tabatabaeian , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Christina Giannoula , Juan Gomez Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Onur Mutlu , Alaa R. Alameldeen

Recently, Balliu, Brandt, and Olivetti [FOCS '20] showed the first $\omega(\log^* n)$ lower bound for the maximal independent set (MIS) problem in trees. In this work we prove lower bounds for a much more relaxed family of distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti

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 present and evaluate a parallel algorithm for solving a minimum spanning tree (MST) problem for supercomputers with distributed memory. The algorithm relies on the relaxation of the message processing order requirement for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Artem Mazeev , Alexander Semenov , Alexey Simonov

The maximal independent set (MIS) is one of the most fundamental problems in distributed computing, and it has been studied intensively for over four decades. This paper focuses on the MIS problem in the Radio Network model, a standard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Dominick Banasik , Varsha Dani , Fabien Dufoulon , Aayush Gupta , Thomas P. Hayes , Gopal Pandurangan

In this paper we study the problem of dynamically maintaining graph properties under batches of edge insertions and deletions in the massively parallel model of computation. In this setting, the graph is stored on a number of machines, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 David Durfee , Laxman Dhulipala , Janardhan Kulkarni , Richard Peng , Saurabh Sawlani , Xiaorui Sun

We study the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem on general graphs within the framework of learning-augmented algorithms. The MIS problem is known to be NP-hard and is also NP-hard to approximate to within a factor of $n^{1-\delta}$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Vladimir Braverman , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Vihan Shah , Chen Wang

Maximal Independent Set (MIS) in a graph is a fundamental problem with applications in resource allocation, scheduling, and network optimization. Although graphs are inherently un-structured and challenging for GPU parallelism due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Prajjwal Nijhara , Dip Sankar Banerjee

We study two fundamental optimization problems: (1) scaling a symmetric positive definite matrix by a positive diagonal matrix so that the resulting matrix has row and column sums equal to 1; and (2) minimizing a quadratic function subject…

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