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We present improved deterministic algorithms for approximating shortest paths in the Congested Clique model of distributed computing. We obtain $poly(\log\log n)$-round algorithms for the following problems in unweighted undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Michal Dory , Merav Parter

$ $We study the $d$-Uniform Hypergraph Matching ($d$-UHM) problem: given an $n$-vertex hypergraph $G$ where every hyperedge is of size $d$, find a maximum cardinality set of disjoint hyperedges. For $d\geq3$, the problem of finding the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Oussama Hanguir , Clifford Stein

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

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

We study the problem of finding connected components in the Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC) model. We show that when we require the total space to be linear in the size of the input graph the problem can be solved in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Rustam Latypov , Jakub Łącki , Yannic Maus , Jara Uitto

The Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model is an emerging model which distills core aspects of distributed and parallel computation. It has been developed as a tool to solve (typically graph) problems in systems where the input is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies , Merav Parter

Maximal Independent Set (MIS) is one of the fundamental problems in distributed computing. The round (time) complexity of distributed MIS has traditionally focused on the \emph{worst-case time} for all nodes to finish. The best-known…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Soumyottam Chatterjee , Robert Gmyr , Gopal Pandurangan

We study the Weighted Min Cut problem in the Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC) model. In 2019, Behnezhad et al. [3] introduced the AMPC model as an extension of the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. In the past…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-30 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Marina Knittel , Jan Olkowski , Hamed Saleh

There are distributed graph algorithms for finding maximal matchings and maximal independent sets in $O(\Delta + \log^* n)$ communication rounds; here $n$ is the number of nodes and $\Delta$ is the maximum degree. The lower bound by Linial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Juho Hirvonen , Dennis Olivetti , Mikaël Rabie , Jukka Suomela

In this paper, we present an efficient massively parallel approximation algorithm for the $k$-means problem. Specifically, we provide an MPC algorithm that computes a constant-factor approximation to an arbitrary $k$-means instance in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Fabian Kuhn , Zahra Parsaeian

We present a constant-round algorithm in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model for evaluating a natural join where every input relation has two attributes. Our algorithm achieves a load of $\tilde{O}(m/p^{1/\rho})$ where $m$ is the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bas Ketsman , Dan Suciu , Yufei Tao

We study fully dynamic algorithms for maximum matching. This is a well-studied problem, known to admit several update-time/approximation trade-offs. For instance, it is known how to maintain a 1/2-approximate matching in $\log^{O(1)} n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Soheil Behnezhad

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 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

In this work, we use algebraic methods for studying distance computation and subgraph detection tasks in the congested clique model. Specifically, we adapt parallel matrix multiplication implementations to the congested clique, obtaining an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Keren Censor-Hillel , Petteri Kaski , Janne H. Korhonen , Christoph Lenzen , Ami Paz , Jukka Suomela

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

We describe approximation algorithms in Linial's classic LOCAL model of distributed computing to find maximum-weight matchings in a hypergraph of rank $r$. Our main result is a deterministic algorithm to generate a matching which is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

We present improved results for approximating maximum-weight independent set ($\MaxIS$) in the CONGEST and LOCAL models of distributed computing. Given an input graph, let $n$ and $\Delta$ be the number of nodes and maximum degree,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Seri Khoury , Aaron Schild , Gregory Schwartzman

The field of dynamic graph algorithms aims at achieving a thorough understanding of real-world networks whose topology evolves with time. Traditionally, the focus has been on the classic sequential, centralized setting where the main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Shiri Antaki , Quanquan C. Liu , Shay Solomon

This paper presents massively parallel computation (MPC) algorithms in the strongly sublinear memory regime (aka, scalable MPC) for orienting and coloring graphs as a function of its subgraph density. Our algorithms run in $poly(\log\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau