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There has been a rise in the popularity of algebraic methods for graph algorithms given the development of the GraphBLAS library and other sparse matrix methods. An exemplar for these approaches is Breadth-First Search (BFS). The algebraic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Paul Burkhardt

Breadth First Search (BFS) is a building block for graph algorithms and has recently been used for large scale analysis of information in a variety of applications including social networks, graph databases and web searching. Due to its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Mireya Paredes , Graham Riley , Mikel Lujan

The Maximum (Minimum) Leaf Spanning Tree problem asks for a spanning tree with the largest (smallest) number of leaves. As spanning trees are often computed using graph search algorithms, it is natural to restrict this problem to the set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jesse Beisegel , Ekkehard Köhler , Robert Scheffler , Martin Strehler

Vectorization and GPUs will profoundly change graph processing. Traditional graph algorithms tuned for 32- or 64-bit based memory accesses will be inefficient on architectures with 512-bit wide (or larger) instruction units that are already…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Maciej Besta , Florian Marending , Edgar Solomonik , Torsten Hoefler

This chapter studies the problem of traversing large graphs using the breadth-first search order on distributed-memory supercomputers. We consider both the traditional level-synchronous top-down algorithm as well as the recently discovered…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Aydin Buluc , Scott Beamer , Kamesh Madduri , Krste Asanovic , David Patterson

For the past two decades, the DB community has devoted substantial research to take advantage of cheap clusters of machines for distributed data analytics -- we believe that we are at the beginning of a paradigm shift. The scaling laws and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Bowen Wu , Wei Cui , Carlo Curino , Matteo Interlandi , Rathijit Sen

It is well-known since the seventies of last century that Depth First Search (DFS) can be used to compute strongly connected components [RE. Tarjan. SIAM Journal on Computing, 1972] and Breadth First Search (BFS) can be used to compute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Binh-Minh Bui-Xuan , Michel Habib , Fabien de Montgolfier , Renaud Torfs

In this paper we show how graph structure can be used to drastically reduce the computational bottleneck of the Breadth First Search algorithm (the foundation of many graph traversal techniques). In particular, we address parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Damien Fay

Although Breadth-First Search (BFS) has several advantages over Depth-First Search (DFS) its prohibitive space requirements have meant that algorithm designers often pass it over in favor of DFS. To address this shortcoming, we introduce a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Srinivas Nedunuri , William R. Cook , Douglas R. Smith

Breadth First Search (BFS) is a widely used approach for sampling large unknown Internet topologies. Its main advantage over random walks and other exploration techniques is that a BFS sample is a plausible graph on its own, and therefore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Maciej Kurant , Athina Markopoulou , Patrick Thiran

In a general graph data structure like an adjacency matrix, when edges are homogeneous, the connectivity of two nodes can be sufficiently represented using a single bit. This insight has, however, not yet been adequately exploited by the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jou-An Chen , Hsin-Hsuan Sung , Xipeng Shen , Nathan Tallent , Kevin Barker , Ang Li

We factor Beamer's push-pull, also known as direction-optimized breadth-first-search (DOBFS) into 3 separable optimizations, and analyze them for generalizability, asymptotic speedup, and contribution to overall speedup. We demonstrate that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Carl Yang , Aydin Buluc , John D. Owens

Probabilistic breadth-first traversals (BPTs) are used in many network science and graph machine learning applications. In this paper, we are motivated by the application of BPTs in stochastic diffusion-based graph problems such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Reece Neff , Mostafa Eghbali Zarch , Marco Minutoli , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Antonino Tumeo , Ananth Kalyanaraman , Michela Becchi

Breadth First Search (BFS) and other graph traversal techniques are widely used for measuring large unknown graphs, such as online social networks. It has been empirically observed that an incomplete BFS is biased toward high degree nodes.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Maciej Kurant , Athina Markopoulou , Patrick Thiran

Not only with the large host memory for supporting large scale graph processing, GPU-accelerated heterogeneous architecture can also provide a great potential for high-performance computing. However, few existing heterogeneous systems can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Xianliang Li

This note recapitulates an algorithmic observation for ordered Depth-First Search (DFS) in directed graphs that immediately leads to a parallel algorithm with linear speed-up for a range of processors for non-sparse graphs. The note extends…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Jesper Larsson Träff

Rooted spanning trees (RSTs) are a core primitive in parallel graph analytics, underpinning algorithms such as biconnected components and planarity testing. On GPUs, RST construction has traditionally relied on breadth-first search (BFS)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Abhijeet Sahu , Srikar Vilas Donur

Scaling up Large Language Model(LLM) training involves fitting a tremendous amount of training parameters across a limited number of workers. However, methods like ZeRO-3 that drastically reduce GPU memory pressure often incur heavy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Lang Xu , Quentin Anthony , Jacob Hatef , Aamir Shafi , Hari Subramoni , Dhabaleswar K. , Panda

We present an efficient distributed memory parallel algorithm for computing connected components in undirected graphs based on Shiloach-Vishkin's PRAM approach. We discuss multiple optimization techniques that reduce communication volume as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Chirag Jain , Patrick Flick , Tony Pan , Oded Green , Srinivas Aluru

We provide the first non-trivial result on dynamic breadth-first search (BFS) in external-memory: For general sparse undirected graphs of initially $n$ nodes and O(n) edges and monotone update sequences of either $\Theta(n)$ edge insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Ulrich Meyer