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We study distributed algorithms built around minor-based vertex sparsifiers, and give the first algorithm in the CONGEST model for solving linear systems in graph Laplacian matrices to high accuracy. Our Laplacian solver has a round…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Xiaorui Sun , Mingquan Ye

We study the distributed minimum spanning tree (MST) problem, a fundamental problem in distributed computing. It is well-known that distributed MST can be solved in $\tilde{O}(D+\sqrt{n})$ rounds in the standard CONGEST model (where $n$ is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-20 John Augustine , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

We give a deterministic algorithm for computing a global minimum vertex cut in a vertex-weighted graph $n$ vertices and $m$ edges in $\widehat O(mn)$ time. This breaks the long-standing $\widehat \Omega(n^{4})$-time barrier in dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yonggang Jiang , Chaitanya Nalam , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

Given a simple weighted directed graph $G = (V, E, \omega)$ on $n$ vertices as well as two designated terminals $s, t\in V$, our goal is to compute the shortest path from $s$ to $t$ avoiding any pair of presumably failed edges $f_1, f_2\in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Shiri Chechik , Tianyi Zhang

We present a deterministic distributed algorithm that computes a $(2\Delta-1)$-edge-coloring, or even list-edge-coloring, in any $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, in $O(\log^7 \Delta \log n)$ rounds. This answers one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Manuela Fischer , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

Let $G=(V,E,w)$ be a weighted undirected graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and fix a set of $s$ sources $S\subseteq V$. We study the problem of computing {\em almost shortest paths} (ASP) for all pairs in $S \times V$ in both classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Michael Elkin , Yuval Gitlitz , Ofer Neiman

In the distributed setting, the only existing constructions of \textit{sparse skeletons}, (i.e., subgraphs with $O(n)$ edges) either use randomization or large messages, or require $\Omega(D)$ time, where $D$ is the hop-diameter of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Michael Elkin , Shaked Matar

The maximum independent set problem is a classic optimization problem that has also been studied quite intensively in the distributed setting. While the problem is hard to approximate in general, there are good approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Salwa Faour , Fabian Kuhn

Distributed network optimization algorithms, such as minimum spanning tree, minimum cut, and shortest path, are an active research area in distributed computing. This paper presents a fast distributed algorithm for such problems in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Bernhard Haeupler , Jason Li , Goran Zuzic

We give a deterministic algorithm for finding the minimum (weight) cut of an undirected graph on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges using $\text{polylog}(n)$ calls to any maximum flow subroutine. Using the current best deterministic maximum flow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

This paper presents parallel, distributed and quantum algorithms for single-source shortest paths when edges can have negative weights (negative-weight SSSP). We show a framework that reduces negative-weight SSSP in all these setting to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Nairen Cao , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Yonggang Jiang , Danupon Nanongkai , Hsin Hao Su

We give a simple deterministic constant-round algorithm in the congested clique model for reducing the number of edges in a graph to $n^{1+\varepsilon}$ while preserving the minimum spanning forest, where $\varepsilon > 0$ is any constant.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Janne H. Korhonen

We provide a simple new randomized contraction approach to the global minimum cut problem for simple undirected graphs. The contractions exploit 2-out edge sampling from each vertex rather than the standard uniform edge sampling. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mohsen Ghaffari , Krzysztof Nowicki , Mikkel Thorup

We investigate the \emph{minimum weight cycle (MWC)} problem in the $\mathsf{CONGEST}$ model of distributed computing. For undirected weighted graphs, we design a randomized algorithm that achieves a $(k+1)$-approximation, for any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yi-Jun Chang , Yanyu Chen , Dipan Dey , Yonggang Jiang , Gopinath Mishra , Hung Thuan Nguyen , Mingyang Yang

We revisit the classic problem of dynamically maintaining shortest paths between all pairs of nodes of a directed weighted graph. The allowed updates are insertions and deletions of nodes and their incident edges. We give worst-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ittai Abraham , Shiri Chechik , Sebastian Krinninger

We present improved deterministic distributed algorithms for a number of well-studied matching problems, which are simpler, faster, more accurate, and/or more general than their known counterparts. The common denominator of these results is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Manuela Fischer

We address the fundamental network design problem of constructing approximate minimum spanners. Our contributions are for the distributed setting, providing both algorithmic and hardness results. Our main hardness result shows that an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Keren Censor-Hillel , Michal Dory

The importance of classifying connections in large graphs has been the motivation for a rich line of work on distributed subgraph finding that has led to exciting recent breakthroughs. A crucial aspect that remained open was whether…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Keren Censor-Hillel , Dean Leitersdorf , David Vulakh

In the decremental Single-Source Shortest Path problem (SSSP), we are given a weighted directed graph $G=(V,E,w)$ undergoing edge deletions and a source vertex $r \in V$; let $n = |V|, m = |E|$ and $W$ be the aspect ratio of the graph. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We obtain the first near-linear time deterministic algorithm for negative-weight single-source shortest paths on integer-weighted graphs. Our main ingredient is a deterministic construction of a padded decomposition on directed graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jason Li