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Data-intensive, graph-based computations are pervasive in several scientific applications, and are known to to be quite challenging to implement on distributed memory systems. In this work, we explore the design space of parallel algorithms…
The Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm is the foundation and building block of many higher graph-based operations such as spanning trees, shortest paths and betweenness centrality. The importance of this algorithm increases each day due…
Breadth-first search (BFS) is a fundamental graph algorithm that presents significant challenges for parallel implementation due to irregular memory access patterns, load imbalance and synchronization overhead. In this paper, we introduce a…
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…
We present a work-efficient parallel level-synchronous Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm for shared-memory architectures which achieves the theoretical lower bound on parallel running time. The optimality holds regardless of the shape of…
To find a shortest path between two nodes $s_0$ and $s_1$ in a given graph, a classical approach is to start a Breadth-First Search (BFS) from $s_0$ and run it until the search discovers $s_1$. Alternatively, one can start two Breadth-First…
Breadth-first Search (BFS) is one of the most important graph processing subroutines, especially for computing the unweighted distance. Many applications may require running BFS from multiple sources. Sequentially, when running BFS on a…
Breadth-first search (BFS) is known as a basic search strategy for learning graph properties. As the scales of graph databases have increased tremendously in recent years, large-scale graphs G are often disk-resident. Obtaining the BFS…
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…
The GraphBLAS community has demonstrated the power of linear algebra-leveraged graph algorithms, such as matrix-vector products for breadth-first search (BFS) traversals. This paper investigates the algebraic conditions needed for such…
Graphs and their traversal is becoming significant as it is applicable to various areas of mathematics, science and technology. Various problems in fields as varied as biochemistry (genomics), electrical engineering (communication…
Breadth-First Search (BFS) is a building block used in a wide array of graph analytics and is used in various network analysis domains: social, road, transportation, communication, and much more. Over the last two decades, network sizes…
The Breadth-First Search (BFS) algorithm is an important building block for graph analysis of large datasets. The BFS parallelisation has been shown to be challenging because of its inherent characteristics, including irregular memory…
Graph searching is one of the simplest and most widely used tools in graph algorithms. Every graph search method is defined using some particular selection rule, and the analysis of the corresponding vertex orderings can aid greatly in…
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…
Evolving graphs arise in problems where interrelations between data change over time. We present a breadth first search (BFS) algorithm for evolving graphs that computes the most direct influences between nodes at two different times. Using…
Non-convex sparse minimization (NSM), or $\ell_0$-constrained minimization of convex loss functions, is an important optimization problem that has many machine learning applications. NSM is generally NP-hard, and so to exactly solve NSM is…
We design and develop a work-efficient multithreaded algorithm for sparse matrix-sparse vector multiplication (SpMSpV) where the matrix, the input vector, and the output vector are all sparse. SpMSpV is an important primitive in the…
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…
The BFS algorithm is a basic graph data processing algorithm and many other graph data processing algorithms have similar architectural features with BFS algorithm and can be built on the basis of BFS algorithm model. We analyze the…