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While it is well-known and acknowledged that the performance of graph algorithms is heavily dependent on the input data, there has been surprisingly little research to quantify and predict the impact the graph structure has on performance.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Merijn Verstraaten , Ana Lucia Varbanescu , Cees de Laat

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

We present a new efficient combinatorial algorithm for recognizing if a given symmetric matrix is Robinsonian, i.e., if its rows and columns can be simultaneously reordered so that entries are monotone nondecreasing in rows and columns when…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Monique Laurent , Matteo Seminaroti

In the big data era, graph computing is widely used to exploit the hidden value in real-world graphs in various scenarios such as social networks, knowledge graphs, web searching, and recommendation systems. However, the random memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zite Jiang , Tao Liu , Shuai Zhang , Zhen Guan , Mengting Yuan , Haihang You

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

Breadth-First Search (BFS) is a fundamental graph kernel that underpins a wide range of applications. While modern GPUs provide specialised Matrix-Multiply-Accumulate (MMA) units, e.g., Tensor Cores (TC), with extremely high throughput,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Deniz Elbek , Kamer Kaya

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

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

To solve many problems on graphs, graph traversals are used, the usual variants of which are the depth-first search and the breadth-first search. Implementing a graph traversal we consequently reach all vertices of the graph that belong to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-18 A. V. Prolubnikov

In this paper, we propose a depth-first search (DFS) algorithm for searching maximum matchings in general graphs. Unlike blossom shrinking algorithms, which store all possible alternative alternating paths in the super-vertices shrunk from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Tony T. Lee , Bojun Lu , Hanli Chu

Given a bipartite graph, the maximum balanced biclique (\textsf{MBB}) problem, discovering a mutually connected while equal-sized disjoint sets with the maximum cardinality, plays a significant role for mining the bipartite graph and has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Rui Zhou , Jiajie Xu , Jianxin Li

On a GPU cluster, the ratio of high computing power to communication bandwidth makes scaling breadth-first search (BFS) on a scale-free graph extremely challenging. By separating high and low out-degree vertices, we present an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Yuechao Pan , Roger Pearce , John D. Owens

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

This study develops a graph search algorithm to find the optimal discrimination path for the binary classification problem. The objective function is defined as the difference of variations between the true positive (TP) and false positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qinwu Xu

There are numerous NP-hard combinatorial problems which involve searching for an undirected graph satisfying a certain property. One way to solve such problems is to translate a problem into an instance of the boolean satisfiability (SAT)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Vyacheslav Moklev , Vladimir Ulyantsev

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

High-performance implementations of graph algorithms are challenging to implement on new parallel hardware such as GPUs because of three challenges: (1) the difficulty of coming up with graph building blocks, (2) load imbalance on parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Carl Yang , Aydin Buluc , John D. Owens

Search is a central problem in artificial intelligence, and breadth-first search (BFS) and depth-first search (DFS) are the two most fundamental ways to search. In this paper we derive estimates for average BFS and DFS runtime. The average…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Tom Everitt , Marcus Hutter

In 1999, Brodal and Fagerberg (BF) gave an algorithm for maintaining a low outdegree orientation of a dynamic uniformly sparse graph. Specifically, for a dynamic graph on $n$-vertices, with arboricity bounded by $\alpha$ at all times, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Haim Kaplan , Shay Solomon

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