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The classic lower bound of Kuhn, Moscibroda and Wattenhofer [JACM 2016] states that approximate maximum matching and approximate vertex cover (among other problems) in the LOCAL model require $\Omega(\min\{\sqrt{\frac{\log n}{\log\log n}},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Peter Davies-Peck

We bound the performance guarantees that follow from Tur\'an-like bounds for unweighted and weighted independent sets in bounded-degree graphs. In particular, a randomized approach of Boppana forms a simple 1-round distributed algorithm, as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Ravi B. Boppana , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Dror Rawitz

In this paper, we propose a randomized $\tilde{O}(\mu(G))$-round algorithm for the maximum cardinality matching problem in the CONGEST model, where $\mu(G)$ means the maximum size of a matching of the input graph $G$. The proposed algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Taisuke Izumi , Naoki Kitamura , Yutaro Yamaguchi

Symmetry breaking problems are among the most well studied in the field of distributed computing and yet the most fundamental questions about their complexity remain open. In this paper we work in the LOCAL model (where the input graph and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin , Seth Pettie , Johannes Schneider

We consider the problem of computing a maximal independent set (MIS) in an extremely harsh broadcast model that relies only on carrier sensing. The model consists of an anonymous broadcast network in which nodes have no knowledge about the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Yehuda Afek , Noga Alon , Ziv Bar-Joseph , Alejandro Cornejo , Bernhard Haeupler , Fabian Kuhn

In the Independent Set Reconfiguration problem under the Token Addition/Removal rule, given a graph $G$ and two independent sets $I$ and $J$ of $G$, we want to transform $I$ into $J$ by adding and removing vertices, such that all the sets…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Hung P. Hoang , Naoto Ohsaka , Rin Saito , Yuma Tamura

In this paper, we develop efficient exact and approximate algorithms for computing a maximum independent set in random graphs. In a random graph $G$, each pair of vertices are joined by an edge with a probability $p$, where $p$ is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Yinglei Song

We describe a simple deterministic $O( \varepsilon^{-1} \log \Delta)$ round distributed algorithm for $(2\alpha+1)(1 + \varepsilon)$ approximation of minimum weighted dominating set on graphs with arboricity at most $\alpha$. Here $\Delta$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Michal Dory , Mohsen Ghaffari , Saeed Ilchi

We consider the classic maximal and maximum independent set problems in three models of graph streams: In the edge-arrival model we see a stream of edges which collectively define a graph, this model has been well-studied for a variety of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Graham Cormode , Jacques Dark , Christian Konrad

Partial Maximum Satisfiability (PMS) and Weighted Partial Maximum Satisfiability (WPMS) generalize Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT), with broad real-world applications. Recent advances in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) algorithms for solving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Menghua Jiang , Haokai Gao , Shuhao Chen , Yin Chen

In algorithmic graph theory, a classic open question is to determine the complexity of the Maximum Independent Set problem on $P_t$-free graphs, that is, on graphs not containing any induced path on $t$ vertices. So far, polynomial-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Gábor Bacsó , Daniel Lokshtanov , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Zsolt Tuza , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The maximum independent set (MIS) problem of graph theory using the quantum alternating operator ansatz is studied. We perform simulations on the Rigetti Forest simulator for the square ring, $K_{2,3}$, and $K_{3,3}$ graphs and analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Zain H. Saleem

We provide a tight analysis which settles the round complexity of the well-studied parallel randomized greedy MIS algorithm, thus answering the main open question of Blelloch, Fineman, and Shun [SPAA'12]. The parallel/distributed randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Manuela Fischer , Andreas Noever

We propose improved exact and heuristic algorithms for solving the maximum weight clique problem, a well-known problem in graph theory with many applications. Our algorithms interleave successful techniques from related work with novel data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Roman Erhardt , Kathrin Hanauer , Nils Kriege , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

We study the Maximum Independent Set problem for geometric objects given in the data stream model. A set of geometric objects is said to be independent if the objects are pairwise disjoint. We consider geometric objects in one and two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Ainesh Bakshi , Nadiia Chepurko , David P. Woodruff

We give deterministic distributed $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for Minimum Vertex Coloring and Maximum Independent Set on chordal graphs in the LOCAL model. Our coloring algorithm runs in $O(\frac{1}{\epsilon} \log n)$ rounds,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Christian Konrad , Viktor Zamaraev

We present fully dynamic approximation algorithms for the Maximum Independent Set problem on several types of geometric objects: intervals on the real line, arbitrary axis-aligned squares in the plane and axis-aligned $d$-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Sujoy Bhore , Jean Cardinal , John Iacono , Grigorios Koumoutsos

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

A graph $G$ with $n$ vertices is called an outerstring graph if it has an intersection representation of a set of $n$ curves inside a disk such that one endpoint of every curve is attached to the boundary of the disk. Given an outerstring…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi , J. Mark Keil , Anil Maheshwari , Saeed Mehrabi , Debajyoti Mondal , Michiel Smid

Maximal Independent Set (MIS) in a graph is a fundamental problem with applications in resource allocation, scheduling, and network optimization. Although graphs are inherently un-structured and challenging for GPU parallelism due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Prajjwal Nijhara , Dip Sankar Banerjee