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Recent breakthroughs in graph streaming have led to the design of single-pass semi-streaming algorithms for various graph coloring problems such as $(\Delta+1)$-coloring, degeneracy-coloring, coloring triangle-free graphs, and others. These…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sepehr Assadi , Andrew Chen , Glenn Sun

Understanding the role of randomness when solving locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems in the LOCAL model has been one of the top priorities in the research on distributed graph algorithms in recent years. For LCL problems in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Zahra Parsaeian

Brooks' theorem states that all connected graphs but odd cycles and cliques can be colored with $\Delta$ colors, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the graph. Such colorings have been shown to admit non-trivial distributed algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yann Bourreau , Sebastian Brandt , Alexandre Nolin

Vizing showed that it suffices to color the edges of a simple graph using $\Delta + 1$ colors, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the graph. However, up to this date, no efficient distributed edge-coloring algorithms are known for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hsin-Hao Su , Hoa T. Vu

In this paper we consider coloring problems on graphs and other combinatorial structures on standard Borel spaces. Our goal is to obtain sufficient conditions under which such colorings can be made well-behaved in the sense of topology or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Anton Bernshteyn

The $\Delta$-vertex coloring problem has become one of the prototypical problems for understanding the complexity of local distributed graph problems on constant-degree graphs. The major open problem is whether the problem can be solved…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Manuel Jakob , Yannic Maus

We provide new deterministic algorithms for the edge coloring problem, which is one of the classic and highly studied distributed local symmetry breaking problems. As our main result, we show that a $(2\Delta-1)$-edge coloring can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti

Fundamental local symmetry breaking problems such as Maximal Independent Set (MIS) and coloring have been recognized as important by the community, and studied extensively in (standard) graphs. In particular, fast (i.e., logarithmic run…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Shay Kutten , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson

Locally finding a solution to symmetry-breaking tasks such as vertex-coloring, edge-coloring, maximal matching, maximal independent set, etc., is a long-standing challenge in distributed network computing. More recently, it has also become…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Pierre Fraigniaud , Marc Heinrich , Adrian Kosowski

We settle the complexity of the $(\Delta+1)$-coloring and $(\Delta+1)$-list coloring problems in the CONGESTED CLIQUE model by presenting a simple deterministic algorithm for both problems running in a constant number of rounds. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies , Merav Parter

We consider the distributed message-passing {LOCAL} model. In this model a communication network is represented by a graph where vertices host processors, and communication is performed over the edges. Computation proceeds in synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Leonid Barenboim

We consider two models of computation: centralized local algorithms and local distributed algorithms. Algorithms in one model are adapted to the other model to obtain improved algorithms. Distributed vertex coloring is employed to design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Guy Even , Moti Medina , Dana Ron

We solve, in a fully decentralised way (\ie with no message passing), the classic problem of colouring a graph. We propose a novel algorithm that is automatically responsive to topology changes, and we prove that it converges quickly to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Alessandro Checco , Douglas J. Leith

As the main contribution of this work we present deterministic edge coloring algorithms in the CONGEST model. In particular, we present an algorithm that edge colors any $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ with with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Joakim Blikstad , Yannic Maus , Tijn de Vos

We show that the $(degree+1)$-list coloring problem can be solved deterministically in $O(D \cdot \log n \cdot\log^2\Delta)$ rounds in the \CONGEST model, where $D$ is the diameter of the graph, $n$ the number of nodes, and $\Delta$ the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Philipp Bamberger , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus

We consider the problem of coloring graphs of maximum degree $\Delta$ with $\Delta$ colors in the distributed setting with limited bandwidth. Specifically, we give a $\mathsf{poly}\log\log n$-round randomized algorithm in the CONGEST model.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Yannic Maus , Magnús M. Halldórsson

Recently, \citeauthor*{akbari2021locality}~(ICALP 2023) studied the locality of graph problems in distributed, sequential, dynamic, and online settings from a {unified} point of view. They designed a novel $O(\log n)$-locality deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yi-Jun Chang , Gopinath Mishra , Hung Thuan Nguyen , Mingyang Yang , Yu-Cheng Yeh

We describe approximation algorithms in Linial's classic LOCAL model of distributed computing to find maximum-weight matchings in a hypergraph of rank $r$. Our main result is a deterministic algorithm to generate a matching which is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

In the past few years, a successful line of research has lead to lower bounds for several fundamental local graph problems in the distributed setting. These results were obtained via a technique called round elimination. On a high level,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Joonatan Saarhelo

Graph coloring problems are among the most fundamental problems in parallel and distributed computing, and have been studied extensively in both settings. In this context, designing efficient deterministic algorithms for these problems has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies , Gopinath Mishra