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The network coding problem asks whether data throughput in a network can be increased using coding (compared to treating bits as commodities in a flow). While it is well-known that a network coding advantage exists in directed graphs, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Mark Braverman , Zhongtian He

In the dynamic Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ subject to edge insertions and deletions and a source vertex $s\in V$, and the goal is to maintain the distance $d(s,t)$ for all $t\in V$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory sublinear in the input size. This model poses significant challenges for constructing long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Christian Konrad , Chhaya Trehan

In this paper, we consider the question of computing sparse subgraphs for any input directed graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, that preserves reachability and/or strong connectivity structures. We show $O(n+\min\{|{\cal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Diptarka Chakraborty , Keerti Choudhary

Given an $n$-vertex $m$-edge digraph $G = (V,E)$ and a subset $S \subseteq V$ of $|S| = n^{\sigma}$ (for some $0 \le \sigma \le 1$) designated sources, the $S \times V$ reachability problem is to compute the sets $\mathcal V_s$ of vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michael Elkin , Chhaya Trehan

We study SINGLE-SOURCE SHORTEST PATH (SSSP) on unweighted intersection graphs whose node set corresponds to a set of $n$ constant-complexity objects in the plane. We prove SSSP can be solved in $O(U(n)\ \mathrm{polylog}\,n)$ expected time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mark de Berg , Bart M. P. Jansen , Jeroen S. K. Lamme

In this paper, we study the distributed sketching complexity of connectivity. In distributed graph sketching, an $n$-node graph $G$ is distributed to $n$ players such that each player sees the neighborhood of one vertex. The players then…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Huacheng Yu

The problem of detecting network structures plays a central role in distributed computing. One of the fundamental problems studied in this area is to determine whether for a given graph $H$, the input network contains a subgraph isomorphic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Artur Czumaj , Christian Konrad

We present near-optimal algorithms for detecting small vertex cuts in the CONGEST model of distributed computing. Despite extensive research in this area, our understanding of the vertex connectivity of a graph is still incomplete,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Merav Parter , Asaf Petruschka

We consider the Shortest Odd Path problem, where given an undirected graph $G$, a weight function on its edges, and two vertices $s$ and $t$ in $G$, the aim is to find an $(s,t)$-path with odd length and, among all such paths, of minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Alpár Jüttner , Csaba Király , Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , Gyula Pap , Ildikó Schlotter , Yutaro Yamaguchi

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

One of the most fundamental problems in computer science is the reachability problem: Given a directed graph and two vertices s and t, can s reach t via a path? We revisit existing techniques and combine them with new approaches to support…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kathrin Hanauer , Christian Schulz , Jonathan Trummer

We present a randomized distributed algorithm that in radio networks with collision detection broadcasts a single message in $O(D + \log^6 n)$ rounds, with high probability. This time complexity is most interesting because of its optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Mohsen Ghaffari , Bernhard Haeupler , Majid Khabbazian

We prove that any two-pass graph streaming algorithm for the $s$-$t$ reachability problem in $n$-vertex directed graphs requires near-quadratic space of $n^{2-o(1)}$ bits. As a corollary, we also obtain near-quadratic space lower bounds for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Sepehr Assadi , Ran Raz

The task of the broadcast problem is, given a graph G and a source vertex s, to compute the minimum number of rounds required to disseminate a piece of information from s to all vertices in the graph. It is assumed that, at each round, an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Pierre Fraigniaud , Petr A. Golovach

We present an algorithm for distributed networks to efficiently find a small vertex cut in the CONGEST model. Given a positive integer $\kappa$, our algorithm can, with high probability, either find $\kappa$ vertices whose removal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yonggang Jiang , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay

Computing a shortest path between two nodes in an undirected unweighted graph is among the most basic algorithmic tasks. Breadth first search solves this problem in linear time, which is clearly also a lower bound in the worst case.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Noga Alon , Allan Grønlund , Søren Fuglede Jørgensen , Kasper Green Larsen

Let $P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a set of $n$ points in $d$ dimensions such that each point $p \in P$ has an associated radius $r_p > 0$. The transmission graph $G$ for $P$ is the directed graph with vertex set $P$ such that there is an edge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Haim Kaplan , Wolfgang Mulzer , Liam Roditty , Paul Seiferth

We give new, improved bounds for approximating the sparsest cut value or in other words the conductance $\phi$ of a graph in the CONGEST model. As our main result, we present an algorithm running in $O(\log^2 n/\phi)$ rounds in which every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yannic Maus , Tijn de Vos

In dynamic graphs, edges may be added or deleted in each synchronous round. Various connectivity models exist based on constraints on these changes. One well-known model is the $T$-Interval Connectivity model, where the graph remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ashish Saxena , Kaushik Mondal