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We develop a framework for algorithms finding the diameter in graphs of bounded distance Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension, in (parameterized) subquadratic time complexity. The class of bounded distance VC-dimension graphs is wide, including,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lech Duraj , Filip Konieczny , Krzysztof Potępa

Graphs with bounded highway dimension were introduced by Abraham et al. [SODA 2010] as a model of transportation networks. We show that any such graph can be embedded into a distribution over bounded treewidth graphs with arbitrarily small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Wai Shing Fung , Jochen Könemann , Ian Post

One of the most basic techniques in algorithm design consists of breaking a problem into subproblems and then proceeding recursively. In the case of graph algorithms, one way to implement this approach is through separator sets. Given a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Benjamin Jauregui , Pedro Montealegre , Ivan Rapaport

The radius and diameter are fundamental graph parameters. They are defined as the minimum and maximum of the eccentricities in a graph, respectively, where the eccentricity of a vertex is the largest distance from the vertex to another…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Amir Abboud , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Joshua Wang

A $(\beta,\delta,\Delta)$-padded decomposition of an edge-weighted graph $G = (V,E,w)$ is a stochastic decomposition into clusters of diameter at most $\Delta$ such that for every vertex $v\in V$, the probability that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Arnold Filtser , Tobias Friedrich , Davis Issac , Nikhil Kumar , Hung Le , Nadym Mallek , Ziena Zeif

We consider the massively parallel computation (MPC) model, which is a theoretical abstraction of large-scale parallel processing models such as MapReduce. In this model, assuming the widely believed 1-vs-2-cycles conjecture, solving many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yi-Jun Chang , Da Wei Zheng

The diameter of a graph is one if its most important parameters, being used in many real-word applications. In particular, the diameter dictates how fast information can spread throughout data and communication networks. Thus, it is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Keerti Choudhary , Omer Gold

We study graph connectivity problem in MPC model. On an undirected graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, $O(\log n)$ round connectivity algorithms have been known for over 35 years. However, no algorithms with better complexity bounds were…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alexandr Andoni , Clifford Stein , Zhao Song , Zhengyu Wang , Peilin Zhong

Distributed optimization algorithms are frequently faced with solving sub-problems on disjoint connected parts of a network. Unfortunately, the diameter of these parts can be significantly larger than the diameter of the underlying network,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Bernhard Haeupler , Taisuke Izumi , Goran Zuzic

We describe a new sampling-based method to determine cuts in an undirected graph. For a graph (V, E), its cycle space is the family of all subsets of E that have even degree at each vertex. We prove that with high probability, sampling the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-22 David Pritchard , Ramakrishna Thurimella

This paper describes the adaptation of a well-scaling parallel algorithm for computing Morse-Smale segmentations based on path compression to a distributed computational setting. Additionally, we extend the algorithm to efficiently compute…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Michael Will , Jonas Lukasczyk , Julien Tierny , Christoph Garth

This paper presents near-optimal deterministic parallel and distributed algorithms for computing $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate single-source shortest paths in any undirected weighted graph. On a high level, we deterministically reduce this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Václav Rozhoň , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Goran Zuzic , Jason Li

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

We study fundamental graph parameters such as the Diameter and Radius in directed graphs, when distances are measured using a somewhat unorthodox but natural measure: the distance between $u$ and $v$ is the minimum of the shortest path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nikhil Vyas , Nicole Wein , Yinzhan Xu , Yuancheng Yu

We propose a new approach to graph compression by appeal to optimal transport. The transport problem is seeded with prior information about node importance, attributes, and edges in the graph. The transport formulation can be setup for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Vikas K. Garg , Tommi Jaakkola

It is known that any planar graph with diameter D has treewidth O(D), and this fact has been used as the basis for several planar graph algorithms. We investigate the extent to which similar relations hold in other graph families. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-21 David Eppstein

Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in distributed/parallel algorithms for processing large-scale graphs. By now, we have quite fast algorithms -- usually sublogarithmic-time and often $poly(\log\log n)$-time, or even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Michal Dory , Mohsen Ghaffari , Slobodan Mitrović , Yasamin Nazari

We define a special case of tree decompositions for planar graphs that respect a given embedding of the graph. We study the analogous width of the resulting decomposition we call the embedded-width of a plane graph. We show both upper…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Glencora Borradaile , Jeff Erickson , Hung Le , Robbie Weber

We show how to compute for $n$-vertex planar graphs in $O(n^{11/6}{\rm polylog}(n))$ expected time the diameter and the sum of the pairwise distances. The algorithms work for directed graphs with real weights and no negative cycles. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Sergio Cabello

Many problems are known to be solvable in subexponential parameterized time when the input graph is planar. The bidimensionality framework of Demaine, Fomin, Hajiaghay, and Thilikos [JACM'05] and the treewidth-pattern-covering approach by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach