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In this work, we provide faster algorithms for approximating the optimal transport distance, e.g. earth mover's distance, between two discrete probability distributions $\mu, \nu \in \Delta^n$. Given a cost function $C : [n] \times [n] \to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jose Blanchet , Arun Jambulapati , Carson Kent , Aaron Sidford

Scheduling is an important task allowing parallel systems to perform efficiently and reliably. For modern computation systems, divisible load is a special type of data which can be divided into arbitrary sizes and independently processed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Fei Wu , Yang Cao , Thomas Robertazzi

Computing shortest paths is one of the central problems in the theory of distributed computing. For the last few years, substantial progress has been made on the approximate single source shortest paths problem, culminating in an algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jason Li

Assigning jobs onto identical machines with the objective to minimize the maximal load is one of the most basic problems in combinatorial optimization. Motivated by product planing and data placement, we study a natural extension called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Klaus Jansen , Alexandra Lassota , Marten Maack

We consider the problem of routing packets across a multi-hop network consisting of multiple sources of traffic and wireless links while ensuring bounded expected delay. Each packet transmission can be overheard by a random subset of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-07 Abhijeet Bhorkar , Mohammad Naghshwar , Tara Javidi

Several organizations have built multiple datacenters connected via dedicated wide area networks over which large inter-datacenter transfers take place. This includes tremendous volumes of bulk multicast traffic generated as a result of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Mohammad Noormohammadpour , Cauligi S. Raghavendra , Srikanth Kandula , Sriram Rao

We give optimally fast $O(\log p)$ time (per processor) algorithms for computing round-optimal broadcast schedules for message-passing parallel computing systems. This affirmatively answers the questions posed in Tr\"aff (2022). The problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jesper Larsson Träff

We present a near-optimal distributed algorithm for $(1+o(1))$-approximation of single-commodity maximum flow in undirected weighted networks that runs in $(D+ \sqrt{n})\cdot n^{o(1)}$ communication rounds in the \Congest model. Here, $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Mohsen Ghaffari , Andreas Karrenbauer , Fabian Kuhn , Christoph Lenzen , Boaz Patt-Shamir

Coflow provides a key application-layer abstraction for capturing communication patterns, enabling the efficient coordination of parallel data flows to reduce job completion times in distributed systems. Modern data center networks (DCNs)…

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The traditional multi-commodity flow problem assumes a given flow network in which multiple commodities are to be maximally routed in response to given demands. This paper considers the multi-commodity flow network-design problem: given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Samir Khuller , Balaji Raghavachari , Neal E. Young

We study realizable continual linear regression under random task orderings, a common setting for developing continual learning theory. In this setup, the worst-case expected loss after $k$ learning iterations admits a lower bound of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ran Levinstein , Amit Attia , Matan Schliserman , Uri Sherman , Tomer Koren , Daniel Soudry , Itay Evron

We consider the fundamental problem of multiple stations competing to transmit on a multiple access channel (MAC). We are given $n$ stations out of which at most $d$ are active and intend to transmit a message to other stations using MAC.…

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The capacity of caching networks has received considerable attention in the past few years. A particularly studied setting is the shared link caching network, in which a single source with access to a file library communicates with multiple…

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We consider the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex tree with one shortcut in order to minimize the diameter of the resulting graph. The tree is embedded in an unknown space and we have access to an oracle that, when queried on a pair of…

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We consider several problems related to packing forests in graphs. The first one is to find $k$ edge-disjoint forests in a directed graph $G$ of maximal size such that the indegree of each vertex in these forests is at most $k$. We describe…

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Consider the many shared resource scheduling problem where jobs have to be scheduled on identical parallel machines with the goal of minimizing the makespan. However, each job needs exactly one additional shared resource in order to be…

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This paper studies the delay constrained multicast capacity of large scale mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). We consider a MANET consists of $n_s$ multicast sessions. Each multicast session has one source and $p$ destinations. The wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-17 Shan Zhou , Lei Ying

We give optimally fast $O(\log p)$ time (per processor) algorithms for computing round-optimal broadcast schedules for message-passing parallel computing systems. This affirmatively answers difficult questions posed in a SPAA 2022 BA and a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jesper Larsson Träff

Coded multicasting has been shown to improve the caching performance of content delivery networks with multiple caches downstream of a common multicast link. However, the schemes that have been shown to achieve order-optimal perfor- mance…

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Distributed graph algorithms that separately optimize for either the number of rounds used or the total number of messages sent have been studied extensively. However, algorithms simultaneously efficient with respect to both measures have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Bernhard Haeupler , D. Ellis Hershkowitz , David Wajc