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We present a deterministic distributed algorithm in the LOCAL model that finds a proper $(\Delta + 1)$-edge-coloring of an $n$-vertex graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ in $\mathrm{poly}(\Delta, \log n)$ rounds. This is the first nontrivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Anton Bernshteyn

We show that, for every $k \ge 2$, every $k$-uniform hypergaph of degree $\Delta$ and girth at least $5$ is efficiently $(1+o(1) )(k-1) (\Delta / \ln \Delta )^{ 1/(k-1) } $-list colorable. As an application (and to the best of our…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Fotis Iliopoulos

The acyclic chromatic number of a graph is the least number of colors needed to properly color its vertices so that none of its cycles has only two colors. We show that for all $\alpha>2^{-1/3}$ there exists an integer $\Delta_{\alpha}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos

We revisit asynchronous computing in networks of crash-prone processes, under the asynchronous variant of the standard LOCAL model, recently introduced by Fraigniaud et al. [DISC 2022]. We focus on the vertex coloring problem, and our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Alkida Balliu , Pierre Fraigniaud , Patrick Lambein-Monette , Dennis Olivetti , Mikael Rabie

Differential Privacy is the gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. This paper addresses the challenge of producing a differentially edge-private vertex coloring. In this paper, we present two novel algorithms to approach this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michael Xie , Jiayi Wu , Dung Nguyen , Aravind Srinivasan

Vizing's theorem states that any graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be properly edge colored with at most $\Delta+1$ colors. In the online setting, it has been a matter of interest to find an algorithm that can properly edge color any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Aditi Dudeja , Rashmika Goswami , Michael Saks

Irregular computations on unstructured data are an important class of problems for parallel programming. Graph coloring is often an important preprocessing step, e.g. as a way to perform dependency analysis for safe parallel execution. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Georgios Rokos , Gerard Gorman , Paul H J Kelly

We obtain the following new coloring results: * A 3-colorable graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree~$\Delta$ can be colored, in polynomial time, using $O((\Delta \log\Delta)^{1/3} \cdot\log{n})$ colors. This slightly improves an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Eran Halperin , Ram Nathaniel , Uri Zwick

We consider the problem of coloring a 3-colorable graph in polynomial time using as few colors as possible. This is one of the most challenging problems in graph algorithms. In this paper using Blum's notion of ``progress'', we develop a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Mikkel Thorup , Hirotaka Yoneda

The distributed coloring problem is arguably one of the key problems studied in the area of distributed graph algorithms. The most standard variant of the problem asks for a proper vertex coloring of a graph with $\Delta+1$ colors, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Marc Fuchs , Fabian Kuhn

The notion of $S$-labeling of graphs, where $S$ is a subset of a symmetric group, was introduced in 2019 by Jin, Wong, and Zhu. This notion provides the framework for a common generalization of various well studied notions of graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Samantha L. Dahlberg , Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock

A $k$-coloring of a graph is an assignment of integers between $1$ and $k$ to vertices in the graph such that the endpoints of each edge receive different numbers. We study a local variation of the coloring problem, which imposes further…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Jie You , Yixin Cao , Jianxin Wang

Coloring a graph $G$ consists in finding an assignment of colors $c: V(G)\to\{1,\ldots,p\}$ such that any pair of adjacent vertices receives different colors. The minimum integer $p$ such that a coloring exists is called the chromatic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Théo Pierron

Consider the following simple coloring algorithm for a graph on $n$ vertices. Each vertex chooses a color from $\{1, \dotsc, \Delta(G) + 1\}$ uniformly at random. While there exists a conflicted vertex choose one such vertex uniformly at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Daniel Bertschinger , Johannes Lengler , Anders Martinsson , Robert Meier , Angelika Steger , Miloš Trujić , Emo Welzl

The complexity of distributed edge coloring depends heavily on the palette size as a function of the maximum degree $\Delta$. In this paper we explore the complexity of edge coloring in the LOCAL model in different palette size regimes. 1.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Yi-Jun Chang , Qizheng He , Wenzheng Li , Seth Pettie , Jara Uitto

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

In 1970 Hajnal and Szemer\'edi proved a conjecture of Erd\"os that for a graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, there exists an equitable $\Delta+1$ coloring; that is a coloring where color class sizes differ by at most $1$. In 2007 Kierstand…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Aiya Kuchukova , Will Perkins , Xavier Povill

The problem of efficiently coloring $3$-colorable graphs with few colors has received much attention on both the algorithmic and inapproximability fronts. We consider exponential time approximations, in which given a parameter $r$, we aim…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Venkatesan Guruswami , Rhea Jain

We give a randomized $\Delta$-coloring algorithm in the LOCAL model that runs in $\text{poly} \log \log n$ rounds, where $n$ is the number of nodes of the input graph and $\Delta$ is its maximum degree. This means that randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Manuela Fischer , Yannic Maus , Magnús M. Halldórsson

We study distributed algorithms that find a maximal matching in an anonymous, edge-coloured graph. If the edges are properly coloured with $k$ colours, there is a trivial greedy algorithm that finds a maximal matching in $k-1$ synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Juho Hirvonen , Jukka Suomela