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We consider a special case of the generalized minimum spanning tree problem (GMST) and the generalized travelling salesman problem (GTSP) where we are given a set of points inside the integer grid (in Euclidean plane) where each grid cell…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Binay Bhattacharya , Ante Ćustić , Akbar Rafiey , Arash Rafiey , Vladyslav Sokol

Building a spanning tree, minimum spanning tree (MST), and BFS tree in a distributed network are fundamental problems which are still not fully understood in terms of time and communication cost. x The first work to succeed in computing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Ali Mashreghi , Valerie King

In this paper we develop optimal algorithms in the binary-forking model for a variety of fundamental problems, including sorting, semisorting, list ranking, tree contraction, range minima, and ordered set union, intersection and difference.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Guy E. Blelloch , Jeremy T. Fineman , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

Computing the Euclidean minimum spanning tree (EMST) is a computationally demanding step of many algorithms. While work-efficient serial and multithreaded algorithms for computing EMST are known, designing an efficient GPU algorithm is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Andrey Prokopenko , Piyush Sao , Damien Lebrun-Grandié

The approximate minimum degree algorithm is widely used before numerical factorization to reduce fill-in for sparse matrices. While considerable attention has been given to the numerical factorization process, less focus has been placed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yen-Hsiang Chang , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

This paper investigates the execution of tree-shaped task graphs using multiple processors. Each edge of such a tree represents some large data. A task can only be executed if all input and output data fit into memory, and a data can only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Loris Marchal , Oliver Sinnen , Frédéric Vivien

This paper considers the \textit{minimum spanning tree (MST)} problem in the Congested Clique model and presents an algorithm that runs in $O(\log \log \log n)$ rounds, with high probability. Prior to this, the fastest MST algorithm in this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Vivek B. Sardeshmukh

We present Fast Approximate Minimum Spanning Tree (FAMST), a novel algorithm that addresses the computational challenges of constructing Minimum Spanning Trees (MSTs) for large-scale and high-dimensional datasets. FAMST utilizes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mahmood K. M. Almansoori , Miklos Telek

This paper makes two main contributions: The first is the construction of a near-minimum spanning tree with constant average distortion. The second is a general equivalence theorem relating two refined notions of distortion: scaling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Yair Bartal , Arnold Filtser , Ofer Neiman

Recent years have witnessed a surge of biological interest in the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem for its relevance to automatic model construction using the distances between data points. Despite the increasing use of MST algorithms…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-02 Momoko Hayamizu , Hiroshi Endo , Kenji Fukumizu

We consider the design of sublinear space and query complexity algorithms for estimating the cost of a minimum spanning tree (MST) and the cost of a minimum traveling salesman (TSP) tour in a metric on $n$ points. We first consider the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Zihan Tan

Subgraph matching is a basic operation widely used in many applications. However, due to its NP-hardness and the explosive growth of graph data, it is challenging to compute subgraph matching, especially in large graphs. In this paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xin Jin , Zhengyi Yang , Xuemin Lin , Shiyu Yang , Lu Qin , You Peng

For a set of red and blue points in the plane, a minimum bichromatic spanning tree (MinBST) is a shortest spanning tree of the points such that every edge has a red and a blue endpoint. A MinBST can be computed in $O(n\log n)$ time where…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Hugo A. Akitaya , Ahmad Biniaz , Erik D. Demaine , Linda Kleist , Frederick Stock , Csaba D. Tóth

We parallelize several previously proposed algorithms for the minimum routing cost spanning tree problem and some related problems.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-04 Ching-Lueh Chang , Yuh-Dauh Lyuu

Finding the minimum spanning tree (MST) of a graph is an important task in computer vision, as it enables a sparse and low-cost representation of connectivity among elements (such as superpixels, points, or regions), which is useful for…

We develop fast approximation algorithms for the minimum-cost version of the Bounded-Degree MST problem (BD-MST) and its generalization the Crossing Spanning Tree problem (Crossing-ST). We solve the underlying LP to within a $(1+\epsilon)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud , Manuel R. Torres

In the Priority Steiner Tree (PST) problem, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with a source $s \in V$ and terminals $T \subseteq V \setminus \{s\}$, where each terminal $v \in T$ requires a nonnegative priority $P(v)$. The goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Stephen Kobourov , Richard Spence

Over the last two decades, frameworks for distributed-memory parallel computation, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark and Dryad, have gained significant popularity with the growing prevalence of large network datasets. The Massively Parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Quanquan C. Liu , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

The Multiobjective Minimum Spanning Tree (MO-MST) problem is a variant of the Minimum Spanning Tree problem, in which the costs associated with every edge of the input graph are vectors. In this paper, we design a new dynamic programming…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Pedro Maristany de las Casas , Antonio Sedeño-Noda , Ralf Borndörfer

In the context of algorithm theory, various studies have been conducted on spanning trees with desirable properties. In this paper, we consider the \textsc{Minimum Cover Spanning Tree} problem (MCST for short). Given a graph $G$ and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Toranosuke Kokai , Akira Suzuki , Takahiro Suzuki , Yuma Tamura , Xiao Zhou