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We study the complexity of fundamental distributed graph problems in the recently popular setting where information about the input graph is available to the nodes before the start of the computation. We focus on the most common such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Alkida Balliu , Thomas Boudier , Sebastian Brandt , Dennis Olivetti

In this paper, we study edit distance (ED) and longest common subsequence (LCS) in the asymmetric streaming model, introduced by Saks and Seshadhri [SS13]. As an intermediate model between the random access model and the streaming model,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xin Li , Yu Zheng

The Gap-Hamming-Distance problem arose in the context of proving space lower bounds for a number of key problems in the data stream model. In this problem, Alice and Bob have to decide whether the Hamming distance between their $n$-bit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Joshua Brody , Amit Chakrabarti

We continue the study of the communication complexity of gap cycle counting problems. These problems have been introduced by Verbin and Yu [SODA 2011] and have found numerous applications in proving streaming lower bounds. In the noisy gap…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

We present an algorithm for maintaining maximal matching in a graph under addition and deletion of edges. Our data structure is randomized that takes O(log n) expected amortized time for each edge update where n is the number of vertices in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Surender Baswana , Manoj Gupta , Sandeep Sen

We give improved algorithms for maintaining edge-orientations of a fully-dynamic graph, such that the out-degree of each vertex is bounded. On one hand, we show how to orient the edges such that the out-degree of each vertex is proportional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Aleksander B. G. Christiansen , Jacob Holm , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We consider the classical Minimum Balanced Cut problem: given a graph $G$, compute a partition of its vertices into two subsets of roughly equal volume, while minimizing the number of edges connecting the subsets. We present the first {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Julia Chuzhoy , Yu Gao , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

There are distributed graph algorithms for finding maximal matchings and maximal independent sets in $O(\Delta + \log^* n)$ communication rounds; here $n$ is the number of nodes and $\Delta$ is the maximum degree. The lower bound by Linial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Juho Hirvonen , Dennis Olivetti , Mikaël Rabie , Jukka Suomela

A connected graph $G$ with at least two vertices is matching covered if each of its edges lies in a perfect matching. A matching covered graph is minimal if the removal of any edge results in a graph that is no longer matching covered. An…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xiaoling He , Fuliang Lu , Heping Zhang

We investigate the number of maximal independent set queries required to reconstruct the edges of a hidden graph. We show that randomised adaptive algorithms need at least $\Omega(\Delta^2 \log(n / \Delta) / \log \Delta)$ queries to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Lukas Michel , Alex Scott

The minimum cut problem for an undirected edge-weighted graph asks us to divide its set of nodes into two blocks while minimizing the weight sum of the cut edges. In this paper, we engineer the fastest known exact algorithm for the problem.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Monika Henzinger , Alexander Noe , Christian Schulz

In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm must process any $n$-vertex graph by making one or few passes over a stream of its edges, use $O(n \cdot \text{polylog }n)$ words of space, and at the end of the last pass, output a solution to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Sepehr Assadi , Gary Hoppenworth , Janani Sundaresan

We study the problem of computing approximate minimum edge cuts by distributed algorithms. We use a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round, $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over each edge (a.k.a. the CONGEST…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

We give a simple approximation algorithm for a common generalization of many previously studied extensions of the maximum size stable matching problem with ties. These generalizations include the existence of critical vertices in the graph,…

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The paper presents an algorithm for minimum vertex cover problem, which is an NP-Complete problem. The algorithm computes a minimum vertex cover of each input simple graph. Tested by the attached MATLAB programs, Stage 1 of the algorithm is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-30 Gang Hu

This paper investigates the optimization of dual frame pairs in the context of erasure problems in data transmission, using a graph theoretical approach. Frames are essential for mitigating errors and signal loss due to their redundancy…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Shankhadeep Mondal , Ram Narayan Mohapatra

We present dynamic algorithms with polylogarithmic update time for estimating the size of the maximum matching of a graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions with approximation ratio strictly better than $2$. Specifically, we obtain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak , David Wajc

In the distributed triangle detection problem, we have an $n$-vertex network $G=(V,E)$ with one player for each vertex of the graph who sees the edges incident on the vertex. The players communicate in synchronous rounds using the edges of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

We resolve the space complexity of single-pass streaming algorithms for approximating the classic set cover problem. For finding an $\alpha$-approximate set cover (for any $\alpha= o(\sqrt{n})$) using a single-pass streaming algorithm, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li

In modern applications of graphs algorithms, where the graphs of interest are large and dynamic, it is unrealistic to assume that an input representation contains the full information of a graph being studied. Hence, it is desirable to use…

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