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The minimum-weight $2$-edge-connected spanning subgraph (2-ECSS) problem is a natural generalization of the well-studied minimum-weight spanning tree (MST) problem, and it has received considerable attention in the area of network design.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Michal Dory , Mohsen Ghaffari

Subgraph detection has recently been one of the most studied problems in the CONGEST model of distributed computing. In this work, we study the distributed complexity of problems closely related to subgraph detection, mainly focusing on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Janne H. Korhonen , Amir Nikabadi

A set $D \subseteq V$ of a graph $G=(V, E)$ is a dominating set of $G$ if each vertex $v\in V\setminus D$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $D,$ whereas a set $D_2\subseteq V$ is a $2$-dominating (double dominating) set of $G$ if each…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Soumyashree Rana , Sounaka Mishra , Bhawani Sankar Panda

We provide CONGEST model algorithms for approximating minimum weighted vertex cover and the maximum weighted matching. For bipartite graphs, we show that a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate weighted vertex cover can be computed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Salwa Faour , Marc Fuchs , Fabian Kuhn

The Minimum Consistent Subset (MCS) problem arises naturally in the context of supervised clustering and instance selection. In supervised clustering, one aims to infer a meaningful partitioning of data using a small labeled subset.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Aritra Banik , Mano Prakash Parthasarathi , Venkatesh Raman , Diya Roy , Abhishek Sahu

Graph condensation (GC) has gained significant attention for its ability to synthesize smaller yet informative graphs. However, existing studies often overlook the robustness of GC in scenarios where the original graph is corrupted. In such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiayi Luo , Qingyun Sun , Beining Yang , Haonan Yuan , Xingcheng Fu , Yanbiao Ma , Jianxin Li , Philip S. Yu

We study the NP-hard problem of approximating a Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Tree in the message passing model with limited bandwidth (CONGEST model). In this problem one tries to find a spanning tree of a graph $G$ over $n$ nodes that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Alexandra Hochuli , Stephan Holzer , Roger Wattenhofer

Visual rendering of graphs is a key task in the mapping of complex network data. Although most graph drawing algorithms emphasize aesthetic appeal, certain applications such as travel-time maps place more importance on visualization of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-06 Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

Distributed vertex coloring is one of the classic problems and probably also the most widely studied problems in the area of distributed graph algorithms. We present a new randomized distributed vertex coloring algorithm for the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Tigran Tonoyan

Connected clustering denotes a family of constrained clustering problems in which we are given a distance metric and an undirected connectivity graph $G$ that can be completely unrelated to the metric. The aim is to partition the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jan Eube , Heiko Röglin

We present near-optimal algorithms for detecting small vertex cuts in the CONGEST model of distributed computing. Despite extensive research in this area, our understanding of the vertex connectivity of a graph is still incomplete,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Merav Parter , Asaf Petruschka

The problem of finding a minimum vertex cover (MVC) in a graph is a well-known NP-hard problem with significant practical applications in optimization and scheduling. Its complexity, combined with the increasing scale of problems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Enqiang Zhu , Qiqi Bao , Yu Zhang , Chanjuan Liu

In the spanning tree congestion problem, given a connected graph $G$, the objective is to compute a spanning tree $T$ in $G$ that minimizes its maximum edge congestion, where the congestion of an edge $e$ of $T$ is the number of edges in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Huong Luu , Marek Chrobak

Recent works on representation learning for graph structured data predominantly focus on learning distributed representations of graph substructures such as nodes and subgraphs. However, many graph analytics tasks such as graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Annamalai Narayanan , Mahinthan Chandramohan , Rajasekar Venkatesan , Lihui Chen , Yang Liu , Shantanu Jaiswal

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

We present new deterministic algorithms for computing distributed weighted minimum weight cycle (MWC) in undirected and directed graphs and distributed weighted all nodes shortest cycle (ANSC) in directed graphs. Our algorithms for these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Udit Agarwal

The independent set on a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subset of $V$ such that no two vertices in the subset have an edge between them. The MIS problem on $G$ seeks to identify an independent set with maximum cardinality, i.e. maximum independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Bhadrachalam Chitturi

Distributed consensus has been intensively studied in recent years as a means to mitigate state differences among dynamic nodes on a graph. It has been successfully employed in various applications, e.g., formation control of multi-robots,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Yinyan Zhang , Shuai Li

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

The dominating set problem and its generalization, the distance-$r$ dominating set problem, are among the well-studied problems in the sequential settings. In distributed models of computation, unlike for domination, not much is known about…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Ben Wiederhake