English
Related papers

Related papers: Online Edge Coloring Algorithms via the Nibble Met…

200 papers

We provide novel deterministic distributed vertex coloring algorithms. As our main result, we give a deterministic distributed algorithm to compute a $(\Delta+1)$-coloring of an $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Fabian Kuhn

The problem of sampling edge-colorings of graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ has received considerable attention and efficient algorithms are available when the number of colors is large enough with respect to $\Delta$. Vizing's theorem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lucas De Meyer , František Kardoš , Aurélie Lagoutte , Guillem Perarnau

We design fast dynamic algorithms for proper vertex and edge colorings in a graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. In the static setting, there are simple linear time algorithms for $(\Delta+1)$- vertex coloring and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Sayan Bhattacharya , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai

We present a new approach to randomized distributed graph coloring that is simpler and more efficient than previous ones. In particular, it allows us to tackle the $(\operatorname{deg}+1)$-list-coloring (D1LC) problem, where each node $v$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Fabian Kuhn , Alexandre Nolin , Tigran Tonoyan

We study the edge-colouring problem, and give efficient algorithms where the number of colours is parameterised by the graph's arboricity, $\alpha$. In a dynamic graph, subject to insertions and deletions, we give a deterministic algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Aleksander B. G. Christiansen , Eva Rotenberg , Juliette Vlieghe

We study a family of closely-related distributed graph problems, which we call degree splitting, where roughly speaking the objective is to partition (or orient) the edges such that each node's degree is split almost uniformly. Our findings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Hsin-Hao Su

We provide new deterministic algorithms for the edge coloring problem, which is one of the classic and highly studied distributed local symmetry breaking problems. As our main result, we show that a $(2\Delta-1)$-edge coloring can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti

Let $H$ be a $(k+1)$-uniform hypergraph which is nearly $D$-regular, such that any set of $i$ vertices is contained in at most $D_i$ edges of $H$ for each $i = 2, 3, \dots, k+1$. Influential results of Pippenger and of Frankl and R\"odl…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Stephen Gould , Tom Kelly

In this paper, we revisit the online recoloring problem introduced recently by Azar et al. In online recoloring, there is a fixed set $V$ of $n$ vertices and an initial coloring $c_0: V\rightarrow [k]$ for some $k\in \mathbb{Z}^{>0}$. Under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Rajmohan Rajaraman , Omer Wasim

We present a randomized algorithm that, given a constant $\epsilon > 0$, outputs a proper $(1+\epsilon)\Delta$-edge-coloring of an $m$-edge simple graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta \geq 1/\epsilon$ in $O(m)$ time with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Anton Bernshteyn , Abhishek Dhawan

Vizing's theorem states that any $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be edge colored using at most $\Delta + 1$ different colors [Vizing, 1964]. Vizing's original proof is algorithmic and shows that such an edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Shay Solomon , Tianyi Zhang

In this paper we present a deterministic CONGEST algorithm to compute an $O(k\Delta)$-vertex coloring in $O(\Delta/k)+\log^* n$ rounds, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the network graph and $1\leq k\leq O(\Delta)$ can be freely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yannic Maus

The problem of edge coloring has been extensively studied over the years. Recently, this problem has received significant attention in the dynamic setting, where we are given a dynamic graph evolving via a sequence of edge insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Nadav Panski , Shay Solomon

We study the problem of online graph coloring for $k$-colorable graphs. The best previously known deterministic algorithm uses $\widetilde{O}(n^{1-\frac{1}{k!}})$ colors for general $k$ and $\widetilde{O}(n^{5/6})$ colors for $k = 4$, both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Hirotaka Yoneda , Masataka Yoneda

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

Using the framework of advice complexity, we study the amount of knowledge about the future that an online algorithm needs to color the edges of a graph optimally, i.e., using as few colors as possible. For graphs of maximum degree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Jesper W. Mikkelsen

A streaming algorithm is considered to be adversarially robust if it provides correct outputs with high probability even when the stream updates are chosen by an adversary who may observe and react to the past outputs of the algorithm. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Amit Chakrabarti , Prantar Ghosh , Manuel Stoeckl

In the \emph{dynamic edge coloring} problem, one has to maintain a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ with at most $\Delta+c$ colors, given updates to the edges of the graph. An important objective is to minimize the \emph{recourse}, which is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haim Kaplan , David Naori , Yaniv Sadeh

We take an application of the Kernel Lemma by Kostochka and Yancey to its logical conclusion. The consequence is a sort of magical way to draw conclusions about list coloring (and online list coloring) just from the existence of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Hal Kierstead , Landon Rabern

This paper studies sufficient conditions to obtain efficient distributed algorithms coloring graphs optimally (i.e.\ with the minimum number of colors) in the LOCAL model of computation. Most of the work on distributed vertex coloring so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Étienne Bamas , Louis Esperet