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In the vertex connectivity problem, given an undirected $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph $G$, we need to compute the minimum number of vertices that can disconnect $G$ after removing them. This problem is one of the most well-studied graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Thatchaphol Saranurak , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

The future of main memory appears to lie in the direction of new technologies that provide strong capacity-to-performance ratios, but have write operations that are much more expensive than reads in terms of latency, bandwidth, and energy.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Naama Ben-David , Guy E. Blelloch , Jeremy T. Fineman , Phillip B. Gibbons , Yan Gu , Charles McGuffey , Julian Shun

Given $n$ wireless transceivers located in a plane, a fundamental problem in wireless communications is to construct a strongly connected digraph on them such that the constituent links can be scheduled in fewest possible time slots,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-15 Magnus M. Halldorsson , Pradipta Mitra

We consider the problem of self-healing in networks that are reconfigurable in the sense that they can change their topology during an attack. Our goal is to maintain connectivity in these networks, even in the presence of repeated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jared Saia , Amitabh Trehan

Information exchange over networks can be affected by various forms of delay. This causes challenges for using the network by a multi-agent system to solve a distributed optimisation problem. Distributed optimisation schemes, however,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Adrian Redder , Arunselvan Ramaswamy , Holger Karl

In this paper a property of the multi-agent consensus dynamics that relates the failure of links in the network to jump discontinuities in the derivatives of the output responses of the nodes is derived and verified analytically. At the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 M. Amin Rahimian , Victor M. Preciado

Computing the connected components of a graph is a fundamental problem in algorithmic graph theory. A major question in this area is whether we can compute connected components in $o(\log n)$ parallel time. Recent works showed an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Alireza Farhadi , S. Cliff Liu , Elaine Shi

Most of today's distributed machine learning systems assume {\em reliable networks}: whenever two machines exchange information (e.g., gradients or models), the network should guarantee the delivery of the message. At the same time, recent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Chen Yu , Hanlin Tang , Cedric Renggli , Simon Kassing , Ankit Singla , Dan Alistarh , Ce Zhang , Ji Liu

We study the $k$-edge connectivity problem on undirected graphs in the distributed sketching model, where we have $n$ nodes and a referee. Each node sends a single message to the referee based on its 1-hop neighborhood in the graph, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Peter Robinson , Ming Ming Tan

In this paper, we investigate some basic connectivity problems in directed graphs (digraphs). Let $G$ be a digraph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices, and let $G\setminus e$ be the digraph obtained after deleting edge $e$ from $G$. As a first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis

We study graph connectivity problem in MPC model. On an undirected graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, $O(\log n)$ round connectivity algorithms have been known for over 35 years. However, no algorithms with better complexity bounds were…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alexandr Andoni , Clifford Stein , Zhao Song , Zhengyu Wang , Peilin Zhong

Modern artificial intelligence relies on networks of agents that collect data, process information, and exchange it with neighbors to collaboratively solve optimization and learning problems. This article introduces a novel distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Diego Deplano , Nicola Bastianello , Mauro Franceschelli , Karl H. Johansson

In distributed wireless networks, nodes often do not know the topology (network size, connectivity and the channel gains) of the network. Thus, they have to compute their transmission and reception parameters in a distributed fashion. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-21 Vaneet Aggarwal , Salman Avestimehr , Ashutosh Sabharwal

We consider the problem of computing a perfect matching problem in a synchronous distributed network, where the network topology corresponds to a complete bipartite graph. The communication between nodes is restricted to activating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hugo Mirault , Peter Robinson , Ming Ming Tan , Xianbin Zhu

We analyze the convergence of gradient-based optimization algorithms that base their updates on delayed stochastic gradient information. The main application of our results is to the development of gradient-based distributed optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-02 Alekh Agarwal , John C. Duchi

We show how to construct an overlay network of constant degree and diameter $O(\log n)$ in time $O(\log n)$ starting from an arbitrary weakly connected graph. We assume a synchronous communication network in which nodes can send messages to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Thorsten Götte , Kristian Hinnenthal , Christian Scheideler , Julian Werthmann

This paper studies distributed resource allocation problem in multi-agent systems, where all the agents cooperatively minimize the sum of their cost functions with global resource constraints over stochastic communication networks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Tie Ding , Shanying Zhu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Network decomposition is a central tool in distributed graph algorithms. We present two improvements on the state of the art for network decomposition, which thus lead to improvements in the (deterministic and randomized) complexity of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Václav Rozhoň

In distributed optimization and machine learning, multiple nodes coordinate to solve large problems. To do this, the nodes need to compress important algorithm information to bits so that it can be communicated over a digital channel. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Sindri Magnússon , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Na Li

We consider an $n$ agents distributed optimization problem with imperfect information characterized in a parametric sense, where the unknown parameter can be solved by a distinct distributed parameter learning problem. Though each agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Yaqun Yang , Jinlong Lei