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Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Neal E. Young

Recently, Czumaj et.al. (arXiv 2017) presented a parallel (almost) $2$-approximation algorithm for the maximum matching problem in only $O({(\log\log{n})^2})$ rounds of the massive parallel computation (MPC) framework, when the memory per…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Sepehr Assadi

In this paper we propose a graph-based data clustering algorithm which is based on exact clustering of a minimum spanning tree in terms of a minimum isoperimetry criteria. We show that our basic clustering algorithm runs in $O(n \log n)$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Amir Daneshgar , Ramin Javadi , Basir Shariat Razavi

We present the design and analysis of a near linear-work parallel algorithm for solving symmetric diagonally dominant (SDD) linear systems. On input of a SDD $n$-by-$n$ matrix $A$ with $m$ non-zero entries and a vector $b$, our algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Guy E. Blelloch , Anupam Gupta , Ioannis Koutis , Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng , Kanat Tangwongsan

We show fast deterministic algorithms for fundamental problems on forests in the challenging low-space regime of the well-known Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model. A recent breakthrough result by Coy and Czumaj [STOC'22] shows that,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Alkida Balliu , Rustam Latypov , Yannic Maus , Dennis Olivetti , Jara Uitto

In this paper we study minimum cut and maximum flow problems on planar graphs, both in static and in dynamic settings. First, we present an algorithm that given an undirected planar graph computes the minimum cut between any two given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Piotr Sankowski

In this paper, we study the problem of approximating the minimum cut in a distributed message-passing model, the CONGEST model. The minimum cut problem has been well-studied in the context of centralized algorithms. However, there were no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Hsin-Hao Su

We propose an $O(\log n)$-approximation algorithm for the bipartiteness ratio of undirected graphs introduced by Trevisan (SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 41, no. 6, 2012), where $n$ is the number of vertices. Our approach extends the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tasuku Soma , Mingquan Ye , Yuichi Yoshida

We present a massively parallel algorithm, with near-linear memory per machine, that computes a $(2+\varepsilon)$-approximation of minimum-weight vertex cover in $O(\log\log d)$ rounds, where $d$ is the average degree of the input graph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Mohsen Ghaffari , Ce Jin , Daan Nilis

Motivated by the increasing need to understand the algorithmic foundations of distributed large-scale graph computations, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing where $k \geq 2$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

We describe algorithms to efficiently compute minimum $(s,t)$-cuts and global minimum cuts of undirected surface-embedded graphs. Given an edge-weighted undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices embedded on an orientable surface of genus $g$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Erin W. Chambers , Jeff Erickson , Kyle Fox , Amir Nayyeri

In this paper we provide a parallel algorithm that given any $n$-node $m$-edge directed graph and source vertex $s$ computes all vertices reachable from $s$ with $\tilde{O}(m)$ work and $n^{1/2 + o(1)}$ depth with high probability in $n$ .…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Arun Jambulapati , Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

We show the first conditionally optimal deterministic algorithm for $3$-coloring forests in the low-space massively parallel computation (MPC) model. Our algorithm runs in $O(\log \log n)$ rounds and uses optimal global space. The best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Christoph Grunau , Rustam Latypov , Yannic Maus , Shreyas Pai , Jara Uitto

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

The study of approximate matching in the Massively Parallel Computations (MPC) model has recently seen a burst of breakthroughs. Despite this progress, however, we still have a far more limited understanding of maximal matching which is one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Soheil Behnezhad , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David G. Harris

The fundamental sparsest cut problem takes as input a graph $G$ together with the edge costs and demands, and seeks a cut that minimizes the ratio between the costs and demands across the cuts. For $n$-node graphs~$G$ of treewidth~$k$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Parinya Chalermsook , Matthias Kaul , Matthias Mnich , Joachim Spoerhase , Sumedha Uniyal , Daniel Vaz

In this paper, we study parallel algorithms for the correlation clustering problem, where every pair of two different entities is labeled with similar or dissimilar. The goal is to partition the entities into clusters to minimize the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Nairen Cao , Shang-En Huang , Hsin-Hao Su

We present a new approach to the minimum-cost integral flow problem for small values of the flow. It reduces the problem to the tests of simple multi-variate polynomials over a finite field of characteristic two for non-identity with zero.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Andrzej Lingas , Mia Persson

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

We present $O(\log\log n)$-round algorithms in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, with $\tilde{O}(n)$ memory per machine, that compute a maximal independent set, a $1+\epsilon$ approximation of maximum matching, and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Mohsen Ghaffari , Themis Gouleakis , Christian Konrad , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld