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We study algorithmic and structural aspects of connectivity in hypergraphs. Given a hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ with $n = |V|$, $m = |E|$ and $p = \sum_{e \in E} |e|$ the best known algorithm to compute a global minimum cut in $H$ runs in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Chandra Chekuri , Chao Xu

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a cornerstone principle in the probabilistic method of combinatorics, and a seminal algorithm of Moser & Tardos (2010) provides an efficient randomized algorithm to implement it. This can be parallelized…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Bernhard Haeupler , David G. Harris

We present the first parallel depth-first search algorithm for undirected graphs that has near-linear work and sublinear depth. Concretely, in any $n$-node $m$-edge undirected graph, our algorithm computes a DFS in $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n})$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Jiahao Qu

We present a factor $14D^2$ approximation algorithm for the minimum linear arrangement problem on series-parallel graphs, where $D$ is the maximum degree in the graph. Given a suitable decomposition of the graph, our algorithm runs in time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Martina Eikel , Christian Scheideler , Alexander Setzer

We study the Weighted Min Cut problem in the Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC) model. In 2019, Behnezhad et al. [3] introduced the AMPC model as an extension of the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. In the past…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-30 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Marina Knittel , Jan Olkowski , Hamed Saleh

Balkanski and Singer [5] recently initiated the study of adaptivity (or parallelism) for constrained submodular function maximization, and studied the setting of a cardinality constraint. Very recent improvements for this problem by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

We develop a new parallel algorithm for minimizing Lipschitz, convex functions with a stochastic subgradient oracle. The total number of queries made and the query depth, i.e., the number of parallel rounds of queries, match the prior…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Arun Jambulapati , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

Dynamic programming over tree decompositions is a common technique in parameterized algorithms. In this paper, we study whether this technique can also be applied to compute Pareto sets of multiobjective optimization problems. We first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Joshua Könen , Heiko Röglin , Tarek Stuck

We revisit Min-Mean-Cycle, the classical problem of finding a cycle in a weighted directed graph with minimum mean weight. Despite an extensive algorithmic literature, previous work falls short of a near-linear runtime in the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jason M. Altschuler , Pablo A. Parrilo

Kawarabayashi and Sidiropoulos [KS22] obtained an $O(\log^2 n)$-approximation algorithm for Multicut in planar digraphs via a natural LP relaxation, which also establishes a corresponding upper bound on the multicommodity flow-cut gap.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chandra Chekuri , Rhea Jain

We present four novel approximation algorithms for finding triangulation of minimum treewidth. Two of the algorithms improve on the running times of algorithms by Robertson and Seymour, and Becker and Geiger that approximate the optimum by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Eyal Amir

Distributed minimum spanning tree (MST) problem is one of the most central and fundamental problems in distributed graph algorithms. Garay et al. \cite{GKP98,KP98} devised an algorithm with running time $O(D + \sqrt{n} \cdot \log^* n)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Michael Elkin

In this paper we consider parallelization for applications whose objective can be expressed as maximizing a non-monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint. Our main result is an algorithm whose approximation is arbitrarily…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Eric Balkanski , Adam Breuer , Yaron Singer

We give O(log^2 n)-approximation algorithm based on the cut-matching framework of [10, 13, 14] for computing the sparsest cut on directed graphs. Our algorithm uses only O(log^2 n) single commodity max-flow computations and thus breaks the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Anand Louis

Computing problems that handle large amounts of data necessitate the use of lossless data compression for efficient storage and transmission. We present a novel lossless universal data compression algorithm that uses parallel computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nikhil Krishnan , Dror Baron

Given an $n$-vertex planar embedded digraph $G$ with non-negative edge weights and a face $f$ of $G$, Klein presented a data structure with $O(n\log n)$ space and preprocessing time which can answer any query $(u,v)$ for the shortest path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Debarati Das , Evangelos Kipouridis , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We present a constant-round algorithm in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model for evaluating a natural join where every input relation has two attributes. Our algorithm achieves a load of $\tilde{O}(m/p^{1/\rho})$ where $m$ is the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bas Ketsman , Dan Suciu , Yufei Tao

Minimum cut/maximum flow (min-cut/max-flow) algorithms solve a variety of problems in computer vision and thus significant effort has been put into developing fast min-cut/max-flow algorithms. As a result, it is difficult to choose an ideal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Patrick M. Jensen , Niels Jeppesen , Anders B. Dahl , Vedrana A. Dahl

Submodular functions are set functions mapping every subset of some ground set of size $n$ into the real numbers and satisfying the diminishing returns property. Submodular minimization is an important field in discrete optimization theory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yassine Hamoudi , Patrick Rebentrost , Ansis Rosmanis , Miklos Santha

Branching bisimilarity is a behavioural equivalence relation on labelled transition systems that takes internal actions into account. It has the traditional advantage that algorithms for branching bisimilarity are more efficient than all…

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