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We study the problem of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) in the standard LOCAL model of distributed computing. Classical algorithms by Luby [JACM'86] and Alon, Babai, and Itai [JALG'86] find an MIS in $O(\log n)$ rounds in $n$-node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Seri Khoury , Aaron Schild

We investigate the question of tightness of linear programming (LP) relaxation for finding a maximum weight independent set (MWIS) in sparse random weighted graphs. We show that an edge-based LP relaxation is asymptotically tight for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-14 Sujay Sanghavi , Devavrat Shah

An efficient dominating set (or perfect code) in a graph is a set of vertices the closed neighborhoods of which partition the vertex set of the graph. The minimum weight efficient domination problem is the problem of finding an efficient…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Andreas Brandstädt , Pavel Fičur , Arne Leitert , Martin Milanič

The maximal independent set (MIS) is one of the most fundamental problems in distributed computing, and it has been studied intensively for over four decades. This paper focuses on the MIS problem in the Radio Network model, a standard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Dominick Banasik , Varsha Dani , Fabien Dufoulon , Aayush Gupta , Thomas P. Hayes , Gopal Pandurangan

For a given graph $G$, a maximum internal spanning tree of $G$ is a spanning tree of $G$ with maximum number of internal vertices. The Maximum Internal Spanning Tree (MIST) problem is to find a maximum internal spanning tree of the given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Gopika Sharma , Arti Pandey , Michael C. Wigal

We investigate the \emph{minimum weight cycle (MWC)} problem in the $\mathsf{CONGEST}$ model of distributed computing. For undirected weighted graphs, we design a randomized algorithm that achieves a $(k+1)$-approximation, for any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yi-Jun Chang , Yanyu Chen , Dipan Dey , Yonggang Jiang , Gopinath Mishra , Hung Thuan Nguyen , Mingyang Yang

Finding a maximal independent set (MIS) in a graph is a cornerstone task in distributed computing. The local nature of an MIS allows for fast solutions in a static distributed setting, which are logarithmic in the number of nodes or in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Keren Censor-Hillel , Elad Haramaty , Zohar Karnin

The maximum independent set (MIS) problem of graph theory using the quantum alternating operator ansatz is studied. We perform simulations on the Rigetti Forest simulator for the square ring, $K_{2,3}$, and $K_{3,3}$ graphs and analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Zain H. Saleem

Two of the most fundamental distributed symmetry-breaking problems are that of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) and a maximal matching (MM) in a graph. It is a major open question whether these problems can be solved in constant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Keren Censor-Hillel , Tomer Even , Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson

For an integer $t$, a graph $G$ is called {\em{$C_{>t}$-free}} if $G$ does not contain any induced cycle on more than~$t$ vertices. We prove the following statement: for every pair of integers $d$ and $t$ and a CMSO$_2$ statement~$\phi$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Peter Gartland , Daniel Lokshtanov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michal Pilipczuk , Pawel Rzazewski

For a graph $G$, let $\Pi(G)$ denote the set of all potential maximal cliques of $G$. For each subset $\Pi$ of $\Pi(G)$, let $\tw(G, \Pi)$ denote the smallest $k$ such that there is a tree-decomposition of $G$ of width $k$ whose bags all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Hisao Tamaki

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with a weight $w_v$ associated with each vertex $v\in V$, the maximum weighted induced forest problem (MWIF) consists of encountering a maximum weighted subset $V'\subseteq V$ of the vertices such that $V'$ induces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Rafael A. Melo , Celso C. Ribeiro

Given a graph, a maximal independent set (MIS) is a maximal subset of pairwise non-adjacent vertices. Finding an MIS is a fundamental problem in distributed computing. Although the problem is extensively studied and well understood in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Fabian Kuhn , Chaodong Zheng

We give a maximal independent set (MIS) algorithm that runs in $O(\log \log \Delta)$ rounds in the congested clique model, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the input graph. This improves upon the $O(\frac{\log(\Delta) \cdot \log \log…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Christian Konrad

We present an algorithm that takes as input a graph $G$ with weights on the vertices, and computes a maximum weight independent set $S$ of $G$. If the input graph $G$ excludes a path $P_k$ on $k$ vertices as an induced subgraph, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Peter Gartland , Daniel Lokshtanov

Process Planning and Scheduling (PPS) is an essential and practical topic but a very intractable problem in manufacturing systems. Many research use iterative methods to solve such problems; however, they cannot achieve satisfactory results…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Kai Sun

Maximal independent set (MIS), maximal matching (MM), and $(\Delta+1)$-coloring in graphs of maximum degree $\Delta$ are among the most prominent algorithmic graph theory problems. They are all solvable by a simple linear-time greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Sepehr Assadi , Shay Solomon

We study the maximum weight perfect $f$-factor problem on any general simple graph $G=(V,E,w)$ with positive integral edge weights $w$, and $n=|V|$, $m=|E|$. When we have a function $f:V\rightarrow \mathbb{N}_+$ on vertices, a perfect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Ran Duan , Haoqing He , Tianyi Zhang

The Maximal Independent Set (MIS) problem is one of the basics in the study of locality in distributed graph algorithms. This paper presents an extremely simple randomized algorithm providing a near-optimal local complexity for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Mohsen Ghaffari

The problem of distributed maximal independent set (MIS) is investigated on inhomogeneous random graphs with power-law weights by which the scale-free networks can be produced. Such a particular problem has been solved on graphs with $n$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Hasan Heydari , S. Mahmoud Taheri , Kaveh Kavousi