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We settle the complexity of the $(\Delta+1)$-coloring and $(\Delta+1)$-list coloring problems in the CONGESTED CLIQUE model by presenting a simple deterministic algorithm for both problems running in a constant number of rounds. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies , Merav Parter

Recent breakthroughs in graph streaming have led to the design of single-pass semi-streaming algorithms for various graph coloring problems such as $(\Delta+1)$-coloring, degeneracy-coloring, coloring triangle-free graphs, and others. These…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sepehr Assadi , Andrew Chen , Glenn Sun

We present a new technique to efficiently sample and communicate a large number of elements from a distributed sampling space. When used in the context of a recent LOCAL algorithm for $(\operatorname{degree}+1)$-list-coloring (D1LC), this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Alexandre Nolin , Tigran Tonoyan

We present an $O(\log^3\log n)$-round distributed algorithm for the $(\Delta+1)$-coloring problem, where each node broadcasts only one $O(\log n)$-bit message per round to its neighbors. Previously, the best such broadcast-based algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Maxime Flin , Mohsen Ghaffari , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Fabian Kuhn , Alexandre Nolin

We give a randomized $\Delta$-coloring algorithm in the LOCAL model that runs in $\text{poly} \log \log n$ rounds, where $n$ is the number of nodes of the input graph and $\Delta$ is its maximum degree. This means that randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Manuela Fischer , Yannic Maus , Magnús M. Halldórsson

An $(\alpha,\beta)$-ruling set of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a set $R\subseteq V$ such that for any node $v\in V$ there is a node $u\in R$ in distance at most $\beta$ from $v$ and such that any two nodes in $R$ are at distance at least $\alpha$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Simon Weidner

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in solving various graph coloring problems in the streaming model. The initial algorithms in this line of work are all crucially randomized, raising natural questions about how important a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Sepehr Assadi , Amit Chakrabarti , Prantar Ghosh , Manuel Stoeckl

We present a deterministic distributed algorithm, in the LOCAL model, that computes a $(1+o(1))\Delta$-edge-coloring in polylogarithmic-time, so long as the maximum degree $\Delta=\tilde{\Omega}(\log n)$. For smaller $\Delta$, we give a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Jara Uitto

We give an improved randomized CONGEST algorithm for distance-$2$ coloring that uses $\Delta^2+1$ colors and runs in $O(\log n)$ rounds, improving the recent $O(\log \Delta \cdot \log n)$-round algorithm in [Halld\'orsson, Kuhn, Maus; PODC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Magnus M. Halldorsson , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Alexandre Nolin

In this paper, we consider algorithms for edge-coloring multigraphs $G$ of bounded maximum degree, i.e., $\Delta(G) = O(1)$. Shannon's theorem states that any multigraph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be properly edge-colored with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Abhishek Dhawan

This paper is centered on the complexity of graph problems in the well-studied LOCAL model of distributed computing, introduced by Linial [FOCS '87]. It is widely known that for many of the classic distributed graph problems (including…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus

In the context of communication complexity, we explore protocols for graph coloring, focusing on the vertex and edge coloring problems in $n$-vertex graphs $G$ with a maximum degree $\Delta$. We consider a scenario where the edges of $G$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yi-Jun Chang , Gopinath Mishra , Hung Thuan Nguyen , Farrel D Salim

We present three sublinear randomized algorithms for vertex-coloring of graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$. The first is a simple algorithm that extends the idea of Morris and Song to color graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Asaf Ferber , Liam Hardiman , Xiaonan Chen

In this paper, we give list coloring variants of simple iterative defective coloring algorithms. Formally, in a list defective coloring instance, each node $v$ of a graph is given a list $L_v$ of colors and a list of allowed defects…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Marc Fuchs , Fabian Kuhn

The distributed (Delta + 1)-coloring problem is one of most fundamental and well-studied problems of Distributed Algorithms. Starting with the work of Cole and Vishkin in 86, there was a long line of gradually improving algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-26 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin

Vizing's theorem guarantees that every graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ admits an edge coloring using $\Delta + 1$ colors. In online settings - where edges arrive one at a time and must be colored immediately - a simple greedy algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Joakim Blikstad , Ola Svensson , Radu Vintan , David Wajc

The network coloring game has been proposed in the literature of social sciences as a model for conflict-resolution circumstances. The players of the game are the vertices of a graph with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $\Delta$. The game…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Nikolaos Fryganiotis , Symeon Papavassiliou , Christos Pelekis

We present a procedure for efficiently sampling colors in the {\congest} model. It allows nodes whose number of colors exceeds their number of neighbors by a constant fraction to sample up to $\Theta(\log n)$ semi-random colors unused by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Alexandre Nolin

We give deterministic distributed $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for Minimum Vertex Coloring and Maximum Independent Set on chordal graphs in the LOCAL model. Our coloring algorithm runs in $O(\frac{1}{\epsilon} \log n)$ rounds,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Christian Konrad , Viktor Zamaraev

In this paper, we consider distributed coloring for planar graphs with a small number of colors. We present an optimal (up to a constant factor) $O(\log{n})$ time algorithm for 6-coloring planar graphs. Our algorithm is based on a novel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Shiri Chechik , Doron Mukhtar