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Core decomposition is a classic technique for discovering densely connected regions in a graph with large range of applications. Formally, a $k$-core is a maximal subgraph where each vertex has at least $k$ neighbors. A natural extension of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Nikolaj Tatti

In this paper, we study new batch-dynamic algorithms for the $k$-clique counting problem, which are dynamic algorithms where the updates are batches of edge insertions and deletions. We study this problem in the parallel setting, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Laxman Dhulipala , Quanquan C. Liu , Julian Shun , Shangdi Yu

We propose a theoretically-efficient and practical parallel batch-dynamic data structure for the closest pair problem. Our solution is based on a serial dynamic closest pair data structure by Golin et al., and supports batches of insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yiqiu Wang , Shangdi Yu , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

The dynamic trees problem is to maintain a forest subject to edge insertions and deletions while facilitating queries such as connectivity, path weights, and subtree weights. Dynamic trees are a fundamental building block of a large number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Umut A. Acar , Daniel Anderson , Guy E. Blelloch , Laxman Dhulipala , Sam Westrick

We present a simple randomized algorithm that can efficiently maintain a $(\Delta+1)$ coloring as the graph undergoes edge insertion and deletion updates, where $\Delta$ denotes an upper bound on the maximum degree. A key advantage is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

We initiate the study of graph algorithms in the streaming setting on massive distributed and parallel systems inspired by practical data processing systems. The objective is to design algorithms that can efficiently process evolving graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee

Core decomposition is a fundamental graph problem with a large number of applications. Most existing approaches for core decomposition assume that the graph is kept in memory of a machine. Nevertheless, many real-world graphs are big and…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Dong Wen , Lu Qin , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Jeffrey Xu Yu

In this paper, we study batch parallel algorithms for the dynamic connectivity problem, a fundamental problem that has received considerable attention in the sequential setting. The most well known sequential algorithm for dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Umut A. Acar , Daniel Anderson , Guy E. Blelloch , Laxman Dhulipala

In this paper, we investigate the parallelization of $k$-core decomposition, a method used in graph analysis to identify cohesive substructures and assess node centrality. Although efficient sequential algorithms exist for this task, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Davide Rucci , Sebastian Parfeniuc , Matteo Mordacchini , Emanuele Carlini , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Patrizio Dazzi

We show how to find and efficiently maintain maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs in undirected graphs. In particular, we provide the following results. (1) A general framework for maintaining the maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Evangelos Kosinas , Debasish Pattanayak

We provide a framework for the design and analysis of dynamic programming algorithms for surface-embedded graphs on n vertices and branchwidth at most k. Our technique applies to general families of problems where standard dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Juanjo Rué , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

With the rapid growth of unstructured and semistructured data, parallelizing graph algorithms has become essential for efficiency. However, due to the inherent irregularity in computation, memory access patterns, and communication, graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Nibedita Behera , Ashwina Kumar , Atharva Chougule , Mohammed Shan P S , Rushabh Nirdosh Lalwani , Rupesh Nasre

This paper studies the nucleus decomposition problem, which has been shown to be useful in finding dense substructures in graphs. We present a novel parallel algorithm that is efficient both in theory and in practice. Our algorithm achieves…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

The k-core of a graph is its maximal subgraph with minimum degree at least k, and the core value of a vertex u is the largest k for which u is contained in the k-core of the graph. Among cohesive subgraphs, k-core and its variants have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yan S. Couto , Cristina G. Fernandes

We present the first parallel batch-dynamic algorithm for approximating coreness decomposition with worst-case update times. Given any batch of edge insertions and deletions, our algorithm processes all these updates in $ \text{poly}(\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

We present a work optimal algorithm for parallel fully batch-dynamic maximal matching against an oblivious adversary. It processes batches of updates (either insertions or deletions of edges) in constant expected amortized work per edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Guy E. Blelloch , Andrew C. Brady

In the analysis of large-scale network data, a fundamental operation is the comparison of observed phenomena to the predictions provided by null models: when we find an interesting structure in a family of real networks, it is important to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Katherine Van Koevering , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

We present the first (randomized) parallel dynamic algorithm for maximal matching, which can process an arbitrary number of updates simultaneously. Given a batch of edge deletion or insertion updates to the graph, our parallel algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Mohsen Ghaffari , Anton Trygub

Core decomposition is a fundamental operator in network analysis. In this paper, we study the problem of computing distance-generalized core decomposition on a network. A distance-generalized core, also termed $(k, h)$-core, is a maximal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Qiangqiang Dai , Rong-Hua Li , Lu Qin , Guoren Wang , Weihua Yang , Zhiwei Zhang , Ye Yuan

Dynamic tree data structures maintain a forest while supporting insertion and deletion of edges and a broad set of queries in $O(\log n)$ time per operation. Such data structures are at the core of many modern algorithms. Recent work has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Humza Ikram , Andrew Brady , Daniel Anderson , Guy Blelloch