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It is a well known fact that sequential algorithms which exhibit a strong "local" nature can be adapted to the distributed setting given a legal graph coloring. The running time of the distributed algorithm will then be at least the number…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Gregory Schwartzman

Locally finding a solution to symmetry-breaking tasks such as vertex-coloring, edge-coloring, maximal matching, maximal independent set, etc., is a long-standing challenge in distributed network computing. More recently, it has also become…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Pierre Fraigniaud , Marc Heinrich , Adrian Kosowski

The celebrated Time Hierarchy Theorem for Turing machines states, informally, that more problems can be solved given more time. The extent to which a time hierarchy-type theorem holds in the distributed LOCAL model has been open for many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Yi-Jun Chang , Seth Pettie

Understanding the role of randomness when solving locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems in the LOCAL model has been one of the top priorities in the research on distributed graph algorithms in recent years. For LCL problems in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Zahra Parsaeian

In recent years the sleeping model came to the focus of researchers. In this model nodes can go into a sleep state in which they spend no energy but at the same time cannot receive or send messages, nor can they perform internal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tzalik Maimon

Given an input $x$, and a search problem $F$, local computation algorithms (LCAs) implement access to specified locations of $y$ in a legal output $y \in F(x)$, using polylogarithmic time and space. Mansour et al., (2012), had previously…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Omer Reingold , Shai Vardi

Common definitions of the "standard" LOCAL model tend to be sloppy and even self-contradictory on one point: do the nodes update their state using an arbitrary function or a computable function? So far, this distinction has been safe to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Antonio Cruciani , Avinandan Das , Massimo Equi , Henrik Lievonen , Diep Luong-Le , Augusto Modanese , Jukka Suomela

In classic distributed graph problems, each instance on a graph specifies a space of feasible solutions (e.g. all proper ($\Delta+1$)-list-colorings of the graph), and the task of distributed algorithm is to construct a feasible solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Weiming Feng , Yitong Yin

We consider two models of computation: centralized local algorithms and local distributed algorithms. Algorithms in one model are adapted to the other model to obtain improved algorithms. Distributed vertex coloring is employed to design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Guy Even , Moti Medina , Dana Ron

We study the awake complexity of graph problems that belong to the class O-LOCAL, which includes a subset of problems solvable by sequential greedy algorithms, such as $(\Delta+1)$-coloring and maximal independent set. It is known from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Alkida Balliu , Pierre Fraigniaud , Dennis Olivetti , Mikaël Rabie

The sinkless orientation problem plays a key role in understanding the foundations of distributed computing. The problem can be used to separate two fundamental models of distributed graph algorithms, LOCAL and SLOCAL: the locality of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Alkida Balliu , Janne H. Korhonen , Fabian Kuhn , Henrik Lievonen , Dennis Olivetti , Shreyas Pai , Ami Paz , Joel Rybicki , Stefan Schmid , Jan Studený , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

The landscape of the distributed time complexity is nowadays well-understood for subpolynomial complexities. When we look at deterministic algorithms in the LOCAL model and locally checkable problems (LCLs) in bounded-degree graphs, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

Consider any locally checkable labeling problem $\Pi$ in rooted regular trees: there is a finite set of labels $\Sigma$, and for each label $x \in \Sigma$ we specify what are permitted label combinations of the children for an internal node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Yi-Jun Chang , Dennis Olivetti , Jan Studený , Jukka Suomela , Aleksandr Tereshchenko

We propose a general method for converting online algorithms to local computation algorithms by selecting a random permutation of the input, and simulating running the online algorithm. We bound the number of steps of the algorithm using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Yishay Mansour , Aviad Rubinstein , Shai Vardi , Ning Xie

We study the local complexity landscape of locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems on constant-degree graphs with a focus on complexities below $\log^* n$. Our contribution is threefold: Our main contribution is that we complete the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Christoph Grunau , Vaclav Rozhon , Sebastian Brandt

In this work, we develop the low-space Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) complexity landscape for a family of fundamental graph problems on trees. We present a general method that solves most locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Sebastian Brandt , Rustam Latypov , Jara Uitto

By prior work, we have many results related to distributed graph algorithms for problems that can be defined with local constraints; the formal framework used in prior work is locally checkable labeling problems (LCLs), introduced by Naor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Alkida Balliu , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn , Augusto Modanese , Dennis Olivetti , Mikaël Rabie , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

Consider a computer network that consists of a path with $n$ nodes. The nodes are labeled with inputs from a constant-sized set, and the task is to find output labels from a constant-sized set subject to some local constraints---more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Yi-Jun Chang , Dennis Olivetti , Mikaël Rabie , Jukka Suomela

We study the power of \textit{local information algorithms} for optimization problems on social networks. We focus on sequential algorithms for which the network topology is initially unknown and is revealed only within a local neighborhood…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Christian Borgs , Michael Brautbar , Jennifer Chayes , Sanjeev Khanna , Brendan Lucier

Locally checkable labeling problems (LCLs) are distributed graph problems in which a solution is globally feasible if it is locally feasible in all constant-radius neighborhoods. Vertex colorings, maximal independent sets, and maximal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela