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The $\hybrid$ model was recently introduced by Augustine et al. \cite{DBLP:conf/soda/AugustineHKSS20} in order to characterize from an algorithmic standpoint the capabilities of networks which combine multiple communication modes.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Ioannis Anagnostides , Themis Gouleakis

We obtain improved distributed algorithms in the CONGEST message-passing setting for problems on power graphs of an input graph $G$. This includes Coloring, Maximal Independent Set, and related problems. We develop a general deterministic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Leonid Barenboim , Uri Goldenberg

We consider the problem of designing deterministic graph algorithms for the model of Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) that improve with the sparsity of the input graph, as measured by the notion of arboricity. For the problems of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Manuela Fischer , Jeff Giliberti , Christoph Grunau

We give a new, simple distributed algorithm for graph colouring in paths and cycles. Our algorithm is fast and self-contained, it does not need any globally consistent orientation, and it reduces the number of colours from $10^{100}$ to $3$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Jukka Kohonen , Janne H. Korhonen , Christopher Purcell , Jukka Suomela , Przemysław Uznański

The problem of (vertex) $(\Delta+1)$-coloring a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ has been extremely well-studied over the years in various settings and models. Surprisingly, for the dynamic setting, almost nothing was known until recently.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Sayan Bhattacharya , Fabrizio Grandoni , Janardhan Kulkarni , Quanquan C. Liu , Shay Solomon

We consider the distributed message-passing {LOCAL} model. In this model a communication network is represented by a graph where vertices host processors, and communication is performed over the edges. Computation proceeds in synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Leonid Barenboim

Network decomposition is a central tool in distributed graph algorithms. We present two improvements on the state of the art for network decomposition, which thus lead to improvements in the (deterministic and randomized) complexity of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Václav Rozhoň

Node coloring is the task of assigning colors to the nodes of a graph such that no two adjacent nodes have the same color, while using as few colors as possible. It is the most widely studied instance of graph coloring and of central…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Knut Vanderbush , Melanie Weber

We study the problem of online graph coloring for $k$-colorable graphs. The best previously known deterministic algorithm uses $\widetilde{O}(n^{1-\frac{1}{k!}})$ colors for general $k$ and $\widetilde{O}(n^{5/6})$ colors for $k = 4$, both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Hirotaka Yoneda , Masataka Yoneda

We present a new approach for solving (minimum disagreement) correlation clustering that results in sublinear algorithms with highly efficient time and space complexity for this problem. In particular, we obtain the following algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sepehr Assadi , Chen Wang

We contribute to the theoretical understanding of randomized search heuristics for dynamic problems. We consider the classical vertex coloring problem on graphs and investigate the dynamic setting where edges are added to the current graph.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann , Pan Peng , Dirk Sudholt

We investigate the classical and distributed complexity of \emph{$k$-partial $c$-coloring} where $c=k$, a natural generalization of Brooks' theorem where each vertex should be colored from the palette $\{1,\ldots,c\} = \{1,\ldots,k\}$ such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jan Bok , Avinandan Das , Anna Gujgiczer , Nikola Jedličková

We resolve a number of long-standing open problems in online graph coloring. More specifically, we develop tight lower bounds on the performance of online algorithms for fundamental graph classes. An important contribution is that our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Susanne Albers , Sebastian Schraink

A celebrated result of Johansson in graph theory states that every triangle-free graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be properly colored with $O(\Delta/\ln\Delta)$ colors, improving upon the "greedy bound" of $\Delta+1$ coloring in general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sepehr Assadi , Helia Yazdanyar

One of the most basic techniques in algorithm design consists of breaking a problem into subproblems and then proceeding recursively. In the case of graph algorithms, one way to implement this approach is through separator sets. Given a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Benjamin Jauregui , Pedro Montealegre , Ivan Rapaport

We present a simple polylogarithmic-time deterministic distributed algorithm for network decomposition. This improves on a celebrated $2^{O(\sqrt{\log n})}$-time algorithm of Panconesi and Srinivasan [STOC'92] and settles a central and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Václav Rozhoň , Mohsen Ghaffari

We provide new deterministic algorithms for the edge coloring problem, which is one of the classic and highly studied distributed local symmetry breaking problems. As our main result, we show that a $(2\Delta-1)$-edge coloring can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti

In this work we study local computation with advice: the goal is to solve a graph problem $\Pi$ with a distributed algorithm in $T(\Delta)$ communication rounds, for some function $T$ that only depends on the maximum degree $\Delta$ of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Krzysztof Nowicki , Dennis Olivetti , Eva Rotenberg , Jukka Suomela

Given a graph $G$, an edge-coloring is an assignment of colors to edges of $G$ such that any two edges sharing an endpoint receive different colors. By Vizing's celebrated theorem, any graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ needs at least…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Saneian

Given an undirected, anonymous, port-labeled graph of $n$ memory-less nodes, $m$ edges, and degree $\Delta$, we consider the problem of dispersing $k\leq n$ robots (or tokens) positioned initially arbitrarily on one or more nodes of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Gokarna Sharma