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Fast distributed algorithms that output a feasible solution for constraint satisfaction problems, such as maximal independent sets, have been heavily studied. There has been much less research on distributed sampling problems, where one…

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We study the problem of computing approximate minimum edge cuts by distributed algorithms. We use a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round, $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over each edge (a.k.a. the CONGEST…

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Max-cut, clustering, and many other partitioning problems that are of significant importance to machine learning and other scientific fields are NP-hard, a reality that has motivated researchers to develop a wealth of approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Maria-Florina Balcan , Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Ellen Vitercik , Colin White

We consider the problem of hypothesis testing for discrete distributions. In the standard model, where we have sample access to an underlying distribution $p$, extensive research has established optimal bounds for uniformity testing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Piotr Indyk , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Sandeep Silwal

As computer clusters are found to be highly effective for handling massive datasets, the design of efficient parallel algorithms for such a computing model is of great interest. We consider ({\alpha}, k)-minimal algorithms for such a…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Silu Huang , Ada Wai-Chee Fu

Sorting is one of the most fundamental problems in the field of computer science. With the rapid development of manycore processors, it shows great importance to design efficient parallel sort algorithm on manycore architecture. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Tianyi Yu , Wei Li

Sorting is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Playing a role in many processes, it has a lower complexity bound imposed by $\mathcal{O}(n\log{n})$ when executing on a sequential machine. This limit can be brought down to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Daniel Bascones , Borja Morcillo

Social and real-world considerations such as robustness, fairness, social welfare and multi-agent tradeoffs have given rise to multi-distribution learning paradigms, such as collaborative learning, group distributionally robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Nika Haghtalab , Michael I. Jordan , Eric Zhao

When dealing with massive data sorting, we usually use Hadoop which is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. A common approach in implement of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Zhuo Wang , Longlong Tian , Dianjie Guo , Xiaoming Jiang

We present fast algorithms for approximate shortest paths in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model. We provide randomized algorithms that take $poly(\log{\log{n}})$ rounds in the near-linear memory MPC model. Our results are for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Michal Dory , Shaked Matar

The computational equivalence between approximate counting and sampling is well established for polynomial-time algorithms. The most efficient general reduction from counting to sampling is achieved via simulated annealing, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 David G. Harris , Vladimir Kolmogorov , Hongyang Liu , Yitong Yin , Yiyao Zhang

Partitioning graphs into blocks of roughly equal size such that few edges run between blocks is a frequently needed operation in processing graphs. Recently, size, variety, and structural complexity of these networks has grown dramatically.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Yaroslav Akhremtsev , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

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

Distributed optimization algorithms are widely used in many industrial machine learning applications. However choosing the appropriate algorithm and cluster size is often difficult for users as the performance and convergence rate of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Xinghao Pan , Shivaram Venkataraman , Zizheng Tai , Joseph Gonzalez

This paper presents a practical global optimization algorithm for the K-center clustering problem, which aims to select K samples as the cluster centers to minimize the maximum within-cluster distance. This algorithm is based on a…

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We present a deterministic sorting algorithm, SPMS (Sample, Partition, and Merge Sort), that interleaves the partitioning of a sample sort with merging. Sequentially, it sorts $n$ elements in $O(n \log n)$ time cache-obliviously with an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Richard Cole , Vijaya Ramachandran

We give optimally fast $O(\log p)$ time (per processor) algorithms for computing round-optimal broadcast schedules for message-passing parallel computing systems. This affirmatively answers difficult questions posed in a SPAA 2022 BA and a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jesper Larsson Träff

Consider two problems about an unknown probability distribution $p$: 1. How many samples from $p$ are required to test if $p$ is supported on $n$ elements or not? Specifically, given samples from $p$, determine whether it is supported on at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Renato Ferreira Pinto , Nathaniel Harms

Sampling from high-dimensional probability distributions is fundamental in machine learning and statistics. As datasets grow larger, computational efficiency becomes increasingly important, particularly in reducing adaptive complexity,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Huanjian Zhou , Masashi Sugiyama

Partitioning graphs into blocks of roughly equal size such that few edges run between blocks is a frequently needed operation when processing graphs on a parallel computer. When a topology of a distributed system is known an important task…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke , Jesper Larsson Träff , Christian Schulz