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Algorithms for finding minimum or bounded vertex covers in graphs use a branch-and-reduce strategy, which involves exploring a highly imbalanced search tree. Prior GPU solutions assign different thread blocks to different sub-trees, while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hussein Amro , Basel Fakhri , Amer E. Mouawad , Izzat El Hajj

Finding a maximum clique in a given graph is one of the fundamental NP-hard problems. We compare two multi-core thread-parallel adaptations of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for the maximum clique problem, and provide a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

We present a GPU solution for exact maximal clique enumeration (MCE) that performs a search tree traversal following the Bron-Kerbosch algorithm. Prior works on parallelizing MCE on GPUs perform a breadth-first traversal of the tree, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Mohammad Almasri , Yen-Hsiang Chang , Izzat El Hajj , Rakesh Nagi , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

We consider the Vertex Cover problem in intersection graphs of axis-parallel rectangles on the plane. We present two algorithms: The first is an EPTAS for non-crossing rectangle families, rectangle families $\calR$ where $R_1 \setminus R_2$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Reuven Bar-Yehuda , Danny Hermelin , Dror Rawitz

Counting k-cliques in a graph is an important problem in graph analysis with many applications such as community detection and graph partitioning. Counting k-cliques is typically done by traversing search trees starting at each vertex in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Mohammad Almasri , Izzat El Hajj , Rakesh Nagi , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

In this paper, we explore the limits of graphics processors (GPUs) for general purpose parallel computing by studying problems that require highly irregular data access patterns: parallel graph algorithms for list ranking and connected…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Frank Dehne , Kumanan Yogaratnam

The Minimum Vertex Cover (MinVC) problem is a well-known NP-hard problem. Recently there has been great interest in solving this problem on real-world massive graphs. For such graphs, local search is a promising approach to finding optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Yi Fan , Chengqian Li , Zongjie Ma , LjiLjana Brankovic , Vladimir Estivill-Castro , Abdul Sattar

Generally, a graph G, an independent set is a subset S of vertices in G such that no two vertices in S are adjacent (connected by an edge) and a vertex cover is a subset S of vertices such that each edge of G has at least one of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-02 Kamanashis Biswas , S. A. M. Harun

The paper presents an algorithm for minimum vertex cover problem, which is an NP-Complete problem. The algorithm computes a minimum vertex cover of each input simple graph. Tested by the attached MATLAB programs, Stage 1 of the algorithm is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-30 Gang Hu

Supercomputers are equipped with an increasingly large number of cores to use computational power as a way of solving problems that are otherwise intractable. Unfortunately, getting serial algorithms to run in parallel to take advantage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Khuzaima Daudjee , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura

The edges of a graph are assigned weights and passage times which are assumed to be positive integers. We present a parallel algorithm for finding the shortest path whose total weight is smaller than a pre-determined value. In each step the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Ivan Matic

Covering problems are classical computational problems concerning whether a certain combinatorial structure 'covers' another. For example, the minimum vertex covering problem aims to find the smallest set of vertices in a graph so that each…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-01 Bruno Coelho Coutinho , Hai-Jun Zhou , Yang-Yu Liu

We develop an efficient parallel algorithm for answering shortest-path queries in planar graphs and implement it on a multi-node CPU/GPU clusters. The algorithm uses a divide-and-conquer approach for decomposing the input graph into small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Guillaume Chapuis , Hristo Djidjev

Covering all edges of a graph by a small number of vertices, this is the NP-complete Vertex Cover problem. It is among the most fundamental graph-algorithmic problems. Following a recent trend in studying temporal graphs (a sequence of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Till Fluschnik , Rolf Niedermeier , Valentin Rohm , Philipp Zschoche

The Maximum Common Subgraph is a computationally challenging problem with countless practical applications. Even if it has been long proven NP-hard, its importance still motivates searching for exact solutions. This work starts by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Andrea Marcelli , Stefano Quer , Giovanni Squillero

Computing fixed-radius near-neighbor graphs is an important first step for many data analysis algorithms. Near-neighbor graphs connect points that are close under some metric, endowing point clouds with a combinatorial structure. As…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Gabriel Raulet , Dmitriy Morozov , Aydin Buluc , Katherine Yelick

Finding a minimum vertex cover in a network is a fundamental NP-complete graph problem. One way to deal with its computational hardness, is to trade the qualitative performance of an algorithm (allowing non-optimal outputs) for an improved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Thomas Bläsius , Tobias Friedrich , Maximilian Katzmann

We propose a parallel graph-based data clustering algorithm using CUDA GPU, based on exact clustering of the minimum spanning tree in terms of a minimum isoperimetric criteria. We also provide a comparative performance analysis of our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Ramin Javadi , Saleh Ashkboos

We present a massively parallel algorithm, with near-linear memory per machine, that computes a $(2+\varepsilon)$-approximation of minimum-weight vertex cover in $O(\log\log d)$ rounds, where $d$ is the average degree of the input graph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Mohsen Ghaffari , Ce Jin , Daan Nilis

Hypergraph partitioning is a recurring NP-hard problem in engineering; its efficient solution at scale hinges on parallelism. This work proposes a GPU-centric algorithm for multi-level hypergraph partitioning aimed at a specific set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano
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