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We give a nearly optimal sublinear-time algorithm for approximating the size of a minimum vertex cover in a graph G. The algorithm may query the degree deg(v) of any vertex v of its choice, and for each 1 <= i <= deg(v), it may ask for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-06 Krzysztof Onak , Dana Ron , Michal Rosen , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We give algorithms for geometric graph problems in the modern parallel models inspired by MapReduce. For example, for the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem over a set of points in the two-dimensional space, our algorithm computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Alexandr Andoni , Aleksandar Nikolov , Krzysztof Onak , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

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

We present the first parallel fixed-parameter algorithm for subgraph isomorphism in planar graphs, bounded-genus graphs, and, more generally, all minor-closed graphs of locally bounded treewidth. Our randomized low depth algorithm has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Lukas Gianinazzi , Torsten Hoefler

In this paper, we study a class of set cover problems that satisfy a special property which we call the {\em small neighborhood cover} property. This class encompasses several well-studied problems including vertex cover, interval cover,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Archita Agarwal , Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy , Anamitra R. Choudhury , Sambuddha Roy , Yogish Sabharwal

Significant research effort has been devoted to improving the performance of join processing in the massively parallel computation model, where the goal is to evaluate a query with the minimum possible data transfer between machines.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Simon Frisk , Austen Fan , Paraschos Koutris

Similarity search, the task of identifying objects most similar to a given query object under a specific metric, has gathered significant attention due to its practical applications. However, the absence of coordinate information to…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yifan Zhu , Ruiyao Ma , Baihua Zheng , Xiangyu Ke , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao

The vertex connectivity of a graph $G$ is the size of the smallest set of vertices $S$ such that $G \setminus S$ is disconnected. For the class of planar graphs, the problem of vertex connectivity is well-studied, both from structural and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Therese Biedl , Karthik Murali

To solve the combinatorial optimization problems especially the minimal Vertex-cover problem with high efficiency, is a significant task in theoretical computer science and many other subjects. Aiming at detecting the solution space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 Wei Wei , Renquan Zhang , Binghui Guo , Zhiming Zheng

Consider the following generalization of the classic binary search problem: A searcher is required to find a hidden target vertex $x$ in a graph $G$. To do so, they iteratively perform queries to an oracle, each about a chosen vertex $v$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Michał Szyfelbein

Betweenness Centrality (BC) is steadily growing in popularity as a metrics of the influence of a vertex in a graph. The BC score of a vertex is proportional to the number of all-pairs-shortest-paths passing through it. However, complete and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Flavio Vella , Giancarlo Carbone , Massimo Bernaschi

The eternal vertex cover problem is a variant of the classical vertex cover problem where a set of guards on the vertices have to be dynamically reconfigured from one vertex cover to another in every round of an attacker-defender game. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jasine Babu , L. Sunil Chandran , Mathew Francis , Veena Prabhakaran , Deepak Rajendraprasad , J. Nandini Warrier

In the eternal vertex cover problem, mobile guards on the vertices of a graph are used to defend it against an infinite sequence of attacks on its edges by moving to neighbor vertices. The eternal vertex cover problem consists in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò

As massive graphs become more prevalent, there is a rapidly growing need for scalable algorithms that solve classical graph problems, such as maximum matching and minimum vertex cover, on large datasets. For massive inputs, several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Aaron Bernstein , Vahab Mirrokni , Cliff Stein

We present a parallel GPU-accelerated solver for branch Model Predictive Control problems. Based on iterative LQR methods, our solver exploits the tree-sparse structure and implements temporal parallelism using the parallel scan algorithm.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Luyao Zhang , Chenghuai Lin , Sergio Grammatico

One of the simplest problems on directed graphs is that of identifying the set of vertices reachable from a designated source vertex. This problem can be solved easily sequentially by performing a graph search, but efficient parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jeremy T. Fineman

This paper presents a simple and efficient approach for finding the bridges and failure points in a densely connected network mapped as a graph. The algorithm presented here is a parallel algorithm which works in a distributed environment.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ashwani Kumar , Aditya Pratap Singh

The goal in the stochastic vertex cover problem is to obtain an approximately minimum vertex cover for a graph $G^\star$ that is realized by sampling each edge independently with some probability $p\in (0, 1]$ in a base graph $G = (V, E)$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jan van den Brand , Inge Li Gørtz , Chirag Pabbaraju , Debmalya Panigrahi , Clifford Stein , Miltiadis Stouras , Ola Svensson , Ali Vakilian

We present a parallel algorithm for computing the treewidth of a graph on a GPU. We implement this algorithm in OpenCL, and experimentally evaluate its performance. Our algorithm is based on an $O^*(2^{n})$-time algorithm that explores the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Tom C. van der Zanden , Hans L. Bodlaender

For intractable problems on graphs of bounded treewidth, two graph parameters treedepth and vertex cover number have been used to obtain fine-grained complexity results. Although the studies in this direction are successful, we still need a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Tatsuya Gima , Tesshu Hanaka , Masashi Kiyomi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi