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In this paper, we consider distributed coloring for planar graphs with a small number of colors. We present an optimal (up to a constant factor) $O(\log{n})$ time algorithm for 6-coloring planar graphs. Our algorithm is based on a novel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Shiri Chechik , Doron Mukhtar

We present a distributed randomized algorithm finding Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) of a given graph in O(1) rounds, with high probability, in the Congested Clique model. The input graph in the Congested Clique model is a graph of n nodes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Tomasz Jurdzinski , Krzysztof Nowicki

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

Graph coloring problems are among the most fundamental problems in parallel and distributed computing, and have been studied extensively in both settings. In this context, designing efficient deterministic algorithms for these problems has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies , Gopinath Mishra

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

We study the problem of bi-chromatic coloring of hypergraphs in the LOCAL distributed model of computation. This problem can easily be solved by a randomized local algorithm with no communication. However, it is not known how to solve it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Piotr Krysta

We present improved distributed algorithms for triangle detection and its variants in the CONGEST model. We show that Triangle Detection, Counting, and Enumeration can be solved in $\tilde{O}(n^{1/2})$ rounds. In contrast, the previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Yi-Jun Chang , Seth Pettie , Hengjie Zhang

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

A distributed algorithm performs local computations on pieces of input and communicates the results through given communication links. When processing a massive graph in a distributed algorithm, local outputs must be configured as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Fan Chung , Olivia Simpson

We give deterministic distributed $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for Minimum Vertex Coloring and Maximum Independent Set on chordal graphs in the LOCAL model. Our coloring algorithm runs in $O(\frac{1}{\epsilon} \log n)$ rounds,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Christian Konrad , Viktor Zamaraev

Triangle-free graphs play a central role in graph theory, and triangle detection (or triangle finding) as well as triangle enumeration (triangle listing) play central roles in the field of graph algorithms. In distributed computing,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Taisuke Izumi , François Le Gall

We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

Distributed graph coloring is one of the most extensively studied problems in distributed computing. There is a canonical family of distributed graph coloring algorithms known as the locally-iterative coloring algorithms, first formalized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xinyu Fu , Yitong Yin , Chaodong Zheng

We present fast and efficient randomized distributed algorithms to find Hamiltonian cycles in random graphs. In particular, we present a randomized distributed algorithm for the $G(n,p)$ random graph model, with number of nodes $n$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Soumyottam Chatterjee , Reza Fathi , Gopal Pandurangan , Nguyen Dinh Pham

We study the {edge-coloring} problem in the message-passing model of distributed computing. This is one of the most fundamental and well-studied problems in this area. Currently, the best-known deterministic algorithms for (2Delta…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin

In this paper we present distributed testing algorithms of graph properties in the CONGEST-model [Censor-Hillel et al. 2016]. We present one-sided error testing algorithms in the general graph model. We first describe a general procedure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Guy Even , Reut Levi , Moti Medina

We prove new bounds on the distributed fractional coloring problem in the LOCAL model. Fractional $c$-colorings can be understood as multicolorings as follows. For some natural numbers $p$ and $q$ such that $p/q\leq c$, each node $v$ is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Alkida Balliu , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti

The constructive Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma has become a central tool for designing efficient distributed algorithms. While it has been extensively studied in the classic LOCAL model that uses unlimited bandwidth, much less is known in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Yannic Maus , Saku Peltonen

Vertex coloring is one of the classic symmetry breaking problems studied in distributed computing. In this paper we present a new algorithm for $(\Delta+1)$-list coloring in the randomized ${\sf LOCAL}$ model running in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Yi-Jun Chang , Wenzheng Li , Seth Pettie

In this paper we study fractional coloring from the angle of distributed computing. Fractional coloring is the linear relaxation of the classical notion of coloring, and has many applications, in particular in scheduling. It was proved by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Nicolas Bousquet , Louis Esperet , François Pirot