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In this work we introduce the graph-theoretic notion of mendability: for each locally checkable graph problem we can define its mending radius, which captures the idea of how far one needs to modify a partial solution in order to "patch a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Alkida Balliu , Juho Hirvonen , Darya Melnyk , Dennis Olivetti , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela

The node-averaged complexity of a problem captures the number of rounds nodes of a graph have to spend on average to solve the problem in the LOCAL model. A challenging line of research with regards to this new complexity measure is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Gustav Schmid

Many graph problems are locally checkable: a solution is globally feasible if it looks valid in all constant-radius neighborhoods. This idea is formalized in the concept of locally checkable labelings (LCLs), introduced by Naor and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Alkida Balliu , Juho Hirvonen , Christoph Lenzen , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

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

Recent research revealed the existence of gaps in the complexity landscape of locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems in the LOCAL model of distributed computing. For example, the deterministic round complexity of any LCL problem on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yi-Jun Chang

Over the past decade, a long line of research has investigated the distributed complexity landscape of locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems on bounded-degree graphs, culminating in an almost-complete classification on general graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Gustav Schmid

Understanding the role of randomness when solving locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems in the LOCAL model has been one of the top priorities in the research on distributed graph algorithms in recent years. For LCL problems in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Zahra Parsaeian

In an edge modification problem, we are asked to modify at most $k$ edges to a given graph to make the graph satisfy a certain property. Depending on the operations allowed, we have the completion problems and the edge deletion problems. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Yixin Cao , Yuping Ke

One of the central models in distributed computing is Linial's LOCAL model [SIAM J. Comp. 1992]. Over time, researchers have studied distributed graph problems in the LOCAL model under slightly different assumptions, such as whether nodes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Timothé Picavet , Gustav Schmid

The study of Locally Checkable Labelings (LCLs) has led to a remarkably precise characterization of the distributed time complexities that can occur on bounded-degree trees. A central feature of this complexity landscape is the existence of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Gustav Schmid

Locally checkable labeling problems (LCLs) are distributed graph problems in which a solution is globally feasible if it is locally feasible in all constant-radius neighborhoods. Vertex colorings, maximal independent sets, and maximal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

Graph modification problems are typically asked as follows: is there a small set of operations that transforms a given graph to have a certain property. The most commonly considered operations include vertex deletion, edge deletion, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-02 Yixin Cao , Dániel Marx

In this work, we develop the low-space Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) complexity landscape for a family of fundamental graph problems on trees. We present a general method that solves most locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Sebastian Brandt , Rustam Latypov , Jara Uitto

The celebrated Time Hierarchy Theorem for Turing machines states, informally, that more problems can be solved given more time. The extent to which a time hierarchy-type theorem holds in the distributed LOCAL model has been open for many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Yi-Jun Chang , Seth Pettie

A rich line of work has been addressing the computational complexity of locally checkable labelings (LCLs), illustrating the landscape of possible complexities. In this paper, we study the landscape of LCL complexities under bandwidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Alkida Balliu , Keren Censor-Hillel , Yannic Maus , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

We consider locally checkable labeling LCL problems in the LOCAL model of distributed computing. Since 2016, there has been a substantial body of work examining the possible complexities of LCL problems. For example, it has been established…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yi-Jun Chang

Consider a computer network that consists of a path with $n$ nodes. The nodes are labeled with inputs from a constant-sized set, and the task is to find output labels from a constant-sized set subject to some local constraints---more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Yi-Jun Chang , Dennis Olivetti , Mikaël Rabie , Jukka Suomela

Contemporary large language models are powerful problem-solving tools, but they exhibit weaknesses in their reasoning abilities which ongoing research seeks to mitigate. We investigate graph coloring as a means of evaluating an LLM's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Alex Heyman , Joel Zylberberg

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

The widely studied edge modification problems ask how to minimally alter a graph to satisfy certain structural properties. In this paper, we introduce and study a new edge modification problem centered around transforming a given graph into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amirali Madani , Anil Maheshwari , Babak Miraftab , Paweł Żyliński
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