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Given a graph $G$, an edge-coloring is an assignment of colors to edges of $G$ such that any two edges sharing an endpoint receive different colors. By Vizing's celebrated theorem, any graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ needs at least…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Saneian

We present a simple deterministic distributed algorithm that computes a $(\Delta+1)$-vertex coloring in $O(\log^2 \Delta \cdot \log n)$ rounds. The algorithm can be implemented with $O(\log n)$-bit messages. The algorithm can also be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

The $\Delta$-vertex coloring problem has become one of the prototypical problems for understanding the complexity of local distributed graph problems on constant-degree graphs. The major open problem is whether the problem can be solved…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Manuel Jakob , Yannic Maus

Over the years, there has been extensive work on fully dynamic algorithms for classic graph problems that admit greedy solutions. Examples include $(\Delta+1)$ vertex coloring, maximal independent set, and maximal matching. For all three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Soheil Behnezhad , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Omer Wasim

A new algorithm for exactly sampling from the set of proper colorings of a graph is presented. This is the first such algorithm that has an expected running time that is guaranteed to be linear in the size of a graph with maximum degree \(…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Kritika Bhandari , Mark Huber

Consider an n-vertex graph G = (V,E) of maximum degree Delta, and suppose that each vertex v \in V hosts a processor. The processors are allowed to communicate only with their neighbors in G. The communication is synchronous, i.e., it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-09 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin

Given a dynamic graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges subject to insertion an deletions of edges, we show how to maintain a $(1+\varepsilon)\Delta$-edge-colouring of $G$ without the use of randomisation. More specifically, we show a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Aleksander B. G. Christiansen

With few exceptions (namely, algorithms for maximal matching, $2$-approximate vertex cover, and certain constant-stretch spanners), all known fully dynamic algorithms in general graphs require (amortized) $\Omega(\log n)$ update/query time.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

We present a new approach to randomized distributed graph coloring that is simpler and more efficient than previous ones. In particular, it allows us to tackle the $(\operatorname{deg}+1)$-list-coloring (D1LC) problem, where each node $v$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Fabian Kuhn , Alexandre Nolin , Tigran Tonoyan

This paper studies sufficient conditions to obtain efficient distributed algorithms coloring graphs optimally (i.e.\ with the minimum number of colors) in the LOCAL model of computation. Most of the work on distributed vertex coloring so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Étienne Bamas , Louis Esperet

We give a new randomized distributed algorithm for $(\Delta+1)$-coloring in the LOCAL model, running in $O(\sqrt{\log \Delta})+ 2^{O(\sqrt{\log \log n})}$ rounds in a graph of maximum degree~$\Delta$. This implies that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Johannes Schneider , Hsin-Hao Su

We consider coloring problems in the distributed message-passing setting. The previously-known deterministic algorithms for edge-coloring employed at least (2Delta - 1) colors, even though any graph admits an edge-coloring with Delta + 1…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin , Tzalik Maimon

In this paper, we present improved algorithms for the $(\Delta+1)$ (vertex) coloring problem in the Congested-Clique model of distributed computing. In this model, the input is a graph on $n$ nodes, initially each node knows only its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Merav Parter

The problem of coloring the edges of an $n$-node graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ with $2\Delta - 1$ colors is one of the key symmetry breaking problems in the area of distributed graph algorithms. While there has been a lot of progress…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Alkida Balliu , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti

The celebrated palette sparsification result of [Assadi, Chen, and Khanna SODA'19] shows that to compute a $\Delta+1$ coloring of the graph, where $\Delta$ denotes the maximum degree, it suffices if each node limits its color choice to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Maxime Flin , Mohsen Ghaffari , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Fabian Kuhn , Alexandre Nolin

Graph coloring is one of the central problems in distributed graph algorithms. Much of the research on this topic has focused on coloring with $\Delta+1$ colors, where $\Delta$ denotes the maximum degree. Using $\Delta+1$ colors may be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christiana Lymouri

We give a new randomized distributed algorithm for the $\Delta+1$-list coloring problem. The algorithm and its analysis dramatically simplify the previous best result known of Chang, Li, and Pettie [SICOMP 2020]. This allows for numerous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Alexandre Nolin , Tigran Tonoyan

We solve, in a fully decentralised way (\ie with no message passing), the classic problem of colouring a graph. We propose a novel algorithm that is automatically responsive to topology changes, and we prove that it converges quickly to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Alessandro Checco , Douglas J. Leith

We study the edge-colouring problem, and give efficient algorithms where the number of colours is parameterised by the graph's arboricity, $\alpha$. In a dynamic graph, subject to insertions and deletions, we give a deterministic algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Aleksander B. G. Christiansen , Eva Rotenberg , Juliette Vlieghe

The fastest algorithms for edge coloring run in time $2^m n^{O(1)}$, where $m$ and $n$ are the number of edges and vertices of the input graph, respectively. For dense graphs, this bound becomes $2^{\Theta(n^2)}$. This is a somewhat unique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Łukasz Kowalik , Arkadiusz Socała