English
Related papers

Related papers: The Laplacian Paradigm in Deterministic Congested …

200 papers

We study a Faulty Congested Clique model, in which an adversary may fail nodes in the network throughout the computation. We show that any task of $O(n\log{n})$-bit input per node can be solved in roughly $n$ rounds, where $n$ is the size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Keren Censor-Hillel , Pedro Soto

We present an $\tilde{O}\left(m^{\frac{10}{7}}U^{\frac{1}{7}}\right)$-time algorithm for the maximum $s$-$t$ flow problem and the minimum $s$-$t$ cut problem in directed graphs with $m$ arcs and largest integer capacity $U$. This matches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Aleksander Madry

We present a near-optimal distributed algorithm for $(1+o(1))$-approximation of single-commodity maximum flow in undirected weighted networks that runs in $(D+ \sqrt{n})\cdot n^{o(1)}$ communication rounds in the \Congest model. Here, $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Mohsen Ghaffari , Andreas Karrenbauer , Fabian Kuhn , Christoph Lenzen , Boaz Patt-Shamir

Two of the most fundamental distributed symmetry-breaking problems are that of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) and a maximal matching (MM) in a graph. It is a major open question whether these problems can be solved in constant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Keren Censor-Hillel , Tomer Even , Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson

We tackle the network topology inference problem by utilizing Laplacian constrained Gaussian graphical models, which recast the task as estimating a precision matrix in the form of a graph Laplacian. Recent research \cite{ying2020nonconvex}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaxi Ying , Xi Han , Rui Zhou , Xiwen Wang , Hing Cheung So

We give the first O(m polylog(n)) time algorithms for approximating maximum flows in undirected graphs and constructing polylog(n) -quality cut-approximating hierarchical tree decompositions. Our algorithm invokes existing algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Richard Peng

In this paper we provide new randomized algorithms with improved runtimes for solving linear programs with two-sided constraints. In the special case of the minimum cost flow problem on $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jan van den Brand , Yin Tat Lee , Yang P. Liu , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Aaron Sidford , Zhao Song , Di Wang

We provide $m^{1+o(1)}k\epsilon^{-1}$-time algorithms for computing multiplicative $(1 - \epsilon)$-approximate solutions to multi-commodity flow problems with $k$-commodities on $m$-edge directed graphs, including concurrent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Li Chen , Andrei Graur , Aaron Sidford

We give the first almost-linear total time algorithm for deciding if a flow of cost at most $F$ still exists in a directed graph, with edge costs and capacities, undergoing decremental updates, i.e., edge deletions, capacity decreases, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jan van den Brand , Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Yang P. Liu , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva

This paper considers the \textit{minimum spanning tree (MST)} problem in the Congested Clique model and presents an algorithm that runs in $O(\log \log \log n)$ rounds, with high probability. Prior to this, the fastest MST algorithm in this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Vivek B. Sardeshmukh

In the decremental single-source shortest paths problem, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source $s$ to every vertex $v$ in an $m$-edge graph undergoing edge deletions. In this paper, we conclude a long line of research on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We study the Task Completion problem, in which $M$ abstract tasks must be completed by a network of $n$ crash-prone nodes, where up to $\alpha n$ nodes may crash for some constant $\alpha<1$. Our main result is a deterministic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Orr Fischer , Ran Gelles

Small depth networks arise in a variety of network related applications, often in the form of maximum flow and maximum weighted matching. Recent works have generalized such methods to include costs arising from concave functions. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Tung Mai , Richard Peng , Anup B. Rao , Vijay V. Vazirani

Censor-Hillel et al. [PODC'15] recently showed how to efficiently implement centralized algebraic algorithms for matrix multiplication in the congested clique model, a model of distributed computing that has received increasing attention in…

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

This paper presents a distributed O(1)-approximation algorithm, with expected-$O(\log \log n)$ running time, in the $\mathcal{CONGEST}$ model for the metric facility location problem on a size-$n$ clique network. Though metric facility…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Andrew Berns , James Hegeman , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

We present improved deterministic distributed algorithms for a number of well-studied matching problems, which are simpler, faster, more accurate, and/or more general than their known counterparts. The common denominator of these results is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Manuela Fischer

We propose improved exact and heuristic algorithms for solving the maximum weight clique problem, a well-known problem in graph theory with many applications. Our algorithms interleave successful techniques from related work with novel data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Roman Erhardt , Kathrin Hanauer , Nils Kriege , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

In this paper we provide an algorithm which given any $m$-edge $n$-vertex directed graph with integer capacities at most $U$ computes a maximum $s$-$t$ flow for any vertices $s$ and $t$ in $m^{4/3+o(1)}U^{1/3}$ time. This improves upon the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

We consider the problem of designing fundamental graph algorithms on the model of Massive Parallel Computation (MPC). The input to the problem is an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and with $D$ being the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj

In this paper we give an $\widetilde{O}((nm)^{2/3}\log C)$ time algorithm for computing min-cost flow (or min-cost circulation) in unit capacity planar multigraphs where edge costs are integers bounded by $C$. For planar multigraphs, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Adam Karczmarz , Piotr Sankowski