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In this paper we present algorithms for several string problems in the Congested Clique model. In the Congested Clique model, $n$ nodes (computers) are used to solve some problem. The input to the problem is distributed among the nodes, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Shay Golan , Matan Kraus

We study the edge-coloring problem in simple $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$. This is one of the most classical and fundamental graph-algorithmic problems. Vizing's celebrated theorem provides…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Michael Elkin , Ariel Khuzman

In this paper, we give list coloring variants of simple iterative defective coloring algorithms. Formally, in a list defective coloring instance, each node $v$ of a graph is given a list $L_v$ of colors and a list of allowed defects…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Marc Fuchs , Fabian Kuhn

This paper addresses the cornerstone family of \emph{local problems} in distributed computing, and investigates the curious gap between randomized and deterministic solutions under bandwidth restrictions. Our main contribution is in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Keren Censor-Hillel , Merav Parter , Gregory Schwartzman

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in solving various graph coloring problems in the streaming model. The initial algorithms in this line of work are all crucially randomized, raising natural questions about how important a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Sepehr Assadi , Amit Chakrabarti , Prantar Ghosh , Manuel Stoeckl

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

This paper focuses on showing time-message trade-offs in distributed algorithms for fundamental problems such as leader election, broadcast, spanning tree (ST), minimum spanning tree (MST), minimum cut, and many graph verification problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Robert Gmyr , Gopal Pandurangan

In this paper, we consider the Santa Claus problem in the CONGEST model. This NP-hard problem can be modeled as a bipartite graph of children and gifts where an edge indicates that a child desires a gift. Notably, each gift can have a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Tijn de Vos , Leo Wennmann , Malte Baumecker , Yannic Maus , Florian Schager

The All-Pairs Shortest Path problem (APSP) is one of the most central problems in distributed computation. In the CONGEST-CLIQUE model, in which $n$ nodes communicate with each other over a fully connected network by exchanging messages of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Taisuke Izumi , François Le Gall

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

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 propose a simple and time-optimal algorithm for property testing a graph for its conductance in the CONGEST model. Our algorithm takes only $O(\log n)$ rounds of communication (which is known to be optimal), and consists of simply…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tugkan Batu , Amitabh Trehan , Chhaya Trehan

We present a self-stabilizing leader election algorithm for arbitrary networks, with space-complexity $O(\max\{\log \Delta, \log \log n\})$ bits per node in $n$-node networks with maximum degree~$\Delta$. This space complexity is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Lélia Blin , Sébastien Tixeuil

This paper studies the round complexity of computing the weighted diameter and radius of a graph in the quantum CONGEST model. We present a quantum algorithm that $(1+o(1))$-approximates the diameter and radius with round complexity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xudong Wu , Penghui Yao

Broadcast domination assigns a nonnegative integer power to every vertex of a graph so that every vertex is within the assigned power of some broadcasting vertex, and the objective is to minimize the sum of the powers. Heggernes and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kleitos Papadopoulos

The congested clique model is a message-passing model of distributed computation where the underlying communication network is the complete graph of $n$ nodes. In this paper we consider the situation where the joint input to the nodes is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Pedro Montealegre , Sebastian Perez-Salazar , Ivan Rapaport , Ioan Todinca

A streaming algorithm is considered to be adversarially robust if it provides correct outputs with high probability even when the stream updates are chosen by an adversary who may observe and react to the past outputs of the algorithm. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Amit Chakrabarti , Prantar Ghosh , Manuel Stoeckl

We consider the problem of coloring k-colorable graphs with the fewest possible colors. We present a randomized polynomial time algorithm that colors a 3-colorable graph on $n$ vertices with min O(Delta^{1/3} log^{1/2} Delta log n),…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Karger , Rajeev Motwani , Madhu Sudan

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 show the first conditionally optimal deterministic algorithm for $3$-coloring forests in the low-space massively parallel computation (MPC) model. Our algorithm runs in $O(\log \log n)$ rounds and uses optimal global space. The best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Christoph Grunau , Rustam Latypov , Yannic Maus , Shreyas Pai , Jara Uitto