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Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider this problem in the setting of local algorithms: one wants to quickly determine whether a given edge $e$ is in a specific spanning tree,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

In this paper, we propose a depth-first search (DFS) algorithm for searching maximum matchings in general graphs. Unlike blossom shrinking algorithms, which store all possible alternative alternating paths in the super-vertices shrunk from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Tony T. Lee , Bojun Lu , Hanli Chu

Given a graph, the densest subgraph problem asks for a set of vertices such that the average degree among these vertices is maximized. Densest subgraph has numerous applications in learning, e.g., community detection in social networks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Elaine Shi

In the Densest k-Subgraph problem, given a graph G and a parameter k, one needs to find a subgraph of G induced on k vertices that contains the largest number of edges. There is a significant gap between the best known upper and lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-19 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Eden Chlamtac , Uriel Feige , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Recently [Bhattacharya et al., STOC 2015] provide the first non-trivial algorithm for the densest subgraph problem in the streaming model with additions and deletions to its edges, i.e., for dynamic graph streams. They present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David P. Woodruff

Finding dense subnetworks, with density based on edges or more complex structures, such as subgraphs or $k$-cliques, is a fundamental algorithmic problem with many applications. While the problem has been studied extensively in static…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Ilie Sarpe , Fabio Vandin , Aristides Gionis

Given an undirected graph $G$, the Densest $k$-subgraph problem (DkS) asks to compute a set $S \subset V$ of cardinality $\left\lvert S\right\rvert \leq k$ such that the weight of edges inside $S$ is maximized. This is a fundamental NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yash Khanna , Anand Louis

The Densest $k$-Subgraph (D$k$S) is a fundamental combinatorial problem known for its theoretical hardness and breadth of applications. Recently, Lu et al. (AAAI 2025) introduced a penalty-based non-convex relaxation that achieves promising…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qiheng Lu , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Aritra Konar

As the popularity of graph data increases, there is a growing need to count the occurrences of subgraph patterns of interest, for a variety of applications. Many graphs are massive in scale and also fully dynamic (with insertions and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Kaixin Wang , Cheng Long , Da Yan , Jie Zhang , H. V. Jagadish

Maximum weight matching is one of the most fundamental combinatorial optimization problems with a wide range of applications in data mining and bioinformatics. Developing distributed weighted matching algorithms is challenging due to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

We present a time-optimal deterministic distributed algorithm for approximating a minimum weight vertex cover in hypergraphs of rank $f$. This problem is equivalent to the Minimum Weight Set Cover Problem in which the frequency of every…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Ran Ben-Basat , Guy Even , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Gregory Schwartzman

There has been a growing effort in studying the distributed optimization problem over a network. The objective is to optimize a global function formed by a sum of local functions, using only local computation and communication. Literature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Guannan Qu , Na Li

We study the problem of finding and monitoring fixed-size subgraphs in a continually changing large-scale graph. We present the first approach that (i) performs worst-case optimal computation and communication, (ii) maintains a total memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Khaled Ammar , Frank McSherry , Semih Salihoglu , Manas Joglekar

A local algorithm is a distributed algorithm that completes after a constant number of synchronous communication rounds. We present local approximation algorithms for the minimum dominating set problem and the maximum matching problem in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Matti Åstrand , Valentin Polishchuk , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

In many models for large-scale computation, decomposition of the problem is key to efficient algorithms. For distance-related graph problems, it is often crucial that such a decomposition results in clusters of small diameter, while the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Ruben Becker , Yuval Emek , Christoph Lenzen

Hypergraphs allow modeling problems with multi-way high-order relationships. However, the computational cost of most existing hypergraph-based algorithms can be heavily dependent upon the input hypergraph sizes. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Aghdaei , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

Given a graph, the minimum dominating set (MinDS) problem is to identify a smallest set $D$ of vertices such that every vertex not in $D$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $D$. The MinDS problem is a classic $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Enqiang Zhu , Yu Zhang , Shengzhi Wang , Darren Strash , Chanjuan Liu

Finding a Maximum Clique is a classic property test from graph theory; find any one of the largest complete subgraphs in an Erd\"os-R\'enyi G(N, p) random graph. We use Maximum Clique to explore the structure of the problem as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

Solving linear programs is often a challenging task in distributed settings. While there are good algorithms for solving packing and covering linear programs in a distributed manner (Kuhn et al.~2006), this is essentially the only class of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Michael Dinitz , Yasamin Nazari

We study the sublinear space continual release model for edge-differentially private (DP) graph algorithms, with a focus on the densest subgraph problem (DSG) in the insertion-only setting. Our main result is the first continual release DSG…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Felix Zhou