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We tackle three optimization problems in which a colored graph, where each node is assigned a color, must be partitioned into colorful connected components. A component is defined as colorful if each color appears at most once. The problems…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Claudia Archetti , Martina Cerulli , Carmine Sorgente

The importance of classifying connections in large graphs has been the motivation for a rich line of work on distributed subgraph finding that has led to exciting recent breakthroughs. A crucial aspect that remained open was whether…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Keren Censor-Hillel , Dean Leitersdorf , David Vulakh

We study the problem of finding connected components in the Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC) model. We show that when we require the total space to be linear in the size of the input graph the problem can be solved in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Rustam Latypov , Jakub Łącki , Yannic Maus , Jara Uitto

In this short note, we give a novel algorithm for $O(1)$ round triangle counting in bounded arboricity graphs. Counting triangles in $O(1)$ rounds (exactly) is listed as one of the interesting remaining open problems in the recent survey of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Quanquan C. Liu , C. Seshadhri

We present a simple polylogarithmic-time deterministic distributed algorithm for network decomposition. This improves on a celebrated $2^{O(\sqrt{\log n})}$-time algorithm of Panconesi and Srinivasan [STOC'92] and settles a central and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Václav Rozhoň , Mohsen Ghaffari

We present an $O(\log^3\log n)$-round distributed algorithm for the $(\Delta+1)$-coloring problem, where each node broadcasts only one $O(\log n)$-bit message per round to its neighbors. Previously, the best such broadcast-based algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Maxime Flin , Mohsen Ghaffari , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Fabian Kuhn , Alexandre Nolin

Coloring unit-disk graphs efficiently is an important problem in the global and distributed setting, with applications in radio channel assignment problems when the communication relies on omni-directional antennas of the same power. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Louis Esperet , Sébastien Julliot , Arnaud de Mesmay

Targeted color-dots with varying shapes and sizes in images are first exhaustively identified, and then their multiscale 2D geometric patterns are extracted for testing spatial uniformness in a progressive fashion. Based on color theory in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Shuting Liao , Li-Yu Liu , Ting-An Chen , Kuang-Yu Chen , Fushing Hsieh

The maximum common subtree isomorphism problem asks for the largest possible isomorphism between subtrees of two given input trees. This problem is a natural restriction of the maximum common subgraph problem, which is ${\sf NP}$-hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Andre Droschinsky , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel

We consider the problem of finding the $k^{th}$ highest element in a totally ordered set of $n$ elements (select), and partitioning a totally ordered set into the top $k$ and bottom $n-k$ elements (partition) using pairwise comparisons.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Mark Braverman , Jieming Mao , S. Matthew Weinberg

We investigate the connections between the fields of distributed computing and measurable combinatorics by considering complexity classes of locally checkable labeling problems on regular forests. We show that the most important…

We define a search problem on trees that closely captures the backtracking behavior of all current practical graph isomorphism algorithms. Given two trees with colored leaves, the goal is to find two leaves of matching color, one in each of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Markus Anders , Pascal Schweitzer

We give a randomized algorithm that properly colors the vertices of a triangle-free graph G on n vertices using O(\Delta(G)/ log \Delta(G)) colors, where \Delta(G) is the maximum degree of G. The algorithm takes O(n\Delta2(G)log\Delta(G))…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Mohammad Shoaib Jamall

We consider the problem of finding a low discrepancy coloring for sparse set systems where each element lies in at most $t$ sets. We give an algorithm that finds a coloring with discrepancy $O((t \log n \log s)^{1/2})$ where $s$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Nikhil Bansal , Shashwat Garg

We present new distributed algorithms for constructing a Steiner Forest in the CONGEST model. Our deterministic algorithm finds, for any given constant $\epsilon>0$, a $(2+\epsilon)$-approximation in $\tilde{O}(sk+\sqrt{\min(st,n)})$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Christoph Lenzen , Boaz Patt-Shamir

We propose distributed algorithms for two well-established problems that operate efficiently under extremely harsh conditions. Our algorithms achieve state-of-the-art performance in a simple and novel way. Our algorithm for maximal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Peter Jeavons , Alex Scott , Lei Xu

We give a randomized $\Delta$-coloring algorithm in the LOCAL model that runs in $\text{poly} \log \log n$ rounds, where $n$ is the number of nodes of the input graph and $\Delta$ is its maximum degree. This means that randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Manuela Fischer , Yannic Maus , Magnús M. Halldórsson

We consider the problem of sorting $n$ items, given the outcomes of $m$ pre-existing comparisons. We present a simple and natural deterministic algorithm that runs in $O(m + \log T)$ time and does $O(\log T)$ comparisons, where $T$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , John Iacono , Vaclav Rozhon , Robert Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

In the past few years, a successful line of research has lead to lower bounds for several fundamental local graph problems in the distributed setting. These results were obtained via a technique called round elimination. On a high level,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Joonatan Saarhelo

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