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There are numerous NP-hard combinatorial problems which involve searching for an undirected graph satisfying a certain property. One way to solve such problems is to translate a problem into an instance of the boolean satisfiability (SAT)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Vyacheslav Moklev , Vladimir Ulyantsev

We present a work-efficient parallel level-synchronous Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm for shared-memory architectures which achieves the theoretical lower bound on parallel running time. The optimality holds regardless of the shape of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Yonatan Fogel , Rezaul Chowdhury

We factor Beamer's push-pull, also known as direction-optimized breadth-first-search (DOBFS) into 3 separable optimizations, and analyze them for generalizability, asymptotic speedup, and contribution to overall speedup. We demonstrate that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Carl Yang , Aydin Buluc , John D. Owens

On a GPU cluster, the ratio of high computing power to communication bandwidth makes scaling breadth-first search (BFS) on a scale-free graph extremely challenging. By separating high and low out-degree vertices, we present an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Yuechao Pan , Roger Pearce , John D. Owens

To find a shortest path between two nodes $s_0$ and $s_1$ in a given graph, a classical approach is to start a Breadth-First Search (BFS) from $s_0$ and run it until the search discovers $s_1$. Alternatively, one can start two Breadth-First…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sacha Cerf , Benjamin Dayan , Umberto De Ambroggio , Marc Kaufmann , Johannes Lengler , Ulysse Schaller

Breadth-first search (BFS) is known as a basic search strategy for learning graph properties. As the scales of graph databases have increased tremendously in recent years, large-scale graphs G are often disk-resident. Obtaining the BFS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Xiaolong Wan , Xixian Han

Breadth-First Search (BFS) is a building block used in a wide array of graph analytics and is used in various network analysis domains: social, road, transportation, communication, and much more. Over the last two decades, network sizes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Oded Green

We present an in-place depth first search (DFS) and an in-place breadth first search (BFS) that runs on a word RAM in linear time such that, if the adjacency arrays of the input graph are given in a sorted order, the input is restored after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Frank Kammer , Andrej Sajenko

Breadth First Search (BFS) is a building block for graph algorithms and has recently been used for large scale analysis of information in a variety of applications including social networks, graph databases and web searching. Due to its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Mireya Paredes , Graham Riley , Mikel Lujan

Breadth First Search (BFS) and other graph traversal techniques are widely used for measuring large unknown graphs, such as online social networks. It has been empirically observed that an incomplete BFS is biased toward high degree nodes.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Maciej Kurant , Athina Markopoulou , Patrick Thiran

We present a new efficient combinatorial algorithm for recognizing if a given symmetric matrix is Robinsonian, i.e., if its rows and columns can be simultaneously reordered so that entries are monotone nondecreasing in rows and columns when…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Monique Laurent , Matteo Seminaroti

Depth first search (DFS) tree is a fundamental data structure for solving various graph problems. The classical DFS algorithm requires $O(m+n)$ time for a graph having $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. In the streaming model, an algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Shahbaz Khan , Shashank K. Mehta

Lexicographic Breadth First Search (LBFS) is one of fundamental graph search algorithms that has numerous applications, including recognition of graph classes, computation of graph parameters, and detection of certain graph structures. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Jan Gorzny , Jing Huang

High-performance implementations of graph algorithms are challenging to implement on new parallel hardware such as GPUs because of three challenges: (1) the difficulty of coming up with graph building blocks, (2) load imbalance on parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Carl Yang , Aydin Buluc , John D. Owens

Large scale-free graphs are famously difficult to process efficiently: the skewed vertex degree distribution makes it difficult to obtain balanced partitioning. Our research instead aims to turn this into an advantage by partitioning the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Scott Sallinen , Abdullah Gharaibeh , Matei Ripeanu

The GraphBLAS high performance library standard has yielded capabilities beyond enabling graph algorithms to be readily expressed in the language of linear algebra. These GraphBLAS capabilities enable new performant ways of thinking about…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hayden Jananthan , Jeremy Kepner , Michael Jones , Vijay Gadepally , Michael Houle , Peter Michaleas , Chasen Milner , Alex Pentland

Breadth First Search (BFS) is a widely used approach for sampling large unknown Internet topologies. Its main advantage over random walks and other exploration techniques is that a BFS sample is a plausible graph on its own, and therefore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Maciej Kurant , Athina Markopoulou , Patrick Thiran

Lexicographic depth first search (LexDFS) is a graph search protocol which has already proved to be a powerful tool on cocomparability graphs. Cocomparability graphs have been well studied by investigating their complements (comparability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-25 Ekkehard Köhler , Lalla Mouatadid

The Maximum (Minimum) Leaf Spanning Tree problem asks for a spanning tree with the largest (smallest) number of leaves. As spanning trees are often computed using graph search algorithms, it is natural to restrict this problem to the set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jesse Beisegel , Ekkehard Köhler , Robert Scheffler , Martin Strehler

We present an algorithm for a fault tolerant Depth First Search (DFS) Tree in an undirected graph. This algorithm is drastically simpler than the current state-of-the-art algorithms for this problem, uses optimal space and optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Surender Baswana , Shiv Kumar Gupta , Ayush Tulsyan