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Building a spanning tree, minimum spanning tree (MST), and BFS tree in a distributed network are fundamental problems which are still not fully understood in terms of time and communication cost. x The first work to succeed in computing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Ali Mashreghi , Valerie King

We revisit the classic basic counting problem in the distributed streaming model that was studied by Gibbons and Tirthapura (GT). In the solution for maintaining an $(\epsilon,\delta)$-estimate, as what GT's method does, we make the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Bojian Xu

Space complexity is a critical factor in various computational models, including streaming, parallel/distributed computing, and communication complexity. We study the space complexity of the minimum-cost flow problem, a generalization of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jan van den Brand , Zhao Song , Albert Weng

We study the problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph stream. No streaming algorithm can get sublinear space on all graphs, so methods in this area bound the space in terms of parameters of the input graph such as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-18 John Kallaugher , Eric Price

We establish nearly optimal upper and lower bounds for approximating decision tree splits in data streams. For regression with labels in the range $\{0,1,\ldots,M\}$, we give a one-pass algorithm using $\tilde{O}(M^2/\epsilon)$ space that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Hoang Ta , Hoa T. Vu

In 2022, Chen et al. proposed an algorithm in \cite{main} that solves the min cost flow problem in $m^{1 + o(1)} \log U \log C$ time, where $m$ is the number of edges in the graph, $U$ is an upper bound on capacities and $C$ is an upper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Nithin Kavi

The Boolean Hidden Matching (BHM) problem, introduced in a seminal paper of Gavinsky et. al. [STOC'07], has played an important role in the streaming lower bounds for graph problems such as triangle and subgraph counting, maximum matching,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Michael Kapralov , Amulya Musipatla , Jakab Tardos , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

In the CONGEST model, a communications network is an undirected graph whose $n$ nodes are processors and whose $m$ edges are the communications links between processors. At any given time step, a message of size $O(\log n)$ may be sent by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Valerie King , Shay Kutten , Mikkel Thorup

We consider the \textsf{Unit Interval Selection} problem in the one-pass random order streaming model. Here, an algorithm is presented a sequence of $n$ unit-length intervals on the line that arrive in uniform random order, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Cezar-Mihail Alexandru , Adithya Diddapur , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu

We present faster algorithms for approximate maximum flow in undirected graphs with good separator structures, such as bounded genus, minor free, and geometric graphs. Given such a graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges along with a recursive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Gary Miller , Richard Peng

In this paper, we study the form over the minimum spanning tree problem (MST) from which we will derive an intuitively generalized model and new methods with the upper bound of runtimes of logarithm. The new pattern we made has taken…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Yong Tan

Given a finite set of points $P \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, we would like to find a small subset $S \subseteq P$ such that the convex hull of $S$ approximately contains $P$. More formally, every point in $P$ is within distance $\epsilon$ from…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Avrim Blum , Vladimir Braverman , Ananya Kumar , Harry Lang , Lin F. Yang

We study the $k$-connectivity augmentation problem ($k$-CAP) in the single-pass streaming model. Given a $(k-1)$-edge connected graph $G=(V,E)$ that is stored in memory, and a stream of weighted edges $L$ with weights in $\{0,1,\dots,W\}$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ce Jin , Michael Kapralov , Sepideh Mahabadi , Ali Vakilian

Distributed minimum spanning tree (MST) problem is one of the most central and fundamental problems in distributed graph algorithms. Garay et al. \cite{GKP98,KP98} devised an algorithm with running time $O(D + \sqrt{n} \cdot \log^* n)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Michael Elkin

For many algorithmic problems, traditional algorithms that optimise on the number of instructions executed prove expensive on I/Os. Novel and very different design techniques, when applied to these problems, can produce algorithms that are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-20 Alka

We study the maximum weight matching problem in the random-order semi-streaming model and in the robust communication model. Unlike many other sublinear models, in these two frameworks, there is a large gap between the guarantees of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Diba Hashemi , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

Computing approximate shortest paths in the dynamic streaming setting is a fundamental challenge that has been intensively studied during the last decade. Currently existing solutions for this problem either build a sparse multiplicative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Michael Elkin , Chhaya Trehan

We extract a core principle underlying seemingly different fundamental distributed settings, showing sparsity awareness may induce faster algorithms for problems in these settings. To leverage this, we establish a new framework by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Keren Censor-Hillel , Dean Leitersdorf , Volodymyr Polosukhin

We provide $\widetilde{O}(\epsilon^{-1})$-pass semi-streaming algorithms for computing $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate maximum cardinality matchings in bipartite graphs. Our most efficient methods are deterministic and use optimal, $O(n)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Sepehr Assadi , Arun Jambulapati , Yujia Jin , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

We study the problem of computing an approximate maximum cardinality matching in the semi-streaming model when edges arrive in a \emph{random} order. In the semi-streaming model, the edges of the input graph G = (V,E) are given as a stream…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Aaron Bernstein