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Identifying the connected components of a graph, apart from being a fundamental problem with countless applications, is a key primitive for many other algorithms. In this paper, we consider this problem in parallel settings. Particularly,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Soheil Behnezhad , Laxman Dhulipala , Hossein Esfandiari , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

Recently, studying fundamental graph problems in the \emph{Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) framework, inspired by the MapReduce paradigm, has gained a lot of attention. An assumption common to a vast majority of approaches is to allow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Sebastian Brandt , Manuela Fischer , Jara Uitto

This work studies the non-monotone DR-submodular Maximization over a ground set of $n$ subject to a size constraint $k$. We propose two approximation algorithms for solving this problem named FastDrSub and FastDrSub++. FastDrSub offers an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tan D. Tran , Canh V. Pham

Submodular maximization is a classic algorithmic problem with multiple applications in data mining and machine learning; there, the growing need to deal with massive instances motivates the design of algorithms balancing the quality of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Georgios Amanatidis , Federico Fusco , Philip Lazos , Stefano Leonardi , Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

We consider the problem of designing deterministic graph algorithms for the model of Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) that improve with the sparsity of the input graph, as measured by the notion of arboricity. For the problems of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Manuela Fischer , Jeff Giliberti , Christoph Grunau

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental classical computing operation whose efficiency becomes a major challenge at scale, especially for machine learning applications. Quantum computing, with its inherent parallelism and exponential storage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jiaqi Yao , Ding Liu

We improve the running times of $O(1)$-approximation algorithms for the set cover problem in geometric settings, specifically, covering points by disks in the plane, or covering points by halfspaces in three dimensions. In the unweighted…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Timothy M. Chan , Qizheng He

We present combinatorial and parallelizable algorithms for maximization of a submodular function, not necessarily monotone, with respect to a size constraint. We improve the best approximation factor achieved by an algorithm that has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yixin Chen , Alan Kuhnle

Maximal Independent Set (MIS) is one of the fundamental and most well-studied problems in distributed graph algorithms. Even after four decades of intensive research, the best-known (randomized) MIS algorithms have $O(\log{n})$ round…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Fabien Dufoulon , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan

Given a sequence of integers, we want to find a longest increasing subsequence of the sequence. It is known that this problem can be solved in $O(n \log n)$ time and space. Our goal in this paper is to reduce the space consumption while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Masashi Kiyomi , Hirotaka Ono , Yota Otachi , Pascal Schweitzer , Jun Tarui

Longest Increasing Subsequence (LIS) is a fundamental statistic of a sequence, and has been studied for decades. While the LIS of a sequence of length $n$ can be computed exactly in time $O(n\log n)$, the complexity of estimating the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Alexandr Andoni , Negev Shekel Nosatzki , Sandip Sinha , Clifford Stein

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental kernel in high performance computing. Many algorithms for fast matrix multiplication can only be applied to enormous matrices ($n>10^{100}$) and thus cannot be used in practice. Of all algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Oded Schwartz , Eyal Zwecher

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) requires to evaluate the full data likelihood at different parameter values iteratively and is often computationally infeasible for large data sets. In this paper, we propose to approximate the log-likelihood…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-26 Guanyu Hu , HaiYing Wang

Efficient computation of shortest cycles which form a homology basis under $\mathbb{Z}_2$-additions in a given simplicial complex $\mathcal{K}$ has been researched actively in recent years. When the complex $\mathcal{K}$ is a weighted graph…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Tamal K. Dey , Tianqi Li , Yusu Wang

The Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model is an emerging model which distills core aspects of distributed and parallel computation. It has been developed as a tool to solve (typically graph) problems in systems where the input is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies , Merav Parter

Balkanski and Singer [5] recently initiated the study of adaptivity (or parallelism) for constrained submodular function maximization, and studied the setting of a cardinality constraint. Very recent improvements for this problem by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

As massive graphs become more prevalent, there is a rapidly growing need for scalable algorithms that solve classical graph problems, such as maximum matching and minimum vertex cover, on large datasets. For massive inputs, several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Aaron Bernstein , Vahab Mirrokni , Cliff Stein

This paper presents a distributed O(1)-approximation algorithm, with expected-$O(\log \log n)$ running time, in the $\mathcal{CONGEST}$ model for the metric facility location problem on a size-$n$ clique network. Though metric facility…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Andrew Berns , James Hegeman , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

In this paper, we present algorithms to solve matrix multiplication problems in the MPC model. In particular, we consider the problem under various processor/memory constraints in the MPC model and prove the following results. 1.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lakshya Joshi , Arya Deshmukh , Atharv Chhabra , Chetan Gupta

In the semi-streaming model for processing massive graphs, an algorithm makes multiple passes over the edges of a given $n$-vertex graph and is tasked with computing the solution to a problem using $O(n \cdot \text{polylog}(n))$ space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Sepehr Assadi , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu , Janani Sundaresan