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We study a natural problem in graph sparsification, the Spanning Tree Congestion (\STC) problem. Informally, the \STC problem seeks a spanning tree with no tree-edge \emph{routing} too many of the original edges. The root of this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-26 L. Sunil Chandran , Yun Kuen Cheung , Davis Issac

We present improved distributed algorithms for triangle detection and its variants in the CONGEST model. We show that Triangle Detection, Counting, and Enumeration can be solved in $\tilde{O}(n^{1/2})$ rounds. In contrast, the previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Yi-Jun Chang , Seth Pettie , Hengjie Zhang

We present the first sublinear-time algorithm for a distributed message-passing network sto compute its edge connectivity $\lambda$ exactly in the CONGEST model, as long as there are no parallel edges. Our algorithm takes $\tilde…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Mohit Daga , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We consider the problem of enumerating, for a given directed graph $G=(V,E)$ and a node $r\in V$, all directed spanning trees of $G$ rooted at $r$. For undirected graphs, the corresponding problem of enumerating all spanning trees has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Paweł Gawrychowski , Marcin Knapik

Motivated by the increasing need to understand the algorithmic foundations of distributed large-scale graph computations, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing where $k \geq 2$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

We study the following problem: given an integer $k \ge 3$ and a simple graph $G$, sample a connected induced $k$-node subgraph of $G$ uniformly at random. This is a fundamental graph mining primitive with applications in social network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Marco Bressan

Given a graph $G = (V, E)$, we wish to compute a spanning tree whose maximum vertex degree, i.e. tree degree, is as small as possible. Computing the exact optimal solution is known to be NP-hard, since it generalizes the Hamiltonian path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Ran Duan , Haoqing He , Tianyi Zhang

We consider the problem of reconstructing a rank-$k$ $n \times n$ matrix $M$ from a sampling of its entries. Under a certain incoherence assumption on $M$ and for the case when both the rank and the condition number of $M$ are bounded, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-23 David Gamarnik , Quan Li , Hongyi Zhang

In this work, we consider the problem of sampling a $k$-clique in a graph from an almost uniform distribution in sublinear time in the general graph query model. Specifically the algorithm should output each $k$-clique with probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

In this paper, we provide faster algorithms for computing various fundamental quantities associated with random walks on a directed graph, including the stationary distribution, personalized PageRank vectors, hitting times, and escape…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michael B. Cohen , Jon Kelner , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Aaron Sidford , Adrian Vladu

We present sublinear-time (randomized) algorithms for finding simple cycles of length at least $k\geq 3$ and tree-minors in bounded-degree graphs. The complexity of these algorithms is related to the distance of the graph from being…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-04 Artur Czumaj , Oded Goldreich , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri , Asaf Shapira , Christian Sohler

We design fast algorithms for repeatedly sampling from strongly Rayleigh distributions, which include random spanning tree distributions and determinantal point processes. For a graph $G=(V, E)$, we show how to approximately sample…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Nima Anari , Yang P. Liu , Thuy-Duong Vuong

We present a simple sublinear-time algorithm for sampling an arbitrary subgraph $H$ \emph{exactly uniformly} from a graph $G$ with $m$ edges, to which the algorithm has access by performing the following types of queries: (1) degree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Mingze Gao , Pan Peng

We present improved deterministic algorithms for approximating shortest paths in the Congested Clique model of distributed computing. We obtain $poly(\log\log n)$-round algorithms for the following problems in unweighted undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Michal Dory , Merav Parter

In the standard CONGEST model for distributed network computing, it is known that "global" tasks such as minimum spanning tree, diameter, and all-pairs shortest paths, consume large bandwidth, for their running-time is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Pierre Fraigniaud , Pedro Montealegre , Dennis Olivetti , Ivan Rapaport , Ioan Todinca

We consider global problems, i.e. problems that take at least diameter time, even when the bandwidth is not restricted. We show that all problems considered admit efficient solutions in low-treewidth graphs. By ``efficient'' we mean that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Taisuke Izumi , Naoki Kitamura , Takamasa Naruse , Gregory Schwartzman

The Path Contraction and Cycle Contraction problems take as input an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges and an integer $k$ and determine whether one can obtain a path or a cycle, respectively, by performing at most $k$ edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-12 R. Krithika , V. K. Kutty Malu , Prafullkumar Tale

There are well established reductions between combinatorial sampling and counting problems (Jerrum, Valiant, Vazirani TCS 1986). Building off of a very recent parallel algorithm utilizing this connection (Liu, Yin, Zhang arxiv 2024), we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Joshua Z. Sobel

In this work, we present a constant-round algorithm for the $2$-ruling set problem in the Congested Clique model. As a direct consequence, we obtain a constant round algorithm in the MPC model with linear space-per-machine and optimal total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Mélanie Cambus , Fabian Kuhn , Shreyas Pai , Jara Uitto

In this paper, we consider tree decompositions, branch decompositions, and clique decompositions. We improve the running time of dynamic programming algorithms on these graph decompositions for a large number of problems as a function of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Johan M. M. van Rooij , Hans L. Bodlaender , Erik Jan van Leeuwen , Peter Rossmanith , Martin Vatshelle