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Data structures that allow efficient distance estimation (distance oracles, distance sketches, etc.) have been extensively studied, and are particularly well studied in centralized models and classical distributed models such as CONGEST. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Michael Dinitz , Yasamin Nazari

Miller and Reif's FOCS'85 classic and fundamental tree contraction algorithm is a broadly applicable technique for the parallel solution of a large number of tree problems. Additionally it is also used as an algorithmic design technique for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Marina Knittel , Hamed Saleh , Hsin-Hao Su

In this paper, we study the $r$-gather problem, a natural formulation of minimum-size clustering in metric spaces. The goal of $r$-gather is to partition $n$ points into clusters such that each cluster has size at least $r$, and the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Alessandro Epasto , Mohammad Mahdian , Vahab Mirrokni , Peilin Zhong

Minimum Weight Cycle (MWC) is the problem of finding a simple cycle of minimum weight in a graph $G=(V,E)$. This is a fundamental graph problem with classical sequential algorithms that run in $\tilde{O}(n^3)$ and $\tilde{O}(mn)$ time where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Vignesh Manoharan , Vijaya Ramachandran

We show fast deterministic algorithms for fundamental problems on forests in the challenging low-space regime of the well-known Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model. A recent breakthrough result by Coy and Czumaj [STOC'22] shows that,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Alkida Balliu , Rustam Latypov , Yannic Maus , Dennis Olivetti , Jara Uitto

This paper presents new parallel algorithms for generating Euclidean minimum spanning trees and spatial clustering hierarchies (known as HDBSCAN$^*$). Our approach is based on generating a well-separated pair decomposition followed by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yiqiu Wang , Shangdi Yu , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

As the most typical graph clustering method, spectral clustering is popular and attractive due to the remarkable performance, easy implementation, and strong adaptability. Classical spectral clustering measures the edge weights of graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Dehua Peng , Zhipeng Gui , Huayi Wu

We consider a special case of the generalized minimum spanning tree problem (GMST) and the generalized travelling salesman problem (GTSP) where we are given a set of points inside the integer grid (in Euclidean plane) where each grid cell…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Binay Bhattacharya , Ante Ćustić , Akbar Rafiey , Arash Rafiey , Vladyslav Sokol

A minimum path cover (MPC) of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) $G = (V,E)$ is a minimum-size set of paths that together cover all the vertices of the DAG. Computing an MPC is a basic polynomial problem, dating back to Dilworth's and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Manuel Cáceres , Massimo Cairo , Brendan Mumey , Romeo Rizzi , Alexandru I. Tomescu

We present a massively parallel algorithm, with near-linear memory per machine, that computes a $(2+\varepsilon)$-approximation of minimum-weight vertex cover in $O(\log\log d)$ rounds, where $d$ is the average degree of the input graph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Mohsen Ghaffari , Ce Jin , Daan Nilis

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental problem with applications to community detection, clustering, and data mining. Our work focuses on finding approximate densest subgraphs in directed graphs in computational models for processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan , Mahdi Qaempanah , Mohammad Amin Raeisi

In this paper we study the problem of dynamically maintaining graph properties under batches of edge insertions and deletions in the massively parallel model of computation. In this setting, the graph is stored on a number of machines, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 David Durfee , Laxman Dhulipala , Janardhan Kulkarni , Richard Peng , Saurabh Sawlani , Xiaorui Sun

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

The SetCover problem has been extensively studied in many different models of computation, including parallel and distributed settings. From an approximation point of view, there are two standard guarantees: an $O(\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Laxman Dhulipala , Michael Dinitz , Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović

The Massive Parallel Computing (MPC) model gained popularity during the last decade and it is now seen as the standard model for processing large scale data. One significant shortcoming of the model is that it assumes to work on static…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Silvio Lattanzi , Vahab S. Mirrokni , Nikos Parotsidis

Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) is an important graph algorithm that has wide ranging applications in the areas of computer networks, VLSI routing, wireless communications among others. Today virtually every computer is built out of multi-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula

We study dynamic graph algorithms in the Massively Parallel Computation model, which was inspired by practical data processing systems. Our goal is to provide algorithms that can efficiently handle large batches of edge insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Krzysztof Nowicki , Krzysztof Onak

The Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model serves as a common abstraction of many modern large-scale data processing frameworks, and has been receiving increasingly more attention over the past few years, especially in the context of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Danupon Nanongkai , Michele Scquizzato

We consider a spectrum of geometric optimization problems motivated by contexts such as satellite communication and astrophysics. In the problem Minimum Scan Cover with Angular Costs, we are given a graph $G$ that is embedded in Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Kevin Buchin , Sándor P. Fekete , Alexander Hill , Linda Kleist , Irina Kostitsyna , Dominik Krupke , Roel Lambers , Martijn Struijs

The One Sided Crossing Minimization (OSCM) problem is an optimization problem in graph drawing that aims to minimize the number of edge crossings in bipartite graph layouts. It has practical applications in areas such as network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bogdan-Ioan Popa , Adrian-Marius Dumitran , Livia Magureanu