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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

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

A maximal independent set (MIS) can be maintained in an evolving $m$-edge graph by simply recomputing it from scratch in $O(m)$ time after each update. But can it be maintained in time sublinear in $m$ in fully dynamic graphs? We answer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Sepehr Assadi , Krzysztof Onak , Baruch Schieber , Shay Solomon

We study local symmetry breaking problems in the CONGEST model, focusing on ruling set problems, which generalize the fundamental Maximal Independent Set (MIS) problem. A $\beta$-ruling set is an independent set such that every node in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Shreyas Pai , Gopal Pandurangan , Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Talal Riaz , Peter Robinson

We study distributed algorithms that find a maximal matching in an anonymous, edge-coloured graph. If the edges are properly coloured with $k$ colours, there is a trivial greedy algorithm that finds a maximal matching in $k-1$ synchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Juho Hirvonen , Jukka Suomela

The field of dynamic graph algorithms aims at achieving a thorough understanding of real-world networks whose topology evolves with time. Traditionally, the focus has been on the classic sequential, centralized setting where the main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Shiri Antaki , Quanquan C. Liu , Shay Solomon

In this work, we initiate a thorough study of parameterized graph optimization problems in the distributed setting. In a parameterized problem, an algorithm decides whether a solution of size bounded by a \emph{parameter} $k$ exists and if…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Ran Ben-Basat , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Gregory Schwartzman

A graph $G$ with $n$ vertices is called an outerstring graph if it has an intersection representation of a set of $n$ curves inside a disk such that one endpoint of every curve is attached to the boundary of the disk. Given an outerstring…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi , J. Mark Keil , Anil Maheshwari , Saeed Mehrabi , Debajyoti Mondal , Michiel Smid

Daum et al. [PODC'13] presented an algorithm that computes a maximal independent set (MIS) within $O(\log^2 n/F+\log n \mathrm{polyloglog} n)$ rounds in an $n$-node multichannel radio network with $F$ communication channels. The paper uses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Sebastian Daum , Fabian Kuhn

Max Independent Set (MIS) is a paradigmatic problem in theoretical computer science and numerous studies tackle its resolution by exact algorithms with non-trivial worst-case complexity. The best such complexity is, to our knowledge, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-01-13 Nicolas Bourgeois , Bruno Escoffier , Vangelis Th. Paschos , Johan M. M van Rooij

In this paper we study the dynamic versions of two basic graph problems: Minimum Dominating Set and its variant Minimum Connected Dominating Set. For those two problems, we present algorithms that maintain a solution under edge insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Niklas Hjuler , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis , David Saulpic

The {Congested Clique} is a distributed-computing model for single-hop networks with restricted bandwidth that has been very intensively studied recently. It models a network by an $n$-vertex graph in which any pair of vertices can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Leonid Barenboim , Victor Khazanov

One way to define the Matching Cut problem is: Given a graph $G$, is there an edge-cut $M$ of $G$ such that $M$ is an independent set in the line graph of $G$? We propose the more general Conflict-Free Cut problem: Together with the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach , Uéverton S. Souza

Maximal Independent Set (MIS) is one of the fundamental problems in distributed computing. The round (time) complexity of distributed MIS has traditionally focused on the \emph{worst-case time} for all nodes to finish. The best-known…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Soumyottam Chatterjee , Robert Gmyr , Gopal Pandurangan

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

An independent set $I$ in a graph $G$ is maximal if $I$ is not properly contained in any other independent set of $G$. The study of maximal independent sets (MIS's) in various graphs is well-established, often focusing upon enumeration of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Levi Axelrod , Nathan Bickel , Anastasia Halfpap , Luke Hawranick , Alex Parker , Cole Swain

We present a distributed randomized algorithm finding Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) of a given graph in O(1) rounds, with high probability, in the Congested Clique model. The input graph in the Congested Clique model is a graph of n nodes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Tomasz Jurdzinski , Krzysztof Nowicki

We consider the problem of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) in the shared blackboard communication model with vertex-partitioned inputs. There are $n$ players corresponding to vertices of an undirected graph, and each player sees the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Sepehr Assadi , Gillat Kol , Zhijun Zhang

Recent improvements on the deterministic complexities of fundamental graph problems in the LOCAL model of distributed computing have yielded state-of-the-art upper bounds of $\tilde{O}(\log^{5/3} n)$ rounds for maximal independent set (MIS)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yann Bourreau , Sebastian Brandt , Alexandre Nolin

Recently, Balliu, Brandt, and Olivetti [FOCS '20] showed the first $\omega(\log^* n)$ lower bound for the maximal independent set (MIS) problem in trees. In this work we prove lower bounds for a much more relaxed family of distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti