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The rapid advancement of GPU technology has unlocked powerful parallel processing capabilities, creating new opportunities to enhance classic search algorithms. This hardware has been exploited in best-first search algorithms with neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ehsan Futuhi , Nathan R. Sturtevant

We provide the first non-trivial result on dynamic breadth-first search (BFS) in external-memory: For general sparse undirected graphs of initially $n$ nodes and O(n) edges and monotone update sequences of either $\Theta(n)$ edge insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Ulrich Meyer

We introduce Breadth-First Pipeline Parallelism, a novel training schedule which optimizes the combination of pipeline and data parallelism. Breadth-First Pipeline Parallelism lowers training time, cost and memory usage by combining a high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Joel Lamy-Poirier

Graph-searching algorithms play a crucial role in various computational domains, enabling efficient exploration and pathfinding in structured data. Traditional approaches, such as Depth-First Search (DFS) and Breadth-First Search (BFS),…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Rowanda Ahmed , Belaynesh Chekol , Mahmoud Alsaleh

A common technique to speed up shortest path queries in graphs is to use a bidirectional search, i.e., performing a forward search from the start and a backward search from the destination until a common vertex on a shortest path is found.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Thomas Bläsius , Marcus Wilhelm

Search is a central problem in artificial intelligence, and breadth-first search (BFS) and depth-first search (DFS) are the two most fundamental ways to search. In this paper we derive estimates for average BFS and DFS runtime. The average…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Tom Everitt , Marcus Hutter

Optimizing the parallel training of large models requires exploring intra-operator parallelism plans for a computation graph that typically contains tens of thousands of primitive operators. While the optimization of parallel data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weifang Hu , Xuanhua Shi , Yunkai Zhang , Chang Wu , Xuan Peng , Jiaqi Zhai , Hai Jin , Xuehai Qian , Jingling Xue , Yongluan Zhou

A robot finds it really hard to learn creatively and adapt to new unseen challenges. This is mainly because of the minimal information it has access to or experience towards. Paulius et al. [1] presented a way to construct functional graphs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Kumar Shashwat

We carry out a comparative performance study of multi-core CPUs, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi (Many Integrated Core - MIC) with a microscopy image analysis application. We experimentally evaluate the performance of computing devices on core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-15 George Teodoro , Tahsin Kurc , Guilherme Andrade , Jun Kong , Renato Ferreira , Joel Saltz

Betweenness centrality (BC) is an important graph analytical application for large-scale graphs. While there are many efforts for parallelizing betweenness centrality algorithms on multi-core CPUs and many-core GPUs, in this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Ashirbad Mishra , Sathish Vadhiyar , Rupesh Nasre , Keshav Pingali

We investigate and characterize the performance of an important class of operations on GPUs and Many Integrated Core (MIC) architectures. Our work is motivated by applications that analyze low-dimensional spatial datasets captured by high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-05 George Teodoro , Tahsin Kurc , Jun Kong , Lee Cooper , Joel Saltz

In this paper, we propose a depth-first search (DFS) algorithm for searching maximum matchings in general graphs. Unlike blossom shrinking algorithms, which store all possible alternative alternating paths in the super-vertices shrunk from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Tony T. Lee , Bojun Lu , Hanli Chu

This paper introduces a search algorithm for index structures based on a B+ tree, specifically optimized for execution on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Our implementation efficiently traverses and reuses tree nodes by processing a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Max Tzschoppe , Martin Wilhelm , Sven Groppe , Thilo Pionteck

Rooted spanning trees (RSTs) are a core primitive in parallel graph analytics, underpinning algorithms such as biconnected components and planarity testing. On GPUs, RST construction has traditionally relied on breadth-first search (BFS)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Abhijeet Sahu , Srikar Vilas Donur

Algorithms for finding minimum or bounded vertex covers in graphs use a branch-and-reduce strategy, which involves exploring a highly imbalanced search tree. Prior GPU solutions assign different thread blocks to different sub-trees, while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hussein Amro , Basel Fakhri , Amer E. Mouawad , Izzat El Hajj

Branch-and-Bound (B&B) algorithms are time intensive tree-based exploration methods for solving to optimality combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of GPU computing as a major complementary way to speed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Melab Nouredine , Imen Chakroun , Mezmaz Mohand , Daniel Tuyttens

The increasing scale and wealth of inter-connected data, such as those accrued by social network applications, demand the design of new techniques and platforms to efficiently derive actionable knowledge from large-scale graphs. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Abdullah Gharaibeh , Tahsin Reza , Elizeu Santos-Neto , Lauro Beltrao Costa , Scott Sallinen , Matei Ripeanu

Parallel algorithms on CPU and GPU are implemented for the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme and their performances are investigated and compared by a two dimensional channel flow case. The parallel CPU algorithm has a one dimensional block…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Jizhou Liu , Fang Q. Hu , Xiaodong Li

Subgraph matching is a basic operation widely used in many applications. However, due to its NP-hardness and the explosive growth of graph data, it is challenging to compute subgraph matching, especially in large graphs. In this paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xin Jin , Zhengyi Yang , Xuemin Lin , Shiyu Yang , Lu Qin , You Peng

This paper quantifies the impact of branches and branch mispredictions on the single-core performance for two classes of graph problems. Specifically, we consider classical algorithms for computing connected components and breadth-first…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Oded Green , Marat Dukhan , Richard Vuduc