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Performing random walks in networks is a fundamental primitive that has found numerous applications in communication networks such as token management, load balancing, network topology discovery and construction, search, and peer-to-peer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-01-12 Atish Das Sarma , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan

We design fast deterministic algorithms for distance computation in the congested clique model. Our key contributions include: -- A $(2+\epsilon)$-approximation for all-pairs shortest paths in $O(\log^2{n} / \epsilon)$ rounds on unweighted…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Keren Censor-Hillel , Michal Dory , Janne H. Korhonen , Dean Leitersdorf

Distributed optimization over time-varying directed graphs has shown promising performance in addressing challenges posed by complex communication constraints in real-world scenarios. In many practical settings, however, the direct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Yaoshuai Ma , Xiao Wang , Wei Yao , Jin Zhang

We study the mean estimation problem under communication and local differential privacy constraints. While previous work has proposed \emph{order}-optimal algorithms for the same problem (i.e., asymptotically optimal as we spend more bits),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Berivan Isik , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Ozgur , Tsachy Weissman , Albert No

This paper addresses the cornerstone family of \emph{local problems} in distributed computing, and investigates the curious gap between randomized and deterministic solutions under bandwidth restrictions. Our main contribution is in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Keren Censor-Hillel , Merav Parter , Gregory Schwartzman

Modern applied optimization problems become more and more complex every day. Due to this fact, distributed algorithms that can speed up the process of solving an optimization problem through parallelization are of great importance. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Svetlana Tkachenko , Artem Andreev , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider the task of minimizing the sum of smooth and strongly convex functions stored in a decentralized manner across the nodes of a communication network whose links are allowed to change in time. We solve two fundamental problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Dmitry Kovalev , Elnur Gasanov , Peter Richtárik , Alexander Gasnikov

The computation of the diameter is one of the most central problems in distributed computation. In the standard CONGEST model, in which two adjacent nodes can exchange $O(\log n)$ bits per round (here $n$ denotes the number of nodes of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 François Le Gall , Frédéric Magniez

We introduce a communication model for hybrid networks, where nodes have access to two different communication modes: a local mode where communication is only possible between specific pairs of nodes, and a global mode where communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 John Augustine , Kristian Hinnenthal , Fabian Kuhn , Christian Scheideler , Philipp Schneider

Memory-(in)efficiency is a crucial consideration that oftentimes prevents deployment of state-of-the-art distributed algorithms in real-life modern networks. In the context of the MST problem, roughly speaking, there are three types of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Michael Elkin Tanya Goldenfeld

Building a spanning tree, minimum spanning tree (MST), and BFS tree in a distributed network are fundamental problems which are still not fully understood in terms of time and communication cost. x The first work to succeed in computing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Ali Mashreghi , Valerie King

We study the maximum weight matching problem in the random-order semi-streaming model and in the robust communication model. Unlike many other sublinear models, in these two frameworks, there is a large gap between the guarantees of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Diba Hashemi , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

We study the leader election problem in oriented ring networks under content-oblivious asynchronous message-passing systems, where an adversary may arbitrarily corrupt message contents. Frei et al. (DISC 2024) presented a uniform…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jérémie Chalopin , Yi-Jun Chang , Lyuting Chen , Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Haoran Zhou

The minimum-weight $2$-edge-connected spanning subgraph (2-ECSS) problem is a natural generalization of the well-studied minimum-weight spanning tree (MST) problem, and it has received considerable attention in the area of network design.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Michal Dory , Mohsen Ghaffari

We study a problem where k autonomous mobile agents are initially located on distinct nodes of a weighted graph (with n nodes and m edges). Each autonomous mobile agent has a predefined velocity and is only allowed to move along the edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Iago A. Carvalho , Thomas Erlebach , Kleitos Papadopoulos

By prior work, it is known that any distributed graph algorithm that finds a maximal matching requires $\Omega(\log^* n)$ communication rounds, while it is possible to find a maximal fractional matching in $O(1)$ rounds in bounded-degree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sameep Dahal , Jukka Suomela

The Beeping Network (BN) model captures important properties of biological processes. Paradoxically, the extremely limited communication capabilities of such nodes has helped BN become one of the fundamental models for networks. Since in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Pawel Garncarek , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Shay Kutten , Miguel A. Mosteiro

This paper studies the communication complexity of convex risk-averse optimization over a network. The problem generalizes the well-studied risk-neutral finite-sum distributed optimization problem and its importance stems from the need to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Guanghui Lan , Zhe Zhang

We establish that in distributed optimization, the prevalent strategy of minimizing the second-largest eigenvalue modulus (SLEM) of the averaging matrix for selecting communication weights, while optimal for existing theoretical performance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Sebastien Colla , Julien M. Hendrickx

Computing all-pairs shortest paths is a fundamental and much-studied problem with many applications. Unfortunately, despite intense study, there are still no significantly faster algorithms for it than the $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Stefan Kratsch , Florian Nelles