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We consider the problem of maintaining a maximal independent set (MIS) in a dynamic graph subject to edge insertions and deletions. Recently, Assadi, Onak, Schieber and Solomon (STOC 2018) showed that an MIS can be maintained in sublinear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Krzysztof Onak , Baruch Schieber , Shay Solomon , Nicole Wein

We study the problem of finding a Hamiltonian cycle under the promise that the input graph has a minimum degree of at least $n/2$, where $n$ denotes the number of vertices in the graph. The classical theorem of Dirac states that such graphs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Noy Biton , Reut Levi , Moti Medina

The Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model serves as a common abstraction of many modern large-scale parallel computation frameworks and has recently gained a lot of importance, especially in the context of classic graph problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Sebastian Brandt , Manuela Fischer , Jara Uitto

We present a deterministic distributed algorithm that computes a $(2\Delta-1)$-edge-coloring, or even list-edge-coloring, in any $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, in $O(\log^7 \Delta \log n)$ rounds. This answers one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Manuela Fischer , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

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

The maximal independent set (MIS) is one of the most fundamental problems in distributed computing, and it has been studied intensively for over four decades. This paper focuses on the MIS problem in the Radio Network model, a standard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Dominick Banasik , Varsha Dani , Fabien Dufoulon , Aayush Gupta , Thomas P. Hayes , Gopal Pandurangan

Chatterjee, Gmyr, and Pandurangan [PODC 2020] recently introduced the notion of awake complexity for distributed algorithms, which measures the number of rounds in which a node is awake. In the other rounds, the node is sleeping and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Julian Portmann

The present paper studies local distributed graph problems in highly dynamic networks. Communication and changes of the graph happen in synchronous rounds and our algorithms always, i.e., in every round, satisfy non-trivial guarantees, no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Philipp Bamberger , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus

We give a new randomized distributed algorithm for $(\Delta+1)$-coloring in the LOCAL model, running in $O(\sqrt{\log \Delta})+ 2^{O(\sqrt{\log \log n})}$ rounds in a graph of maximum degree~$\Delta$. This implies that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Johannes Schneider , Hsin-Hao Su

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

The \emph{maximal $k$-edge-connected subgraphs} problem is a classical graph clustering problem studied since the 70's. Surprisingly, no non-trivial technique for this problem in weighted graphs is known: a very straightforward…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chaitanya Nalam , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Whether or not the problem of finding maximal independent sets (MIS) in hypergraphs is in (R)NC is one of the fundamental problems in the theory of parallel computing. Unlike the well-understood case of MIS in graphs, for the hypergraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Ioana O. Bercea , Navin Goyal , David G. Harris , Aravind Srinivasan

Locally Checkable Labeling (LCL) problems include essentially all the classic problems of $\mathsf{LOCAL}$ distributed algorithms. In a recent enlightening revelation, Chang and Pettie [arXiv 1704.06297] showed that any LCL (on bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Manuela Fischer , Mohsen Ghaffari

The last five years of research on distributed graph algorithms have seen huge leaps of progress, both regarding algorithmic improvements and impossibility results: new strong lower bounds have emerged for many central problems and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Sebastian Brandt , Yannic Maus , Ananth Narayanan , Florian Schager , Jara Uitto

We study a family of closely-related distributed graph problems, which we call degree splitting, where roughly speaking the objective is to partition (or orient) the edges such that each node's degree is split almost uniformly. Our findings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Hsin-Hao Su

We introduce a method for sparsifying distributed algorithms and exhibit how it leads to improvements that go past known barriers in two algorithmic settings of large-scale graph processing: Massively Parallel Computation (MPC), and Local…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jara Uitto

We study a simple random process that computes a maximal independent set (MIS) on a general $n$-vertex graph. Each vertex has a binary state, black or white, where black indicates inclusion into the MIS. The vertex states are arbitrary…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-13 George Giakkoupis , Isabella Ziccardi

We consider the problem of finding a local optimum for Max-Cut with FLIP-neighborhood, in which exactly one node changes the partition. Schaeffer and Yannakakis (SICOMP, 1991) showed PLS-completeness of this problem on graphs with unbounded…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-27 Robert Elsaesser , Tobias Tscheuschner

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

Distributed graph algorithms that separately optimize for either the number of rounds used or the total number of messages sent have been studied extensively. However, algorithms simultaneously efficient with respect to both measures have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Bernhard Haeupler , D. Ellis Hershkowitz , David Wajc