English
Related papers

Related papers: Round Elimination via Self-Reduction: Closing Gaps…

200 papers

Metric embedding has become a common technique in the design of algorithms. Its applicability is often dependent on how high the embedding's distortion is. For example, embedding finite metric space into trees may require linear distortion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yair Bartal , Manor Mendel

We show that the expected size of the maximum agreement subtree of two $n$-leaf trees, uniformly random among all trees with the shape, is $\Theta(\sqrt{n})$. To derive the lower bound, we prove a global structural result on a decomposition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Pratik Misra , Seth Sullivant

The Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) problem is one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in distributed computing. While it is well-known that minimum dominating sets cannot be approximated locally on general graphs, over the last…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Stefan Schmid , Sebastian Siebertz

In this paper, we study lower bounds for randomized solutions to the maximal independent set (MIS) and connected dominating set (CDS) problems in the dual graph model of radio networks---a generalization of the standard graph-based model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Calvin Newport

In this paper, we investigate a distributed maximal independent set (MIS) reconfiguration problem, in which there are two maximal independent sets for which every node is given its membership status, and the nodes need to communicate with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mikaël Rabie

The Subtree Isomorphism problem asks whether a given tree is contained in another given tree. The problem is of fundamental importance and has been studied since the 1960s. For some variants, e.g., ordered trees, near-linear time algorithms…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Amir Abboud , Arturs Backurs , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Or Zamir

Herein, we investigate the zero-error randomized complexity, which is the least cost against the worst input, of AND-OR tree computation by imposing various restrictions on the algorithm to find the Boolean value of the root of that tree…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Fuki Ito , Toshio Suzuki

We significantly improve known time bounds for solving the minimum cut problem on undirected graphs. We use a ``semi-duality'' between minimum cuts and maximum spanning tree packings combined with our previously developed random sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David R. Karger

We consider metrical task systems on tree metrics, and present an $O(\mathrm{depth} \times \log n)$-competitive randomized algorithm based on the mirror descent framework introduced in our prior work on the $k$-server problem. For the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Sébastien Bubeck , Michael B. Cohen , James R. Lee , Yin Tat Lee

Subspace segmentation or subspace learning is a challenging and complicated task in machine learning. This paper builds a primary frame and solid theoretical bases for the minimal subspace segmentation (MSS) of finite samples. Existence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Zhenyue Zhang , Yuqing Xia

Optimization problems consist of either maximizing or minimizing an objective function. Instead of looking for a maximum solution (resp. minimum solution), one can find a minimum maximal solution (resp. maximum minimal solution). Such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Kaveh Khoshkhah , Mehdi Khosravian Ghadikolaei , Jerome Monnot , Florian Sikora

The aim of rendezvous in a graph is meeting of two mobile agents at some node of an unknown anonymous connected graph. In this paper, we focus on rendezvous in trees, and, analogously to the efforts that have been made for solving the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Pierre Fraigniaud , Andrzej Pelc

The $\sigma$-irregularity index of a graph is defined as the sum of squared degree differences over all edges and provides a sensitive measure of structural heterogeneity. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing $\sigma(T)$ among…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Milan Bašić

An independent edge set of graph $G$ is a matching, and is maximal if it is not a proper subset of any other matching of $G$. The number of all the maximal matchings of $G$ is denoted by $\Psi(G)$. In this paper, an algorithm to count…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Lingjuan Shi , Wei Li , Kai Deng

In this paper we consider graph algorithms in models of computation where the space usage (random accessible storage, in addition to the read only input) is sublinear in the number of edges $m$ and the access to input data is constrained.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

We present the first algorithm for maintaining a maximal independent set (MIS) of a fully dynamic graph---which undergoes both edge insertions and deletions---in polylogarithmic time. Our algorithm is randomized and, per update, takes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Cliff Stein , Madhu Sudan

We present randomized distributed algorithms for the maximal independent set problem (MIS) that, while keeping the time complexity nearly matching the best known, reduce the energy complexity substantially. These algorithms work in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Mohsen Ghaffari , Julian Portmann

A fundamental problem in wireless networks is the \emph{minimum spanning tree} (MST) problem: given a set $V$ of wireless nodes, compute a spanning tree $T$, so that the total cost of $T$ is minimized. In recent years, there has been a lot…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Maleq Khan , V. S. Anil Kumar , Gopal Pandurangan , Guanhong Pei

We study the problem of privately releasing an approximate minimum spanning tree (MST). Given a graph $G = (V, E, \vec{W})$ where $V$ is a set of $n$ vertices, $E$ is a set of $m$ undirected edges, and $ \vec{W} \in \mathbb{R}^{|E|} $ is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Rasmus Pagh , Lukas Retschmeier , Hao Wu , Hanwen Zhang

We consider the message complexity of verifying whether a given subgraph of the communication network forms a tree with specific properties both in the KT-$\rho$ (nodes know their $\rho$-hop neighborhood, including node IDs) and the KT-$0$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Shay Kutten , Peter Robinson , Ming Ming Tan