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Over the last two decades, frameworks for distributed-memory parallel computation, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark and Dryad, have gained significant popularity with the growing prevalence of large network datasets. The Massively Parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Quanquan C. Liu , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Identifying clusters of similar elements in a set is a common task in data analysis. With the immense growth of data and physical limitations on single processor speed, it is necessary to find efficient parallel algorithms for clustering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Mélanie Cambus , Davin Choo , Havu Miikonen , Jara Uitto

We present $O(\log\log n)$ round scalable Massively Parallel Computation algorithms for maximal independent set and maximal matching, in trees and more generally graphs of bounded arboricity, as well as for constant coloring trees.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Ce Jin

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

As massive graphs become more prevalent, there is a rapidly growing need for scalable algorithms that solve classical graph problems, such as maximum matching and minimum vertex cover, on large datasets. For massive inputs, several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Aaron Bernstein , Vahab Mirrokni , Cliff Stein

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

We study the classic Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. Given a set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points, the goal is to produce a spanning tree for $X$ with weight within a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rajesh Jayaram , Vahab Mirrokni , Shyam Narayanan , Peilin Zhong

This paper presents massively parallel computation (MPC) algorithms in the strongly sublinear memory regime (aka, scalable MPC) for orienting and coloring graphs as a function of its subgraph density. Our algorithms run in $poly(\log\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau

In this paper, we present an efficient massively parallel approximation algorithm for the $k$-means problem. Specifically, we provide an MPC algorithm that computes a constant-factor approximation to an arbitrary $k$-means instance in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Fabian Kuhn , Zahra Parsaeian

In this paper, we investigate three fundamental problems in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model: (i) grid graph connectivity, (ii) approximate Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (EMST), and (iii) approximate DBSCAN. Our first result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Junhao Gan , Anthony Wirth , Zhuo Zhang

Massively-parallel graph algorithms have received extensive attention over the past decade, with research focusing on three memory regimes: the superlinear regime, the near-linear regime, and the sublinear regime. The sublinear regime is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Orr Fischer , Adi Horowitz , Rotem Oshman

Recently, Czumaj et.al. (arXiv 2017) presented a parallel (almost) $2$-approximation algorithm for the maximum matching problem in only $O({(\log\log{n})^2})$ rounds of the massive parallel computation (MPC) framework, when the memory per…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Sepehr Assadi

Classic symmetry-breaking problems on graphs have gained a lot of attention in models of modern parallel computation. The Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC) is a model that captures the central challenges in data center…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Rustam Latypov , Yannic Maus , Shreyas Pai , Jara Uitto

We present $O(\log\log n)$-round algorithms in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, with $\tilde{O}(n)$ memory per machine, that compute a maximal independent set, a $1+\epsilon$ approximation of maximum matching, and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Mohsen Ghaffari , Themis Gouleakis , Christian Konrad , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

In the distributed backup-placement problem each node of a network has to select one neighbor, such that the maximum number of nodes that make the same selection is minimized. This is a natural relaxation of the perfect matching problem, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Leonid Barenboim , Gal Oren

We present an efficient algorithm for the min-max correlation clustering problem. The input is a complete graph where edges are labeled as either positive $(+)$ or negative $(-)$, and the objective is to find a clustering that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nairen Cao , Steven Roche , Hsin-Hao Su

We consider the classic $k$-center problem {in the constant dimensional Euclidean space} under a parallel setting, on the low-local-space Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, with local space per machine of ${O}(n^{\delta})$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra

We study the Weighted Min Cut problem in the Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC) model. In 2019, Behnezhad et al. [3] introduced the AMPC model as an extension of the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. In the past…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-30 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Marina Knittel , Jan Olkowski , Hamed Saleh

We consider the problem of designing fundamental graph algorithms on the model of Massive Parallel Computation (MPC). The input to the problem is an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and with $D$ being the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj

Graph problems are troublesome when it comes to MapReduce. Typically, to be able to design algorithms that make use of the advantages of MapReduce, assumptions beyond what the model imposes, such as the density of the input graph, are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi