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Motivated by broad applications in reinforcement learning and federated learning, we study local stochastic approximation over a network of agents, where their goal is to find the root of an operator composed of the local operators at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Thinh T. Doan

We consider the ``minimum degree spanning tree'' problem. As input, we receive an undirected, connected graph $G=(V, E)$ with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, and our task is to find a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ that minimizes $\max_{u \in V}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sayan Bhattacharya , Ermiya Farokhnejad , Haoze Wang

In the dynamic Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ subject to edge insertions and deletions and a source vertex $s\in V$, and the goal is to maintain the distance $d(s,t)$ for all $t\in V$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

We study the problem of finding the maximum of a function defined on the nodes of a connected graph. The goal is to identify a node where the function obtains its maximum. We focus on local iterative algorithms, which traverse the nodes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

The Robbins-Monro algorithm is a recursive, simulation-based stochastic procedure to approximate the zeros of a function that can be written as an expectation. It is known that under some technical assumptions, a Gaussian convergence can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Lorick Huang , V Konakov

We study locally interacting processes in discrete time, often called probabilistic cellular automata, indexed by locally finite graphs. For infinite regular trees and certain generalized Galton-Watson trees, we show that the marginal…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Daniel Lacker , Kavita Ramanan , Ruoyu Wu

The Temporal Graph Exploration problem (TEXP) takes as input a temporal graph, i.e., a sequence of graphs $(G_i)_{i\in \mathbb{N}}$ on the same vertex set, and asks for a walk of shortest length visiting all vertices, where the $i$-th step…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Samuel Baguley , Andreas Göbel , Nicolas Klodt , George Skretas , John Sylvester , Viktor Zamaraev

This work concerns the analysis and design of distributed first-order optimization algorithms over time-varying graphs. The goal of such algorithms is to optimize a global function that is the average of local functions using only local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Akhil Sundararajan , Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

A finite graph embedded in the plane is called a series-parallel map if it can be obtained from a finite tree by repeatedly subdividing and doubling edges. We study the scaling limit of weighted random two-connected series-parallel maps…

In this paper we study local routing strategies on geometric graphs. Such strategies use geometric properties of the graph like the coordinates of the current and target nodes to route. Specifically, we study routing strategies in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Prosenjit Bose , Matias Korman , André van Renssen , Sander Verdonschot

The Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree (PCST) problem is a generalization of the Steiner Tree problem that has applications in network design, content distribution networks, and many more. There are a few centralized approximation algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Parikshit Saikia , Sushanta Karmakar , Aris T. Pagourtzis

We study the problem of finding a minimum weight connected subgraph spanning at least $k$ vertices on planar, node-weighted graphs. We give a $(4+\eps)$-approximation algorithm for this problem. We achieve this by utilizing the recent LMP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Jarosław Byrka , Mateusz Lewandowski , Joachim Spoerhase

A set $D$ of vertices of a graph is a \emph{defensive alliance} if, for each element of $D$, the majority of its neighbours are in $D$. We consider the notion of local minimality in this paper. We are interested in finding a locally minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-05 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity , Saket Saurabh

We study a model of random $\mathcal{R}$-enriched trees that is based on weights on the $\mathcal{R}$-structures and allows for a unified treatment of a large family of random discrete structures. We establish distributional limits…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Benedikt Stufler

We present a deterministic algorithm for computing the sensitivity of a minimum spanning tree (MST) or shortest path tree in $O(m\log\alpha(m,n))$ time, where $\alpha$ is the inverse-Ackermann function. This improves upon a long standing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Seth Pettie

We extend the notion of distributed decision in the framework of distributed network computing, inspired by recent results on so-called distributed graph automata. We show that, by using distributed decision mechanisms based on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Laurent Feuilloley , Pierre Fraigniaud , Juho Hirvonen

We prove that given any $\alpha$-approximation LOCAL algorithm for Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) on planar graphs, we can construct an $f(g)$-round $(3\alpha+1)$-approximation LOCAL algorithm for MDS on graphs embeddable in a given Euler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Marthe Bonamy , Avinandan Das , Cyril Gavoille , Timothé Picavet , Jukka Suomela , Alexandra Wesolek

We show an $\widetilde{O}(m^{1.5} \epsilon^{-1})$ time algorithm that on a graph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices outputs its spanning tree count up to a multiplicative $(1+\epsilon)$ factor with high probability, improving on the previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Junzhao Yang

We analyze the local convergence of proximal splitting algorithms to solve optimization problems that are convex besides a rank constraint. For this, we show conditions under which the proximal operator of a function involving the rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Christian Grussler , Pontus Giselsson

Let $H_d(n,p)$ signify a random $d$-uniform hypergraph with $n$ vertices in which each of the ${n}\choose{d}$ possible edges is present with probability $p=p(n)$ independently, and let $H_d(n,m)$ denote a uniformly distributed with $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-27 Michael Behrisch , Amin Coja-Oghlan , Mihyun Kang