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Probabilistic breadth-first traversals (BPTs) are used in many network science and graph machine learning applications. In this paper, we are motivated by the application of BPTs in stochastic diffusion-based graph problems such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Reece Neff , Mostafa Eghbali Zarch , Marco Minutoli , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Antonino Tumeo , Ananth Kalyanaraman , Michela Becchi

In this paper, we develop semi-external and external memory algorithms for graph partitioning and clustering problems. Graph partitioning and clustering are key tools for processing and analyzing large complex networks. We address both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Yaroslav Akhremtsev , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

Graph-searching algorithms play a crucial role in various computational domains, enabling efficient exploration and pathfinding in structured data. Traditional approaches, such as Depth-First Search (DFS) and Breadth-First Search (BFS),…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Rowanda Ahmed , Belaynesh Chekol , Mahmoud Alsaleh

There are numerous NP-hard combinatorial problems which involve searching for an undirected graph satisfying a certain property. One way to solve such problems is to translate a problem into an instance of the boolean satisfiability (SAT)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Vyacheslav Moklev , Vladimir Ulyantsev

Vectorization and GPUs will profoundly change graph processing. Traditional graph algorithms tuned for 32- or 64-bit based memory accesses will be inefficient on architectures with 512-bit wide (or larger) instruction units that are already…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Maciej Besta , Florian Marending , Edgar Solomonik , Torsten Hoefler

High-performance analysis of unstructured data like graphs now is critical for applications ranging from business intelligence to genome analysis. Towards this, data centers hold large graphs in memory to serve multiple concurrent queries…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Emory Smith , Shannon Kuntz , Jason Riedy , Martin Deneroff

We study {\em breadth-first search (BFS)} spanning trees, and address the problem of designing a sparse {\em fault-tolerant} BFS structure, or {\em FT-BFS } for short, resilient to the failure of up to two edges in the given undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Merav Parter

In this paper, we resolve a long-standing question in self-stabilization by demonstrating that it is indeed possible to construct a spanning tree in a semi-uniform network using constant memory per node. We introduce a self-stabilizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lélia Blin , Franck Petit , Sébastien Tixeuil

Rooted spanning trees (RSTs) are a core primitive in parallel graph analytics, underpinning algorithms such as biconnected components and planarity testing. On GPUs, RST construction has traditionally relied on breadth-first search (BFS)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Abhijeet Sahu , Srikar Vilas Donur

Consider a search from the root of an ordered tree with $n$ edges to some target node at a fixed distance $\ell$ from that root. We compare the average time complexity of the breadth-first search (BFS) and depth-first search (DFS)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Stoyan Dimitrov , Martin Minchev , Yan Zhuang

Betweenness is a well-known centrality measure that ranks the nodes of a network according to their participation in shortest paths. Since an exact computation is prohibitive in large networks, several approximation algorithms have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Elisabetta Bergamini , Henning Meyerhenke

It is shown that a breadth-first search in a directed or undirected graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges can be carried out in $O(n+m)$ time with $n\log_2 3+O((\log n)^2)$ bits of working memory.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Torben Hagerup

We present a new fast all-pairs shortest path algorithm for unweighted graphs. In breadth-first search which is said to representative and fast in unweighted graphs, the average number of accesses to adjacent vertices (expressed by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yasuo Yamane , Kenichi Kobayashi

In this paper, we propose a depth-first search (DFS) algorithm for searching maximum matchings in general graphs. Unlike blossom shrinking algorithms, which store all possible alternative alternating paths in the super-vertices shrunk from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Tony T. Lee , Bojun Lu , Hanli Chu

We present BigSparse, a fully external graph analytics system that picks up where semi-external systems like FlashGraph and X-Stream, which only store vertex data in memory, left off. BigSparse stores both edge and vertex data in an array…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Sang-Woo Jun , Andy Wright , Sizhuo Zhang , Shuotao Xu , Arvind

Graph-structured data underpins many critical applications. While foundation models have transformed language and vision via large-scale pretraining and lightweight adaptation, extending this paradigm to general, real-world graphs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Maya Bechler-Speicher , Yoel Gottlieb , Andrey Isakov , David Abensur , Ami Tavory , Daniel Haimovich , Ido Guy , Udi Weinsberg

Frequent Subgraph Mining (FSM) is the key task in many graph mining and machine learning applications. Numerous systems have been proposed for FSM in the past decade. Although these systems show good performance for small patterns (with no…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Peng Jiang , Rujia Wang , Bo Wu

LFR is a popular benchmark graph generator used to evaluate community detection algorithms. We present EM-LFR, the first external memory algorithm able to generate massive complex networks following the LFR benchmark. Its most expensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Michael Hamann , Ulrich Meyer , Manuel Penschuck , Hung Tran , Dorothea Wagner

Lexicographic Breadth First Search (LBFS) is one of fundamental graph search algorithms that has numerous applications, including recognition of graph classes, computation of graph parameters, and detection of certain graph structures. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Jan Gorzny , Jing Huang

We present an algorithm for a fault tolerant Depth First Search (DFS) Tree in an undirected graph. This algorithm is drastically simpler than the current state-of-the-art algorithms for this problem, uses optimal space and optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Surender Baswana , Shiv Kumar Gupta , Ayush Tulsyan