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In this paper, we initiate the study of the vertex coloring problem of a graph in the semi streaming model. In this model, the input graph is defined by a stream of edges, arriving in adversarial order and any algorithm must process the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Suman Kalyan Bera , Prantar Ghosh

A recent palette sparsification theorem of Assadi, Chen, and Khanna [SODA'19] states that in every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with maximum degree $\Delta$, sampling $O(\log{n})$ colors per each vertex independently from $\Delta+1$ colors almost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Noga Alon , Sepehr Assadi

The greedy coloring algorithm shows that a graph of maximum degree at most $\Delta$ has chromatic number at most $\Delta + 1$, and this is tight for cliques. Much attention has been devoted to improving this "greedy bound" for graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Marthe Bonamy , Tom Kelly , Peter Nelson , Luke Postle

The classical theorem of Vizing states that every graph of maximum degree $d$ admits an edge-coloring with at most $d+1$ colors. Furthermore, as it was earlier shown by K\H{o}nig, $d$ colors suffice if the graph is bipartite. We investigate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Endre Csóka , Gabor Lippner , Oleg Pikhurko

We show that every Borel graph $G$ of subexponential growth has a Borel proper edge-coloring with $\Delta(G) + 1$ colors. We deduce this from a stronger result, namely that an $n$-vertex (finite) graph $G$ of subexponential growth can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-22 Anton Bernshteyn , Abhishek Dhawan

In this paper we present a deterministic CONGEST algorithm to compute an $O(k\Delta)$-vertex coloring in $O(\Delta/k)+\log^* n$ rounds, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the network graph and $1\leq k\leq O(\Delta)$ can be freely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yannic Maus

We study weighted edge coloring of graphs, where we are given an undirected edge-weighted general multi-graph $G := (V, E)$ with weights $w : E \rightarrow [0, 1]$. The goal is to find a proper weighted coloring of the edges with as few…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Debarsho Sannyasi

There is a huge difference in techniques and runtimes of distributed algorithms for problems that can be solved by a sequential greedy algorithm and those that cannot. A prime example of this contrast appears in the edge coloring problem:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Manuel Jakob , Yannic Maus , Florian Schager

In vertex recoloring, we are given $n$ vertices with their initial coloring, and edges arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm must maintain a valid coloring by recoloring vertices, at a cost. The problem abstracts a scenario of job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Boaz Patt-Shamir , Adi Rosen , Seeun William Umboh

A new algorithm for exactly sampling from the set of proper colorings of a graph is presented. This is the first such algorithm that has an expected running time that is guaranteed to be linear in the size of a graph with maximum degree \(…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Kritika Bhandari , Mark Huber

We study the $(\Delta+1)$-edge-coloring problem in the parallel $\left(\mathrm{PRAM}\right)$ model of computation. The celebrated Vizing's theorem [Viz64] states that every simple graph $G = (V,E)$ can be properly $(\Delta+1)$-edge-colored.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Michael Elkin , Ariel Khuzman

We develop sequential algorithms for constructing edge-colorings of graphs and multigraphs efficiently and using few colors. Our primary focus is edge-coloring arbitrary simple graphs using $d+1$ colors, where $d$ is the largest vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Corwin Sinnamon

The $\Delta$-vertex coloring problem has become one of the prototypical problems for understanding the complexity of local distributed graph problems on constant-degree graphs. The major open problem is whether the problem can be solved…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Manuel Jakob , Yannic Maus

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple graph of maximum degree $\Delta$. The edges of $G$ can be colored with at most $\Delta +1$ colors by Vizing's theorem. We study lower bounds on the size of subgraphs of $G$ that can be colored with $\Delta$ colors.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Marcin Kamiński , Łukasz Kowalik

A streaming algorithm is considered to be adversarially robust if it provides correct outputs with high probability even when the stream updates are chosen by an adversary who may observe and react to the past outputs of the algorithm. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Amit Chakrabarti , Prantar Ghosh , Manuel Stoeckl

We present a simple deterministic distributed algorithm that computes a $(\Delta+1)$-vertex coloring in $O(\log^2 \Delta \cdot \log n)$ rounds. The algorithm can be implemented with $O(\log n)$-bit messages. The algorithm can also be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

The problem of edge coloring has been extensively studied over the years. Recently, this problem has received significant attention in the dynamic setting, where we are given a dynamic graph evolving via a sequence of edge insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Nadav Panski , Shay Solomon

We give a randomized algorithm that properly colors the vertices of a triangle-free graph G on n vertices using O(\Delta(G)/ log \Delta(G)) colors, where \Delta(G) is the maximum degree of G. The algorithm takes O(n\Delta2(G)log\Delta(G))…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Mohammad Shoaib Jamall

In this paper, we study the problem of computing an edge-coloring in the (one-pass) W-streaming model. In this setting, the edges of an $n$-node graph arrive in an arbitrary order to a machine with a relatively small space, and the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Shiri Chechik , Doron Mukhtar , Tianyi Zhang

We show that for any fixed integer $m \geq 1$, a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ has a coloring with $O(\Delta^{(m+1)/m})$ colors in which every connected bicolored subgraph contains at most $m$ edges. This result unifies previously known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Peter Bradshaw