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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

In this paper, we present improved algorithms for the $(\Delta+1)$ (vertex) coloring problem in the Congested-Clique model of distributed computing. In this model, the input is a graph on $n$ nodes, initially each node knows only its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Merav Parter

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

We present three sublinear randomized algorithms for vertex-coloring of graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$. The first is a simple algorithm that extends the idea of Morris and Song to color graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Asaf Ferber , Liam Hardiman , Xiaonan Chen

Graph coloring is a fundamental problem in computer science. We study the fully dynamic version of the problem in which the graph is undergoing edge insertions and deletions and we wish to maintain a vertex-coloring with small update time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Andreas Wiese

Vertex coloring is one of the classic symmetry breaking problems studied in distributed computing. In this paper we present a new algorithm for $(\Delta+1)$-list coloring in the randomized ${\sf LOCAL}$ model running in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Yi-Jun Chang , Wenzheng Li , Seth Pettie

Graph coloring is a fundamental problem in computer science. In the semi-streaming model, an input graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and maximum degree $\Delta$ is presented as a stream of edges, and the goal is to compute a vertex coloring using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shiri Chechik , Hongyi Chen , Tianyi Zhang

We present a work optimal algorithm for parallel fully batch-dynamic maximal matching against an oblivious adversary. It processes batches of updates (either insertions or deletions of edges) in constant expected amortized work per edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Guy E. Blelloch , Andrew C. Brady

We provide novel deterministic distributed vertex coloring algorithms. As our main result, we give a deterministic distributed algorithm to compute a $(\Delta+1)$-coloring of an $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Fabian Kuhn

Baswana, Gupta and Sen [FOCS'11] showed that fully dynamic maximal matching can be maintained in general graphs with logarithmic amortized update time. More specifically, starting from an empty graph on $n$ fixed vertices, they devised a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Shay Solomon

A recent work by Christiansen, Nowicki, and Rotenberg provides dynamic algorithms for coloring sparse graphs, concretely as a function of the arboricity alpha of the input graph. They give two randomized algorithms: O({alpha} log {alpha})…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau

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

We consider graph coloring and related problems in the distributed message-passing model. {Locally-iterative algorithms} are especially important in this setting. These are algorithms in which each vertex decides about its next color only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin , Uri Goldenberg

This paper explores the application of a new algebraic method of edge coloring, called complex coloring, to the scheduling problems of input queued switches. The proposed distributed parallel scheduling algorithm possesses two important…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Lingkang Wang , Tong Ye , Tony T. Lee , Weisheng Hu

Given a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $\Delta$, it is known that $G$ admits a vertex coloring with $\Delta + 1$ colors such that no edge of $G$ is monochromatic. This can be seen constructively by a simple greedy algorithm,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Jackson Morris , Fang Song

Consider the following simple coloring algorithm for a graph on $n$ vertices. Each vertex chooses a color from $\{1, \dotsc, \Delta(G) + 1\}$ uniformly at random. While there exists a conflicted vertex choose one such vertex uniformly at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Daniel Bertschinger , Johannes Lengler , Anders Martinsson , Robert Meier , Angelika Steger , Miloš Trujić , Emo Welzl

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

A celebrated result of Johansson in graph theory states that every triangle-free graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be properly colored with $O(\Delta/\ln\Delta)$ colors, improving upon the "greedy bound" of $\Delta+1$ coloring in general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sepehr Assadi , Helia Yazdanyar

In this paper, we study new batch-dynamic algorithms for the $k$-clique counting problem, which are dynamic algorithms where the updates are batches of edge insertions and deletions. We study this problem in the parallel setting, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Laxman Dhulipala , Quanquan C. Liu , Julian Shun , Shangdi Yu

We present a deterministic distributed algorithm, in the LOCAL model, that computes a $(1+o(1))\Delta$-edge-coloring in polylogarithmic-time, so long as the maximum degree $\Delta=\tilde{\Omega}(\log n)$. For smaller $\Delta$, we give a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Jara Uitto