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We present efficient parallel algorithms for computing maximal matchings in hypergraphs. Our algorithm finds locally maximal edges in the hypergraph and adds them in parallel to the matching. In the CRCW PRAM models our algorithms achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Henrik Reinstädtler , Christian Schulz , Nodari Sitchinava , Fabian Walliser

We present a constant-round algorithm in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model for evaluating a natural join where every input relation has two attributes. Our algorithm achieves a load of $\tilde{O}(m/p^{1/\rho})$ where $m$ is the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bas Ketsman , Dan Suciu , Yufei Tao

Algorithms for finding minimum or bounded vertex covers in graphs use a branch-and-reduce strategy, which involves exploring a highly imbalanced search tree. Prior GPU solutions assign different thread blocks to different sub-trees, while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hussein Amro , Basel Fakhri , Amer E. Mouawad , Izzat El Hajj

This work proposes an efficient parallel algorithm for non-monotone submodular maximization under a knapsack constraint problem over the ground set of size $n$. Our algorithm improves the best approximation factor of the existing parallel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Tan D. Tran , Canh V. Pham , Dung T. K. Ha , Phuong N. H. Pham

As computer clusters are found to be highly effective for handling massive datasets, the design of efficient parallel algorithms for such a computing model is of great interest. We consider ({\alpha}, k)-minimal algorithms for such a…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Silu Huang , Ada Wai-Chee Fu

Model merging combines fine-tuned checkpoints into a single multi-task model without retraining. Existing methods - such as task arithmetic, model soups, TIES, and DARE - are computationally efficient and empirically successful, but rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Bethan Evans , Benjamin Etheridge , Stephen Roberts , Jared Tanner

Maintaining a dynamic $k$-core decomposition is an important problem that identifies dense subgraphs in dynamically changing graphs. Recent work by Liu et al. [SPAA 2022] presents a parallel batch-dynamic algorithm for maintaining an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Quanquan C. Liu , Julian Shun , Igor Zablotchi

The spatial join is a popular operation in spatial database systems and its evaluation is a well-studied problem. As main memories become bigger and faster and commodity hardware supports parallel processing, there is a need to revamp…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Dimitrios Tsitsigkos , Panagiotis Bouros , Nikos Mamoulis , Manolis Terrovitis

This paper presents an efficient parallel approximation scheme for a new class of min-max problems. The algorithm is derived from the matrix multiplicative weights update method and can be used to find near-optimal strategies for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Gus Gutoski , Xiaodi Wu

k-nearest neighbor graph is a fundamental data structure in many disciplines such as information retrieval, data-mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning, etc. In the literature, considerable research has been focusing on how to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wan-Lei Zhao , Hui Wang , Peng-Cheng Lin , Chong-Wah Ngo

Maintaining a $k$-core decomposition quickly in a dynamic graph has important applications in network analysis. The main challenge for designing efficient exact algorithms is that a single update to the graph can cause significant global…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Quanquan C. Liu , Jessica Shi , Shangdi Yu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Counting the solution number of combinational optimization problems is an important topic in the study of computational complexity, especially on the #P-complete complexity class. In this paper, we first investigate some organizations of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Wei Wei , Renquan Zhang , Baolong Niu , Binghui Guo , Zhiming Zheng

To achieve true scalability on massive datasets, a modern query engine needs to be able to take advantage of large, shared-memory, multicore systems. Binary joins are conceptually easy to parallelize on a multicore system; however, several…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jiacheng Wu , Dan Suciu

In this paper we propose a new method to enhance a mapping $\mu(\cdot)$ of a parallel application's computational tasks to the processing elements (PEs) of a parallel computer. The idea behind our method \mswap is to enhance such a mapping…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Roland Glantz , Maria Predari , Henning Meyerhenke

We introduce succinct lossless representations of query results called covers. They are subsets of the query results that correspond to minimal edge covers in the hypergraphs of these results. We first study covers whose structures are…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Ahmet Kara , Dan Olteanu

Nucleus decompositions have been shown to be a useful tool for finding dense subgraphs. The coreness value of a clique represents its density based on the number of other cliques it is adjacent to. One useful output of nucleus decomposition…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

There is increasing interest in using multicore processors to accelerate stream processing. For example, indexing sliding window content to enhance the performance of streaming queries is greatly improved by utilizing the computational…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Amirhesam Shahvarani , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

An inherently parallel algorithm is proposed that efficiently performs selection: finding the K-th largest member of a set of N members. Selection is a common component of many more complex algorithms and therefore is a widely studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-15 Greg Sepesi

The paper describes a simple deterministic parallel/distributed (2+epsilon)-approximation algorithm for the minimum-weight vertex-cover problem and its dual (edge/element packing).

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Samir Khuller , Uzi Vishkin , Neal Young

The paper presents an algorithm for minimum vertex cover problem, which is an NP-Complete problem. The algorithm computes a minimum vertex cover of each input simple graph. Tested by the attached MATLAB programs, Stage 1 of the algorithm is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-30 Gang Hu