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Spanners are fundamental graph structures that sparsify graphs at the cost of small stretch. In particular, in recent years, many sequential algorithms constructing additive all-pairs spanners were designed, providing very sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Keren Censor-Hillel , Ami Paz , Noam Ravid

Although Breadth-First Search (BFS) has several advantages over Depth-First Search (DFS) its prohibitive space requirements have meant that algorithm designers often pass it over in favor of DFS. To address this shortcoming, we introduce a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Srinivas Nedunuri , William R. Cook , Douglas R. Smith

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

Breadth First Search (BFS) is a widely used approach for sampling large unknown Internet topologies. Its main advantage over random walks and other exploration techniques is that a BFS sample is a plausible graph on its own, and therefore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Maciej Kurant , Athina Markopoulou , Patrick Thiran

Breadth-First Search (BFS) is a fundamental graph kernel that underpins a wide range of applications. While modern GPUs provide specialised Matrix-Multiply-Accumulate (MMA) units, e.g., Tensor Cores (TC), with extremely high throughput,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Deniz Elbek , Kamer Kaya

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

We give algorithms for geometric graph problems in the modern parallel models inspired by MapReduce. For example, for the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem over a set of points in the two-dimensional space, our algorithm computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Alexandr Andoni , Aleksandar Nikolov , Krzysztof Onak , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

In this paper, we propose a GPU-efficient subgraph isomorphism algorithm using the Gunrock graph analytic framework, GSM (Gunrock Subgraph Matching), to compute graph matching on GPUs. In contrast to previous approaches on the CPU which are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Leyuan Wang , John D. Owens

We study the problem of constructing universal Steiner trees for undirected graphs. Given a graph $G$ and a root node $r$, we seek a single spanning tree $T$ of minimum {\em stretch}, where the stretch of $T$ is defined to be the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Costas Busch , Chinmoy Dutta , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Srivathsan Srinivasagopalan

This note recapitulates an algorithmic observation for ordered Depth-First Search (DFS) in directed graphs that immediately leads to a parallel algorithm with linear speed-up for a range of processors for non-sparse graphs. The note extends…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Jesper Larsson Träff

Connected components and spanning forest are fundamental graph algorithms due to their use in many important applications, such as graph clustering and image segmentation. GPUs are an ideal platform for graph algorithms due to their high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Changwan Hong , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have well-documented performance in various graph learning tasks, but their analysis is still at its infancy. Graph scattering transforms (GSTs) offer training-free deep GCN models that extract features…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Siheng Chen , Georgios B. Giannakis

The minimum degree spanning tree (MDST) problem requires the construction of a spanning tree $T$ for graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices, such that the maximum degree $d$ of $T$ is the smallest among all spanning trees of $G$. In this paper,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Michael Dinitz , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Calvin Newport

Sampling-based motion planning algorithms, like the Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree (RRT) and its widely used variant, RRT-Connect, provide efficient solutions for high-dimensional planning problems faced by real-world robots. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Chih H. Huang , Pranav Jadhav , Brian Plancher , Zachary Kingston

In the Priority Steiner Tree (PST) problem, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with a source $s \in V$ and terminals $T \subseteq V \setminus \{s\}$, where each terminal $v \in T$ requires a nonnegative priority $P(v)$. The goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Stephen Kobourov , Richard Spence

Given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and a subset $T \subseteq V$ of terminals, a \emph{Steiner tree} of $G$ is a tree that spans $T$. In the vertex-weighted Steiner tree (VST) problem, each vertex is assigned a non-negative weight, and the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Alon Efrat , Stephen Kobourov , Spencer Krieger , Richard Spence

Computing the Euclidean minimum spanning tree (EMST) is a computationally demanding step of many algorithms. While work-efficient serial and multithreaded algorithms for computing EMST are known, designing an efficient GPU algorithm is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Andrey Prokopenko , Piyush Sao , Damien Lebrun-Grandié

In the big data era, graph computing is widely used to exploit the hidden value in real-world graphs in various scenarios such as social networks, knowledge graphs, web searching, and recommendation systems. However, the random memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zite Jiang , Tao Liu , Shuai Zhang , Zhen Guan , Mengting Yuan , Haihang You

Depth-first search (DFS) is the basis for many efficient graph algorithms. We introduce general techniques for the efficient implementation of DFS-based graph algorithms and exemplify them on three algorithms for computing strongly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Kurt Mehlhorn , Stefan Näher , Peter Sanders

Accurate power flow analysis is critical for modern distribution systems, yet classical solvers face scalability issues, and current machine learning models often struggle with generalization. We introduce BOOST-RPF, a novel method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ehimare Okoyomon , Christoph Goebel