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Given a weighted graph $G(V,E)$ with weight $\mathbf w: E\rightarrow Z^{|E|}_{+}$. A $k-$cycle covering is an edge subset $A$ of $E$ such that $G-A$ has no $k-$cycle. The minimum weight of $k-$cycle covering is the weighted covering number…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Zhongzheng Tang , Zhuo Diao

In the standard CONGEST model for distributed network computing, it is known that "global" tasks such as minimum spanning tree, diameter, and all-pairs shortest paths, consume large bandwidth, for their running-time is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Pierre Fraigniaud , Pedro Montealegre , Dennis Olivetti , Ivan Rapaport , Ioan Todinca

We describe approximation algorithms in Linial's classic LOCAL model of distributed computing to find maximum-weight matchings in a hypergraph of rank $r$. Our main result is a deterministic algorithm to generate a matching which is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

Connected clustering denotes a family of constrained clustering problems in which we are given a distance metric and an undirected connectivity graph $G$ that can be completely unrelated to the metric. The aim is to partition the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jan Eube , Heiko Röglin

We present a massively parallel algorithm, with near-linear memory per machine, that computes a $(2+\varepsilon)$-approximation of minimum-weight vertex cover in $O(\log\log d)$ rounds, where $d$ is the average degree of the input graph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Mohsen Ghaffari , Ce Jin , Daan Nilis

The multiway-cut problem is, given a weighted graph and k >= 2 terminal nodes, to find a minimum-weight set of edges whose removal separates all the terminals. The problem is NP-hard, and even NP-hard to approximate within 1+delta for some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 David Karger , Phil Klein , Cliff Stein , Mikkel Thorup , Neal E. Young

This paper is devoted to the distributed complexity of finding an approximation of the maximum cut in graphs. A classical algorithm consists in letting each vertex choose its side of the cut uniformly at random. This does not require any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Étienne Bamas , Louis Esperet

The minimum cut problem in an undirected and weighted graph $G$ is to find the minimum total weight of a set of edges whose removal disconnects $G$. We completely characterize the quantum query and time complexity of the minimum cut problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Simon Apers , Troy Lee

Maximum weight matching is one of the most fundamental combinatorial optimization problems with a wide range of applications in data mining and bioinformatics. Developing distributed weighted matching algorithms is challenging due to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

The class of graphs that do not contain a path on $k$ nodes as an induced subgraph ($P_k$-free graphs) has rich applications in the theory of graph algorithms. This paper explores the problem of deciding $P_k$-freeness from the viewpoint of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Masayuki Miyamoto

We study the densest subgraph problem and give algorithms via multiplicative weights update and area convexity that converge in $O\left(\frac{\log m}{\epsilon^{2}}\right)$ and $O\left(\frac{\log m}{\epsilon}\right)$ iterations,…

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We study the problem of finding a Hamiltonian cycle under the promise that the input graph has a minimum degree of at least $n/2$, where $n$ denotes the number of vertices in the graph. The classical theorem of Dirac states that such graphs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Noy Biton , Reut Levi , Moti Medina

Motivated by the increasing need to understand the distributed algorithmic foundations of large-scale graph computations, we study some fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing where $k \geq 2$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

In this paper, we study the problem of approximating the minimum cut in a distributed message-passing model, the CONGEST model. The minimum cut problem has been well-studied in the context of centralized algorithms. However, there were no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Hsin-Hao Su

We study the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model. Our focus is particularly on the *strictly sublinear* regime of MPC where the space per machine is $O(n^\delta)$. Here $n$ is the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Rajesh Jayaram , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Peilin Zhong

We present a universally-optimal distributed algorithm for the exact weighted min-cut. The algorithm is guaranteed to complete in $\widetilde{O}(D + \sqrt{n})$ rounds on every graph, recovering the recent result of Dory, Efron,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Mohsen Ghaffari , Goran Zuzic

$ \renewcommand{\tilde}{\widetilde} $We present an $\tilde{O}(\log^2 n)$ round deterministic distributed algorithm for the maximal independent set problem. By known reductions, this round complexity extends also to maximal matching,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau

The input to the Multiway Cut problem is a weighted undirected graph, with nonnegative edge weights, and $k$ designated terminals. The goal is to partition the vertices of the graph into $k$ parts, each containing exactly one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joshua Brakensiek , Neng Huang , Aaron Potechin , Uri Zwick

A long-standing open question is which graph class is the most general one permitting constant-time constant-factor approximations for dominating sets. The approximation ratio has been bounded by increasingly general parameters such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Christoph Lenzen , Sophie Wenning

We study dynamic $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate rounding of fractional matchings -- a key ingredient in numerous breakthroughs in the dynamic graph algorithms literature. Our first contribution is a surprisingly simple deterministic rounding…

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