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Zahra Parsaeian
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We study the deterministic complexity of the 2-Ruling Set problem in the model of Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) with linear and strongly sublinear local memory.
- Linear MPC: We present a constant-round deterministic algorithm for the 2-Ruling Set problem that matches the randomized round complexity recently settled by Cambus, Kuhn, Pai, and Uitto [DISC'23], and improves upon the deterministic O(log log n)-round algorithm by Pai and Pemmaraju [PODC'22]. Our main ingredient is a simpler analysis of CKPU’s algorithm based solely on bounded independence, which makes its efficient derandomization possible.
- Sublinear MPC: We present a deterministic algorithm that computes a 2-Ruling Set in Õ(√{log n}) rounds deterministically. Notably, this is the first deterministic ruling set algorithm with sublogarithmic round complexity, improving on the O(log Δ + log log^* n)-round complexity that stems from the deterministic MIS algorithm of Czumaj, Davies, and Parter [TALG'21]. Our result is based on a simple and fast randomness-efficient construction that achieves the same sparsification as that of the randomized Õ(√{log n})-round LOCAL algorithm by Kothapalli and Pemmaraju [FSTTCS'12].
@InProceedings{giliberti_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2024.29,
author = {Giliberti, Jeff and Parsaeian, Zahra},
title = {{Massively Parallel Ruling Set Made Deterministic}},
booktitle = {38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024)},
pages = {29:1--29:21},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-352-2},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2024},
volume = {319},
editor = {Alistarh, Dan},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2024.29},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-212551},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2024.29},
annote = {Keywords: deterministic algorithms, distributed computing, massively parallel computation, graph algorithms, derandomization}
}