10 Search Results for "Rapaport, Ivan"


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Routing Few Robots in a Crowded Network

Authors: Argyrios Deligkas, Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Iyad Kanj, Dominik Leko, and M. S. Ramanujan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 349, 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)


Abstract
In Graph Coordinated Motion Planning, we are given a graph G some of whose vertices are occupied by robots, and we are asked to route k marked robots to their destinations while avoiding collisions and without exceeding a given budget 𝓁 on the number of robot moves. We continue the recent investigation of the problem [ICALP 2024], focusing on the parameter k that captures the task of routing a small number of robots in a possibly crowded graph. We prove that the problem is W[1]-hard parameterized by 𝓁 even for k = 1, but fixed-parameter tractable parameterized by k plus the treedepth of G. We complement the latter algorithm with an NP-hardness reduction which shows that both parameters are necessary to achieve tractability.

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Argyrios Deligkas, Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Iyad Kanj, Dominik Leko, and M. S. Ramanujan. Routing Few Robots in a Crowded Network. In 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 349, pp. 20:1-20:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{deligkas_et_al:LIPIcs.WADS.2025.20,
  author =	{Deligkas, Argyrios and Eiben, Eduard and Ganian, Robert and Kanj, Iyad and Leko, Dominik and Ramanujan, M. S.},
  title =	{{Routing Few Robots in a Crowded Network}},
  booktitle =	{19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-398-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{349},
  editor =	{Morin, Pat and Oh, Eunjin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-242516},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: graph coordinated motion planning, parameterized complexity, treedepth}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Shared Randomness Helps with Local Distributed Problems

Authors: Alkida Balliu, Mohsen Ghaffari, Fabian Kuhn, Augusto Modanese, Dennis Olivetti, Mikaël Rabie, Jukka Suomela, and Jara Uitto

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)


Abstract
By prior work, we have many wonderful results related to distributed graph algorithms for problems that can be defined with local constraints; the formal framework used in prior work is locally checkable labeling problems (LCLs), introduced by Naor and Stockmeyer in the 1990s. It is known, for example, that if we have a deterministic algorithm that solves an LCL in o(log n) rounds, we can speed it up to O(log^* n) rounds, and if we have a randomized algorithm that solves an LCL in O(log^* n) rounds, we can derandomize it for free. It is also known that randomness helps with some LCL problems: there are LCL problems with randomized complexity Θ(log log n) and deterministic complexity Θ(log n). However, so far there have not been any LCL problems in which the use of shared randomness has been necessary; in all prior algorithms it has been enough that the nodes have access to their own private sources of randomness. Could it be the case that shared randomness never helps with LCLs? Could we have a general technique that takes any distributed graph algorithm for any LCL that uses shared randomness, and turns it into an equally fast algorithm where private randomness is enough? In this work we show that the answer is no. We present an LCL problem Π such that the round complexity of Π is Ω(√n) in the usual randomized LOCAL model (with private randomness), but if the nodes have access to a source of shared randomness, then the complexity drops to O(log n). As corollaries, we also resolve several other open questions related to the landscape of distributed computing in the context of LCL problems. In particular, problem Π demonstrates that distributed quantum algorithms for LCL problems strictly benefit from a shared quantum state. Problem Π also gives a separation between finitely dependent distributions and non-signaling distributions.

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Alkida Balliu, Mohsen Ghaffari, Fabian Kuhn, Augusto Modanese, Dennis Olivetti, Mikaël Rabie, Jukka Suomela, and Jara Uitto. Shared Randomness Helps with Local Distributed Problems. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 16:1-16:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{balliu_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.16,
  author =	{Balliu, Alkida and Ghaffari, Mohsen and Kuhn, Fabian and Modanese, Augusto and Olivetti, Dennis and Rabie, Mika\"{e}l and Suomela, Jukka and Uitto, Jara},
  title =	{{Shared Randomness Helps with Local Distributed Problems}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233931},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed computing, locally checkable labelings, shared randomness}
}
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The Singular Optimality of Distributed Computation in LOCAL

Authors: Fabien Dufoulon, Gopal Pandurangan, Peter Robinson, and Michele Scquizzato

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 324, 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)


Abstract
It has been shown that one can design distributed algorithms that are (nearly) singularly optimal, meaning they simultaneously achieve optimal time and message complexity (within polylogarithmic factors), for several fundamental global problems such as broadcast, leader election, and spanning tree construction, under the KT₀ assumption. With this assumption, nodes have initial knowledge only of themselves, not their neighbors. In this case the time and message lower bounds are Ω(D) and Ω(m), respectively, where D is the diameter of the network and m is the number of edges, and there exist (even) deterministic algorithms that simultaneously match these bounds. On the other hand, under the KT₁ assumption, whereby each node has initial knowledge of itself and the identifiers of its neighbors, the situation is not clear. For the KT₁ CONGEST model (where messages are of small size), King, Kutten, and Thorup (KKT) showed that one can solve several fundamental global problems (with the notable exception of BFS tree construction) such as broadcast, leader election, and spanning tree construction with Õ(n) message complexity (n is the network size), which can be significantly smaller than m. Randomization is crucial in obtaining this result. While the message complexity of the KKT result is near-optimal, its time complexity is Õ(n) rounds, which is far from the standard lower bound of Ω(D). An important open question is whether one can achieve singular optimality for the above problems in the KT₁ CONGEST model, i.e., whether there exists an algorithm running in Õ(D) rounds and Õ(n) messages. Another important and related question is whether the fundamental BFS tree construction can be solved with Õ(n) messages (regardless of the number of rounds as long as it is polynomial in n) in KT₁. In this paper, we show that in the KT₁ LOCAL model (where message sizes are not restricted), singular optimality is achievable. Our main result is that all global problems, including BFS tree construction, can be solved in Õ(D) rounds and Õ(n) messages, where both bounds are optimal up to polylogarithmic factors. Moreover, we show that this can be achieved deterministically.

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Fabien Dufoulon, Gopal Pandurangan, Peter Robinson, and Michele Scquizzato. The Singular Optimality of Distributed Computation in LOCAL. In 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 324, pp. 26:1-26:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{dufoulon_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.26,
  author =	{Dufoulon, Fabien and Pandurangan, Gopal and Robinson, Peter and Scquizzato, Michele},
  title =	{{The Singular Optimality of Distributed Computation in LOCAL}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-360-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{324},
  editor =	{Bonomi, Silvia and Galletta, Letterio and Rivi\`{e}re, Etienne and Schiavoni, Valerio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-225629},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed algorithms, round and message complexity, BFS tree construction, leader election}
}
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Quantum Simultaneous Protocols Without Public Coins Using Modified Equality Queries

Authors: François Le Gall, Oran Nadler, Harumichi Nishimura, and Rotem Oshman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 324, 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)


Abstract
In this paper we study a quantum version of the multiparty simultaneous message-passing (SMP) model, and we show that in some cases, quantum communication can replace public randomness, even with no entanglement between the parties. This was already known for two players, but not for more than two players, and indeed, so far all that was known was a negative result. Our main technical contribution is a compiler that takes any classical public-coin simultaneous protocol based on "modified equality queries," and converts it into a quantum simultaneous protocol without public coins with roughly the same communication complexity. We then use our compiler to derive protocols for several problems, including frequency moments, neighborhood diversity, enumeration of isolated cliques, and more.

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François Le Gall, Oran Nadler, Harumichi Nishimura, and Rotem Oshman. Quantum Simultaneous Protocols Without Public Coins Using Modified Equality Queries. In 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 324, pp. 34:1-34:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{legall_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.34,
  author =	{Le Gall, Fran\c{c}ois and Nadler, Oran and Nishimura, Harumichi and Oshman, Rotem},
  title =	{{Quantum Simultaneous Protocols Without Public Coins Using Modified Equality Queries}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)},
  pages =	{34:1--34:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-360-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{324},
  editor =	{Bonomi, Silvia and Galletta, Letterio and Rivi\`{e}re, Etienne and Schiavoni, Valerio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.34},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-225701},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.34},
  annote =	{Keywords: SMP model, multi-party communication, quantum distributed algorithms}
}
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Distributed Model Checking on Graphs of Bounded Treedepth

Authors: Fedor V. Fomin, Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, and Ioan Todinca

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 319, 38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024)


Abstract
We establish that every monadic second-order logic (MSO) formula on graphs with bounded treedepth is decidable in a constant number of rounds within the CONGEST model. To our knowledge, this marks the first meta-theorem regarding distributed model-checking. Various optimization problems on graphs are expressible in MSO. Examples include determining whether a graph G has a clique of size k, whether it admits a coloring with k colors, whether it contains a graph H as a subgraph or minor, or whether terminal vertices in G could be connected via vertex-disjoint paths. Our meta-theorem significantly enhances the work of Bousquet et al. [PODC 2022], which was focused on distributed certification of MSO on graphs with bounded treedepth. Moreover, our results can be extended to solving optimization and counting problems expressible in MSO, in graphs of bounded treedepth.

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Fedor V. Fomin, Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, and Ioan Todinca. Distributed Model Checking on Graphs of Bounded Treedepth. In 38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 319, pp. 25:1-25:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{fomin_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2024.25,
  author =	{Fomin, Fedor V. and Fraigniaud, Pierre and Montealegre, Pedro and Rapaport, Ivan and Todinca, Ioan},
  title =	{{Distributed Model Checking on Graphs of Bounded Treedepth}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:20},
  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.2024.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-212513},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2024.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: proof-labeling schemes, local computing, CONGEST model}
}
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Distributed Certification for Classes of Dense Graphs

Authors: Pierre Fraigniaud, Frédéric Mazoit, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, and Ioan Todinca

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 281, 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023)


Abstract
A proof-labeling scheme (PLS) for a boolean predicate Π on labeled graphs is a mechanism used for certifying the legality with respect to Π of global network states in a distributed manner. In a PLS, a certificate is assigned to each processing node of the network, and the nodes are in charge of checking that the collection of certificates forms a global proof that the system is in a correct state, by exchanging the certificates once, between neighbors only. The main measure of complexity is the size of the certificates. Many PLSs have been designed for certifying specific predicates, including cycle-freeness, minimum-weight spanning tree, planarity, etc. In 2021, a breakthrough has been obtained, as a "meta-theorem" stating that a large set of properties have compact PLSs in a large class of networks. Namely, for every MSO₂ property Π on labeled graphs, there exists a PLS for Π with O(log n)-bit certificates for all graphs of bounded tree-depth. This result has been extended to the larger class of graphs with bounded tree-width, using certificates on O(log² n) bits. We extend this result even further, to the larger class of graphs with bounded clique-width, which, as opposed to the other two aforementioned classes, includes dense graphs. We show that, for every MSO₁ property Π on labeled graphs, there exists a PLS for Π with O(log² n)-bit certificates for all graphs of bounded clique-width. As a consequence, certifying families of graphs such as distance-hereditary graphs and (induced) P₄-free graphs (a.k.a., cographs) can be done using a PLS with O(log² n)-bit certificates, merely because each of these two classes can be specified in MSO₁. In fact, we show that certifying P₄-free graphs can be done with certificates on O(log n) bits only. This is in contrast to the class of C₄-free graphs (which does not have bounded clique-width) which requires Ω̃(√n)-bit certificates.

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Pierre Fraigniaud, Frédéric Mazoit, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, and Ioan Todinca. Distributed Certification for Classes of Dense Graphs. In 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 281, pp. 20:1-20:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{fraigniaud_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2023.20,
  author =	{Fraigniaud, Pierre and Mazoit, Fr\'{e}d\'{e}ric and Montealegre, Pedro and Rapaport, Ivan and Todinca, Ioan},
  title =	{{Distributed Certification for Classes of Dense Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-301-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{281},
  editor =	{Oshman, Rotem},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-191467},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: CONGEST, Proof Labelling Schemes, clique-width, MSO}
}
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Computing Power of Hybrid Models in Synchronous Networks

Authors: Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Pablo Paredes, Ivan Rapaport, Martín Ríos-Wilson, and Ioan Todinca

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 253, 26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2022)


Abstract
During the last two decades, a small set of distributed computing models for networks have emerged, among which LOCAL, CONGEST, and Broadcast Congested Clique (BCC) play a prominent role. We consider hybrid models resulting from combining these three models. That is, we analyze the computing power of models allowing to, say, perform a constant number of rounds of CONGEST, then a constant number of rounds of LOCAL, then a constant number of rounds of BCC, possibly repeating this figure a constant number of times. We specifically focus on 2-round models, and we establish the complete picture of the relative powers of these models. That is, for every pair of such models, we determine whether one is (strictly) stronger than the other, or whether the two models are incomparable. The separation results are obtained by approaching communication complexity through an original angle, which may be of an independent interest. The two players are not bounded to compute the value of a binary function, but the combined outputs of the two players are constrained by this value. In particular, we introduce the XOR-Index problem, in which Alice is given a binary vector x ∈ {0,1}ⁿ together with an index i ∈ [n], Bob is given a binary vector y ∈ {0,1}ⁿ together with an index j ∈ [n], and, after a single round of 2-way communication, Alice must output a boolean out_A, and Bob must output a boolean out_B, such that out_A ∧ out_B = x_j⊕ y_i. We show that the communication complexity of XOR-Index is Ω(n) bits.

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Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Pablo Paredes, Ivan Rapaport, Martín Ríos-Wilson, and Ioan Todinca. Computing Power of Hybrid Models in Synchronous Networks. In 26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 253, pp. 20:1-20:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{fraigniaud_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.20,
  author =	{Fraigniaud, Pierre and Montealegre, Pedro and Paredes, Pablo and Rapaport, Ivan and R{\'\i}os-Wilson, Mart{\'\i}n and Todinca, Ioan},
  title =	{{Computing Power of Hybrid Models in Synchronous Networks}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2022)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-265-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{253},
  editor =	{Hillel, Eshcar and Palmieri, Roberto and Rivi\`{e}re, Etienne},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-176401},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: hybrid model, synchronous networks, LOCAL, CONGEST, Broadcast Congested Clique}
}
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Brief Announcement
Brief Announcement: Computing Power of Hybrid Models in Synchronous Networks

Authors: Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Pablo Paredes, Ivan Rapaport, Martín Ríos-Wilson, and Ioan Todinca

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 246, 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022)


Abstract
During the last two decades, a small set of distributed computing models for networks have emerged, among which LOCAL, CONGEST, and Broadcast Congested Clique (BCC) play a prominent role. We consider hybrid models resulting from combining these three models. That is, we analyze the computing power of models allowing to, say, perform a constant number of rounds of CONGEST, then a constant number of rounds of LOCAL, then a constant number of rounds of BCC, possibly repeating this figure a constant number of times. We specifically focus on 2-round models, and we establish the complete picture of the relative powers of these models. That is, for every pair of such models, we determine whether one is (strictly) stronger than the other, or whether the two models are incomparable.

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Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Pablo Paredes, Ivan Rapaport, Martín Ríos-Wilson, and Ioan Todinca. Brief Announcement: Computing Power of Hybrid Models in Synchronous Networks. In 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 246, pp. 43:1-43:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{fraigniaud_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2022.43,
  author =	{Fraigniaud, Pierre and Montealegre, Pedro and Paredes, Pablo and Rapaport, Ivan and R{\'\i}os-Wilson, Mart{\'\i}n and Todinca, Ioan},
  title =	{{Brief Announcement: Computing Power of Hybrid Models in Synchronous Networks}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022)},
  pages =	{43:1--43:3},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-255-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{246},
  editor =	{Scheideler, Christian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2022.43},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-172345},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2022.43},
  annote =	{Keywords: hybrid model, synchronous networks, LOCAL, CONGEST, Broadcast Congested Clique}
}
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Shared vs Private Randomness in Distributed Interactive Proofs

Authors: Pedro Montealegre, Diego Ramírez-Romero, and Ivan Rapaport

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 181, 31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020)


Abstract
In distributed interactive proofs, the nodes of a graph G interact with a powerful but untrustable prover who tries to convince them, in a small number of rounds and through short messages, that G satisfies some property. This series of interactions is followed by a phase of distributed verification, which may be either deterministic or randomized, where nodes exchange messages with their neighbors. The nature of this last verification round defines the two types of interactive protocols. We say that the protocol is of Arthur-Merlin type if the verification round is deterministic. We say that the protocol is of Merlin-Arthur type if, in the verification round, the nodes are allowed to use a fresh set of random bits. In the original model introduced by Kol, Oshman, and Saxena [PODC 2018], the randomness was private in the sense that each node had only access to an individual source of random coins. Crescenzi, Fraigniaud, and Paz [DISC 2019] initiated the study of the impact of shared randomness (the situation where the coin tosses are visible to all nodes) in the distributed interactive model. In this work, we continue that research line by showing that the impact of the two forms of randomness is very different depending on whether we are considering Arthur-Merlin protocols or Merlin-Arthur protocols. While private randomness gives more power to the first type of protocols, shared randomness provides more power to the second. Our results also connect shared randomness in distributed interactive proofs with distributed verification, and new lower bounds are obtained.

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Pedro Montealegre, Diego Ramírez-Romero, and Ivan Rapaport. Shared vs Private Randomness in Distributed Interactive Proofs. In 31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 181, pp. 51:1-51:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{montealegre_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.51,
  author =	{Montealegre, Pedro and Ram{\'\i}rez-Romero, Diego and Rapaport, Ivan},
  title =	{{Shared vs Private Randomness in Distributed Interactive Proofs}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2020)},
  pages =	{51:1--51:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-173-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{181},
  editor =	{Cao, Yixin and Cheng, Siu-Wing and Li, Minming},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.51},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-133959},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2020.51},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed interactive proofs, Distributed verification, Shared randomness, Private randomness}
}
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Three Notes on Distributed Property Testing

Authors: Guy Even, Orr Fischer, Pierre Fraigniaud, Tzlil Gonen, Reut Levi, Moti Medina, Pedro Montealegre, Dennis Olivetti, Rotem Oshman, Ivan Rapaport, and Ioan Todinca

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 91, 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017)


Abstract
In this paper we present distributed property-testing algorithms for graph properties in the CONGEST model, with emphasis on testing subgraph-freeness. Testing a graph property P means distinguishing graphs G = (V,E) having property P from graphs that are epsilon-far from having it, meaning that epsilon|E| edges must be added or removed from G to obtain a graph satisfying P. We present a series of results, including: - Testing H-freeness in O(1/epsilon) rounds, for any constant-sized graph H containing an edge (u,v) such that any cycle in H contain either u or v (or both). This includes all connected graphs over five vertices except K_5. For triangles, we can do even better when epsilon is not too small. - A deterministic CONGEST protocol determining whether a graph contains a given tree as a subgraph in constant time. - For cliques K_s with s >= 5, we show that K_s-freeness can be tested in O(m^(1/2-1/(s-2)) epsilon^(-1/2-1/(s-2))) rounds, where m is the number of edges in the network graph. - We describe a general procedure for converting epsilon-testers with f(D) rounds, where D denotes the diameter of the graph, to work in O((log n)/epsilon)+f((log n)/epsilon) rounds, where n is the number of processors of the network. We then apply this procedure to obtain an epsilon-tester for testing whether a graph is bipartite and testing whether a graph is cycle-free. Moreover, for cycle-freeness, we obtain a corrector of the graph that locally corrects the graph so that the corrected graph is acyclic. Note that, unlike a tester, a corrector needs to mend the graph in many places in the case that the graph is far from having the property. These protocols extend and improve previous results of [Censor-Hillel et al. 2016] and [Fraigniaud et al. 2016].

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Guy Even, Orr Fischer, Pierre Fraigniaud, Tzlil Gonen, Reut Levi, Moti Medina, Pedro Montealegre, Dennis Olivetti, Rotem Oshman, Ivan Rapaport, and Ioan Todinca. Three Notes on Distributed Property Testing. In 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 91, pp. 15:1-15:30, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{even_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2017.15,
  author =	{Even, Guy and Fischer, Orr and Fraigniaud, Pierre and Gonen, Tzlil and Levi, Reut and Medina, Moti and Montealegre, Pedro and Olivetti, Dennis and Oshman, Rotem and Rapaport, Ivan and Todinca, Ioan},
  title =	{{Three Notes on Distributed Property Testing}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:30},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-053-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{91},
  editor =	{Richa, Andr\'{e}a},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79847},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Property testing, Property correcting, Distributed algorithms, CONGEST model}
}
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