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Brief Announcement
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.40
Brief Announcement: Distributed Derandomization Revisited

Authors: Sameep Dahal, Francesco d'Amore, Henrik Lievonen, Timothé Picavet, and Jukka Suomela

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

Abstract
One of the cornerstones of the distributed complexity theory is the derandomization result by Chang, Kopelowitz, and Pettie [FOCS 2016]: any randomized LOCAL algorithm that solves a locally checkable labeling problem (LCL) can be derandomized with at most exponential overhead. The original proof assumes that the number of random bits is bounded by some function of the input size. We give a new, simple proof that does not make any such assumptions - it holds even if the randomized algorithm uses infinitely many bits. While at it, we also broaden the scope of the result so that it is directly applicable far beyond LCL problems.
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Sameep Dahal, Francesco d'Amore, Henrik Lievonen, Timothé Picavet, and Jukka Suomela. Brief Announcement: Distributed Derandomization Revisited. In 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 281, pp. 40:1-40:5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{dahal_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2023.40,
  author =	{Dahal, Sameep and d'Amore, Francesco and Lievonen, Henrik and Picavet, Timoth\'{e} and Suomela, Jukka},
  title =	{{Brief Announcement: Distributed Derandomization Revisited}},
  booktitle =	{37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:5},
  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.2023.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-191660},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed algorithm, Derandomization, LOCAL model}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.10
Locality in Online, Dynamic, Sequential, and Distributed Graph Algorithms

Authors: Amirreza Akbari, Navid Eslami, Henrik Lievonen, Darya Melnyk, Joona Särkijärvi, and Jukka Suomela

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 261, 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)

Abstract
In this work, we give a unifying view of locality in four settings: distributed algorithms, sequential greedy algorithms, dynamic algorithms, and online algorithms. We introduce a new model of computing, called the online-LOCAL model: the adversary presents the nodes of the input graph one by one, in the same way as in classical online algorithms, but for each node we get to see its radius-T neighborhood before choosing the output. Instead of looking ahead in time, we have the power of looking around in space. We compare the online-LOCAL model with three other models: the LOCAL model of distributed computing, where each node produces its output based on its radius-T neighborhood, the SLOCAL model, which is the sequential counterpart of LOCAL, and the dynamic-LOCAL model, where changes in the dynamic input graph only influence the radius-T neighborhood of the point of change. The SLOCAL and dynamic-LOCAL models are sandwiched between the LOCAL and online-LOCAL models. In general, all four models are distinct, but we study in particular locally checkable labeling problems (LCLs), which is a family of graph problems extensively studied in the context of distributed graph algorithms. We prove that for LCL problems in paths, cycles, and rooted trees, all four models are roughly equivalent: the locality of any LCL problem falls in the same broad class - O(log* n), Θ(log n), or n^Θ(1) - in all four models. In particular, this result enables one to generalize prior lower-bound results from the LOCAL model to all four models, and it also allows one to simulate e.g. dynamic-LOCAL algorithms efficiently in the LOCAL model. We also show that this equivalence does not hold in two-dimensional grids or general bipartite graphs. We provide an online-LOCAL algorithm with locality O(log n) for the 3-coloring problem in bipartite graphs - this is a problem with locality Ω(n^{1/2}) in the LOCAL model and Ω(n^{1/10}) in the SLOCAL model.
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Amirreza Akbari, Navid Eslami, Henrik Lievonen, Darya Melnyk, Joona Särkijärvi, and Jukka Suomela. Locality in Online, Dynamic, Sequential, and Distributed Graph Algorithms. In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, pp. 10:1-10:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{akbari_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.10,
  author =	{Akbari, Amirreza and Eslami, Navid and Lievonen, Henrik and Melnyk, Darya and S\"{a}rkij\"{a}rvi, Joona and Suomela, Jukka},
  title =	{{Locality in Online, Dynamic, Sequential, and Distributed Graph Algorithms}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-278-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{261},
  editor =	{Etessami, Kousha and Feige, Uriel 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.2023.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-180627},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Online computation, spatial advice, distributed algorithms, computational complexity}
}
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