18 Search Results for "Dory, Michal"


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Broadcast in Almost Mixing Time

Authors: Anton Paramonov and Roger Wattenhofer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)


Abstract
We study the problem of broadcasting multiple messages in the CONGEST model. In this problem, a dedicated source node s possesses a set M of messages with every message of size O(log n) where n is the total number of nodes. The objective is to ensure that every node in the network learns all messages in M. The execution of an algorithm progresses in rounds, and we focus on optimizing the round complexity of broadcasting multiple messages. Our primary contribution is a randomized algorithm for networks with expander topology. The algorithm succeeds with high probability and achieves a round complexity that is optimal up to a factor of the network’s mixing time and polylogarithmic terms. It leverages a multi-COBRA primitive, which uses multiple branching random walks running in parallel. A crucial aspect of our method is the use of these branching random walks to construct an optimal (up to a polylogarithmic factor) tree packing of a random graph, which is then used for efficient broadcasting. We also prove the problem to be NP-hard in a centralized setting and provide insights into why lower bounds that can be matched in expanders, namely graph diameter and |M|/minCut, cannot be tight in general graphs.

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Anton Paramonov and Roger Wattenhofer. Broadcast in Almost Mixing Time. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 71:1-71:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{paramonov_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.71,
  author =	{Paramonov, Anton and Wattenhofer, Roger},
  title =	{{Broadcast in Almost Mixing Time}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{71:1--71:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.71},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255603},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.71},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed algorithms, Expander Graphs, Random graphs, Broadcast, Branching random walks, Tree packing, CONGEST model}
}
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Computing in a Faulty Congested Clique

Authors: Keren Censor-Hillel and Pedro Soto

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 361, 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)


Abstract
We study a Faulty Congested Clique model, in which an adversary may fail nodes in the network throughout the computation. We show that any task of O(nlog{n})-bit input per node can be solved in roughly n rounds, where n is the size of the network. This nearly matches the linear upper bound on the complexity of the non-faulty Congested Clique model for such problems, by learning the entire input, and it holds in the faulty model even with a linear number of faults. Our main contribution is that we establish that one can do much better by looking more closely at the computation. Given a deterministic algorithm 𝒜 for the non-faulty Congested Clique model, we show how to transform it into an algorithm 𝒜' for the faulty model, with an overhead that could be as small as some logarithmic-in-n factor, by considering refined complexity measures of 𝒜. As an exemplifying application of our approach, we show that the O(n^{1/3})-round complexity of semi-ring matrix multiplication [Censor{-}Hillel, Kaski, Korhonen, Lenzen, Paz, Suomela, PODC 2015] remains the same up to polylog factors in the faulty model, even if the adversary can fail 99% of the nodes (or any other constant fraction).

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Keren Censor-Hillel and Pedro Soto. Computing in a Faulty Congested Clique. In 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 361, pp. 10:1-10:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{censorhillel_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.10,
  author =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Soto, Pedro},
  title =	{{Computing in a Faulty Congested Clique}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-409-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{361},
  editor =	{Arusoaie, Andrei and Onica, Emanuel and Spear, Michael and Tucci-Piergiovanni, Sara},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251833},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: distributed computing, graph algorithms, computing with faults}
}
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Two for One, One for All: Deterministic LDC-Based Robust Computation in Congested Clique

Authors: Keren Censor-Hillel, Orr Fischer, Ran Gelles, and Pedro Soto

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 356, 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)


Abstract
We design a deterministic compiler that makes any computation in the Congested Clique model robust to a constant fraction α < 1 of adversarial crash faults. In particular, we show how a network of n nodes can compute any circuit of depth d, width ω, and gate total fan Δ, in d ⋅ ⌈ω/n² + Δ/n⌉ ⋅ 2^{O(√{log{n}}log log{n})} rounds in such a faulty model. As a corollary, any T-round Congested Clique algorithm can be compiled into an algorithm that completes in T² n^{o(1)} rounds in this model. Our compiler obtains resilience to node crashes by coding information across the network, and its main underlying observation is that we can leverage locally-decodable codes (LDCs) to maintain a low complexity overhead, as these allow recovering the information needed at each computational step by querying only small parts of the codeword, instead of retrieving the entire coded message, which is inherent when using block codes. The main technical contribution is that because erasures occur in known locations, which correspond to crashed nodes, we can derandomize classical LDC constructions by deterministically selecting query sets that avoid sufficiently many erasures. Moreover, when decoding multiple codewords in parallel, our derandomization load-balances the queries per-node, thereby preventing congestion and maintaining a low round complexity. Deterministic decoding of LDCs presents a new challenge: the adversary can target precisely the (few) nodes that are queried for decoding a certain codeword. We overcome this issue via an adaptive doubling strategy: if a decoding attempt for a codeword fails, the node doubles the number of its decoding attempts. We employ a similar doubling technique when the adversary crashes the decoding node itself, replacing it dynamically with two other non-crashed nodes. By carefully combining these two doubling processes, we overcome the challenges posed by the combination of a deterministic LDC with a worst case pattern of crashes.

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Keren Censor-Hillel, Orr Fischer, Ran Gelles, and Pedro Soto. Two for One, One for All: Deterministic LDC-Based Robust Computation in Congested Clique. In 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 356, pp. 20:1-20:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{censorhillel_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2025.20,
  author =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Fischer, Orr and Gelles, Ran and Soto, Pedro},
  title =	{{Two for One, One for All: Deterministic LDC-Based Robust Computation in Congested Clique}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-402-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{356},
  editor =	{Kowalski, Dariusz R.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248379},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Congested Clique, Fault Tolerance, Error Correction Codes}
}
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Near-Optimal Vertex Fault-Tolerant Labels for Steiner Connectivity

Authors: Koustav Bhanja and Asaf Petruschka

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


Abstract
We present a compact labeling scheme for determining whether a designated set of terminals in a graph remains connected after any f (or less) vertex failures occur. An f-FT Steiner connectivity labeling scheme for an n-vertex graph G = (V,E) with terminal set U ⊆ V provides labels to the vertices of G, such that given only the labels of any subset F ⊆ V with |F| ≤ f, one can determine if U remains connected in G-F. The main complexity measure is the maximum label length. The special case U = V of global connectivity has been recently studied by Jiang, Parter, and Petruschka [Yonggang Jiang et al., 2025], who provided labels of n^{1-1/f} ⋅ poly(f,log n) bits. This is near-optimal (up to poly(f,log n) factors) by a lower bound of Long, Pettie and Saranurak [Yaowei Long et al., 2025]. Our scheme achieves labels of |U|^{1-1/f} ⋅ poly(f, log n) for general U ⊆ V, which is near-optimal for any given size |U| of the terminal set. To handle terminal sets, our approach differs from [Yonggang Jiang et al., 2025]. We use a well-structured Steiner tree for U produced by a decomposition theorem of Duan and Pettie [Ran Duan and Seth Pettie, 2020], and bypass the need for Nagamochi-Ibaraki sparsification [Hiroshi Nagamochi and Toshihide Ibaraki, 1992].

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Koustav Bhanja and Asaf Petruschka. Near-Optimal Vertex Fault-Tolerant Labels for Steiner Connectivity. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 44:1-44:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{bhanja_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.44,
  author =	{Bhanja, Koustav and Petruschka, Asaf},
  title =	{{Near-Optimal Vertex Fault-Tolerant Labels for Steiner Connectivity}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{44:1--44:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.44},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245123},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.44},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fault Tolerance, Labeling Schemes, Steiner Connectivity}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
An Optimal 3-Fault-Tolerant Connectivity Oracle

Authors: Evangelos Kosinas

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


Abstract
We present an optimal oracle for answering connectivity queries in undirected graphs in the presence of at most three vertex failures. Specifically, we show that we can process a graph G in O(n+m) time, in order to build a data structure that occupies O(n) space, which can be used in order to answer queries of the form "given a set F of at most three vertices, and two vertices x and y not in F, are x and y connected in G⧵ F?" in constant time, where n and m denote the number of vertices and edges, respectively, of G. The idea is to rely on the DFS-based framework introduced by Kosinas [ESA'23], for handling connectivity queries in the presence of multiple vertex failures. Our technical contribution is to show how to appropriately extend the toolkit of the DFS-based parameters, in order to optimally handle up to three vertex failures. Our approach has the interesting property that it does not rely on a compact representation of vertex cuts, and has the potential to provide optimal solutions for more vertex failures. Furthermore, we show that the DFS-based framework can be easily extended in order to answer vertex-cut queries, and the number of connected components in the presence of multiple vertex failures. In the case of three vertex failures, we can answer such queries in O(log n) time.

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Evangelos Kosinas. An Optimal 3-Fault-Tolerant Connectivity Oracle. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 110:1-110:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{kosinas:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.110,
  author =	{Kosinas, Evangelos},
  title =	{{An Optimal 3-Fault-Tolerant Connectivity Oracle}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{110:1--110:20},
  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.2025.110},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234879},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.110},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graphs, Connectivity, Fault-Tolerant, Oracles}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Hopsets

Authors: Michael Dinitz, Ama Koranteng, and Yasamin Nazari

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


Abstract
For a given graph G, a hopset H with hopbound β and stretch α is a set of edges such that between every pair of vertices u and v, there is a path with at most β hops in G ∪ H that approximates the distance between u and v up to a multiplicative stretch of α. Hopsets have found a wide range of applications for distance-based problems in various computational models since the 90s. More recently, there has been significant interest in understanding these fundamental objects from an existential and structural perspective. But all of this work takes a worst-case (or existential) point of view: How many edges do we need to add to satisfy a given hopbound and stretch requirement for any input graph? We initiate the study of the natural optimization variant of this problem: given a specific graph instance, what is the minimum number of edges that satisfy the hopbound and stretch requirements? We give approximation algorithms for a generalized hopset problem which, when combined with known existential bounds, lead to different approximation guarantees for various regimes depending on hopbound, stretch, and directed vs. undirected inputs. We complement our upper bounds with a lower bound that implies Label Cover hardness for directed hopsets and shortcut sets with hopbound at least 3.

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Michael Dinitz, Ama Koranteng, and Yasamin Nazari. Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Hopsets. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 69:1-69:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{dinitz_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.69,
  author =	{Dinitz, Michael and Koranteng, Ama and Nazari, Yasamin},
  title =	{{Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Hopsets}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{69:1--69:20},
  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.2025.69},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234464},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.69},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hopsets, Approximation Algorithms}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
On Incremental Approximate Shortest Paths in Directed Graphs

Authors: Adam Górkiewicz and Adam Karczmarz

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


Abstract
In this paper, we show new data structures maintaining approximate shortest paths in sparse directed graphs with polynomially bounded non-negative edge weights under edge insertions. We give more efficient incremental (1+ε)-approximate APSP data structures that work against an adaptive adversary: a deterministic one with Õ(m^{3/2}n^{3/4}) total update time and a randomized one with Õ(m^{4/3}n^{5/6}) total update time. For sparse graphs, these both improve polynomially upon the best-known bound against an adaptive adversary [Karczmarz and Łącki, ESA 2019]. To achieve that, building on the ideas of [Chechik and Zhang, SODA 2021] and [Kyng, Meierhans and Probst Gutenberg, SODA 2022], we show a near-optimal (1+ε)-approximate incremental SSSP data structure for a special case when all edge updates are adjacent to the source, that might be of independent interest. We also describe a very simple and near-optimal offline incremental (1+ε)-approximate SSSP data structure. While online near-linear partially dynamic SSSP data structures have been elusive so far (except for dense instances), our result excludes using certain types of impossibility arguments to rule them out. Additionally, our offline solution leads to near-optimal and deterministic all-pairs bounded-leg shortest paths data structure for sparse graphs.

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Adam Górkiewicz and Adam Karczmarz. On Incremental Approximate Shortest Paths in Directed Graphs. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 93:1-93:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{gorkiewicz_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.93,
  author =	{G\'{o}rkiewicz, Adam and Karczmarz, Adam},
  title =	{{On Incremental Approximate Shortest Paths in Directed Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{93:1--93:20},
  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.2025.93},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234700},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.93},
  annote =	{Keywords: dynamic shortest paths, incremental shortest paths, offline dynamic algorithms}
}
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Computing Oriented Spanners and Their Dilation

Authors: Kevin Buchin, Antonia Kalb, Anil Maheshwari, Saeed Odak, Carolin Rehs, Michiel Smid, and Sampson Wong

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 332, 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)


Abstract
Given a point set P in a metric space and a real number t ≥ 1, an oriented t-spanner is an oriented graph G = (P, E), where for every pair of distinct points p and q in P, the shortest oriented closed walk in G that contains p and q is at most a factor t longer than the perimeter of the smallest triangle in P containing p and q. The oriented dilation of a graph G is the minimum t for which G is an oriented t-spanner. For arbitrary point sets of size n in ℝ^d, where d ≥ 2 is a constant, the only known oriented spanner construction is an oriented 2-spanner with binom(n,2) edges. Moreover, there exists a set P of four points in the plane, for which the oriented dilation is larger than 1.46, for any oriented graph on P. We present the first algorithm that computes, in Euclidean space, a sparse oriented spanner whose oriented dilation is bounded by a constant. More specifically, for any set of n points in ℝ^d, where d is a constant, we construct an oriented (2+ε)-spanner with 𝒪(n) edges in 𝒪(n log n) time and 𝒪(n) space. Our construction uses the well-separated pair decomposition and an algorithm that computes a (1+ε)-approximation of the minimum-perimeter triangle in P containing two given query points in 𝒪(log n) time. While our algorithm is based on first computing a suitable undirected graph and then orienting it, we show that, in general, computing the orientation of an undirected graph that minimises its oriented dilation is NP-hard, even for point sets in the Euclidean plane. We further prove that even if the oriented graph is already given, computing its oriented dilation is APSP-hard for points in a general metric space. We complement this result with an algorithm that approximates the oriented dilation of a given graph in subcubic time for point sets in ℝ^d, where d is a constant.

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Kevin Buchin, Antonia Kalb, Anil Maheshwari, Saeed Odak, Carolin Rehs, Michiel Smid, and Sampson Wong. Computing Oriented Spanners and Their Dilation. In 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 332, pp. 27:1-27:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{buchin_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.27,
  author =	{Buchin, Kevin and Kalb, Antonia and Maheshwari, Anil and Odak, Saeed and Rehs, Carolin and Smid, Michiel and Wong, Sampson},
  title =	{{Computing Oriented Spanners and Their Dilation}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-370-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{332},
  editor =	{Aichholzer, Oswin and Wang, Haitao},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231792},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: spanner, oriented graph, dilation, orientation, well-separated pair decomposition, minimum-perimeter triangle}
}
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String Problems in the Congested Clique Model

Authors: Shay Golan and Matan Kraus

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 331, 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)


Abstract
In this paper we present algorithms for several string problems in the Congested Clique model. In the Congested Clique model, n nodes (computers) are used to solve some problem. The input to the problem is distributed among the nodes, and the communication between the nodes is conducted in rounds. In each round, every node is allowed to send an O(log n)-bit message to every other node in the network. We consider three fundamental string problems in the Congested Clique model. First, we present an O(1) rounds algorithm for string sorting that supports strings of arbitrary length. Second, we present an O(1) rounds combinatorial pattern matching algorithm. Finally, we present an O(log log n) rounds algorithm for the computation of the suffix array and the corresponding Longest Common Prefix array of a given string.

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Shay Golan and Matan Kraus. String Problems in the Congested Clique Model. In 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 331, pp. 6:1-6:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{golan_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2025.6,
  author =	{Golan, Shay and Kraus, Matan},
  title =	{{String Problems in the Congested Clique Model}},
  booktitle =	{36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-369-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{331},
  editor =	{Bonizzoni, Paola and M\"{a}kinen, Veli},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231003},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: String Sorting, Pattern Matching, Suffix Array, Congested Clique, Sorting}
}
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Near-Optimal Resilient Labeling Schemes

Authors: Keren Censor-Hillel and Einav Huberman

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


Abstract
Labeling schemes are a prevalent paradigm in various computing settings. In such schemes, an oracle is given an input graph and produces a label for each of its nodes, enabling the labels to be used for various tasks. Fundamental examples in distributed settings include distance labeling schemes, proof labeling schemes, advice schemes, and more. This paper addresses the question of what happens in a labeling scheme if some labels are erased, e.g., due to communication loss with the oracle or hardware errors. We adapt the notion of resilient proof-labeling schemes of Fischer, Oshman, Shamir [OPODIS 2021] and consider resiliency in general labeling schemes. A resilient labeling scheme consists of two parts - a transformation of any given labeling to a new one, executed by the oracle, and a distributed algorithm in which the nodes can restore their original labels given the new ones, despite some label erasures. Our contribution is a resilient labeling scheme that can handle F such erasures. Given a labeling of 𝓁 bits per node, it produces new labels with multiplicative and additive overheads of O(1) and O(log(F)), respectively. The running time of the distributed reconstruction algorithm is O(F+(𝓁⋅F)/log n) in the Congest model. This improves upon what can be deduced from the work of Bick, Kol, and Oshman [SODA 2022], for non-constant values of F. It is not hard to show that the running time of our distributed algorithm is optimal, making our construction near-optimal, up to the additive overhead in the label size.

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Keren Censor-Hillel and Einav Huberman. Near-Optimal Resilient Labeling Schemes. In 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 324, pp. 35:1-35:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{censorhillel_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.35,
  author =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Huberman, Einav},
  title =	{{Near-Optimal Resilient Labeling Schemes}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)},
  pages =	{35:1--35:22},
  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.2024.35},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-225713},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.35},
  annote =	{Keywords: Labeling schemes, Erasures}
}
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Brief Announcement
Brief Announcement: Distributed Maximum Flow in Planar Graphs

Authors: Yaseen Abd-Elhaleem, Michal Dory, Merav Parter, and Oren Weimann

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


Abstract
The dual of a planar graph G is a planar graph G^* that has a vertex for each face of G and an edge for each pair of adjacent faces of G. The profound relationship between a planar graph and its dual has been the algorithmic basis for solving numerous (centralized) classical problems on planar graphs involving distances, flows, and cuts. In the distributed setting however, the only use of planar duality is for finding a recursive decomposition of G [DISC 2017, STOC 2019]. In this paper, we extend the distributed algorithmic toolkit (such as recursive decompositions and minor-aggregations) to work on the dual graph G^*. These tools can then facilitate various algorithms on G by solving a suitable dual problem on G^*. Given a directed planar graph G with hop-diameter D, our key result is an Õ(D²)-round algorithm for Single Source Shortest Paths on G^*, which then implies an Õ(D²)-round algorithm for Maximum st-Flow on G. Prior to our work, no Õ(Poly(D))-round algorithm was known for Maximum st-Flow. We further obtain a D⋅ n^o(1)-rounds (1+ε)-approximation algorithm for Maximum st-Flow on G when G is undirected and s and t lie on the same face. Finally, we give a near optimal Õ(D)-round algorithm for computing the weighted girth of G. The main challenges in our work are that G^* is not the communication graph (e.g., a vertex of G is mapped to multiple vertices of G^*), and that the diameter of G^* can be much larger than D (i.e., possibly by a linear factor). We overcome these challenges by carefully defining and maintaining subgraphs of the dual graph G^* while applying the recursive decomposition on the primal graph G. The main technical difficulty, is that along the recursive decomposition, a face of G gets shattered into (disconnected) components yet we still need to treat it as a dual node.

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Yaseen Abd-Elhaleem, Michal Dory, Merav Parter, and Oren Weimann. Brief Announcement: Distributed Maximum Flow in Planar Graphs. In 38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 319, pp. 40:1-40:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{abdelhaleem_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2024.40,
  author =	{Abd-Elhaleem, Yaseen and Dory, Michal and Parter, Merav and Weimann, Oren},
  title =	{{Brief Announcement: Distributed Maximum Flow in Planar Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:8},
  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.2024.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-212687},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2024.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Maximum flow, shortest paths, planar graphs, distributed computing}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
New Tradeoffs for Decremental Approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths

Authors: Michal Dory, Sebastian Forster, Yasamin Nazari, and Tijn de Vos

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)


Abstract
We provide new tradeoffs between approximation and running time for the decremental all-pairs shortest paths (APSP) problem. For undirected graphs with m edges and n nodes undergoing edge deletions, we provide four new approximate decremental APSP algorithms, two for weighted and two for unweighted graphs. Our first result is (2+ε)-APSP with total update time Õ(m^{1/2}n^{3/2}) (when m = n^{1+c} for any constant 0 < c < 1). Prior to our work the fastest algorithm for weighted graphs with approximation at most 3 had total Õ(mn) update time for (1+ε)-APSP [Bernstein, SICOMP 2016]. Our second result is (2+ε, W_{u,v})-APSP with total update time Õ(nm^{3/4}), where the second term is an additive stretch with respect to W_{u,v}, the maximum weight on the shortest path from u to v. Our third result is (2+ε)-APSP for unweighted graphs in Õ(m^{7/4}) update time, which for sparse graphs (m = o(n^{8/7})) is the first subquadratic (2+ε)-approximation. Our last result for unweighted graphs is (1+ε, 2(k-1))-APSP, for k ≥ 2, with Õ(n^{2-1/k}m^{1/k}) total update time (when m = n^{1+c} for any constant c > 0). For comparison, in the special case of (1+ε, 2)-approximation, this improves over the state-of-the-art algorithm by [Henzinger, Krinninger, Nanongkai, SICOMP 2016] with total update time of Õ(n^{2.5}). All of our results are randomized, work against an oblivious adversary, and have constant query time.

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Michal Dory, Sebastian Forster, Yasamin Nazari, and Tijn de Vos. New Tradeoffs for Decremental Approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 58:1-58:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{dory_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.58,
  author =	{Dory, Michal and Forster, Sebastian and Nazari, Yasamin and de Vos, Tijn},
  title =	{{New Tradeoffs for Decremental Approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{58:1--58:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.58},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-202012},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.58},
  annote =	{Keywords: Decremental Shortest Path, All-Pairs Shortest Paths}
}
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Õptimal Dual Vertex Failure Connectivity Labels

Authors: Merav Parter and Asaf Petruschka

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


Abstract
In this paper we present succinct labeling schemes for supporting connectivity queries under vertex faults. For a given n-vertex graph G, an f-VFT (resp., EFT) connectivity labeling scheme is a distributed data structure that assigns each of the graph edges and vertices a short label, such that given the labels of a vertex pair u and v, and the labels of at most f failing vertices (resp., edges) F, one can determine if u and v are connected in G ⧵ F. The primary complexity measure is the length of the individual labels. Since their introduction by [Courcelle, Twigg, STACS '07], FT labeling schemes have been devised only for a limited collection of graph families. A recent work [Dory and Parter, PODC 2021] provided EFT labeling schemes for general graphs under edge failures, leaving the vertex failure case fairly open. We provide the first sublinear f-VFT labeling schemes for f ≥ 2 for any n-vertex graph. Our key result is 2-VFT connectivity labels with O(log³ n) bits. Our constructions are based on analyzing the structure of dual failure replacement paths on top of the well-known heavy-light tree decomposition technique of [Sleator and Tarjan, STOC 1981]. We also provide f-VFT labels with sub-linear length (in |V|) for any f = o(log log n), that are based on a reduction to the existing EFT labels.

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Merav Parter and Asaf Petruschka. Õptimal Dual Vertex Failure Connectivity Labels. In 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 246, pp. 32:1-32:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{parter_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2022.32,
  author =	{Parter, Merav and Petruschka, Asaf},
  title =	{{\~{O}ptimal Dual Vertex Failure Connectivity Labels}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:19},
  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.2022.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-172239},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2022.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fault-Tolerance, Heavy-Light Decomposition, Labeling Schemes}
}
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Distance Computations in the Hybrid Network Model via Oracle Simulations

Authors: Keren Censor-Hillel, Dean Leitersdorf, and Volodymyr Polosukhin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 187, 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2021)


Abstract
The Hybrid network model was introduced in [Augustine et al., SODA '20] for laying down a theoretical foundation for networks which combine two possible modes of communication: One mode allows high-bandwidth communication with neighboring nodes, and the other allows low-bandwidth communication over few long-range connections at a time. This fundamentally abstracts networks such as hybrid data centers, and class-based software-defined networks. Our technical contribution is a density-aware approach that allows us to simulate a set of oracles for an overlay skeleton graph over a Hybrid network. As applications of our oracle simulations, with additional machinery that we provide, we derive fast algorithms for fundamental distance-related tasks. One of our core contributions is an algorithm in the Hybrid model for computing exact weighted shortest paths from Õ(n^{1/3}) sources which completes in Õ(n^{1/3}) rounds w.h.p. This improves, in both the runtime and the number of sources, upon the algorithm of [Kuhn and Schneider, PODC ’20], which computes shortest paths from a single source in Õ(n^{2/5}) rounds w.h.p. We additionally show a 2-approximation for weighted diameter and a (1+ε)-approximation for unweighted diameter, both in Õ(n^{1/3}) rounds w.h.p., which is comparable to the ̃ Ω(n^{1/3}) lower bound of [Kuhn and Schneider, PODC ’20] for a (2-ε)-approximation for weighted diameter and an exact unweighted diameter. We also provide fast distance approximations from multiple sources and fast approximations for eccentricities.

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Keren Censor-Hillel, Dean Leitersdorf, and Volodymyr Polosukhin. Distance Computations in the Hybrid Network Model via Oracle Simulations. In 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 187, pp. 21:1-21:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{censorhillel_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2021.21,
  author =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Leitersdorf, Dean and Polosukhin, Volodymyr},
  title =	{{Distance Computations in the Hybrid Network Model via Oracle Simulations}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2021)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-180-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{187},
  editor =	{Bl\"{a}ser, Markus and Monmege, Benjamin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-136663},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed graph algorithms, Hybrid network model, Distance computations}
}
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Fast Deterministic Algorithms for Highly-Dynamic Networks

Authors: Keren Censor-Hillel, Neta Dafni, Victor I. Kolobov, Ami Paz, and Gregory Schwartzman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 184, 24th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2020)


Abstract
This paper provides an algorithmic framework for obtaining fast distributed algorithms for a highly-dynamic setting, in which arbitrarily many edge changes may occur in each round. Our algorithm significantly improves upon prior work in its combination of (1) having an O(1) amortized time complexity, (2) using only O(log{n})-bit messages, (3) not posing any restrictions on the dynamic behavior of the environment, (4) being deterministic, (5) having strong guarantees for intermediate solutions, and (6) being applicable for a wide family of tasks. The tasks for which we deduce such an algorithm are maximal matching, (degree+1)-coloring, 2-approximation for minimum weight vertex cover, and maximal independent set (which is the most subtle case). For some of these tasks, node insertions can also be among the allowed topology changes, and for some of them also abrupt node deletions.

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Keren Censor-Hillel, Neta Dafni, Victor I. Kolobov, Ami Paz, and Gregory Schwartzman. Fast Deterministic Algorithms for Highly-Dynamic Networks. In 24th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 184, pp. 28:1-28:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{censorhillel_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2020.28,
  author =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Dafni, Neta and Kolobov, Victor I. and Paz, Ami and Schwartzman, Gregory},
  title =	{{Fast Deterministic Algorithms for Highly-Dynamic Networks}},
  booktitle =	{24th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2020)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-176-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{184},
  editor =	{Bramas, Quentin and Oshman, Rotem and Romano, Paolo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2020.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-135138},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2020.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: dynamic distributed algorithms}
}
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