Distributed Symmetry Breaking on Power Graphs via Sparsification

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DOI10.1145/3583668.3594579arXiv2302.06878OpenAlexW4380880097WikidataQ130808097 ScholiaQ130808097MaRDI QIDQ6202239FDOQ6202239

Jara Uitto, Yannic Maus, Author name not available (Why is that?)

Publication date: 26 March 2024

Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we present efficient distributed algorithms for classical symmetry breaking problems, maximal independent sets (MIS) and ruling sets, in power graphs. We work in the standard CONGEST model of distributed message passing, where the communication network is abstracted as a graph G. Typically, the problem instance in CONGEST is identical to the communication network G, that is, we perform the symmetry breaking in G. In this work, we consider a setting where the problem instance corresponds to a power graph Gk, where each node of the communication network G is connected to all of its k-hop neighbors. Our main contribution is a deterministic polylogarithmic time algorithm for computing k-ruling sets of Gk, which (for k>1) improves exponentially on the current state-of-the-art runtimes. The main technical ingredient for this result is a deterministic sparsification procedure which may be of independent interest. On top of being a natural family of problems, ruling sets (in power graphs) are well-motivated through their applications in the powerful shattering framework [BEPS JACM'16, Ghaffari SODA'19] (and others). We present randomized algorithms for computing maximal independent sets and ruling sets of Gk in essentially the same time as they can be computed in G. We also revisit the shattering algorithm for MIS [BEPS JACM'16] and present different approaches for the post-shattering phase. Our solutions are algorithmically and analytically simpler (also in the LOCAL model) than existing solutions and obtain the same runtime as [Ghaffari SODA'16].


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06878





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