On some fine-grained questions in algorithms and complexity

VV Williams - Proceedings of the international congress of …, 2018 - World Scientific
In recent years, a new “fine-grained” theory of computational hardness has been developed,
based on “fine-grained reductions” that focus on exact running times for problems …

What graph neural networks cannot learn: depth vs width

A Loukas - arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03199, 2019 - arxiv.org
This paper studies the expressive power of graph neural networks falling within the
message-passing framework (GNNmp). Two results are presented. First, GNNmp are shown …

Recent advances in multi-pass graph streaming lower bounds

S Assadi - ACM SIGACT News, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent Advances in Multi-Pass Graph Streaming Lower Bounds Page 1 Recent Advances in
Multi-Pass Graph Streaming Lower Bounds Sepehr Assadi Cheriton School of Computer …

Universally-optimal distributed algorithms for known topologies

B Haeupler, D Wajc, G Zuzic - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Many distributed optimization algorithms achieve existentially-optimal running times,
meaning that there exists some pathological worst-case topology on which no algorithm can …

Fast approximate shortest paths in the congested clique

K Censor-Hillel, M Dory, JH Korhonen… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We design fast deterministic algorithms for distance computation in the CONGESTED
CLIQUE model. Our key contributions include: A (2+ ε)-approximation for all-pairs shortest …

What's wrong with deep learning in tree search for combinatorial optimization

M Böther, O Kißig, M Taraz, S Cohen, K Seidel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Combinatorial optimization lies at the core of many real-world problems. Especially since the
rise of graph neural networks (GNNs), the deep learning community has been developing …

Adversarially robust coloring for graph streams

A Chakrabarti, P Ghosh, M Stoeckl - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.11130, 2021 - arxiv.org
A streaming algorithm is considered to be adversarially robust if it provides correct outputs
with high probability even when the stream updates are chosen by an adversary who may …

Distributed exact weighted all-pairs shortest paths in near-linear time

A Bernstein, D Nanongkai - Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In the distributed all-pairs shortest paths problem (APSP), every node in the weighted
undirected distributed network (the CONGEST model) needs to know the distance from …

Brooks' theorem in graph streams: a single-pass semi-streaming algorithm for∆-coloring

S Assadi, P Kumar, P Mittal - Proceedings of the 54th Annual ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Every graph with maximum degree Δ can be colored with (Δ+ 1) colors using a simple
greedy algorithm. Remarkably, recent work has shown that one can find such a coloring …

Hardness of distributed optimization

N Bacrach, K Censor-Hillel, M Dory, Y Efron… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper studies lower bounds for fundamental optimization problems in the CONGEST
model. We show that solving problems exactly in this model can be a hard task, by providing …