57 research outputs found
Simple parallel and distributed algorithms for spectral graph sparsification
We describe a simple algorithm for spectral graph sparsification, based on
iterative computations of weighted spanners and uniform sampling. Leveraging
the algorithms of Baswana and Sen for computing spanners, we obtain the first
distributed spectral sparsification algorithm. We also obtain a parallel
algorithm with improved work and time guarantees. Combining this algorithm with
the parallel framework of Peng and Spielman for solving symmetric diagonally
dominant linear systems, we get a parallel solver which is much closer to being
practical and significantly more efficient in terms of the total work.Comment: replaces "A simple parallel and distributed algorithm for spectral
sparsification". Minor change
Directed Hamiltonicity and Out-Branchings via Generalized Laplacians
We are motivated by a tantalizing open question in exact algorithms: can we
detect whether an -vertex directed graph has a Hamiltonian cycle in time
significantly less than ? We present new randomized algorithms that
improve upon several previous works:
1. We show that for any constant and prime we can count the
Hamiltonian cycles modulo in
expected time less than for a constant that depends only on and
. Such an algorithm was previously known only for the case of counting
modulo two [Bj\"orklund and Husfeldt, FOCS 2013].
2. We show that we can detect a Hamiltonian cycle in
time and polynomial space, where is the size of the maximum
independent set in . In particular, this yields an time
algorithm for bipartite directed graphs, which is faster than the
exponential-space algorithm in [Cygan et al., STOC 2013].
Our algorithms are based on the algebraic combinatorics of "incidence
assignments" that we can capture through evaluation of determinants of
Laplacian-like matrices, inspired by the Matrix--Tree Theorem for directed
graphs. In addition to the novel algorithms for directed Hamiltonicity, we use
the Matrix--Tree Theorem to derive simple algebraic algorithms for detecting
out-branchings. Specifically, we give an -time randomized algorithm
for detecting out-branchings with at least internal vertices, improving
upon the algorithms of [Zehavi, ESA 2015] and [Bj\"orklund et al., ICALP 2015].
We also present an algebraic algorithm for the directed -Leaf problem, based
on a non-standard monomial detection problem
A nearly-mlogn time solver for SDD linear systems
We present an improved algorithm for solving symmetrically diagonally
dominant linear systems. On input of an symmetric diagonally
dominant matrix with non-zero entries and a vector such that
for some (unknown) vector , our algorithm computes a
vector such that
{ denotes the A-norm} in time
The solver utilizes in a standard way a `preconditioning' chain of
progressively sparser graphs. To claim the faster running time we make a
two-fold improvement in the algorithm for constructing the chain. The new chain
exploits previously unknown properties of the graph sparsification algorithm
given in [Koutis,Miller,Peng, FOCS 2010], allowing for stronger preconditioning
properties. We also present an algorithm of independent interest that
constructs nearly-tight low-stretch spanning trees in time
, a factor of faster than the algorithm in
[Abraham,Bartal,Neiman, FOCS 2008]. This speedup directly reflects on the
construction time of the preconditioning chain.Comment: to appear in FOCS1
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