Network Decomposition and Distributed Derandomization (Invited Paper)


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2020

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Conference Paper

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Abstract

We overview a recent line of work [Rozhoň and Ghaffari at STOC 2020; Ghaffari, Harris, and Kuhn at FOCS 2018; and Ghaffari, Kuhn, and Maus at STOC 2017], which proved that any (locally-checkable) graph problem that admits an efficient randomized distributed algorithm also admits an efficient deterministic distributed algorithm, thereby resolving several central and decades-old open problems in distributed graph algorithms. We present a short and self-contained version of the proofs, and conclude by discussing several related questions that remain open. This article accompanies a keynote talk of the author at the International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) 2020. The writing is based on [24, 28, 45] and primarily targets non-experts.

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published

Book title

Structural Information and Communication Complexity

Volume

12156

Pages / Article No.

3 - 18

Publisher

Springer

Event

27th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2020) (virtual)

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Distributed graph algorithms; Derandomization; Network decomposition; LOCAL model

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09587 - Ghaffari, Mohsen (ehemalig) / Ghaffari, Mohsen (former) check_circle

Notes

Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) the conference was conducted virtually.

Funding

853109 - Distributed and Massively Parallel Graph Algorithms (EC)

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