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Prof. Emo Welzl and Prof. Bernd Gärtner
Mittagsseminar Talk Information |
Date and Time: Thursday, April 01, 2021, 12:15 pm
Duration: 30 minutes
Location: Zoom: conference room
Speaker: Julian Portmann
In this talk, I will present some results about the single-source shortest path problem in the distributed CONGEST model. Recent results have closed the gap between upper and lower bounds, however the lower bounds only hold for some worst-case network topologies, and the algorithms achieving these upper bounds are designed such that they only achieve this worst-case runtime on all graphs. That is, they are only worst-case optimal and not instance optimal, which would mean that their runtime cannot be (significantly) improved on any network topology. It is known that for other problems, such as minimum spanning tree, many graph classes (e.g. planar graphs) admit solutions that are much faster than what is possible on some worst-case graphs.
I will give an overview of these results, outline some basic techniques for computing shortest paths in the distributed setting, and talk about a framework that has been used to get algorithms that are closer to being instance optimal.
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