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Daniel Prigan
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2since 2021 · last 2026
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Theory of computation · 2 · 2 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | An LCA for Approximated MST in General Bounded-Degree GraphsabstractWe present a local computation algorithm (LCA) for constructing a connected spanning subgraph whose total weight is at most a (1+ε)-factor larger than that of a minimum spanning tree, in general bounded-degree graphs. Prior to our work, nontrivial LCAs for this problem, namely, algorithms with sublinear query complexity, were known only for the restricted graph family of minor-free graphs by Levi, Ron, and Rubinfeld (Algorithmica 2020). The query complexity of our algorithm in terms of the number of vertices, n, is Õ(n^{2/3}). The best known lower bound for this problem is Ω(n^{1/2}). Our approach consists of three conceptual layers. The first is a localized variant of Prim’s algorithm, which reconstructs, using only local queries, a large fraction of the edges of the minimum spanning tree. The resulting subgraph at this stage is disconnected. To address this, in the second layer, we partition the partially constructed forest into clusters of size Õ(n^{1/3}). To this end, we present a partition oracle, as introduced by Hassidim et al. (FOCS 2009), for trees whose query complexity is nearly optimal in terms of ε, the parameter that controls the number of edges in the boundary. In particular, its query complexity is Õ(d/ε), where d denotes the degree bound. In the third and last layer, we adapt the technique from Lenzen-Levi (ICALP 2018) for locally computing a sparse spanning subgraph and obtain an algorithm that locally identifies and adds a small number of carefully chosen edges in order to restore global connectivity. We show that the number of such additional edges is small, and consequently, their total weight contributes only a small amount to the overall cost, preserving the (1+ε)-approximation guarantee. Reut Levi, Moti Medina, Daniel Prigan |
ESA | 3 |
| 2025 | Faster Construction of a Planar Distance Oracle with Õ(1) Query Time
Itai Boneh, Shay Golan 0001, Shay Mozes, Daniel Prigan, Oren Weimann |
ICALP | 4 |