{"status":"public","title":"Fast graphical population protocols","quality_controlled":"1","alternative_title":["LIPIcs"],"date_created":"2022-04-17T22:01:47Z","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","oa_version":"Published Version","oa":1,"scopus_import":"1","publisher":"Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik","publication_status":"published","date_published":"2022-02-01T00:00:00Z","abstract":[{"text":"Let G be a graph on n nodes. In the stochastic population protocol model, a collection of n indistinguishable, resource-limited nodes collectively solve tasks via pairwise interactions. In each interaction, two randomly chosen neighbors first read each other’s states, and then update their local states. A rich line of research has established tight upper and lower bounds on the complexity of fundamental tasks, such as majority and leader election, in this model, when G is a clique. Specifically, in the clique, these tasks can be solved fast, i.e., in n polylog n pairwise interactions, with high probability, using at most polylog n states per node.\r\nIn this work, we consider the more general setting where G is an arbitrary regular graph, and present a technique for simulating protocols designed for fully-connected networks in any connected regular graph. Our main result is a simulation that is efficient on many interesting graph families: roughly, the simulation overhead is polylogarithmic in the number of nodes, and quadratic in the conductance of the graph. As a sample application, we show that, in any regular graph with conductance φ, both leader election and exact majority can be solved in φ^{-2} ⋅ n polylog n pairwise interactions, with high probability, using at most φ^{-2} ⋅ polylog n states per node. This shows that there are fast and space-efficient population protocols for leader election and exact majority on graphs with good expansion properties. We believe our results will prove generally useful, as they allow efficient technology transfer between the well-mixed (clique) case, and the under-explored spatial setting.","lang":"eng"}],"department":[{"_id":"DaAl"}],"day":"01","type":"conference","file":[{"date_updated":"2022-05-02T08:06:33Z","date_created":"2022-05-02T08:06:33Z","file_size":959406,"success":1,"file_id":"11346","checksum":"2c7c982174c6f98c4ca6e92539d15086","relation":"main_file","creator":"dernst","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2022_LIPICs_Alistarh.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf"}],"date_updated":"2022-05-02T08:09:39Z","tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"article_processing_charge":"No","month":"02","acknowledgement":"Dan Alistarh: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC)\r\nunder the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No.805223 ScaleML).\r\nJoel Rybicki: This project has received from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and\r\ninnovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 840605.\r\nAcknowledgements We grateful to Giorgi Nadiradze for pointing out a generalisation of the phase clock construction to non-regular graphs. We also thank anonymous reviewers for their useful comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.","file_date_updated":"2022-05-02T08:06:33Z","project":[{"call_identifier":"H2020","name":"Elastic Coordination for Scalable Machine Learning","_id":"268A44D6-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"805223"},{"call_identifier":"H2020","grant_number":"840605","name":"Coordination in constrained and natural distributed systems","_id":"26A5D39A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"}],"ddc":["510"],"volume":217,"intvolume":"       217","year":"2022","citation":{"short":"D.-A. Alistarh, R. Gelashvili, J. Rybicki, in:, Q. Bramas, V. Gramoli, A. Milani (Eds.), 25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2022.","ista":"Alistarh D-A, Gelashvili R, Rybicki J. 2022. Fast graphical population protocols. 25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems. OPODIS, LIPIcs, vol. 217, 14.","chicago":"Alistarh, Dan-Adrian, Rati Gelashvili, and Joel Rybicki. “Fast Graphical Population Protocols.” In <i>25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems</i>, edited by Quentin Bramas, Vincent Gramoli, and Alessia Milani, Vol. 217. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2022. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.14\">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.14</a>.","apa":"Alistarh, D.-A., Gelashvili, R., &#38; Rybicki, J. (2022). Fast graphical population protocols. In Q. Bramas, V. Gramoli, &#38; A. Milani (Eds.), <i>25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems</i> (Vol. 217). Strasbourg, France: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.14\">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.14</a>","ama":"Alistarh D-A, Gelashvili R, Rybicki J. Fast graphical population protocols. In: Bramas Q, Gramoli V, Milani A, eds. <i>25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems</i>. Vol 217. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2022. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.14\">10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.14</a>","ieee":"D.-A. Alistarh, R. Gelashvili, and J. Rybicki, “Fast graphical population protocols,” in <i>25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems</i>, Strasbourg, France, 2022, vol. 217.","mla":"Alistarh, Dan-Adrian, et al. “Fast Graphical Population Protocols.” <i>25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems</i>, edited by Quentin Bramas et al., vol. 217, 14, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2022, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.14\">10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.14</a>."},"conference":{"end_date":"2021-12-15","location":"Strasbourg, France","start_date":"2021-12-13","name":"OPODIS"},"ec_funded":1,"_id":"11184","article_number":"14","editor":[{"last_name":"Bramas","first_name":"Quentin","full_name":"Bramas, Quentin"},{"full_name":"Gramoli, Vincent","last_name":"Gramoli","first_name":"Vincent"},{"full_name":"Milani, Alessia","last_name":"Milani","first_name":"Alessia"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","publication":"25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems","author":[{"id":"4A899BFC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Alistarh, Dan-Adrian","first_name":"Dan-Adrian","last_name":"Alistarh","orcid":"0000-0003-3650-940X"},{"full_name":"Gelashvili, Rati","first_name":"Rati","last_name":"Gelashvili"},{"last_name":"Rybicki","first_name":"Joel","full_name":"Rybicki, Joel","id":"334EFD2E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-6432-6646"}],"doi":"10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2021.14","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9783959772198"],"issn":["1868-8969"]},"external_id":{"arxiv":["2102.08808"]}}