The More the Merrier: Efficient Multi-Source Graph Traversal
Summary: MS-BFS runs many concurrent BFSs on one graph by sharing work and reducing memory accesses, exploiting small-world properties to avoid synchronization. It achieves near-linear core scalability on real graphs (Twitter, Wikipedia) and outperforms prior BFS for many sources, enabling all-vertices closeness centrality. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Manuel Then (Technical University of Munich)
- 2. Kien Pham (New York University)
- 3. Moritz Kaufmann (Technical University of Munich)
- 4. Alfons Kemper (Technical University of Munich)
- 5. Fernando Chirigati (New York University)
- 6. Tuan-Anh Hoang-Vu (New York University)
- 7. Thomas Neumann (Technical University of Munich)
- 8. Huy T. Vo (New York University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{then_vldb15,
title = {{The More the Merrier: Efficient Multi-Source Graph Traversal}},
author = {Then, Manuel and Pham, Kien and Kaufmann, Moritz and Kemper, Alfons and Chirigati, Fernando and Hoang-Vu, Tuan-Anh and Neumann, Thomas and Vo, Huy T.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {4},
pages = {449},
doi = {10.14778/2735496.2735507},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2735496.2735507},
year = {2015}
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.0012087459 |
| 22 | Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00055938421 |
| 445 | Trinity: A Distributed Graph Engine on a Memory Cloud | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00018168823 |
| 2,512 | Large-Scale Graph Analytics in Aster 6: Bringing Context to Big Data Discovery | 2014 | VLDB | 8.3650425e-05 |
| 2,606 | K-Reach: Who is in Your Small World | 2012 | VLDB | 8.2264537e-05 |
| 3,068 | Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce | 2014 | SIGMOD | 7.6841028e-05 |
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