Map Reduce algorithm for removing cycles from a graph

This question has a great answer for detecting cycles in a d开发者_JAVA技巧irected graph. Unfortunately, it does not seem easy to make a Map Reduce version of it.

Specifically, I am interested in a Map Reduce algorithm for removing cycles from a directed graph.

I have evaluated using a breadth first search (BFS) algorithm but an issue I see is that two different edges may be removed simultaneously to cut off a cycle. The impact of this scenario is that too many edges could be removed. It is important that cycles are removed while minimizing the number of edges removed.

Solutions with proofs available are preferred!

Thanks.

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You need an iterative map reduce to implement this algorithm. See http://www.iterativemapreduce.org/ for a map-reduce framework that centers around iterative map reduces. Or http://www.johnandcailin.com/blog/cailin/breadth-first-graph-search-using-iterative-map-reduce-algorithm for a worked example of how to do a breadth-first search through a graph with Hadoop using an iterative map reduce.

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Well if you want to remove all cycles, then you will end up with a tree. So no matter what algorithm you use, you will remove |E| - (n -1) edges. (if it was correct of course)

However, the question is whether the deletion of edges will lead to a disconnected graph. For this you will need to make an ordering of the edges (let's say lexicographic order). You should then always remove the the largest edge in a cycle. [I guess the proof of correctness is very direct whence: simply use Kruskal algorithm and find that they will be the same ! ]

Any spanning tree algorithm would solve the problem for you. Depending on what you want to optimize (either time or messsage complexity or any other perfomance metric), you will find different algorithms. BFS is the best for time. No algorithm can solve the problem for less than c(logn + m) message for c > 0.

There is an algoritm I like using for DAG's is called YO-YO. The description of the algorithm can be found in : http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~flocchin/CSI4509/8-yoyo11_fr.pdf