Publications - Tree Algorithms

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• 2021:
  [11] Efficient Stepping Algorithms and Implementations for Parallel Shortest Paths
  Xiaojun Dong, Yan Gu, Yihan Sun, and Yunming Zhang
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2021  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Dong2021Efficient,
  title = { Efficient Stepping Algorithms and Implementations for Parallel Shortest Paths },
  author = {Dong, Xiaojun and Gu, Yan and Sun, Yihan and Zhang, Yunming},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2021 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.1145/3409964.3461782    [copy]
  
  parallel tournament trees
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• 2020:
  [10] Optimal (Randomized) Parallel Algorithms in the Binary-Forking Model
  Guy E. Blelloch, Jeremy Fineman, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  🏆 Outstanding Paper Award!
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2020  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Blelloch2020Optimal,
  title = { Optimal (Randomized) Parallel Algorithms in the Binary-Forking Model },
  author = {Blelloch, Guy E. and Fineman, Jeremy and Gu, Yan and Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2020 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.1145/3350755.3400227    [copy]
  
  Parallel set operations with optimal work and span using BST
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• 2019:
  [9] On Supporting Efficient Snapshot Isolation for Hybrid Workloads with Multi-Versioned Indexes
  Yihan Sun, Guy E. Blelloch, Wan Shen Lim, and Andrew Pavlo
  
  VLDB
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB), 2019  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Sun2019On,
  title = { On Supporting Efficient Snapshot Isolation for Hybrid Workloads with Multi-Versioned Indexes },
  author = {Sun, Yihan and Blelloch, Guy E. and Lim, Wan Shen and Pavlo, Andrew},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB)},
  year = { 2019 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.14778/3364324.3364334    [copy]
  
  Supporting snapshot isolation and MVCC in databases using P-trees in PAM
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• [8] Multiversion Concurrency with Bounded Delay and Precise Garbage Collection
  Naama Ben-David, Guy E. Blelloch, Yihan Sun, and Yuanhao Wei
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2019  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Ben-David2019Multiversion,
  title = { Multiversion Concurrency with Bounded Delay and Precise Garbage Collection },
  author = {Ben-David, Naama and Blelloch, Guy E. and Sun, Yihan and Wei, Yuanhao},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2019 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.1145/3323165.3323185    [copy]
  
  Garbage collection of multi-versioned P-tree-like structures (path-copying data structures)
  Paper   ArXiV  
• [7] Implementing Parallel and Concurrent Tree Structures
  Yihan Sun, and Guy E. Blelloch
  
  PPoPP
   ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2019  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Sun2019Implementing,
  title = { Implementing Parallel and Concurrent Tree Structures },
  author = {Sun, Yihan and Blelloch, Guy E.},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP)},
  year = { 2019 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.1145/3293883.3302576    [copy]
  
  Tutorial about P-trees and the PAM library
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• [6] Parallel Range, Segment and Rectangle Queries with Augmented Maps
  Yihan Sun, and Guy E. Blelloch
  
  ALENEX
   Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX), 2019  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Sun2019Parallel,
  title = { Parallel Range, Segment and Rectangle Queries with Augmented Maps },
  author = {Sun, Yihan and Blelloch, Guy E.},
  booktitle = {Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)},
  year = { 2019 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.1137/1.9781611975499.13    [copy]
  
  Using P-trees and PAM to solve range, segment and rectangle queries in parallel
  Paper   ArXiV  
• 2018:
  [5] Algorithmic Building Blocks for Asymmetric Memories
  Yan Gu, Yihan Sun, and Guy E. Blelloch
  
  ESA
   European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2018  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Gu2018Algorithmic,
  title = { Algorithmic Building Blocks for Asymmetric Memories },
  author = {Gu, Yan and Sun, Yihan and Blelloch, Guy E.},
  booktitle = {European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA)},
  year = { 2018 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.44    [copy]
  
  write-efficient join-based tree algorithms
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• [4] Parallel Write-Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures for Computational Geometry
  Guy E. Blelloch, Yan Gu, Yihan Sun, and Julian Shun
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2018  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Blelloch2018Parallel,
  title = { Parallel Write-Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures for Computational Geometry },
  author = {Blelloch, Guy E. and Gu, Yan and Sun, Yihan and Shun, Julian},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2018 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.1145/3210377.3210380    [copy]
  
  Parallel write-efficient algorithms on interval tree, priority search tree, range tree
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• [3] PAM: Parallel Augmented Maps
  Yihan Sun, Daniel Ferizovic, and Guy E. Blelloch
  
  PPoPP
   ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2018  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Sun2018PAM:,
  title = { PAM: Parallel Augmented Maps },
  author = {Sun, Yihan and Ferizovic, Daniel and Blelloch, Guy E.},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP)},
  year = { 2018 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.1145/3200691.3178509    [copy]
  
  Introducing P-tree and the PAM library
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• 2017:
  [2] Efficient Construction of Probabilistic Tree Embeddings
  Guy E. Blelloch, Yan Gu, and Yihan Sun
  
  ICALP
   International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP), 2017  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Blelloch2017Efficient,
  title = { Efficient Construction of Probabilistic Tree Embeddings },
  author = {Blelloch, Guy E. and Gu, Yan and Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP)},
  year = { 2017 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.26    [copy]
  
  FRT trees
  Paper   ArXiV  
• 2016:
  [1] Just Join for Parallel Ordered Sets
  Guy E. Blelloch, Daniel Ferizovic, and Yihan Sun
  
  SPAA
   ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2016  [BibTeX]
  @inproceedings{ Blelloch2016Just,
  title = { Just Join for Parallel Ordered Sets },
  author = {Blelloch, Guy E. and Ferizovic, Daniel and Sun, Yihan},
  booktitle = {ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)},
  year = { 2016 }
  }

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  DOI:
  10.1145/2935764.2935768    [copy]
  
  Introducing join-based algorithms for BSTs
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