2-Coloring Cycles in One Round

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Main Authors: Flin, Maxime, Raevskaya, Alesya, Stimpert, Ronja, Suomela, Jukka, Yang, Qingxin
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Published: 2026
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author Flin, Maxime
Raevskaya, Alesya
Stimpert, Ronja
Suomela, Jukka
Yang, Qingxin
author_facet Flin, Maxime
Raevskaya, Alesya
Stimpert, Ronja
Suomela, Jukka
Yang, Qingxin
contents We show that there is a one-round randomized distributed algorithm that can 2-color cycles such that the expected fraction of monochromatic edges is less than 0.24118. We also show that a one-round algorithm cannot achieve a fraction less than 0.23879. Before this work, the best upper and lower bounds were 0.25 and 0.2. Our proof was largely discovered and developed by large language models, and both the upper and lower bounds have been formalized in Lean 4.
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spellingShingle 2-Coloring Cycles in One Round
Flin, Maxime
Raevskaya, Alesya
Stimpert, Ronja
Suomela, Jukka
Yang, Qingxin
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
We show that there is a one-round randomized distributed algorithm that can 2-color cycles such that the expected fraction of monochromatic edges is less than 0.24118. We also show that a one-round algorithm cannot achieve a fraction less than 0.23879. Before this work, the best upper and lower bounds were 0.25 and 0.2. Our proof was largely discovered and developed by large language models, and both the upper and lower bounds have been formalized in Lean 4.
title 2-Coloring Cycles in One Round
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04235