STOC2022

The power of two choices in graphical allocation

Nikhil Bansal, Ohad N. Feldheim

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Abstract

The graphical balls-into-bins process is a generalization of the classical 2-choice balls-into-bins process, where the bins correspond to vertices of an arbitrary underlying graph G. At each time step an edge of G is chosen uniformly at random, and a ball must be assigned to either of the two endpoints of this edge. The standard 2-choice process corresponds to the case of G=Kn.