The DAG Visit approach for Pebbling and I/O Lower Bounds

Gianfranco Bilardi; Lorenzo De Stefani

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The DAG Visit approach for Pebbling and I/O Lower Bounds

Gianfranco Bilardi·Lorenzo De Stefani

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We introduce the notion of an $r$-visit of a Directed Acyclic Graph DAG $G=(V,E)$, a sequence of the vertices of the DAG complying with a given rule $r$. A rule $r$ specifies for each vertex $v\in V$ a family of $r$-enabling sets of (immediate) predecessors: before visiting $v$, at least one of its enabling sets must have been visited. Special cases are the $r^{(top)}$-rule (or, topological rule), for which the only enabling set is the set of all predecessors and the $r^{(sin)}$-rule (or, singleton rule), for which the enabling sets are the singletons containing exactly one predecessor. The $r$-boundary complexity of a DAG $G$, $b_{r}\left(G\right)$, is the minimum integer $b$ such that there is an $r$-visit where, at each stage, for at most $b$ of the vertices yet to be visited an enabling set has already been visited. By a reformulation of known results, it is shown that the boundary complexity of a DAG $G$ is a lower bound to the pebbling number of the reverse DAG, $G^R$. Several known pebbling lower bounds can be cast in terms of the $r^{(sin)}$-boundary complexity. A visit partition technique for I/O lower bounds, which generalizes the $S$-partition I/O technique introduced by Hong and Kung in their classic paper "I/O complexity: The Red-Blue pebble game". The visit partition approach yields tight I/O bounds for some DAGs for which the $S$-partition technique can only yield an $\Omega(1)$ lower bound.

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Gianfranco Bilardi, Lorenzo De Stefani. 2022-10-04. The DAG Visit approach for Pebbling and I/O Lower Bounds. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01897

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