Julian Shun

Publications (reverse chronological order)


(For certain papers, the authors are listed alphabetically, following the convention in mathematics and theoretical computer science, and others are listed by contribution.)
  1. (alphabetical order) Niklas Baumstark, Guy Blelloch and Julian Shun
    Efficient Implementation of a Synchronous Parallel Push-Relabel Algorithm
    To appear in the Proceedings of the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2015.
    arXiv link (full version)
  2. Julian Shun
    An Evaluation of Parallel Eccentricity Estimation Algorithms on Undirected Real-World Graphs
    To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2015.
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  3. (alphabetical order) Guy Blelloch, Jeremy Fineman, Phillip Gibbons, Yan Gu and Julian Shun
    Sorting with Asymmetric Read and Write Costs
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pp. 1-12, 2015.
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  4. Yan Gu, Julian Shun, Yihan Sun and Guy Blelloch
    A Top-Down Parallel Semisort
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pp. 24-34, 2015.
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  5. Julian Shun and Kanat Tangwongsan
    Multicore Triangle Computations Without Tuning
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 149-160, 2015.
    pdf    Source code
  6. Julian Shun, Laxman Dhulipala and Guy Blelloch
    Smaller and Faster: Parallel Processing of Compressed Graphs with Ligra+
    Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), pp. 403-412, 2015.
    pdf     Webpage
  7. Julian Shun
    Parallel Wavelet Tree Construction
    Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), pp. 63-72, 2015.
    Awarded the Capocelli Prize for Best Student-Authored Paper
    arXiv link (full version)     Source code
  8. Julian Shun, Yan Gu, Guy Blelloch, Jeremy Fineman and Phillip Gibbons
    Sequential Random Permutation, List Contraction and Tree Contraction are Highly Parallel
    Proceedings of the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), pp. 431-448, 2015.
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  9. Julian Shun
    Fast Parallel Computation of Longest Common Prefixes
    Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), pp. 387-398, 2014.
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  10. Julian Shun and Guy Blelloch
    Phase-concurrent Hash Tables for Determinism
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pp. 96-107, 2014.
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  11. Julian Shun, Laxman Dhulipala and Guy Blelloch
    A Simple and Practical Linear-Work Parallel Algorithm for Connectivity
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pp. 143-153, 2014.
    pdf     Source code
  12. Aapo Kyrola, Julian Shun and Guy Blelloch
    Beyond Synchronous: New Techniques for External Memory Graph Algorithms
    Proceedings of the Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA), pp. 123-137, 2014.
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  13. Julian Shun and Guy Blelloch
    A Simple Parallel Cartesian Tree Algorithm and its Application to Parallel Suffix Tree Construction
    ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Article No. 8, 2014. (Earlier version appears in ALENEX 2011.)
    pdf    Source code
  14. Julian Shun, Guy Blelloch, Jeremy Fineman and Phillip Gibbons
    Reducing Contention Through Priority Updates
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pp. 152-163, 2013.
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  15. Julian Shun and Fuyao Zhao (joint first author)
    Practical Parallel Lempel-Ziv Factorization
    Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), pp. 123-132, 2013.
    pdf     Source code
  16. Julian Shun and Guy Blelloch
    Ligra: A Lightweight Graph Processing Framework for Shared Memory
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), pp. 135-146, 2013.
    pdf     Webpage
  17. (alphabetical order) Guy Blelloch, Jeremy Fineman and Julian Shun
    Greedy Sequential Maximal Independent Set and Matching are Parallel on Average
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pp. 308-317, 2012.
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  18. Julian Shun, Guy Blelloch, Jeremy Fineman, Phillip Gibbons, Aapo Kyrola, Harsha Vardhan Simhadri and Kanat Tangwongsan
    Brief Announcement: The Problem Based Benchmark Suite
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pp. 68-70, 2012.
    pdf     Website
  19. (alphabetical order) Guy Blelloch, Jeremy Fineman, Phillip Gibbons and Julian Shun
    Internally Deterministic Parallel Algorithms Can Be Fast
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), pp. 181-192, 2012.
    pdf     Website
  20. (alphabetical order) Guy Blelloch and Julian Shun
    A Simple Parallel Cartesian Tree Algorithm and its Application to Suffix Tree Construction
    Proceedings of the SIAM Meeting on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX), pp. 48-58, 2011. (Journal version in ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing, 2014.)
    pdf     Source code
  21. (alphabetical order) David Aldous and Julian Shun
    Connected Spatial Networks over Random Points and a Route-Length Statistic
    Statistical Science, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 275-288, 2010.
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