Constant-round O(1)-approximate Euclidean MST in MPC

Develop a fully-scalable Massively Parallel Computation algorithm that, in O(1) rounds, computes an O(1)-approximate solution for the Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree problem.

Background

The authors survey progress on Euclidean MST in MPC, noting that value estimation admits O(1)-approximations in O(1) rounds, but existing solution algorithms either require O(log log n) rounds for O(1)-approximation or achieve only polylogarithmic approximations in O(1) rounds.

They explicitly point out that attaining an O(1)-approximate MST in O(1) rounds remains unresolved, identifying it as a notable open direction in geometric graph optimization under MPC.

References

In contrast, it remains open to find an O(1)-approximate solution for Euclidean MST in O(1) rounds.

Round-efficient Fully-scalable MPC algorithms for k-Means  (2604.00954 - Jiang et al., 1 Apr 2026) in Section 1.3 (Related Work)