DISC 2026 Accepted Papers

Regular Papers

  • Adaptive Snapshots Require Visible Reads
    Niv Sulimany, Tomer Cory, Erez Petrank
  • FinWhale: an Optimally Resilient 2 Rounds Terminating DAG Protocol
    Razya Ladelsky, Roy Friedman
  • Self-Stabilizing Algorithms in the Uniform Port Model
    Yuval Emek, Liam Brinker, Oren Louidor
  • How to Walk a Dog in Parallel: on Parallel Computation of the Discrete Frechet Distance
    Leonid Barenboim, Arnold Filtser, Omrit Filtser, Orr Fischer
  • Deterministic Edge Coloring with few Colors in CONGEST
    Tijn de Vos, Yannic Maus, Joakim Blikstad
  • Optimality and Trade-offs in Fast Leaderless BFT SMR
    Neil Giridharan, Ittai Abraham, Natacha Crooks, Allen Clement, Pierre Sutra, Minh Tung Nguyen
  • Solvability of Approximate Agreement on Graphs and Simplicial Complexes
    Joel Rybicki, Yaroslav Verbitsky
  • Predictions Can Only Help! Communication Efficient Byzantine Agreement with Predictions
    Marc Dufay, Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar, Seth Gilbert
  • Quadratic Asynchronous DKG from Plain Setup
    Ittai Abraham, Renas Bacho, Gilad Stern
  • It Does Not Matter How You Define Locally Checkable Labelings
    Antonio Cruciani, Avinandan Das, Alesya Raevskaya, Jukka Suomela
  • Lifeline: Optimal Validated Byzantine Agreement under Minimal Synchrony
    Yuval Efron, Ling Ren
  • Efficient Randomized LL/SC that Preserves History Independence
    Dante Bencivenga, Homa Habashi, Philipp Woelfel
  • Tight Energy Lower Bounds for Distributed Graph Algorithms
    Fabien Dufoulon, Gopal Pandurangan, Peter Robinson
  • Is a LOCAL algorithm computable?
    Antonio Cruciani, Avinandan Das, Massimo Equi, Henrik Lievonen, Diep Luong-Le, Augusto Modanese, Jukka Suomela
  • Near-Optimal Distributed 2-Ruling Sets on Graphs with Low Arboricity
    Malte Baumecker, Rustam Latypov, Yannic Maus, Jara Uitto
  • eAID: Elastic Asynchronous Information Dispersal with Post-Dissemination Pruning
    Rithwik Kerur, Divyakant Agrawal, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Amit Wieder
  • Efficient Stable Population Protocols for Parity and Beyond
    Leszek Gasieniec, Tytus Grodzicki, Tomasz Jurdzinski, Jakub Kowalski, Grzegorz Stachowiak
  • Consensus with Stochastic Broadcast
    Pierre Fraigniaud, Boaz Patt-Shamir, Sergio Rajsbaum
  • Õptimal Distributed Maximum Flow Approximation in Undirected Planar Graphs
    Yaseen Abd-Elhaleem, Michal Dory, Oren Weimann
  • A Lock-Free Move-to-Front List with a Working Set Bound
    Shalom Asbell, Eric Ruppert
  • Randomized Tree-Intersection Leader Election
    Yuval Emek, Shay Kutten, Ido Rafael, Gadi Taubenfeld
  • The local complexity of certifying parity
    Nicolas Bousquet, Laurent Feuilloley, Jorge Valenzuela, Sébastien Zeitoun
  • Fairness in the Wild: Secure Atomic Swap with External Incentives
    Hao Chung, Elisaweta Masserova, Elaine Shi, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan
  • Designing Local Distributed Mechanisms
    Juho Hirvonen, Sara Ranjbaran
  • Fast Deterministic Distributed Degree Splitting
    Yannic Maus, Alexandre Nolin, Florian Schager
  • Space-Efficient Lock-Free Linear-Probing Hash Table
    Hagit Attiya, Rotem Oshman, Noa Schiller
  • Adaptive Self-Organization in Anonymous Dynamic Networks
    Garrett Parzych, Joshua Daymude
  • Generalizing LCL Complexity Gaps to Unbounded Degree via Monadic Second-Order Properties
    Chiara Piombi
  • Triangle-Free Coloring in LOCAL via Resilient Lovász Local Lemma
    Peter Davies-Peck, Xusheng Zhang
  • Near-optimal population protocols on bounded-degree trees
    Joel Rybicki, Jakob Solnerzik, Robin Vacus
  • Non-Leaking Concurrent Objects
    Hagit Attiya, Rotem Oshman, Noa Schiller, Corentin Travers
  • Wait-free Replicated Data Types and Fair Reconciliation
    Petr Kuznetsov, Maxence Perion, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
  • Distributed Triangle and Simplex Enumeration in Hypergraphs
    Duncan Adamson, Will Rosenbaum, Paul Spirakis
  • Counting in Population Protocols on Graphs
    Petra Berenbrink, Robert Elsässer, Tom Friedetzky, Thorsten Götte, Lukas Hintze, Dominik Kaaser
  • General Convex Agreement with Near-Optimal Communication
    Marc Dufay, Diana Ghinea, Anton Paramonov
  • Consensus Time in 3-Majority and 2-Choices Is Determined by the Maximum Initial Opinion Density
    Niccolò D’Archivio
  • LCLs Beyond Bounded Degrees
    Gustav Schmid
  • Fast and Robust Information Spreading in the Noisy PULL Model
    Niccolò D’Archivio, Amos Korman, Robin Vacus, Emanuele Natale
  • Subcubic Coin Tossing in Asynchrony without PKI
    Mose Mizrahi, Roger Wattenhofer
  • What can be computed in average anonymous networks?
    Joel Rybicki, Oleg Verbitsky, Maksim Zhukovskii
  • Strong Efficiency Lower Bounds for Byzantine Agreement
    Matthieu Rambaud, Clément Ducros, Julian Loss
  • Token Distribution Revisited
    Petra Berenbrink, Robert Elsässer, Tom Friedetzky, Hamed Hosseinpour, Dominik Kaaser
  • Multivalued Consensus: General Adversaries Require More Communication
    Mose Mizrahi, Roger Wattenhofer
  • Fully Fluctuating Sleepy Consensus from Minimal Assumptions
    Javier Nieto, Yuval Efron, Joachim Neu, Ling Ren
  • Symmetry all the way down
    Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin, Simon Holmgaard Kamp, Juan Villacis
  • Fixed-Threshold Peeling in Sublinear MPC: Round-Approximation Tradeoffs and Applications
    Slobodan Mitrović, Theodore Pan, Wen-Horng Sheu
  • AegisBFT: Fast, Responsive, Fork-Resistant Consensus with Speculation Accountability
    Mohammad Mussadiq Jalalzai, Kushal Babel, Jovan Jovan, Tobias Klenze, Sourav Das, Fatima Elsheimy, Mike Setrin, John Bergschneider, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye
  • Dynamic Graph Exploration: Semi-synchrony and Dynamic Port Labeling
    Ashish Saxena, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Kaushik Mondal, Gokarna Sharma
  • Upper and Lower Bounds on the Space Complexity of Multi-word Single-Writer Registers
    Yuanhao Wei, Yousof Yavari
  • A Fast Deterministic Algorithm for (Δ + 1)-Edge Coloring in CONGEST
    Sebastian Brandt, Ananth Narayanan, Alexandre Nolin
  • Validity in Responsive Byzantine Agreement
    Diana Ghinea, Simon Holmgaard Kamp, Chen-Da Liu-Zhang
  • Near-Tight Bounds on the Rate of Collective Communication
    Rotem Oshman, Tal Roth, Ofer Shayevitz, Anirudh Sivaraman
  • Approximating Minimum Dominating Set with Few Awake Rounds
    Hongyan Ji, Shreyas Pai, Sriram Pemmaraju
  • Weighted Beeping Networks
    Dariusz Kowalski, Miguel A. Mosteiro
  • Brief Announcement: Fast Tendermint: Speeding Up a Foundational Consensus Protocol
    Preston Vander Vos, Daniel Cason
  • Brief Announcement: Fast TetraBFT – Optimizing Latency Where It Matters
    Antonio J. Fernández-Pinto, Manuel Bravo, Gregory Chockler, Alexey Gotsman
  • Brief Announcement: Semantic Lock: Synchronization Based on the Analysis of the Operation Conflict Graph
    Denis Korotchenko, Vitaly Aksenov
  • Brief Announcement: Fair Binding for Hidden-State Authorization in Byzantine SMR
    Arnab Mallick
  • Brief Announcement: Superlogarithmic Gap Result for LCLs on Trees in Quantum-LOCAL
    Francesco d’Amore, Henrik Lievonen
  • Brief Announcement: The Minimal Commit Rule for DAG-based Atomic Broadcast
    Petr Kuznetsov, Maxence Perion, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
  • Brief Announcement: How Complex Can Sequential Consistency Be?
    Dimitar Dimitrov
  • Brief Announcement: Stone Duality Proofs for Colorless Distributed Computability Theorems
    Cameron Calk, Emmanuel Godard
  • Brief Announcement: Simple and Fast Self-Stabilizing Dynamics for k-Winner-Take-All Computation
    Vincenzo Bonifaci, Fabio Galvan
  • Brief Announcement: Optimal Adaptive Multi-Valued Byzantine Agreement
    Marc Dufay, Anton Paramonov, Roger Wattenhofer
  • Brief Announcement: Liquid democracy under vote correlation: on the fallacies of averaging and the excluded middle
    Seth Gilbert, Stefan Schmid, Santiago Schnell, Jakub Svoboda, Michelle X. Yeo
  • Brief Announcement: Initialization with Exponentially Fewer Bits
    Dominick Banasik, Varsha Dani, Thomas P. Hayes
  • Brief Announcement: Simulations between Massively Parallel Computing and Distributed Computing
    Philipp Schneider, Julian Werthmann