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This article focuses on a biobjective extension of the maximum flow network interdiction problem, where each arc in the network is associated with two capacity values. Two maximum flows from a source to a sink are to be computed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Luca E. Schäfer , Stefan Ruzika , Sven O. Krumke , Carlos M. Fonseca

In this paper, we study the problem of finding an integral multiflow which maximizes the sum of flow values between every two terminals in an undirected tree with a nonnegative integer edge capacity and a set of terminals. In general, it is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Mingyu Xiao , Hiroshi Nagamochi

In this paper we present an $\tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n}\log^{O(1)}U)$ time algorithm for solving the maximum flow problem on directed graphs with $m$ edges, $n$ vertices, and capacity ratio $U$. This improves upon the previous fastest running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford

Given an undirected graph G=(V,E), a collection (s_1,t_1),...,(s_k,t_k) of k source-sink pairs, and an integer c, the goal in the Edge Disjoint Paths with Congestion problem is to connect maximum possible number of the source-sink pairs by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-14 Julia Chuzhoy

We investigate the time-complexity of the All-Pairs Max-Flow problem: Given a graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, compute for all pairs of nodes the maximum-flow value between them. If Max-Flow (the version with a given source-sink pair…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Amir Abboud , Robert Krauthgamer , Ohad Trabelsi

We consider some flow-time minimization problems in the unrelated machines setting. In this setting, there is a set of $m$ machines and a set of $n$ jobs, and each job $j$ has a machine dependent processing time of $p_{ij}$ on machine $i$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Nikhil Bansal , Janardhan Kulkarni

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental algorithmic tool in data mining, community detection, and clustering. In this problem, one aims to find an induced subgraph whose edge-to-vertex ratio is maximized. We study the directed case of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan

We prove that the single-source shortest-path problem on disk graphs can be solved in $O(n\log n)$ time, and that it can be solved on intersection graphs of fat triangles in $O(n\log^2 n)$ time.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mark de Berg , Sergio Cabello

We present an algorithm for computing $s$-$t$ maximum flows in directed graphs in $\widetilde{O}(m^{4/3+o(1)}U^{1/3})$ time. Our algorithm is inspired by potential reduction interior point methods for linear programming. Instead of using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Tarun Kathuria

In 2010s Fleiner introduced a notion of stable flows in directed networks and showed that such a flow always exists and can be found by use of a reduction to the stable allocation problem due to Baiou and Balinski. Recently Cseh and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Alexander Karzanov

We present quantum algorithms for the following graph problems: finding a maximal bipartite matching in time O(n sqrt{m+n} log n), finding a maximal non-bipartite matching in time O(n^2 (sqrt{m/n} + log n) log n), and finding a maximal flow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Robert Spalek

We show how to compute for $n$-vertex planar graphs in $O(n^{11/6}{\rm polylog}(n))$ expected time the diameter and the sum of the pairwise distances. The algorithms work for directed graphs with real weights and no negative cycles. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Sergio Cabello

In this paper we provide a $\tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n})$ time algorithm that computes a $3$-multiplicative approximation of the girth of a $n$-node $m$-edge directed graph with non-negative edge lengths. This is the first algorithm which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Shiri Chechik , Yang P. Liu , Omer Rotem , Aaron Sidford

In this paper we give an $\widetilde{O}((nm)^{2/3}\log C)$ time algorithm for computing min-cost flow (or min-cost circulation) in unit capacity planar multigraphs where edge costs are integers bounded by $C$. For planar multigraphs, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Adam Karczmarz , Piotr Sankowski

In this paper we provide an algorithm which given any $m$-edge $n$-vertex directed graph with integer capacities at most $U$ computes a maximum $s$-$t$ flow for any vertices $s$ and $t$ in $m^{4/3+o(1)}U^{1/3}$ time. This improves upon the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

We devise the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for finding an integral multi-commodity flow of maximum total value for instances where the supply graph together with the demand edges can be embedded on an orientable surface of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Chien-chung Huang , Mathieu Mari , Claire Mathieu , Jens Vygen

We present a novel approach to finding the $k$-sink on dynamic path networks with general edge capacities. Our first algorithm runs in $O(n \log n + k^2 \log^4 n)$ time, where $n$ is the number of vertices on the given path, and our second…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Binay Bhattacharya , Mordecai J. Golin , Yuya Higashikawa , Tsunehiko Kameda , Naoki Katoh

Let ${\mathcal C}$ be a proper minor-closed family of graphs. We present a randomized algorithm that given a graph $G \in {\mathcal C}$ with $n$ vertices, finds a simple cycle of size $k$ in $G$ (if exists) in $2^{O(k)}n$ time. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Raphael Yuster

For $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with integer polynomially-bounded costs and capacities, we provide a randomized parallel algorithm for the minimum cost flow problem with $\tilde O(m+n^ {1.5})$ work and $\tilde O(\sqrt{n})$ depth. On…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jan van den Brand , Hossein Gholizadeh , Yonggang Jiang , Tijn de Vos

We present a new strongly polynomial algorithm for generalized flow maximization that is significantly simpler and faster than the previous strongly polynomial algorithm [V\'egh16]. For the uncapacitated problem formulation, the complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Neil Olver , László A. Végh