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We present a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate parallel algorithm for computing shortest paths in undirected graphs, achieving $\mathrm{poly}(\log n)$ depth and $m\mathrm{poly}(\log n)$ work for $n$-nodes $m$-edges graphs. Although sequential…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Alexandr Andoni , Clifford Stein , Peilin Zhong

We present an algorithm to compute the geodesic $L_1$ farthest-point Voronoi diagram of $m$ point sites in the presence of $n$ rectangular obstacles in the plane. It takes $O(nm+n \log n + m\log m)$ construction time using $O(nm)$ space.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Mincheol Kim , Chanyang Seo , Taehoon Ahn , Hee-Kap Ahn

In this paper, we present a new randomized $O(1)$-approximation algorithm for the All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in weighted undirected graphs that runs in just $O(\log \log \log n)$ rounds in the Congested-Clique model. Before our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hong Duc Bui , Shashwat Chandra , Yi-Jun Chang , Michal Dory , Dean Leitersdorf

We advertise the use of tetrahedral grids constructed via the longest edge bisection algorithm for rendering volumetric data with path tracing. The key benefits of such grids is two-fold. First, they provide a highly adaptive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Anis Benyoub , Jonathan Dupuy

We present a new preprocessing algorithm for embedding the nodes of a given edge-weighted undirected graph into a Euclidean space. The Euclidean distance between any two nodes in this space approximates the length of the shortest path…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Liron Cohen , Tansel Uras , Shiva Jahangiri , Aliyah Arunasalam , Sven Koenig , T. K. Satish Kumar

Given a set P of n points in the plane, the unit-disk graph G_{r}(P) with respect to a parameter r is an undirected graph whose vertex set is P such that an edge connects two points p, q \in P if the Euclidean distance between p and q is at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Haitao Wang , Yiming Zhao

We consider the problem of computing shortest paths in weighted unit-disk graphs in constant dimension $d$. Although the single-source and all-pairs variants of this problem are well-studied in the plane case, no non-trivial exact distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Adam Karczmarz , Jakub Pawlewicz , Piotr Sankowski

Approximate computing is a computation domain which can be used to trade time and energy with quality and therefore is useful in embedded systems. Energy is the prime resource in battery-driven embedded systems, like robots. Approximate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Hrishav Bakul Barua

This paper addresses the problem of finding multiple near-optimal, spatially-dissimilar paths that can be considered as alternatives in the decision making process, for finding optimal corridors in which to construct a new road. We further…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Yasha Pushak , Warren Hare , Yves Lucet

Numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on curved domains, as well as the associated geodesic distance, arises in a broad range of applications across digital geometry processing, scientific computing, computer graphics, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Keenan Crane , Marco Livesu , Enrico Puppo , Yipeng Qin

An influential result by Dor, Halperin, and Zwick (FOCS 1996, SICOMP 2000) implies an algorithm that can compute approximate shortest paths for all vertex pairs in $\tilde{O}(n^{2+O\left(\frac{1}{k}\right )})$ time, ensuring that the output…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Manoj Gupta

We present a classical algorithm that, for any 3D geometrically-local, polylogarithmic-depth quantum circuit $C$ acting on $n$ qubits, and any bit string $x\in\{0,1\}^n$, can compute the quantity $|< x |C|0^{\otimes n}>|^2$ to within any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Nolan J. Coble , Matthew Coudron

In this paper, we give a new framework for the stochastic shortest path problem in finite state and action spaces. Our framework generalizes both the frameworks proposed by Bertsekas and Tsitsikli and by Bertsekas and Yu. We prove that the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Matthieu Guillot , Gautier Stauffer

In this article, we study the Adjacent Quadratic Shortest Path Problem (AQSPP), which consists in finding the shortest path on a directed graph when its total weight component also includes the impact of consecutive arcs. We provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-09 João Vilela , Bruno Fanzeres , Rafael Martinelli , Claudio Contardo

Given in the plane a set $S$ of $n$ points and a set of disks centered at these points, the disk graph $G(S)$ induced by these disks has vertex set $S$ and an edge between two vertices if their disks intersect. Note that the disks may have…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Bruce W. Brewer , Haitao Wang

We study the 2-Disjoint Shortest Paths (2-DSP) problem: given a directed weighted graph and two terminal pairs $(s_1,t_1)$ and $(s_2,t_2)$, decide whether there exist vertex-disjoint shortest paths between each pair. Building on recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Keerti Choudhary , Amit Kumar , Lakshay Saggi

In this paper, we address the problem of approximating a multivariate function defined on a general domain in $d$ dimensions from sample points. We consider weighted least-squares approximation in an arbitrary finite-dimensional space $P$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Ben Adcock , Juan M. Cardenas

Given a convex polytope $P$ defined with $n$ vertices in $\mathbb{R}^3$, this paper presents an algorithm to preprocess $P$ to compute routing tables at every vertex of $P$ so that a data packet can be routed on $P$ from any vertex of $P$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Sreehari Chandran , R. Inkulu

We give a polynomial time, $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for the traveling repairman problem (TRP) in the Euclidean plane and on weighted trees. This improves on the known quasi-polynomial time approximation schemes for these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-22 René Sitters

We consider the Max-$3$-Section problem, where we are given an undirected graph $ G=(V,E)$ equipped with non-negative edge weights $w :E\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ and the goal is to find a partition of $V$ into three equisized parts while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Dor Katzelnick , Aditya Pillai , Roy Schwartz , Mohit Singh