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We provide a deterministic algorithm for computing the $5$-edge-connected components of an undirected multigraph in linear time. There were probably good indications that this computation can be performed in linear time, but no such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Evangelos Kosinas

We present the first parallel fixed-parameter algorithm for subgraph isomorphism in planar graphs, bounded-genus graphs, and, more generally, all minor-closed graphs of locally bounded treewidth. Our randomized low depth algorithm has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Lukas Gianinazzi , Torsten Hoefler

We present new and improved data structures that answer exact node-to-node distance queries in planar graphs. Such data structures are also known as distance oracles. For any directed planar graph on n nodes with non-negative lengths we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-11 Shay Mozes , Christian Sommer

We study graph connectivity problem in MPC model. On an undirected graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, $O(\log n)$ round connectivity algorithms have been known for over 35 years. However, no algorithms with better complexity bounds were…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alexandr Andoni , Clifford Stein , Zhao Song , Zhengyu Wang , Peilin Zhong

In this paper, we investigate some basic connectivity problems in directed graphs (digraphs). Let $G$ be a digraph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices, and let $G\setminus e$ be the digraph obtained after deleting edge $e$ from $G$. As a first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis

During the last 10 years it has become popular to study dynamic graph problems in a emergency planning or sensitivity setting: Instead of considering the general fully dynamic problem, we only have to process a single batch update of size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann

In the Graph Reconstruction (GR) problem, the goal is to recover a hidden graph by utilizing some oracle that provides limited access to the structure of the graph. The interest is in characterizing how strong different oracles are when the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Juha Harviainen , Pekka Parviainen

Answering connectivity queries is fundamental to fully dynamic graphs where edges and vertices are inserted and deleted frequently. Existing work proposes data structures and algorithms with worst-case guarantees. We propose a new data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Qing Chen , Oded Lachish , Sven Helmer , Michael Böhlen

Dynamic Connectivity is a fundamental algorithmic graph problem, motivated by a wide range of applications to social and communication networks and used as a building block in various other algorithms, such as the bi-connectivity and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Alexander Fedorov , Nikita Koval , Dan Alistarh

In a directed graph $D$ on vertex set $v_1,\dots ,v_n$, a \emph{forward arc} is an arc $v_iv_j$ where $i<j$. A pair $v_i,v_j$ is \emph{forward connected} if there is a directed path from $v_i$ to $v_j$ consisting of forward arcs. In the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Stéphane Bessy , Stéphan Thomassé , Laurent Viennot

We suggest a general oracle-based framework that captures different parallel stochastic optimization settings described by a dependency graph, and derive generic lower bounds in terms of this graph. We then use the framework and derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Blake Woodworth , Jialei Wang , Adam Smith , Brendan McMahan , Nathan Srebro

We introduce a new data structure for answering connectivity queries in undirected graphs subject to batched vertex failures. Precisely, given any graph G and integer k, we can in fixed-parameter time construct a data structure that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Michał Pilipczuk , Nicole Schirrmacher , Sebastian Siebertz , Szymon Toruńczyk , Alexandre Vigny

In the Vector Connectivity problem we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, a demand function $\phi\colon V\to\{0,\ldots,d\}$, and an integer $k$. The question is whether there exists a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices such that every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Stefan Kratsch , Manuel Sorge

Identifying the connected components of a graph, apart from being a fundamental problem with countless applications, is a key primitive for many other algorithms. In this paper, we consider this problem in parallel settings. Particularly,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Soheil Behnezhad , Laxman Dhulipala , Hossein Esfandiari , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

We present a data structure that can maintain a simple planar graph under edge contractions in linear total time. The data structure supports adjacency queries and provides access to neighbor lists in $O(1)$ time. Moreover, it can report…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Jacob Holm , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Adam Karczmarz , Jakub Łącki , Eva Rotenberg , Piotr Sankowski

Vertex connectivity and its variants are among the most fundamental problems in graph theory, with decades of extensive study and numerous algorithmic advances. The directed variants of vertex connectivity are usually solved by manually…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Olivier Fischer , Yonggang Jiang , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

Vertex connectivity and edge connectivity are fundamental concepts in graph theory that have been widely studied from both structural and algorithmic perspectives. The focus of this paper is on computing these two parameters for graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Therese Biedl , Prosenjit Bose , Karthik Murali

The dynamic shortest paths problem on planar graphs asks us to preprocess a planar graph $G$ such that we may support insertions and deletions of edges in $G$ as well as distance queries between any two nodes $u,v$ subject to the constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Amir Abboud , Søren Dahlgaard

This paper considers fully dynamic graph algorithms with both faster worst case update time and sublinear space. The fully dynamic graph connectivity problem is the following: given a graph on a fixed set of n nodes, process an online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-23 David Gibb , Bruce Kapron , Valerie King , Nolan Thorn

Consider the following generalization of the classic binary search problem: A searcher is required to find a hidden target vertex $x$ in a graph $G$. To do so, they iteratively perform queries to an oracle, each about a chosen vertex $v$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Michał Szyfelbein