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We provide a method to obtain beyond-worst-case time complexity for any single-source-shortest-path (SSSP) algorithm by exploiting modular structures in graphs. The key novelty is a graph decomposition, called the acyclic-connected (A-C)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Elis Stefansson , Oliver Biggar , Karl H. Johansson

We introduce a variant of the capacitated vehicle routing problem that is encountered in sensor networks for scientific data collection. Consider an undirected graph $G=(V \cup \{\mathbf{sink}\},E)$. Each vertex $v \in V$ holds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-23 John Augustine , Qi Han , Philip Loden , Sachin Lodha , Sasanka Roy

As large graph datasets become increasingly common across many fields, sampling is often needed to reduce the graphs into manageable sizes. This procedure raises critical questions about representativeness as no sample can capture the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Alan Zhu , Jiaqi Ma , Qiaozhu Mei

We present fast algorithms for approximate shortest paths in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model. We provide randomized algorithms that take $poly(\log{\log{n}})$ rounds in the near-linear memory MPC model. Our results are for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Michal Dory , Shaked Matar

The Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem is well-known for the challenges in developing fast, practical, and work-efficient parallel algorithms. This work introduces a novel shortest path search method. It allows paths with different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Huashan Yu , Xiaolin Wang , Yingwei Luo

Single Source Shortest Paths ($\textrm{SSSP}$) is among the most well-studied problems in computer science. In the incremental (resp. decremental) setting, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source in a graph undergoing edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Barna Saha , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu , Christopher Ye

Emerging workloads, such as graph processing and machine learning are approximate because of the scale of data involved and the stochastic nature of the underlying algorithms. These algorithms are often distributed over multiple machines…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Asim Kadav , Erik Kruus

We consider the problem of computing all pairs shortest paths (APSP) and shortest paths for k sources in a weighted graph in the distributed CONGEST model. For graphs with non-negative integer edge weights (including zero weights) we build…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Udit Agarwal , Vijaya Ramachandran

Computing the shortest path between two given locations in a road network is an important problem that finds applications in various map services and commercial navigation products. The state-of-the-art solutions for the problem can be…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Lingkun Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Dingxiong Deng , Gao Cong , Andy Diwen Zhu , Shuigeng Zhou

Global optimisation problems in networks often require shortest path length computations to determine the most efficient route. The simplest and most common problem with a shortest path solution is perhaps that of a traditional labyrinth or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Zhanyou Ye , Shi Hong Marcus Wu , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Efficient planning and sequence selection are central to intelligence, yet current approaches remain largely incompatible with biological computation. Classical graph algorithms like Dijkstra's or A* require global state and biologically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Simen Storesund , Kristian Valset Aars , Robin Dietrich , Nicolai Waniek

We consider the all pairs all shortest paths (APASP) problem, which maintains all of the multiple shortest paths for every vertex pair in a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ with a positive real weight on each edge. We present two fully dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

This paper proposes a generalised framework for density estimation in large networks with measurable spatiotemporal variance in edge weights. We solve the stochastic shortest path problem for a large network by estimating the density of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Raashid Altaf , Pravesh Biyani

A network topology with low average shortest path length (ASPL) provides efficient data transmission while the number of nodes and the number of links incident to each node are often limited due to physical constraints. In this paper, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Nobutaka Shimizu , Ryuhei Mori

We study the approximability of two related problems on graphs with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges: $n$-Pairs Shortest Paths ($n$-PSP), where the goal is to find a shortest path between $O(n)$ prespecified pairs, and All Node Shortest Cycles…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ce Jin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

The purpose of this work is to introduce and characterize the Bounded Acceleration Shortest Path (BASP) problem, a generalization of the Shortest Path (SP) problem. This problem is associated to a graph: the nodes represent positions of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Stefano Ardizzoni , Luca Consolini , Mattia Laurini , Marco Locatelli

More and more large data collections are gathered worldwide in various IT systems. Many of them possess the networked nature and need to be processed and analysed as graph structures. Due to their size they require very often usage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Tomasz Kajdanowicz , Przemyslaw Kazienko , Wojciech Indyk

We study the use of machine learning techniques to solve a fundamental shortest path problem, known as the single-source many-targets shortest path problem (SSMTSP). Given a directed graph with non-negative edge weights, our goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Willem Feijen , Guido Schäfer

Among the several topological properties of complex networks, the shortest path represents a particularly important characteristic because of its potential impact not only on other topological properties, but mainly for its influence on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Guilherme S. Domingues , Cesar H. Comin , Luciano da F. Costa