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We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

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Loop nesting forests (LNFs) are a fundamental abstraction for reasoning about control-flow structure, enabling applications such as compiler optimizations, program analysis, and dominator computation. While efficient static algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Gregory Morse , Tamás Kozsik

We consider Directed Steiner Forest (DSF), a fundamental problem in network design. The input to DSF is a directed edge-weighted graph $G = (V, E)$ and a collection of vertex pairs $\{(s_i, t_i)\}_{i \in [k]}$. The goal is to find a minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Chandra Chekuri , Rhea Jain

Decision Tree (DT) Learning is a fundamental problem in Interpretable Machine Learning, yet it poses a formidable optimisation challenge. Practical algorithms have recently emerged, primarily leveraging Dynamic Programming and Branch &…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ayman Chaouki , Jesse Read , Albert Bifet

Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and Breadth-First Search (BFS) tree constructions are classical problems in distributed computing, traditionally studied in the message-passing model, where static nodes communicate via messages. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Prabhat Kumar Chand , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla

In this paper we study the Steiner tree problem over a dynamic set of terminals. We consider the model where we are given an $n$-vertex graph $G=(V,E,w)$ with positive real edge weights, and our goal is to maintain a tree which is a good…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Jakub Łącki , Jakub Oćwieja , Marcin Pilipczuk , Piotr Sankowski , Anna Zych

In this paper we describe an algorithm that embeds a graph metric $(V,d_G)$ on an undirected weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ into a distribution of tree metrics $(T,D_T)$ such that for every pair $u,v\in V$, $d_G(u,v)\leq d_T(u,v)$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Guy E. Blelloch , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

We introduce a notion for hierarchical graph clustering which we call the expander hierarchy and show a fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining such a hierarchy on a graph with $n$ vertices undergoing edge insertions and deletions using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Gramoz Goranci , Harald Räcke , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Zihan Tan

In this paper we study graph problems in dynamic streaming model, where the input is defined by a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. As many natural problems require $\Omega(n)$ space, where $n$ is the number of vertices, existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Zengfeng Huang , Pan Peng

The dynamic trees problem is to maintain a forest subject to edge insertions and deletions while facilitating queries such as connectivity, path weights, and subtree weights. Dynamic trees are a fundamental building block of a large number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Umut A. Acar , Daniel Anderson , Guy E. Blelloch , Laxman Dhulipala , Sam Westrick

We study the problem of dynamically maintaining the connected components of an undirected graph subject to edge insertions and deletions. We give the first parallel algorithm for the problem which is work-efficient, supports batches of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Quinten De Man , Laxman Dhulipala , Adam Karczmarz , Jakub Łącki , Julian Shun , Zhongqi Wang

For a given graph $G$, a depth-first search (DFS) tree $T$ of $G$ is an $r$-rooted spanning tree such that every edge of $G$ is either an edge of $T$ or is between a \textit{descendant} and an \textit{ancestor} in $T$. A graph $G$ together…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Emmanuel Sam , Benjamin Bergougnoux , Petr A. Golovach , Nello Blaser

The maximum common subtree isomorphism problem asks for the largest possible isomorphism between subtrees of two given input trees. This problem is a natural restriction of the maximum common subgraph problem, which is ${\sf NP}$-hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Andre Droschinsky , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel

Dynamic tree data structures maintain a forest while supporting insertion and deletion of edges and a broad set of queries in $O(\log n)$ time per operation. Such data structures are at the core of many modern algorithms. Recent work has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Humza Ikram , Andrew Brady , Daniel Anderson , Guy Blelloch

Recently we presented the first algorithm for maintaining the set of nodes reachable from a source node in a directed graph that is modified by edge deletions with $o(mn)$ total update time, where $m$ is the number of edges and $n$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Monika Henzinger , Sebastian Krinninger , Danupon Nanongkai

The run time complexity of state-of-the-art inference algorithms in graph-based dependency parsing is super-linear in the number of input words (n). Recently, pruning algorithms for these models have shown to cut a large portion of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Effi Levi , Roi Reichart , Ari Rappoport

We give a Las Vegas data structure which maintains a minimum spanning forest in an n-vertex edge-weighted dynamic graph undergoing updates consisting of any mixture of edge insertions and deletions. Each update is supported in O(n^{1/2 -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Christian Wulff-Nilsen

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

We introduce a new dynamic data structure for maintaining the strongly connected components (SCCs) of a directed graph (digraph) under edge deletions, so as to answer a rich repertoire of connectivity queries. Our main technical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Loukas Georgiadis , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Sebastian Krinninger , Nikos Parotsidis

During the past decades significant efforts have been made to propose data structures for answering connectivity queries on fully dynamic graphs, i.e., graphs with frequent insertions and deletions of edges. However, a comprehensive…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Qing Chen , Michael H. Böhlen , Sven Helmer