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In this paper, we consider the problem of approximating the densest subgraph in the dynamic graph stream model. In this model of computation, the input graph is defined by an arbitrary sequence of edge insertions and deletions and the goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Andrew McGregor , David Tench , Sofya Vorotnikova , Hoa T. Vu

Given a dynamic graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges subject to insertion an deletions of edges, we show how to maintain a $(1+\varepsilon)\Delta$-edge-colouring of $G$ without the use of randomisation. More specifically, we show a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Aleksander B. G. Christiansen

Graph sparsification is a technique that approximates a given graph by a sparse graph with a subset of vertices and/or edges. The goal of an effective sparsification algorithm is to maintain specific graph properties relevant to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuhan Chen , Haojie Ye , Sanketh Vedula , Alex Bronstein , Ronald Dreslinski , Trevor Mudge , Nishil Talati

A (fully) dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, edge deletions, and answers specific queries pertinent to the problem at hand. In this work, we address the fully dynamic edge orientation problem, also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ernestine Großmann , Henrik Reinstädtler , Christian Schulz , Fabian Walliser

A (fully) dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, edge deletions, and answers certain queries that are specific to the problem under consideration. There has been a lot of research on dynamic algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz

We develop a new algorithmic framework for designing approximation algorithms for cut-based optimization problems on capacitated undirected graphs that undergo edge insertions and deletions. Specifically, our framework dynamically maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Peter Kiss , Ali Momeni , Gernot Zöcklein

The fully dynamic transitive closure problem asks to maintain reachability information in a directed graph between arbitrary pairs of vertices, while the graph undergoes a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. The problem has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Christian Schulz

We present the first (randomized) parallel dynamic algorithm for maximal matching, which can process an arbitrary number of updates simultaneously. Given a batch of edge deletion or insertion updates to the graph, our parallel algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Mohsen Ghaffari , Anton Trygub

The problem of sparsifying a graph or a hypergraph while approximately preserving its cut structure has been extensively studied and has many applications. In a seminal work, Bencz\'ur and Karger (1996) showed that given any $n$-vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Ansh Nagda

In this paper we introduce a general framework for casting fully dynamic transitive closure into the problem of reevaluating polynomials over matrices. With this technique, we improve the best known bounds for fully dynamic transitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Camil Demetrescu , Giuseppe F. Italiano

Most graphs in real life keep changing with time. These changes can be in the form of insertion or deletion of edges or vertices. Such rapidly changing graphs motivate us to study dynamic graph algorithms. However, three important graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Manoj Gupta , Shahbaz Khan

We present a deterministic fully dynamic algorithm with subpolynomial worst-case time per graph update such that after processing each update of the graph, the algorithm outputs a minimum cut of the graph if the graph has a cut of size at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Wenyu Jin , Xiaorui Sun , Mikkel Thorup

Despite significant research efforts, the state-of-the-art algorithm for maintaining an approximate matching in fully dynamic graphs has a polynomial {worst-case} update time, even for very poor approximation guarantees. In a recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Moses Charikar , Shay Solomon

We study dynamic algorithms in the model of algorithms with predictions. We assume the algorithm is given imperfect predictions regarding future updates, and we ask how such predictions can be used to improve the running time. This can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari , Adam Polak

We consider the problem of dynamically maintaining (approximate) all-pairs effective resistances in separable graphs, which are those that admit an $n^{c}$-separator theorem for some $c<1$. We give a fully dynamic algorithm that maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

In this paper we devise an extremely efficient fully dynamic distributed algorithm for maintaining sparse spanners. Our resuls also include the first fully dynamic centralized algorithm for the problem with non-trivial bounds for both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Michael Elkin

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

A maximal independent set (MIS) can be maintained in an evolving $m$-edge graph by simply recomputing it from scratch in $O(m)$ time after each update. But can it be maintained in time sublinear in $m$ in fully dynamic graphs? We answer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Sepehr Assadi , Krzysztof Onak , Baruch Schieber , Shay Solomon

The current landscape of balanced graph partitioning is divided into high-quality but expensive multilevel algorithms and cheaper approaches with linear running time, such as single-level algorithms and streaming algorithms. We demonstrate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Lars Gottesbüren , Nikolai Maas , Dominik Rosch , Peter Sanders , Daniel Seemaier

We study the problem of graph and hypergraph sparsification in insertion-only data streams. The input is a hypergraph $H=(V, E, w)$ with $n$ nodes, $m$ hyperedges, and rank $r$, and the goal is to compute a hypergraph $\widehat{H}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou