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The All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) is a foundational problem in theoretical computer science. Approximating APSP in undirected unweighted graphs has been studied for many years, beginning with the work of Dor, Halperin and Zwick…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Ce Jin , Yael Kirkpatrick , Michał Stawarz , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We consider a group of computation units trying to cooperatively solve a distributed optimization problem with shared linear equality and inequality constraints. Assuming that the computation units are communicating over a network whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Simon Michalowsky , Bahman Gharesifard , Christian Ebenbauer

This paper proposes a new distributed algorithm for solving linear systems associated with a sparse graph under a generalised diagonal dominance assumption. The algorithm runs iteratively on each node of the graph, with low complexities on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-30 Qianqian Cai , Zhaorong Zhang , Minyue Fu

In this paper, we consider Wiener filters to reconstruct deterministic and (wide-band) stationary graph signals from their observations corrupted by random noises, and we propose distributed algorithms to implement Wiener filters and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Cong Zheng , Cheng Cheng , Qiyu Sun

We show how to perform sparse approximate Gaussian elimination for Laplacian matrices. We present a simple, nearly linear time algorithm that approximates a Laplacian by a matrix with a sparse Cholesky factorization, the version of Gaussian…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Rasmus Kyng , Sushant Sachdeva

In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling an application on a parallel computational platform. The application is a particular task graph, either a linear chain of tasks, or a set of independent tasks. The platform is made of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-18 Guillaume Aupy , Anne Benoit

Graph sketching is a powerful paradigm for analyzing graph structure via linear measurements introduced by Ahn, Guha, and McGregor (SODA'12) that has since found numerous applications in streaming, distributed computing, and massively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Sepehr Assadi , Michael Kapralov , Huacheng Yu

We show variants of spectral sparsification routines can preserve the total spanning tree counts of graphs, which by Kirchhoff's matrix-tree theorem, is equivalent to determinant of a graph Laplacian minor, or equivalently, of any SDDM…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-03 David Durfee , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Anup B. Rao

This work introduces a highly scalable spectral graph densification framework for learning resistor networks with linear measurements, such as node voltages and currents. We prove that given $O(\log N)$ pairs of voltage and current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Zhuo Feng

We consider the single-source shortest paths problem on a directed graph with real-valued (possibly negative) edge weights and solve this problem in $n^{2+o(1)}$ time by refining the shortcutting procedure introduced in Li, Li, Rao, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 George Z. Li , Jason Li , Junkai Zhang

Approximating the graph diameter is a basic task of both theoretical and practical interest. A simple folklore algorithm can output a 2-approximation to the diameter in linear time by running BFS from an arbitrary vertex. It has been open…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ray Li , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

The fundamental model-checking problem, given as input a model and a specification, asks for the algorithmic verification of whether the model satisfies the specification. Two classical models for reactive systems are graphs and Markov…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Wolfgang Dvorák , Monika Henzinger , Alexander Svozil

We improve the running time of the general algorithmic technique known as Baker's approach (1994) on H-minor-free graphs from O(n^{f(|H|)}) to O(f(|H|) n^{O(1)}). The numerous applications include e.g. a 2-approximation for coloring and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Siamak Tazari

Graphons are limit objects of sequences of graphs and are used to analyze the behavior of large graphs. Recently, graphon signal processing has been developed to study signal processing on large graphs. A major limitation of this approach…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Feng Ji , Xingchao Jian , Wee Peng Tay

We study \emph{dynamic} algorithms for maintaining spectral vertex sparsifiers of graphs with respect to a set of terminals $T$ of our choice. Such objects preserve pairwise resistances, solutions to systems of linear equations, and energy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-26 David Durfee , Yu Gao , Gramoz Goranci , Richard Peng

We study the decremental All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in undirected edge-weighted graphs. The input to the problem is an $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph $G$ with non-negative edge lengths, that undergoes a sequence of edge deletions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Julia Chuzhoy

We initiate a systematic study of algorithms that are both differentially private and run in sublinear time for several problems in which the goal is to estimate natural graph parameters. Our main result is a differentially-private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jeremiah Blocki , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

The sparsest cut problem consists of identifying a small set of edges that breaks the graph into balanced sets of vertices. The normalized cut problem balances the total degree, instead of the size, of the resulting sets. Applications of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Ananthram Swami

We present randomized algorithms that compute $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate minimum global edge and vertex cuts in weighted directed graphs in $O(\log^4(n) / \epsilon)$ and $O(\log^5(n)/\epsilon)$ single-commodity flows, respectively. With the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Kent Quanrud

The celebrated Cheeger's Inequality \cite{am85,a86} establishes a bound on the expansion of a graph via its spectrum. This inequality is central to a rich spectral theory of graphs, based on studying the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Anand Louis