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An approximate distance oracle is a succinct data structure that provides fast answers to distance queries between any two nodes. In this paper we consider approximate distance oracles for general undirected graphs with non-negative edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Shiri Chechik

Let $G = (V, E)$ be an undirected graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and let $\mu = m/n$. A \emph{distance oracle} is a data structure designed to answer approximate distance queries, with the goal of achieving low stretch, efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Avi Kadria , Liam Roditty

We consider approximate {\em path-reporting} distance oracles, distance labeling and labeled routing with extremely low space requirement, for general undirected graphs. For distance oracles, we show how to break the n\log n space bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Michael Elkin , Ofer Neiman , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

A distance oracle is a compact representation of the shortest distance matrix of a graph. It can be queried to approximate shortest paths between any pair of vertices. Any distance oracle that returns paths of worst-case stretch (2k-1) must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-16 Rachit Agarwal , P. Brighten Godfrey , Sariel Har-Peled

Computing the diameter of a graph is a problem of great interest both in general algorithms research and specifically within fine-grained complexity, where it is a cornerstone hard problem. Recent work has achieved a full conditional lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yael Kirkpatrick , Liam Roditty , Richard Qi , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Distance oracles are data structures that provide fast (possibly approximate) answers to shortest-path and distance queries in graphs. The tradeoff between the space requirements and the query time of distance oracles is of particular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Christian Sommer

A $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate distance oracle of an edge-weighted graph is a data structure that returns an approximate shortest path distance between any two query vertices up to a $(1+\epsilon)$ factor. Thorup (FOCS 2001, JACM 2004) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Hung Le , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We study optimization problems in a metric space $(\mathcal{X},d)$ where we can compute distances in two ways: via a ''strong'' oracle that returns exact distances $d(x,y)$, and a ''weak'' oracle that returns distances $\tilde{d}(x,y)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-25 MohammadHossein Bateni , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Rajesh Jayaram , Chen Wang

Given an undirected weighted graph, an (approximate) distance oracle is a data structure that can (approximately) answer distance queries. A {\em Path-Reporting Distance Oracle}, or {\em PRDO}, is a distance oracle that must also return a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ofer Neiman , Idan Shabat

We consider approximate distance oracles for edge-weighted n-vertex undirected planar graphs. Given fixed epsilon > 0, we present a (1+epsilon)-approximate distance oracle with O(n(loglog n)^2) space and O((loglog n)^3) query time. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Christian Wulff-Nilsen

Despite extensive research on distance oracles, there are still large gaps between the best constructions for spanners and distance oracles. Notably, there exist sparse spanners with a multiplicative stretch of $1+\varepsilon$ plus some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Davide Bilò , Shiri Chechik , Keerti Choudhary , Sarel Cohen , Tobias Friedrich , Martin Schirneck

Our input is an undirected weighted graph $G = (V,E)$ on $n$ vertices along with a source set $S\subseteq V$. The problem is to preprocess $G$ and build a compact data structure such that upon query $Qu(s,v,f)$ where $(s,v) \in S\times V$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Dipan Dey , Telikepalli Kavitha

Given an undirected graph $G$ with $m$ edges, $n$ vertices, and non-negative edge weights, and given an integer $k\geq 2$, we show that a $(2k-1)$-approximate distance oracle for $G$ of size $O(kn^{1 + 1/k})$ and with $O(\log k)$ query time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Christian Wulff-Nilsen

In the Distance Oracle problem, the goal is to preprocess $n$ vectors $x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_n$ in a $d$-dimensional metric space $(\mathbb{X}^d, \| \cdot \|_l)$ into a cheap data structure, so that given a query vector $q \in \mathbb{X}^d$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yichuan Deng , Zhao Song , Omri Weinstein , Ruizhe Zhang

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a weighted undirected graph, with $n$ vertices. A distance oracle is a data structure that can quickly answer distance queries, with some stretch factor. A seminal work of \cite{TZ01}, given an integer $k\ge 1$, provides…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Ofer Neiman , Alon Spector

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ of $n$ vertices and $m$ edges with weights in $[1,W]$, we construct vertex sensitive distance oracles (VSDO), which are data structures that preprocess the graph, and answer the following kind of queries:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ran Duan , Yong Gu , Hanlin Ren

A (1 + eps)-approximate distance oracle for a graph is a data structure that supports approximate point-to-point shortest-path-distance queries. The most relevant measures for a distance-oracle construction are: space, query time, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-11 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Philip N. Klein , Christian Sommer

In 2001 Thorup and Zwick devised a distance oracle, which given an $n$-vertex undirected graph and a parameter $k$, has size $O(k n^{1+1/k})$. Upon a query $(u,v)$ their oracle constructs a $(2k-1)$-approximate path $\Pi$ between $u$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Michael Elkin , Seth Pettie

We present new tradeoffs between space and query-time for exact distance oracles in directed weighted planar graphs. These tradeoffs are almost optimal in the sense that they are within polylogarithmic, sub-polynomial or arbitrarily small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

It is unlikely that the discrete Fr\'echet distance between two curves of length $n$ can be computed in strictly subquadratic time. We thus consider the setting where one of the curves, $P$, is known in advance. In particular, we wish to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Boris Aronov , Tsuri Farhana , Matthew J. Katz , Indu Ramesh
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