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We are given an acyclic directed graph with one source, and a subset of its edges which contains exactly one outgoing edge for every non-sink vertex. These edges determine a unique path from the source to a sink. We can think of it as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-28 Dániel Gerbner , Balázs Keszegh

For sink-free orientations in graphs of minimum degree at least $3$, we show that there is a deterministic approximate counting algorithm that runs in time $O((n^{73}/\varepsilon^{72})\log(n/\varepsilon))$, a near-linear time sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Konrad Anand , Graham Freifeld , Heng Guo , Chunyang Wang , Jiaheng Wang

This paper considers the k-sink location problem in dynamic path networks. In our model, a dynamic path network consists of an undirected path with positive edge lengths, uniform edge capacity, and positive vertex supplies. Here, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Yuya Higashikawa , Mordecai J. Golin , Naoki Katoh

We present a deterministic linear-time algorithm for finding an odd cycle through two specified vertices in an undirected graph. This is shown in a generalized form as follows: Let $\Gamma$ be any group in which every element is of order at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Takumi Kano , Yutaro Yamaguchi

We give query-efficient algorithms for the global min-cut and the s-t cut problem in unweighted, undirected graphs. Our oracle model is inspired by the submodular function minimization problem: on query $S \subset V$, the oracle returns the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Aviad Rubinstein , Tselil Schramm , S. Matthew Weinberg

We study the unsorted database search problem with items $N$ from the viewpoint of unitary discrimination. Instead of considering the famous $O(\sqrt{N})$ Grover's the bounded-error algorithm for the original problem, we seek for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiaodi Wu , Runyao Duan

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

This paper proposes a framework for improving the operational efficiency of automated storage systems under uncertainty. It considers a 2D grid-based storage for uniform-sized loads (e.g., containers, pallets, or totes), which are moved by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tzvika Geft , William Zhang , Jingjin Yu , Kostas Bekris

Universal methods for optimization are designed to achieve theoretically optimal convergence rates without any prior knowledge of the problem's regularity parameters or the accurarcy of the gradient oracle employed by the optimizer. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Kimon Antonakopoulos , Dong Quan Vu , Vokan Cevher , Kfir Y. Levy , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

We present new and improved data structures that answer exact node-to-node distance queries in planar graphs. Such data structures are also known as distance oracles. For any directed planar graph on n nodes with non-negative lengths we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-11 Shay Mozes , Christian Sommer

Orientations of supersingular elliptic curves encode the information of an endomorphism of the curve. Computing the full endomorphism ring is a known hard problem, so one might consider how hard it is to find one such orientation. We prove…

Benson's outer approximation algorithm and its variants are the most frequently used methods for solving linear multiobjective optimization problems. These algorithms have two intertwined components: one-dimensional linear optimization one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Laszlo Csirmaz

Given a graph of which the n vertices form a regular two-dimensional grid, and in which each (possibly weighted and/or directed) edge connects a vertex to one of its eight neighbours, the following can be done in O(scan(n)) I/Os, provided M…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Herman Haverkort

In this paper we explore a symmetry-based search space reduction technique which can speed up optimal pathfinding on undirected uniform-cost grid maps by up to 38 times. Our technique decomposes grid maps into a set of empty rectangles,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-22 Daniel Harabor , Adi Botea , Philip Kilby

The Matou\v{s}ek LP-type problems were used by Matou\v{s}ek to show that the Sharir-Welzl algorithm may require at least subexponential time. Later, G\"artner translated this result into the language of Unique Sink Orientations (USOs) and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Simon Weber , Bernd Gärtner

In general dimension, there is no known total polynomial algorithm for either convex hull or vertex enumeration, i.e. an algorithm whose complexity depends polynomially on the input and output sizes. It is thus important to identify…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Vissarion Fisikopoulos , Bernd Gärtner

We give algorithms with running time $2^{O({\sqrt{k}\log{k}})} \cdot n^{O(1)}$ for the following problems. Given an $n$-vertex unit disk graph $G$ and an integer $k$, decide whether $G$ contains (1) a path on exactly/at least $k$ vertices,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

We consider the problem of finding an edge in a hidden undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, in a model where we only allowed queries that ask whether or not a subset of vertices contains an edge. We study the non-adaptive model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ron Kupfer , Noam Nisan

A class of counting problems ask for the number of regions of a central hyperplane arrangement. By duality, this is the same as counting the vertices of a zonotope. We give several efficient algorithms, based on a linear optimization…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Antoine Deza , Lionel Pournin

Given an undirected graph, each of the two end-vertices of an edge can own the edge. Call a vertex poor, if it owns at most one edge. We give a polynomial time algorithm for the problem of finding an assignment of owners to the edges which…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Kaveh Khoshkhah