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We give almost-linear-time algorithms for constructing sparsifiers with $n\ poly(\log n)$ edges that approximately preserve weighted $(\ell^{2}_2 + \ell^{p}_p)$ flow or voltage objectives on graphs. For flow objectives, this is the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Deeksha Adil , Brian Bullins , Rasmus Kyng , Sushant Sachdeva

We present a randomized augmenting paths-based algorithm to compute the maximum flow in a directed, uncapacitated graph in almost $m+nF$ time, matching the algorithm of Karger and Levine for undirected graphs (SICOMP 2015). Combined with an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jason Li

Fully dynamic graph is a data structure that (1) supports edge insertions and deletions and (2) answers problem specific queries. The time complexity of (1) and (2) are referred to as the update time and the query time respectively. There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Yoichi Iwata , Keigo Oka

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

Many robotic exploration algorithms rely on graph structures for frontier-based exploration and dynamic path planning. However, these graphs grow rapidly, accumulating redundant information and impacting performance. We present a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Adithya V. Sastry , Bibek Poudel , Weizi Li

In this paper we present a simple but powerful subgraph sampling primitive that is applicable in a variety of computational models including dynamic graph streams (where the input graph is defined by a sequence of edge/hyperedge insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Rajesh Chitnis , Graham Cormode , Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Andrew McGregor , Morteza Monemizadeh , Sofya Vorotnikova

We study algorithms for spectral graph sparsification. The input is a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and the output is a sparse graph $\tilde{G}$ that approximates $G$ in an algebraic sense. Concretely, for all vectors $x$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Ioannis Koutis , Alex Levin , Richard Peng

We develop a framework for graph sparsification and sketching, based on a new tool, short cycle decomposition -- a decomposition of an unweighted graph into an edge-disjoint collection of short cycles, plus few extra edges. A simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Timothy Chu , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva , Saurabh Sawlani , Junxing Wang

We study vertex sparsification for distances, in the setting of planar graphs with distortion: Given a planar graph $G$ (with edge weights) and a subset of $k$ terminal vertices, the goal is to construct an $\varepsilon$-emulator, which is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Hsien-Chih Chang , Robert Krauthgamer , Zihan Tan

We show an $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for maintaining maximum $s$-$t$ flow under $m$ edge insertions in $m^{1/2+o(1)} \epsilon^{-1/2}$ amortized update time for directed, unweighted graphs. This constitutes the first sublinear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger

We introduce a new approach to spectral sparsification that approximates the quadratic form of the pseudoinverse of a graph Laplacian restricted to a subspace. We show that sparsifiers with a near-linear number of edges in the dimension of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Huan Li , Aaron Schild

Persistence diagrams (PD)s play a central role in topological data analysis. This analysis requires computing distances among such diagrams such as the $1$-Wasserstein distance. Accurate computation of these PD distances for large data sets…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tamal K. Dey , Simon Zhang

A sparsifier of a graph $G$ (Bencz\'ur and Karger; Spielman and Teng) is a sparse weighted subgraph $\tilde G$ that approximately retains the cut structure of $G$. For general graphs, non-trivial sparsification is possible only by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Nikhil Bansal , Ola Svensson , Luca Trevisan

In this paper, we present a construction of a `matching sparsifier', that is, a sparse subgraph of the given graph that preserves large matchings approximately and is robust to modifications of the graph. We use this matching sparsifier to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Sepehr Assadi , Aaron Bernstein

We give faster algorithms for producing sparse approximations of the transition matrices of $k$-step random walks on undirected, weighted graphs. These transition matrices also form graphs, and arise as intermediate objects in a variety of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Gorav Jindal , Pavel Kolev , Richard Peng , Saurabh Sawlani

Let $G$ be a graph and $S, T \subseteq V(G)$ be (possibly overlapping) sets of terminals, $|S|=|T|=k$. We are interested in computing a vertex sparsifier for terminal cuts in $G$, i.e., a graph $H$ on a smallest possible number of vertices,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhiyang He , Jason Li , Magnus Wahlström

We consider a variation of the spectral sparsification problem where we are required to keep a subgraph of the original graph. Formally, given a union of two weighted graphs $G$ and $W$ and an integer $k$, we are asked to find a $k$-edge…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-12-10 Alexandra Kolla , Yury Makarychev , Amin Saberi , Shanghua Teng

In recent years, spectral graph sparsification techniques that can compute ultra-sparse graph proxies have been extensively studied for accelerating various numerical and graph-related applications. Prior nearly-linear-time spectral…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Zhuo Feng

We consider the directed minimum weight cycle problem in the fully dynamic setting. To the best of our knowledge, so far no fully dynamic algorithms have been designed specifically for the minimum weight cycle problem in general digraphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Adam Karczmarz

Many real-world datasets can be naturally represented as graphs, spanning a wide range of domains. However, the increasing complexity and size of graph datasets present significant challenges for analysis and computation. In response, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mohammad Hashemi , Shengbo Gong , Juntong Ni , Wenqi Fan , B. Aditya Prakash , Wei Jin