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The \emph{Steiner tree} problem is one of the fundamental and classical problems in combinatorial optimization. In this paper, we study this problem in the $\mathcal{CONGESTED}$ $\mathcal{CLIQUE}$ model of distributed computing and present…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Parikshit Saikia , Sushanta Karmakar

This paper presents a distributed, optimal, communication-aware trajectory planning algorithm for multi-robot systems. Building on prior work, it addresses the multi-robot communication-aware trajectory planning problem using a general…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Jeppe Heini Mikkelsen , Roberto Galeazzi , Matteo Fumagalli

We present a near-optimal polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem for graphs of bounded orientable or non-orientable genus. Our algorithm achieves an approximation factor of O(f(g)) on graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Jeff Erickson , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

This article presents an approximation algorithm for a task allocation, sequencing and scheduling problem involving a team of human operators and robots. Specifically, we present an algorithm with an approximation ratio as a function of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Sai Krishna Hari , Abhishek Nayak , Sivakumar Rathinam

There are numerous examples of the so-called ``square root phenomenon'' in the field of parameterized algorithms: many of the most fundamental graph problems, parameterized by some natural parameter $k$, become significantly simpler when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

Algorithms often carry out equally many computations for "easy" and "hard" problem instances. In particular, algorithms for finding nearest neighbors typically have the same running time regardless of the particular problem instance. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Daniel LeJeune , Richard G. Baraniuk , Reinhard Heckel

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 several combinatorial optimization problems which combine the classic shop scheduling problems, namely open shop scheduling or job shop scheduling, and the shortest path problem. The objective of the obtained problem is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Wenxun Xing

In this work we consider the multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) problem with the constraint that agents arrive at their respective goals at the same time. For the special case where all agents are initially at rest we propose a two-step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Anja Hellander , Daniel Axehill

Distributed cooperative localization in wireless networks is a challenging problem since it typically requires solving a large-scale nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problem. In this paper, we reformulate the classic cooperative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Mei Zhang , Zhiguo Wang , Feng Yin , Xiaojing Shen

We present improved deterministic algorithms for approximating shortest paths in the Congested Clique model of distributed computing. We obtain $poly(\log\log n)$-round algorithms for the following problems in unweighted undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Michal Dory , Merav Parter

This paper addresses the problem of seeking a common fixed point for a collection of nonexpansive operators over time-varying multi-agent networks in real Hilbert spaces, where each operator is only privately and approximately known to each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Xiuxian Li , Gang Feng

We analyze two classic variants of the Traveling Salesman Problem using the toolkit of fine-grained complexity. Our first set of results is motivated by the Bitonic TSP problem: given a set of $n$ points in the plane, compute a shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Mark de Berg , Kevin Buchin , Bart M. P. Jansen , Gerhard Woeginger

In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm for the minimum dominating set problem. For some especial networks, we prove theoretically that the achieved answer by our proposed algorithm is a constant approximation factor of the exact…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Sharareh Alipour , Ehsan Futuhi , Shayan Karimi

In the {\em distributed all-pairs shortest paths} problem (APSP), every node in the weighted undirected distributed network (the CONGEST model) needs to know the distance from every other node using least number of communication rounds…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Aaron Bernstein , Danupon Nanongkai

Optimal transport aims to estimate a transportation plan that minimizes a displacement cost. This is realized by optimizing the scalar product between the sought plan and the given cost, over the space of doubly stochastic matrices. When…

We propose an alternating optimization algorithm to the nonconvex Koopman operator learning problem for nonlinear dynamic systems. We show that the proposed algorithm will converge to a critical point with rate $O(1/T)$ and $O(\frac{1}{\log…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Zhiyuan Liu , Guohui Ding , Lijun Chen , Enoch Yeung

We study the fully dynamic All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in undirected edge-weighted graphs. Given an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with non-negative edge lengths, that undergoes an online sequence of edge insertions and deletions, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Julia Chuzhoy , Ruimin Zhang

The input to the Multiway Cut problem is a weighted undirected graph, with nonnegative edge weights, and $k$ designated terminals. The goal is to partition the vertices of the graph into $k$ parts, each containing exactly one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joshua Brakensiek , Neng Huang , Aaron Potechin , Uri Zwick

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem with possibly nonidentical local constraints, where its global objective function is composed of $N$ convex functions. The aim is to solve the considered optimization problem in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Hongzhe Liu , Wenwu Yu , Guanghui Wen , Wei Xing Zheng