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For a connected graph $G$ of order at least $2$ and $S\subseteq V(G)$, the \emph{Steiner distance} $d_G(S)$ among the vertices of $S$ is the minimum size among all connected subgraphs whose vertex sets contain $S$. Let $n$ and $k$ be two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Yaping Mao , Eddie Cheng , Zhao Wang

For a connected graph $G$ of order at least $2$ and $S\subseteq V(G)$, the \emph{Steiner distance} $d_G(S)$ among the vertices of $S$ is the minimum size among all connected subgraphs whose vertex sets contain $S$. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Yaping Mao

This paper presents the first parallel batch-dynamic algorithms for computing spanners and sparsifiers. Our algorithms process any batch of edge insertions and deletions in an $n$-node undirected graph, in $\text{poly}(\log n)$ depth and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

We revisit the classical question of the relationship between the diameter of a graph and its expansion properties. One direction is well understood: expander graphs exhibit essentially the lowest possible diameter. We focus on the reverse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Michael Dinitz , Michael Schapira , Gal Shahaf

Graph sketching is a powerful technique introduced by the seminal work of Ahn, Guha and McGregor'12 on connectivity in dynamic graph streams that has enjoyed considerable attention in the literature since then, and has led to near optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Arnold Filtser , Michael Kapralov , Navid Nouri

It was recently found that there are very close connections between the existence of additive spanners (subgraphs where all distances are preserved up to an additive stretch), distance preservers (subgraphs in which demand pairs have their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Eden Chlamtáč , Michael Dinitz , Guy Kortsarz , Bundit Laekhanukit

Preservers and additive spanners are sparse (hence cheap to store) subgraphs that preserve the distances between given pairs of nodes exactly or with some small additive error, respectively. Since real-world networks are prone to failures,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Greg Bodwin , Fabrizio Grandoni , Merav Parter , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We introduce and investigate a new notion of resilience in graph spanners. Let $S$ be a spanner of a graph $G$. Roughly speaking, we say that a spanner $S$ is resilient if all its point-to-point distances are resilient to edge failures.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-30 G. Ausiello , P. G. Franciosa , G. F. Italiano , A. Ribichini

A graph spanner is a fundamental graph structure that faithfully preserves the pairwise distances in the input graph up to a small multiplicative stretch. The common objective in the computation of spanners is to achieve the best-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Merav Parter , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Ali Vakilian , Anak Yodpinyanee

We consider the distributed and parallel construction of low-diameter decompositions with strong diameter for (weighted) graphs and (weighted) graphs that can be separated through $k \in \tilde{O}(1)$ shortest paths. This class of graphs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jinfeng Dou , Thorsten Götte , Henning Hillebrandt , Christian Scheideler , Julian Werthmann

The diameter, radius and eccentricities are natural graph parameters. While these problems have been studied extensively, there are no known dynamic algorithms for them beyond the ones that follow from trivial recomputation after each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Bertie Ancona , Monika Henzinger , Liam Roditty , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

Maintaining and updating shortest paths information in a graph is a fundamental problem with many applications. As computations on dense graphs can be prohibitively expensive, and it is preferable to perform the computations on a sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Thiago Bergamaschi , Monika Henzinger , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

Some of the most fundamental and well-studied graph parameters are the Diameter (the largest shortest paths distance) and Radius (the smallest distance for which a "center" node can reach all other nodes). The natural and important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nikhil Vyas , Nicole Wein

Graph Sparsification aims at compressing large graphs into smaller ones while preserving important characteristics of the input graph. In this work we study Vertex Sparsifiers, i.e., sparsifiers whose goal is to reduce the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

Cuts in graphs are a fundamental object of study, and play a central role in the study of graph algorithms. The problem of sparsifying a graph while approximately preserving its cut structure has been extensively studied and has many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Ansh Nagda

Calculating the diameter of an undirected graph requires quadratic running time under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis and this barrier works even against any approximation better than 3/2. For planar graphs with positive edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Michał Włodarczyk

We prove that the size of the sparsest directed k-spanner of a graph can be approximated in polynomial time to within a factor of $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n})$, for all k >= 3. This improves the $\tilde{O}(n^{2/3})$-approximation recently shown by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-21 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Konstantin Makarychev

$t$-spanners are used to approximate the pairwise distances between a set of points in a metric space. They have only a few edges compared to the total number of pairs and they provide a $t$-approximation on the distance of any two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-29 David Eppstein , Hadi Khodabandeh

Graph spanners and emulators are sparse structures that approximately preserve distances of the original graph. While there has been an extensive amount of work on additive spanners, so far little attention was given to weighted graphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Michael Elkin , Yuval Gitlitz , Ofer Neiman

Constructing a sparse spanning subgraph is a fundamental primitive in graph theory. In this paper, we study this problem in the Centralized Local model, where the goal is to decide whether an edge is part of the spanning subgraph by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Christoph Lenzen , Reut Levi