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We devise a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the classical geometric problem of finding an approximate short path amid weighted regions. In this problem, a triangulated region P comprising of n vertices, a positive weight associated…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-08 R Inkulu , Sanjiv Kapoor

A $(\beta,\epsilon)$-hopset for a weighted undirected $n$-vertex graph $G=(V,E)$ is a set of edges, whose addition to the graph guarantees that every pair of vertices has a path between them that contains at most $\beta$ edges, whose length…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Michael Elkin , Ofer Neiman

We present the first polynomial time approximation algorithm for computing shortest paths in weighted three-dimensional domains. Given a polyhedral domain $\D$, consisting of $n$ tetrahedra with positive weights, and a real number…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Lyudmil Aleksandrov , Hristo Djidjev , Anil Maheshwari , Joerg-Rudiger Sack

The $\mathsf{HYBRID}$ model, introduced in [Augustine et al., SODA '20], provides a theoretical foundation for networks that allow multiple communication modes. The model follows the principles of synchronous message passing, whereas nodes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Fabian Kuhn , Philipp Schneider

Given a point set $P$ in the plane, we seek a subset $Q\subseteq P$, whose convex hull gives a smaller and thus simpler representation of the convex hull of $P$. Specifically, let $cost(Q,P)$ denote the Hausdorff distance between the convex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Georgiy Klimenko , Benjamin Raichel

We present deterministic constant-round protocols for the graph connectivity problem in the model where each of the $n$ nodes of a graph receives a row of the adjacency matrix, and broadcasts a single sublinear size message to all other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Pedro Montealegre , Ioan Todinca

In this paper, we develop deterministic fully dynamic algorithms for computing approximate distances in a graph with worst-case update time guarantees. In particular, we obtain improved dynamic algorithms that, given an unweighted and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari

We present the first deterministic nearly-linear time algorithm for single-source shortest paths with negative edge weights on directed graphs: given a directed graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges whose weights are integer in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Bernhard Haeupler , Yonggang Jiang , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We give a new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation for sparsest cut problem on graphs where small sets expand significantly more than the sparsest cut (sets of size $n/r$ expand by a factor $\sqrt{\log n\log r}$ bigger, for some small $r$; this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Ali Kemal Sinop

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

In this work we study shortest path problems in multimode graphs, a generalization of the min-distance measure introduced by Abboud, Vassilevska W. and Wang in [SODA'16]. A multimode shortest path is the shortest path using one of multiple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yael Kirkpatrick , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We consider the fine-grained complexity of sparse graph problems that currently have $\tilde{O}(mn)$ time algorithms, where m is the number of edges and n is the number of vertices in the input graph. This class includes several important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Udit Agarwal , Vijaya Ramachandran

Expander graphs play a central role in graph theory and algorithms. With a number of powerful algorithmic tools developed around them, such as the Cut-Matching game, expander pruning, expander decomposition, and algorithms for decremental…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Julia Chuzhoy

The (unweighted) point-separation problem asks, given a pair of points $s$ and $t$ in the plane, and a set of candidate geometric objects, for the minimum-size subset of objects whose union blocks all paths from $s$ to $t$. Recent work has…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jayson Lynch , Jack Spalding-Jamieson

The fundamental sparsest cut problem takes as input a graph $G$ together with the edge costs and demands, and seeks a cut that minimizes the ratio between the costs and demands across the cuts. For $n$-node graphs~$G$ of treewidth~$k$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Parinya Chalermsook , Matthias Kaul , Matthias Mnich , Joachim Spoerhase , Sumedha Uniyal , Daniel Vaz

We present a $+2\sum_{i=1}^{k+1}{W_i}$-APASP algorithm for dense weighted graphs with runtime $\tilde O\left(n^{2+\frac{1}{3k+2}}\right)$, where $W_{i}$ is the weight of an $i^{th}$ heaviest edge on a shortest path. Dor, Halperin and Zwick…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Liam Roditty , Ariel Sapir

We give a deterministic $O(m\log^{2/3}n)$-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition model. This is the first result to break the $O(m+n\log n)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ran Duan , Jiayi Mao , Xiao Mao , Xinkai Shu , Longhui Yin

The Sparsest Cut is a fundamental optimization problem that has been extensively studied. For planar inputs the problem is in $P$ and can be solved in $\tilde{O}(n^3)$ time if all vertex weights are $1$. Despite a significant amount of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Amir Abboud , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Philip N. Klein

We develop a new approach for distributed distance computation in planar graphs that is based on a variant of the metric compression problem recently introduced by Abboud et al. [SODA'18]. One of our key technical contributions is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Jason Li , Merav Parter

In Constrained Correlation Clustering, the goal is to cluster a complete signed graph in a way that minimizes the number of negative edges inside clusters plus the number of positive edges between clusters, while respecting hard constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nate Veldt