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Dijkstra's algorithm is the standard method for computing shortest paths on arbitrary graphs. However, it is slow for large graphs, taking at least linear time. It has been long known that for real world road networks, creating a hierarchy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Sébastien Collette , John Iacono

In this paper we prove that Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm, if implemented with a sufficiently efficient heap, is universally optimal in its running time, and with suitable small additions is also universally optimal in its number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , Václav Rozhoň , Robert E. Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

Given a directed graph of nodes and edges connecting them, a common problem is to find the shortest path between any two nodes. Here we show that the shortest path distances can be found by a simple matrix inversion: If the edges are given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Zeyu Jing , Markus Meister

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

A long series of recent results and breakthroughs have led to faster and better distributed approximation algorithms for single source shortest paths (SSSP) and related problems in the CONGEST model. The runtime of all these algorithms,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Bernhard Haeupler , Jason Li

This paper proposes earliest and latest path algorithms based on binary weight allocation, assigning weights of 2(i-1) and 2(m-i) to the i-th arc in a network. While traditional shortest path algorithms optimize only distance, our approach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Wei-Chang Yeh

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

We show how to combine two techniques for efficiently computing shortest paths in directed planar graphs. The first is the linear-time shortest-path algorithm of Henzinger, Klein, Subramanian, and Rao [STOC'94]. The second is Fakcharoenphol…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Shay Mozes , Yahav Nussbaum , Oren Weimann

We introduce stronger notions for approximate single-source shortest-path distances, show how to efficiently compute them from weaker standard notions, and demonstrate the algorithmic power of these new notions and transformations. One…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Václav Rozhoň , Bernhard Haeupler , Anders Martinsson , Christoph Grunau , Goran Zuzic

This paper presents near-optimal deterministic parallel and distributed algorithms for computing $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate single-source shortest paths in any undirected weighted graph. On a high level, we deterministically reduce this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Václav Rozhoň , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Goran Zuzic , Jason Li

Although Dijkstra's algorithm has near-optimal time complexity for the problem of finding a shortest path from a given vertex $s$ to a given vertex $t$, in practice other algorithms are often superior on huge graphs. A prominent example is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , Vaclav Rozhon , Robert E. Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

The Dijkstra algorithm is a classic path planning method, which in a discrete graph space, can start from a specified source node and find the shortest path between the source node and all other nodes in the graph. However, to the best of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jinyuan Liu , Minglei Fu , Wenan Zhang , Bo Chen , Ryhor Prakapovich , Uladzislau Sychou

Let G be a weighted (directed) graph with n vertices and m edges. Given a source vertex s, Dijkstra's algorithm computes the shortest path lengths from s to all other vertices in O(m + n log n) time. This bound is known to be worst-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Daniel Rutschmann

Using Optical Orthogonal Frequency Multiplexing (O-OFDM), variable bandwidth channels can be created in Elastic Optical Networks (EON). This allows the use of spectrum more efficiently by allocating integral multiple of basic bandwidth…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Varsha Lohani , Anjali Sharma , Yatindra Nath Singh

Finding the shortest path between two points in a graph is a fundamental problem that has been well-studied over the past several decades. Shortest path algorithms are commonly applied to modern navigation systems, so our study aims to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kevin Y. Chen

The Dijkstra algorithm is a classical method for solving the shortest path problem on weighted graphs. There are several variations of the Dijkstra algorithm, including algorithms for the widest path problem and for two-player games. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Takahiro Sanada , Yoàv Montacute , Kittiphon Phalakarn , Ichiro Hasuo

Finding a shortest path in a graph is one of the most classic problems in algorithmic and graph theory. While we dispose of quite efficient algorithms for this ordinary problem (like the Dijkstra or Bellman-Ford algorithms), some slight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Abderrahim Bendahi , Adrien Fradin

Efficient planning and sequence selection are central to intelligence, yet current approaches remain largely incompatible with biological computation. Classical graph algorithms like Dijkstra's or A* require global state and biologically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Simen Storesund , Kristian Valset Aars , Robin Dietrich , Nicolai Waniek

In this article, we study the Adjacent Quadratic Shortest Path Problem (AQSPP), which consists in finding the shortest path on a directed graph when its total weight component also includes the impact of consecutive arcs. We provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-09 João Vilela , Bruno Fanzeres , Rafael Martinelli , Claudio Contardo

In this paper we study a variant of the shortest path problem in graphs: given a weighted graph G and vertices s and t, and given a set X of forbidden paths in G, find a shortest s-t path P such that no path in X is a subpath of P. Path P…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-11 Mustaq Ahmed , Anna Lubiw