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Computing shortest paths is one of the most fundamental algorithmic graph problems. It is known since decades that this problem can be solved in near-linear time if all weights are nonnegative. A recent break-through by [Bernstein,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Alejandro Cassis , Andreas Karrenbauer , André Nusser , Paolo Luigi Rinaldi

We present a randomized algorithm that computes single-source shortest paths (SSSP) in $O(m\log^8(n)\log W)$ time when edge weights are integral and can be negative. This essentially resolves the classic negative-weight SSSP problem. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Aaron Bernstein , Danupon Nanongkai , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

The All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem is one of the fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. It asks to compute the distance matrix of a given $n$-vertex graph. We revisit the classical problem of maintaining the distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Xiao Mao

A distributed network is modeled by a graph having $n$ nodes (processors) and diameter $D$. We study the time complexity of approximating {\em weighted} (undirected) shortest paths on distributed networks with a $O(\log n)$ {\em bandwidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Danupon Nanongkai

We study the use of machine learning techniques to solve a fundamental shortest path problem, known as the single-source many-targets shortest path problem (SSMTSP). Given a directed graph with non-negative edge weights, our goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Willem Feijen , Guido Schäfer

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

This paper investigates two types of graph queries: {\em single source distance (SSD)} queries and {\em single source shortest path (SSSP)} queries. Given a node $v$ in a graph $G$, an SSD query from $v$ asks for the distance from $v$ to…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Andy Diwen Zhu , Xiaokui Xiao , Sibo Wang , Wenqing Lin

In this paper we consider the decremental single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem, where given a graph $G$ and a source node $s$ the goal is to maintain shortest distances between $s$ and all other nodes in $G$ under a sequence of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Aaron Bernstein

Dijkstra's algorithm for the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem is notoriously hard to parallelize in $o(n)$ depth, $n$ being the number of vertices in the input graph, without increasing the required parallel work unreasonably.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Michael Kainer , Jesper Larsson Träff

Study the general single-source shortest path problem. Firstly, define a path function on a set of some path with same source on a graph, and develop a kind of general single-source shortest path problem (GSSSP) on the defined path…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Cong-Dian Cheng

The shortest paths problem is a fundamental challenge in graph theory, with a broad range of potential applications. The algorithms based on matrix multiplication exhibits excellent parallelism and scalability, but is constrained by high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yelai Feng , Huaixi Wang , Yining Zhu , Xiandong Liu , Hongyi Lu , Qing Liu

The distributed single-source shortest paths problem is one of the most fundamental and central problems in the message-passing distributed computing. Classical Bellman-Ford algorithm solves it in $O(n)$ time, where $n$ is the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Michael Elkin

In most of the shortest path problems like vehicle routing problems and network routing problems, we only need an efficient path between two points source and destination, and it is not necessary to calculate the shortest path from source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Muhammad Aasim Qureshi , Dr. Fadzil B. Hassan , Sohail Safdar , Rehan Akbar

The Constraint Shortest Path (CSP) problem is as follows. An $n$-vertex graph is given, each edge/arc assigned two weights. Let us call them "cost" and "length" for definiteness. Finding a min-cost upper-bounded length path between a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Adil Erzin , Roman Plotnikov , Ilya Ladygin

We investigate the problem of computing the top-$k$ simple shortest paths in weighted digraphs. While the single-pair variant -- finding the top-$k$ simple shortest paths between two specified vertices -- has been extensively studied over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mattia D'Emidio , Gabriele Di Stefano

This paper presents parallel, distributed and quantum algorithms for single-source shortest paths when edges can have negative weights (negative-weight SSSP). We show a framework that reduces negative-weight SSSP in all these setting to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Nairen Cao , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Yonggang Jiang , Danupon Nanongkai , Hsin Hao Su

The shortest path problem in graphs is a cornerstone of AI theory and applications. Existing algorithms generally ignore edge weight computation time. We present a generalized framework for weighted directed graphs, where edge weight can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Eyal Weiss , Ariel Felner , Gal A. Kaminka

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

Graphs are fundamental objects that find widespread applications across computer science and beyond. Graph Theory has yielded deep insights about structural properties of various families of graphs, which are leveraged in the design and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Rachit Nimavat

We provide a method to obtain beyond-worst-case time complexity for any single-source-shortest-path (SSSP) algorithm by exploiting modular structures in graphs. The key novelty is a graph decomposition, called the acyclic-connected (A-C)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Elis Stefansson , Oliver Biggar , Karl H. Johansson