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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…
The single-source shortest path (SSSP) problem is a well-studied problem that is used in many applications. In the parallel setting, a work-efficient algorithm that additionally attains $o(n)$ parallel depth has been elusive. Alternatively,…
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…
Given a dynamic digraph $G = (V,E)$ undergoing edge deletions and given $s\in V$ and $\epsilon>0$, we consider the problem of maintaining $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate shortest path distances from $s$ to all vertices in $G$ over the sequence…
A signed tree model of a graph $G$ is a compact binary structure consisting of a rooted binary tree whose leaves are bijectively mapped to the vertices of $G$, together with 2-colored edges $xy$, called transversal pairs, interpreted as…
We present a novel algorithm that fuses the existing convex-programming based approach with heuristic information to find optimality guarantees and near-optimal paths for the Shortest Path Problem in the Graph of Convex Sets (SPP-GCS). Our…
We present faster algorithms for approximate maximum flow in undirected graphs with good separator structures, such as bounded genus, minor free, and geometric graphs. Given such a graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges along with a recursive…
Here the All-pairs shortest path problem on weighted undirected sparse graphs is being considered. For the problem considered, we propose ``disassembly and assembly of a graph'' algorithm which uses a solution of the problem on a…
We extend the well known bottleneck paths problem in two directions for directed unweighted (unit edge cost) graphs with positive real edge capacities. Firstly we narrow the problem domain and compute the bottleneck of the entire network in…
Computing approximate shortest paths in the dynamic streaming setting is a fundamental challenge that has been intensively studied during the last decade. Currently existing solutions for this problem either build a sparse multiplicative…
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…
Network applications, such as multimedia streaming and video conferencing, impose growing requirements over Quality of Service (QoS), including bandwidth, delay, jitter, etc. Meanwhile, networks are expected to be load-balanced,…
We study the classical Node-Disjoint Paths (NDP) problem: given an undirected $n$-vertex graph G, together with a set {(s_1,t_1),...,(s_k,t_k)} of pairs of its vertices, called source-destination, or demand pairs, find a maximum-cardinality…
We study two "above guarantee" versions of the classical Longest Path problem on undirected and directed graphs and obtain the following results. In the first variant of Longest Path that we study, called Longest Detour, the task is to…
We investigate the minimum line-distortion and the minimum bandwidth problems on unweighted graphs and their relations with the minimum length of a Robertson-Seymour's path-decomposition. The length of a path-decomposition of a graph is the…
We present new deterministic algorithms for computing distributed weighted minimum weight cycle (MWC) in undirected and directed graphs and distributed weighted all nodes shortest cycle (ANSC) in directed graphs. Our algorithms for these…
Let G be a directed graph with n vertices and non-negative weights in its directed edges, embedded on a surface of genus g, and let f be an arbitrary face of G. We describe a randomized algorithm to preprocess the graph in O(gn log n) time…
We present fast algorithms for approximate shortest paths in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model. We provide randomized algorithms that take $poly(\log{\log{n}})$ rounds in the near-linear memory MPC model. Our results are for…
We present a \emph{deterministic exact algorithm} for the \emph{minimum $k$-cut problem} on simple graphs. Our approach combines the \emph{principal sequence of partitions (PSP)}, derived canonically from ideal loads, with a single level of…
We study a variant of Min Cost Flow in which the flow needs to be connected. Specifically, in the Connected Flow problem one is given a directed graph $G$, along with a set of demand vertices $D \subseteq V(G)$ with demands $\mathsf{dem}: D…