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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

We study dynamic $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for the all-pairs shortest paths problem in unweighted undirected $n$-node $m$-edge graphs under edge deletions. The fastest algorithm for this problem is a randomized algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Monika Henzinger , Sebastian Krinninger , Danupon Nanongkai

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

In this paper, we present a new randomized $O(1)$-approximation algorithm for the All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in weighted undirected graphs that runs in just $O(\log \log \log n)$ rounds in the Congested-Clique model. Before our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hong Duc Bui , Shashwat Chandra , Yi-Jun Chang , Michal Dory , Dean Leitersdorf

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 study the 2-Disjoint Shortest Paths (2-DSP) problem: given a directed weighted graph and two terminal pairs $(s_1,t_1)$ and $(s_2,t_2)$, decide whether there exist vertex-disjoint shortest paths between each pair. Building on recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Keerti Choudhary , Amit Kumar , Lakshay Saggi

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

The problem of finding multiple simple shortest paths in a weighted directed graph $G=(V,E)$ has many applications, and is considerably more difficult than the corresponding problem when cycles are allowed in the paths. Even for a single…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Udit Agarwal , Vijaya Ramachandran

Given a directed graph $G$ with arbitrary real-valued weights, the single source shortest-path problem (SSSP) asks for, given a source $s$ in $G$, finding a shortest path from $s$ to each vertex $v$ in $G$. A classical SSSP algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Sanjiang Li , Yongming Li

We revisit the problem of privately releasing the all-pairs shortest path distances of a weighted undirected graph up to low additive error, which was first studied by Sealfon [Sea16]. In this paper, we improve significantly on Sealfon's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Justin Y. Chen , Shyam Narayanan , Yinzhan Xu

We give an algorithm that takes a directed graph $G$ undergoing $m$ edge insertions with lengths in $[1, W]$, and maintains $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate shortest path distances from a fixed source $s$ to all other vertices. The algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yang P. Liu

We present a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate parallel algorithm for computing shortest paths in undirected graphs, achieving $\mathrm{poly}(\log n)$ depth and $m\mathrm{poly}(\log n)$ work for $n$-nodes $m$-edges graphs. Although sequential…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Alexandr Andoni , Clifford Stein , Peilin Zhong

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

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

The shortest path problem is a typical problem in graph theory with wide potential applications. The state-of-the-art single-source shortest paths algorithm on the weight graph is the $\Delta$-stepping algorithm, which can efficiently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yelai Feng

Given a directed, weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ undergoing edge insertions, the incremental single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem asks for the maintenance of approximate distances from a dedicated source $s$ while optimizing the total time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Rasmus Kyng , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg

Given an arbitrary, non-negatively weighted, directed graph $G=(V,E)$ we present an algorithm that computes all pairs shortest paths in time $\mathcal{O}(m^* n + m \lg n + nT_\psi(m^*, n))$, where $m^*$ is the number of different edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Andrej Brodnik , Marko Grgurovič

This paper presents a randomized algorithm for the problem of single-source shortest paths on directed graphs with real (both positive and negative) edge weights. Given an input graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the algorithm completes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Jeremy T. Fineman

This paper gives simple distributed algorithms for the fundamental problem of computing graph distances in the Congested Clique model. One of the main components of our algorithms is fast matrix multiplication, for which we show an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Keren Censor-Hillel , Ami Paz

A minimum path cover (MPC) of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) $G = (V,E)$ is a minimum-size set of paths that together cover all the vertices of the DAG. Computing an MPC is a basic polynomial problem, dating back to Dilworth's and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Manuel Cáceres , Massimo Cairo , Brendan Mumey , Romeo Rizzi , Alexandru I. Tomescu