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Shortest path queries over graphs are usually considered as isolated tasks, where the goal is to return the shortest path for each individual query. In practice, however, such queries are typically part of a system (e.g., a road network)…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Chris Conlan , Teddy Cunningham , Gunduz Vehbi Demirci , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

In this paper we consider random access wireless multi-hop mesh networks with multi-packet reception capabilities where multiple flows are forwarded to the gateways through node disjoint paths. We address the issue of aggregate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Manolis Ploumidis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis

Routing, modulation and spectrum allocation in elastic optical networks is a problem aiming at increasing the capacity of the network. Many algorithms such as shortest path algorithm can be used as the routing section of this problem. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Mehdi Tarhani , Sanjib Sarkar , Morad Khosravi Eghbal , Mehdi Shadaram

We present a method for solving the transshipment problem - also known as uncapacitated minimum cost flow - up to a multiplicative error of $1 + \varepsilon$ in undirected graphs with non-negative edge weights using a tailored gradient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Ruben Becker , Sebastian Forster , Andreas Karrenbauer , Christoph Lenzen

Random network models play a prominent role in modeling, analyzing and understanding complex phenomena on real-life networks. However, a key property of networks is often neglected: many real-world networks exhibit spatial structure, the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-07 John Lang , Hans De Sterck , Jamieson L. Kaiser , Joel C. Miller

Rectified flow (Liu et al., 2022; Liu, 2022; Wu et al., 2023) is a method for defining a transport map between two distributions, and enjoys popularity in machine learning, although theoretical results supporting the validity of these…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Gonzalo Mena , Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla , Larry Wasserman

We study the vertex-decremental Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem: given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with lengths $\ell(e)\geq 1$ on its edges and a source vertex $s$, we need to support (approximate) shortest-path queries in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

We combine the well known Shortest Paths (SP) problem and the Bottleneck Paths (BP) problem to introduce a new problem called the Shortest Paths for All Flows (SP-AF) problem that has relevance in real life applications. We first solve the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Tong-Wook Shinn , Tadao Takaoka

Recent work has shown that machine-learned predictions can provably improve the performance of classic algorithms. In this work, we propose the first minimum-cost network flow algorithm augmented with a dual prediction. Our method is based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhiyang Chen , Hailong Yao , Xia Yin

In the decremental single-source shortest paths problem, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source $s$ to every vertex $v$ in an $m$-edge graph undergoing edge deletions. In this paper, we conclude a long line of research on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

This work addresses the problem of evaluating optimal link capacities of a packet-flow network for the objective of congestion minimization. We present a simple model of packet flow in networks and present a numerical approach to evaluate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Saptarshi Pal , Ayan Chatterjee , Dripto Bakshi , Amitava Mukherjee

Real world networks are often subject to severe uncertainties which need to be addressed by any reliable prescriptive model. In the context of the maximum flow problem subject to arc failure, robust models have gained particular attention.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Fabian Mies , Britta Peis , Andreas Wierz

The Resource Constrained Shortest Path Problem (RCSPP) is a fundamental combinatorial optimisation problem in which the goal is to find a least-cost path in a directed graph subject to one or more resource constraints. In this paper we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Bjørn Petersen , Simon Spoorendonk

The capacity (or maximum flow) of an unicast network is known to be equal to the minimum s-t cut capacity due to the max-flow min-cut theorem. If the topology of a network (or link capacities) is dynamically changing or unknown, it is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Yuki Fujii , Tadashi Wadayama

There have lately been several suggestions for parametrized distances on a graph that generalize the shortest path distance and the commute time or resistance distance. The need for developing such distances has risen from the observation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Ilkka Kivimäki , Masashi Shimbo , Marco Saerens

In this paper we provide new randomized algorithms with improved runtimes for solving linear programs with two-sided constraints. In the special case of the minimum cost flow problem on $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jan van den Brand , Yin Tat Lee , Yang P. Liu , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Aaron Sidford , Zhao Song , Di Wang

Constrained pathfinding is a well-studied, yet challenging network optimisation problem that can be seen in a broad range of real-world applications. Pathfinding with multiple resource limits, which is known as the Resource Constrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Saman Ahmadi , Andrea Raith , Mahdi Jalili

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are recently proposed models for learning stochastic policies that generate compositional objects by sequences of actions with the probability proportional to a given reward function. The central problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Anh Do , Duy Dinh , Tan Nguyen , Khuong Nguyen , Stanley Osher , Nhat Ho

Maximum entropy modeling is a flexible and popular framework for formulating statistical models given partial knowledge. In this paper, rather than the traditional method of optimizing over the continuous density directly, we learn a smooth…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-01 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Yuanjun Gao , John P. Cunningham

We present a specialized network simplex algorithm for the budget-constrained minimum cost flow problem, which is an extension of the traditional minimum cost flow problem by a second kind of costs associated with each edge, whose total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Michael Holzhauser , Sven O. Krumke , Clemens Thielen