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We initiate the study on fault-tolerant spanners in hypergraphs and develop fast algorithms for their constructions. A fault-tolerant (FT) spanner preserves approximate distances under network failures, often used in applications like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jialin He , Nicholas Popescu , Chunjiang Zhu

A spanner graph on a set of points in $R^d$ contains a shortest path between any pair of points with length at most a constant factor of their Euclidean distance. In this paper we investigate new models and aim to interpret why good…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Jie Gao , Dengpan Zhou

A spanner is a sparse subgraph that approximately preserves the pairwise distances of the original graph. It is well known that there is a smooth tradeoff between the sparsity of a spanner and the quality of its approximation, so long as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Amir Abboud , Greg Bodwin

We consider problems of the following type: given a graph $G$, how many edges are needed in the worst case for a sparse subgraph $H$ that approximately preserves distances between a given set of node pairs $P$? Examples include pairwise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Greg Bodwin

A connected graph $G$ is called strongly Menger edge connected if $G$ has min\{deg$_G(x)$, deg$_G(y)$\} edge-disjoint paths between any two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ in $G$. In this paper, we consider two types of strongly Menger edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Huanshen Jia , Jianguo Qian

It has recently been discovered that the conclusions of many highly influential econometrics studies can be overturned by removing a very small fraction of their samples (often less than $0.5\%$). These conclusions are typically based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ittai Rubinstein , Samuel B. Hopkins

In a recent work [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 3838 (2011)], Schneider et al. proposed a new measure for network robustness and investigated optimal networks with respect to this quantity. For networks with a power-law degree…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-10 Zhi-Xi Wu , Petter Holme

It is known that any $n$-point set in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, for $d = O(1)$, admits: 1) a $(1+\epsilon)$-spanner with maximum degree $\tilde{O}(\epsilon^{-d+1})$ and with lightness $\tilde{O}(\epsilon^{-d})$; 2)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-30 An La , Hung Le , Shay Solomon , Cuong Than , Vinayak , Shuang Yang , Tianyi Zhang

A \emph{spanner} of a graph $G$ is a subgraph $H$ that approximately preserves shortest path distances in $G$. Spanners are commonly applied to compress computation on metric spaces corresponding to weighted input graphs. Classic spanner…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Reyan Ahmed , Greg Bodwin , Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Stephen Kobourov , Richard Spence

Consider a graph with n nodes and m edges, independent edge weights and lengths, and arbitrary distance demands for node pairs. The spanner problem asks for a minimum-weight subgraph that satisfies these demands via sufficiently short paths…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Fritz Bökler , Markus Chimani , Henning Jasper

A $k$-spanner of a graph $G$ is a sparse subgraph $H$ whose shortest path distances match those of $G$ up to a multiplicative error $k$. In this paper we study spanners that are resistant to faults. A subgraph $H \subseteq G$ is an $f$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Greg Bodwin , Michael Dinitz , Merav Parter , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Let $G$ be an unweighted $n$-node undirected graph. A \emph{$\beta$-additive spanner} of $G$ is a spanning subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that distances in $H$ are stretched at most by an additive term $\beta$ w.r.t. the corresponding distances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Davide Bilò , Fabrizio Grandoni , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

One of the intensely studied concepts of network robustness is $r$-robustness, which is a network topology property quantified by an integer $r$. It is required by mean subsequence reduced (MSR) algorithms and their variants to achieve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Yuhao Yi , Yuan Wang , Xingkang He , Stacy Patterson , Karl H. Johansson

A temporal graph is an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ along with a function that assigns a time-label to each edge in $E$. A path in $G$ with non-decreasing time-labels is called temporal path and the distance from $u$ to $v$ is the minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Davide Bilò , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Mirko Rossi

A spanner of a graph is a subgraph that preserves lengths of shortest paths up to a multiplicative distortion. For every $k$, a spanner with size $O(n^{1+1/k})$ and stretch $(2k+1)$ can be constructed by a simple centralized greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Rubi Arviv , Lily Chung , Reut Levi , Edward Pyne

A new \emph{spanner} construction algorithm is presented, working under the \emph{LOCAL} model with unique edge IDs. Given an $n$-node communication graph, a spanner with a constant stretch and $O (n^{1 + \varepsilon})$ edges (for an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Shimon Bitton , Yuval Emek , Taisuke Izumi , Shay Kutten

$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$We present a new optimal construction of a semi-separated pair decomposition (i.e., SSPD) for a set of $n$ points in $\Re^d$. In the new construction each point participates in a few pairs, and it extends…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Mohammad A. Abam , Sariel Har-Peled

A temporal graph is a graph whose edges are available only at certain points in time. It is temporally connected if the nodes can reach each other by paths that traverse the edges chronologically (temporal paths). In general, temporal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Daniele Carnevale , Arnaud Casteigts , Timothée Corsini

Given an undirected unweighted graph $G = (V, E)$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, a subgraph $H\subseteq G$ is a spanner of $G$ with stretch function $f: \mathbb{R}_+ \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$, if for every pair $s, t$ of vertices in $V$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zihan Tan , Tianyi Zhang

Given an increasing graph property $\mathcal{P}$, a graph $G$ is $\alpha$-resilient with respect to $\mathcal{P}$ if, for every spanning subgraph $H\subseteq G$ where each vertex keeps more than a $(1-\alpha)$-proportion of its neighbours,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Lyuben Lichev , Alexandra Wesolek