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We develop new algorithmic techniques for VLSI detailed routing. First, we improve the goal-oriented version of Dijkstra's algorithm to find shortest paths in huge incomplete grid graphs with edge costs depending on the direction and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Markus Ahrens , Dorothee Henke , Stefan Rabenstein , Jens Vygen

The single-source shortest path problem is a classical problem in the research field of graph algorithm. In this paper, a new single-source shortest path algorithm for nonnegative weight graph is proposed. The algorithm can compress…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Yunpeng Li

Given $n$ points in the plane, we propose algorithms to compile connected crossing-free geometric graphs into directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). The DAGs allow efficient counting, enumeration, random sampling, and optimization. Our algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Yu Nakahata , Takashi Horiyama , Shin-ichi Minato , Katsuhisa Yamanaka

Consider the following distance query for an $n$-node graph $G$ undergoing edge insertions and deletions: given two sets of nodes $I$ and $J$, return the distances between every pair of nodes in $I\times J$. This query is rather general and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Jan van den Brand , Danupon Nanongkai

Dijkstra's algorithm is the standard method for computing shortest paths on arbitrary graphs. However, it is slow for large graphs, taking at least linear time. It has been long known that for real world road networks, creating a hierarchy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Sébastien Collette , John Iacono

In this paper we consider generalized flow problems where there is an $m$-edge $n$-node directed graph $G = (V,E)$ and each edge $e \in E$ has a loss factor $\gamma_e >0$ governing whether the flow is increased or decreased as it crosses…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shunhua Jiang , Michael Kapralov , Lawrence Li , Aaron Sidford

A dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that answers queries about a property of the current graph while supporting graph modifications such as edge insertions and deletions. Prior work has shown strong conditional lower bounds for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Monika Henzinger , Ami Paz , A. R. Sricharan

We present a new exact algorithm for the Steiner tree problem in edge-weighted graphs. Our algorithm improves the classical dynamic programming approach by Dreyfus and Wagner. We achieve a significantly better practical performance via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Stefan Hougardy , Jannik Silvanus , Jens Vygen

Algorithms which compute properties over graphs have always been of interest in computer science, with some of the fundamental algorithms, such as Dijkstra's algorithm, dating back to the 50s. Since the 70s there as been interest in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Daniel P. Martin

Traditional vehicle routing algorithms do not consider the changing nature of traffic. While implementations of Dijkstra's algorithm with varying weights exist, the weights are often changed after the outcome of algorithm is executed, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Piyush Udhan , Akhilesh Ganeshkar , Poobigan Murugesan , Abhishek Raj Permani , Sameep Sanjeeva , Parth Deshpande

A common technique to speed up shortest path queries in graphs is to use a bidirectional search, i.e., performing a forward search from the start and a backward search from the destination until a common vertex on a shortest path is found.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Thomas Bläsius , Marcus Wilhelm

Cyclic structures are fundamental topological features in graphs, playing critical roles in network robustness, information flow, community structure, and various dynamic processes. Algorithmic tools that can efficiently probe and analyze…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Heman Shakeri , Torben Amtoft , Behnaz Moradi-Jamei , Nathan Albin , Pietro Poggi-Corradini

Efficient routing is critical for payment channel networks (PCNs) such as the Lightning Network (LN), where most clients currently rely on Dijkstra-based algorithms for payment pathfinding. While Dijkstra's algorithm has long been regarded…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Danila Valko , Rohan Paranjpe , Jorge Marx Gómez

We revisit a concept that has been central in some early stages of computer science, that of structured programming: a set of rules that an algorithm must follow in order to acquire a structure that is desirable in many aspects. While much…

Researchers have designed many algorithms to measure the distances between graph nodes, such as average hitting times of random walks, cosine distances from DeepWalk, personalized PageRank, etc. Successful although these algorithms are,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Enzhi Li , Zhengyi Le

Dynamic Graph Neural Network (DGNN) has shown a strong capability of learning dynamic graphs by exploiting both spatial and temporal features. Although DGNN has recently received considerable attention by AI community and various DGNN…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Fahao Chen , Peng Li , Celimuge Wu

We consider the NP-hard problem of finding a spanning tree with a maximum number of internal vertices. This problem is a generalization of the famous Hamiltonian Path problem. Our dynamic-programming algorithms for general and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-12 Henning Fernau , Serge Gaspers , Daniel Raible

This paper details a new algorithm to solve the shortest path problem in valued graphs. Its complexity is $O(D \log v)$ where $D$ is the graph diameter and $v$ its number of vertices. This complexity has to be compared to the one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michel Koskas

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

Graph pattern matching algorithms to handle million-scale dynamic graphs are widely used in many applications such as social network analytics and suspicious transaction detections from financial networks. On the other hand, the computation…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Hiroki Kanezashi , Toyotaro Suzumura , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Min-hwan Oh , Satoshi Matsuoka