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Given an $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph $G$ with non negative edge-weights, the girth of $G$ is the weight of a shortest cycle in $G$. For any graph $G$ with polynomially bounded integer weights, we present a deterministic algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Guillaume Ducoffe

Given an undirected edge-weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices, the minimum cut problem asks to find a subset of vertices $S$ such that the total weight of all edges between $S$ and $V \setminus S$ is minimized. Karger's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

We develop a framework for graph sparsification and sketching, based on a new tool, short cycle decomposition -- a decomposition of an unweighted graph into an edge-disjoint collection of short cycles, plus few extra edges. A simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Timothy Chu , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva , Saurabh Sawlani , Junxing Wang

We establish that a simple polynomial-time algorithm that we call reweighted spectral partitioning obtains small 2/3-balanced vertex-separators for a number of graph classes, including $O(\sqrt{n})$-sized separators for planar graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jack Spalding-Jamieson

Hypergraphs have gained increasing attention in the machine learning community lately due to their superiority over graphs in capturing super-dyadic interactions among entities. In this work, we propose a novel approach for the partitioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Deepak Maurya , Balaraman Ravindran

A non-trivial minimum cut (NMC) sparsifier is a multigraph $\hat{G}$ that preserves all non-trivial minimum cuts of a given undirected graph $G$. We introduce a flexible data structure for fully dynamic graphs that can efficiently provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Monika Henzinger , Evangelos Kosinas , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke

We consider the Minimum Steiner Cut problem on undirected planar graphs with non-negative edge weights. This problem involves finding the minimum cut of the graph that separates a specified subset $X$ of vertices (terminals) into two parts.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Stephen Jue , Philip N. Klein

We give an algorithm that, with high probability, maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate $s$-$t$ maximum flow in undirected, uncapacitated $n$-vertex graphs undergoing $m$ edge insertions in $\tilde{O}(m+ n F^*/\epsilon)$ total update time,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Harald Räcke , A. R. Sricharan

We give a deterministic algorithm for finding the minimum (weight) cut of an undirected graph on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges using $\text{polylog}(n)$ calls to any maximum flow subroutine. Using the current best deterministic maximum flow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

We present several sparsification lower and upper bounds for classic problems in graph theory and logic. For the problems 4-Coloring, (Directed) Hamiltonian Cycle, and (Connected) Dominating Set, we prove that there is no polynomial-time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Bart M. P. Jansen , Astrid Pieterse

For an undirected $n$-vertex graph $G$ with non-negative edge-weights, we consider the following type of query: given two vertices $s$ and $t$ in $G$, what is the weight of a minimum $st$-cut in $G$? We solve this problem in preprocessing…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Glencora Borradaile , David Eppstein , Amir Nayyeri , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

In the $k$-cut problem, we want to find the lowest-weight set of edges whose deletion breaks a given (multi)graph into $k$ connected components. Algorithms of Karger \& Stein can solve this in roughly $O(n^{2k})$ time. On the other hand,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Anupam Gupta , David G. Harris , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li

The Max-Cut problem is known to be NP-hard on general graphs, while it can be solved in polynomial time on planar graphs. In this paper, we present a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm for the problem on `almost' planar graphs: Given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi , Shuichi Miyazaki , Suguru Tamaki

We initiate the study of dynamic algorithms for graph sparsification problems and obtain fully dynamic algorithms, allowing both edge insertions and edge deletions, that take polylogarithmic time after each update in the graph. Our three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ittai Abraham , David Durfee , Ioannis Koutis , Sebastian Krinninger , Richard Peng

In the $k$-cut problem, we are given an edge-weighted graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and have to remove a set of edges with minimum total weight so that $G$ has at least $k$ connected components. The current best algorithms are an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li

Sublinear time algorithms for approximating maximum matching size have long been studied. Much of the progress over the last two decades on this problem has been on the algorithmic side. For instance, an algorithm of Behnezhad [FOCS'21]…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Roghani , Aviad Rubinstein

Recently, Kawarabayashi and Thorup presented the first deterministic edge-connectivity recognition algorithm in near-linear time. A crucial step in their algorithm uses the existence of vertex subsets of a simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-29 On-Hei Solomon Lo , Jens M. Schmidt , Mikkel Thorup

We give a new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation for sparsest cut problem on graphs where small sets expand significantly more than the sparsest cut (sets of size $n/r$ expand by a factor $\sqrt{\log n\log r}$ bigger, for some small $r$; this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Ali Kemal Sinop

We give almost-linear-time algorithms for constructing sparsifiers with $n\ poly(\log n)$ edges that approximately preserve weighted $(\ell^{2}_2 + \ell^{p}_p)$ flow or voltage objectives on graphs. For flow objectives, this is the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Deeksha Adil , Brian Bullins , Rasmus Kyng , Sushant Sachdeva

We consider a fundamental algorithmic question in spectral graph theory: Compute a spectral sparsifier of random-walk matrix-polynomial $$L_\alpha(G)=D-\sum_{r=1}^d\alpha_rD(D^{-1}A)^r$$ where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of a weighted,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Dehua Cheng , Yu Cheng , Yan Liu , Richard Peng , Shang-Hua Teng