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Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental problem with applications to community detection, clustering, and data mining. Our work focuses on finding approximate densest subgraphs in directed graphs in computational models for processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan , Mahdi Qaempanah , Mohammad Amin Raeisi

We consider an important generalization of the Steiner tree problem, the \emph{Steiner forest problem}, in the Euclidean plane: the input is a multiset $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$, partitioned into $k$ color classes $C_1, C_2, \ldots, C_k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Artur Czumaj , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Pavel Veselý

Submodular maximization is one of the central topics in combinatorial optimization. It has found numerous applications in the real world. Streaming algorithms for submodule maximization have gained attention in recent years, allowing for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Shuo Zhang

Finding large or heavy matchings in graphs is a ubiquitous combinatorial optimization problem. In this paper, we engineer the first non-trivial implementations for approximating the dynamic weighted matching problem. Our first algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Eugenio Angriman , Henning Meyerhenke , Christian Schulz , Bora Uçar

We present algorithms for the Max-Cover and Max-Unique-Cover problems in the data stream model. The input to both problems are $m$ subsets of a universe of size $n$ and a value $k\in [m]$. In Max-Cover, the problem is to find a collection…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Andrew McGregor , David Tench , Hoa T. Vu

We study the space complexity of estimating the diameter of a subset of points in an arbitrary metric space in the dynamic (turnstile) streaming model. The input is given as a stream of updates to a frequency vector $x \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Ashwin Padaki , Krish Singal , Erik Waingarten

The dual of a planar graph $G$ is a planar graph $G^*$ that has a vertex for each face of $G$ and an edge for each pair of adjacent faces of $G$. The profound relationship between a planar graph and its dual has been the algorithmic basis…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yaseen Abd-Elhaleem , Michal Dory , Merav Parter , Oren Weimann

We present an algorithm for maintaining maximal matching in a graph under addition and deletion of edges. Our data structure is randomized that takes O(log n) expected amortized time for each edge update where n is the number of vertices in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Surender Baswana , Manoj Gupta , Sandeep Sen

Detecting and visualizing what are the most relevant changes in an evolving network is an open challenge in several domains. We present a fast algorithm that filters subsets of the strongest nodes and edges representing an evolving weighted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz , Luca Maria Aiello , Filippo Menczer

The problem of finding locally dense components of a graph is an important primitive in data analysis, with wide-ranging applications from community mining to spam detection and the discovery of biological network modules. In this paper we…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Bahman Bahmani , Ravi Kumar , Sergei Vassilvitskii

This paper initiates the study of the classic balanced graph partitioning problem from an online perspective: Given an arbitrary sequence of pairwise communication requests between $n$ nodes, with patterns that may change over time, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Chen Avin , Marcin Bienkowski , Andreas Loukas , Maciej Pacut , Stefan Schmid

As massive graphs become more prevalent, there is a rapidly growing need for scalable algorithms that solve classical graph problems, such as maximum matching and minimum vertex cover, on large datasets. For massive inputs, several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Aaron Bernstein , Vahab Mirrokni , Cliff Stein

The family of $(k, \ell)$-sparse graphs, introduced by Lorea, plays a central role in combinatorial optimization and has a wide range of applications, particularly in rigidity theory. A key algorithmic challenge is to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Bence Deák , Péter Madarasi

We revisit a classical graph-theoretic problem, the \textit{single-source shortest-path} (SSSP) problem, in weighted unit-disk graphs. We first propose an exact (and deterministic) algorithm which solves the problem in $O(n \log^2 n)$ time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Haitao Wang , Jie Xue

Estimating the number of subgraphs in data streams is a fundamental problem that has received great attention in the past decade. In this paper, we give improved streaming algorithms for approximately counting the number of occurrences of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Pan Peng

We initiate the study of graph algorithms in the streaming setting on massive distributed and parallel systems inspired by practical data processing systems. The objective is to design algorithms that can efficiently process evolving graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee

We consider the problem of maintaining an approximate maximum integral matching in a dynamic graph $G$, while the adversary makes changes to the edges of the graph. The goal is to maintain a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate maximum matching for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Sepehr Assadi , Aaron Bernstein , Aditi Dudeja

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices, $m$ edges, and an integer $t\ge 1$, a subgraph $(V,E_S)$, $E_S\subseteq E$ is called a $t$-spanner if for any pair of vertices $u,v \in V$, the distance between them in the subgraph is at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Surender Baswana

We study the problem of maximizing the broadcast rate in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems under \emph{node degree bounds}, i.e., the number of neighbors a node can simultaneously connect to is upper-bounded. The problem is critical for supporting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Shaoquan Zhang , Ziyu Shao , Minghua Chen , Libin Jiang

We study the fully dynamic maximum matching problem. In this problem, the goal is to efficiently maintain an approximate maximum matching of a graph that is subject to edge insertions and deletions. Our focus is on algorithms that maintain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Soheil Behnezhad , Alma Ghafari