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The shortest path problem in graphs is fundamental to AI. Nearly all variants of the problem and relevant algorithms that solve them ignore edge-weight computation time and its common relation to weight uncertainty. This implies that taking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Eyal Weiss , Ariel Felner , Gal A. Kaminka

We present an implementation and experimental analysis of the deterministic algorithm proposed by Duan et al. (2025) for the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem, which achieves the best-known asymptotic upper bound of $O(m \log^{2/3}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lucas Castro , Thailsson Clementino , Rosiane de Freitas

Stochastic sequential decision making often requires hierarchical structure in the problem where each high-level action should be further planned with primitive states and actions. In addition, many real-world applications require a plan…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Sungkweon Hong , Brian C. Williams

In this thesis, we present new techniques to deal with fundamental algorithmic graph problems where graphs are directed and partially dynamic, i.e. undergo either a sequence of edge insertions or deletions: - Single-Source Reachability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg

In the decremental Single-Source Shortest Path problem (SSSP), we are given a weighted directed graph $G=(V,E,w)$ undergoing edge deletions and a source vertex $r \in V$; let $n = |V|, m = |E|$ and $W$ be the aspect ratio of the graph. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

A very popular approach for solving stochastic optimization problems is the stochastic gradient descent method (SGD). Although the SGD iteration is computationally cheap and the practical performance of this method may be satisfactory under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Andrei Patrascu , Ion Necoara

Shortest Path (SP) computation is a fundamental operation in many real-life applications such as navigation on road networks, link analysis on social networks, etc. These networks tend to be massive, and graph partitioning is commonly…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Mengxuan Zhang , Xinjie Zhou , Lei Li , Ziyi Liu , Goce Trajcevski , Yan Huang , Xiaofang Zhou

Addressing a quest by Gupta et al. [ICALP'14], we provide a first, comprehensive study of finding a short s-t path in the multistage graph model, referred to as the Multistage s-t Path problem. Herein, given a sequence of graphs over the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Till Fluschnik , Rolf Niedermeier , Carsten Schubert , Philipp Zschoche

The densest subgraph problem has received significant attention, both in theory and in practice, due to its applications in problems such as community detection, social network analysis, and spam detection. Due to the high cost of obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Pattara Sukprasert , Quanquan C. Liu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Asynchronous parallel optimization algorithms for solving large-scale machine learning problems have drawn significant attention from academia to industry recently. This paper proposes a novel algorithm, decoupled asynchronous proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Yitan Li , Linli Xu , Xiaowei Zhong , Qing Ling

The Shortest Paths Problem (SPP) is no longer unresolved. Just for a large scalar of instance on this problem, even we cannot know if an algorithm achieves the computing. Those cutting-edge methods are still in the low performance. If we go…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Yong Tan

Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) is an important graph algorithm that has wide ranging applications in the areas of computer networks, VLSI routing, wireless communications among others. Today virtually every computer is built out of multi-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula

This paper presents an adaptive amoeba algorithm to address the shortest path tree (SPT) problem in dynamic graphs. In dynamic graphs, the edge weight updates consists of three categories: edge weight increases, edge weight decreases, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Xiaoge Zhang , Qi Liu , Yong Hu , Felix T. S. Chan , Sankaran Mahadevan , Zili Zhang , Yong Deng

We consider the bi-criteria shortest-path problem where we want to compute shortest paths on a graph that simultaneously balance two cost functions. While this problem has numerous applications, there is usually no path minimizing both cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Oren Salzman

We introduce two new no-regret algorithms for the stochastic shortest path (SSP) problem with a linear MDP that significantly improve over the only existing results of (Vial et al., 2021). Our first algorithm is computationally efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Liyu Chen , Rahul Jain , Haipeng Luo

In this paper, we show new strongly polynomial work-depth tradeoffs for computing single-source shortest paths (SSSP) in non-negatively weighted directed graphs in parallel. Most importantly, we prove that directed SSSP can be solved within…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Adam Karczmarz , Wojciech Nadara , Marek Sokołowski

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

This paper investigates two types of graph queries: {\em single source distance (SSD)} queries and {\em single source shortest path (SSSP)} queries. Given a node $v$ in a graph $G$, an SSD query from $v$ asks for the distance from $v$ to…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Andy Diwen Zhu , Xiaokui Xiao , Sibo Wang , Wenqing Lin

In the restricted shortest paths problem, we are given a graph $G$ whose edges are assigned two non-negative weights: lengths and delays, a source $s$, and a delay threshold $D$. The goal is to find, for each target $t$, the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Adam Karczmarz

Computing shortest paths is a fundamental primitive for several social network applications including socially-sensitive ranking, location-aware search, social auctions and social network privacy. Since these applications compute paths in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Rachit Agarwal , Matthew Caesar , P. Brighten Godfrey , Ben Y. Zhao