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This paper presents near-optimal deterministic parallel and distributed algorithms for computing $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate single-source shortest paths in any undirected weighted graph. On a high level, we deterministically reduce this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Václav Rozhoň , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Goran Zuzic , Jason Li

We study dynamic $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for the all-pairs shortest paths problem in unweighted undirected $n$-node $m$-edge graphs under edge deletions. The fastest algorithm for this problem is a randomized algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Monika Henzinger , Sebastian Krinninger , Danupon Nanongkai

The minimum cut problem for an undirected edge-weighted graph asks us to divide its set of nodes into two blocks while minimizing the weight sum of the cut edges. In this paper, we engineer the fastest known exact algorithm for the problem.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Monika Henzinger , Alexander Noe , Christian Schulz

Given an undirected weighted graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, we give the first deterministic $m^{1+o(1)}$-time algorithm for constructing the cactus representation of \emph{all} global minimum cuts. This improves the current…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zhongtian He , Shang-En Huang , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We improve on random sampling techniques for approximately solving problems that involve cuts and flows in graphs. We give a near-linear-time construction that transforms any graph on n vertices into an O(n\log n)-edge graph on the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andras Benczur , David R. Karger

The minimum cut problem for an undirected edge-weighted graph asks us to divide its set of nodes into two blocks while minimizing the weight sum of the cut edges. Here, we introduce a linear-time algorithm to compute near-minimum cuts. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Monika Henzinger , Alexander Noe , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

We give a combinatorial algorithm for computing exact maximum flows in directed graphs with $n$ vertices and edge capacities from $\{1,\dots,U\}$ in $\tilde{O}(n^{2}\log U)$ time, which is near-optimal on dense graphs. This shaves an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Aaron Bernstein , Joakim Blikstad , Jason Li , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Ta-Wei Tu

Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes, the NP-hard Max-Cut problem asks for a node bipartition such that the sum of edge weights joining the different partitions is maximized. We propose a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Markus Chimani , Christine Dahn , Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel , Alexander Nover

We consider the problem of query-efficient global max-cut on a weighted undirected graph in the value oracle model examined by [RSW18]. Graph algorithms in this cut query model and other query models have recently been studied for various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Orestis Plevrakis , Seyoon Ragavan , S. Matthew Weinberg

For $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with integer polynomially-bounded costs and capacities, we provide a randomized parallel algorithm for the minimum cost flow problem with $\tilde O(m+n^ {1.5})$ work and $\tilde O(\sqrt{n})$ depth. On…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jan van den Brand , Hossein Gholizadeh , Yonggang Jiang , Tijn de Vos

We present an algorithm that given a linear program with $n$ variables, $m$ constraints, and constraint matrix $A$, computes an $\epsilon$-approximate solution in $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{rank(A)}\log(1/\epsilon))$ iterations with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford

In the minimum planarization problem, given some $n$-vertex graph, the goal is to find a set of vertices of minimum cardinality whose removal leaves a planar graph. This is a fundamental problem in topological graph theory. We present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

We present the first deterministic nearly-linear time algorithm for single-source shortest paths with negative edge weights on directed graphs: given a directed graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges whose weights are integer in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Bernhard Haeupler , Yonggang Jiang , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We revisit Min-Mean-Cycle, the classical problem of finding a cycle in a weighted directed graph with minimum mean weight. Despite an extensive algorithmic literature, previous work falls short of a near-linear runtime in the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jason M. Altschuler , Pablo A. Parrilo

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

We study the edge-coloring problem in simple $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$. This is one of the most classical and fundamental graph-algorithmic problems. Vizing's celebrated theorem provides…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Michael Elkin , Ariel Khuzman

We prove essentially tight lower bounds, conditionally to the Exponential Time Hypothesis, for two fundamental but seemingly very different cutting problems on surface-embedded graphs: the Shortest Cut Graph problem and the Multiway Cut…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Éric Colin de Verdière , Daniel Marx , Arnaud de Mesmay

The minimum cut problem in an undirected and weighted graph $G$ is to find the minimum total weight of a set of edges whose removal disconnects $G$. We completely characterize the quantum query and time complexity of the minimum cut problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Simon Apers , Troy Lee

We consider the problem of deterministically enumerating all minimum $k$-cut-sets in a given hypergraph for any fixed $k$. The input here is a hypergraph $G = (V, E)$ with non-negative hyperedge costs. A subset $F$ of hyperedges is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Calvin Beideman , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Weihang Wang

Let $G = (V,w)$ be a weighted undirected graph with $m$ edges. The cut dimension of $G$ is the dimension of the span of the characteristic vectors of the minimum cuts of $G$, viewed as vectors in $\{0,1\}^m$. For every $n \ge 2$ we show…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Troy Lee , Tongyang Li , Miklos Santha , Shengyu Zhang