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We present a labeling scheme that assigns labels of size $\tilde O(1)$ to the vertices of a directed weighted planar graph $G$, such that for any fixed $\varepsilon>0$ from the labels of any three vertices $s$, $t$ and $f$ one can determine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Itai Boneh , Shiri Chechik , Shay Golan , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

In a recent breakthrough, Charalampopoulos, Gawrychowski, Mozes, and Weimann (STOC 2019) showed that exact distance queries on planar graphs could be answered in $n^{o(1)}$ time by a data structure occupying $n^{1+o(1)}$ space, i.e., up to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Yaowei Long , Seth Pettie

Let $G = (V, E)$ be an undirected graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and let $\mu = m/n$. A \emph{distance oracle} is a data structure designed to answer approximate distance queries, with the goal of achieving low stretch, efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Avi Kadria , Liam Roditty

A distance oracle is a compact representation of the shortest distance matrix of a graph. It can be queried to approximate shortest paths between any pair of vertices. Any distance oracle that returns paths of worst-case stretch (2k-1) must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-16 Rachit Agarwal , P. Brighten Godfrey , Sariel Har-Peled

In 2001 Thorup and Zwick devised a distance oracle, which given an $n$-vertex undirected graph and a parameter $k$, has size $O(k n^{1+1/k})$. Upon a query $(u,v)$ their oracle constructs a $(2k-1)$-approximate path $\Pi$ between $u$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Michael Elkin , Seth Pettie

Given a finite metric space $(V,d)$, an approximate distance oracle is a data structure which, when queried on two points $u,v \in V$, returns an approximation to the the actual distance between $u$ and $v$ which is within some bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Michael Dinitz , Zeyu Zhang

An \emph{$\alpha$-approximate vertex fault-tolerant distance sensitivity oracle} (\emph{$\alpha$-VSDO}) for a weighted input graph $G=(V, E, w)$ and a source vertex $s \in V$ is the data structure answering an $\alpha$-approximate distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Kaito Harada , Naoki Kitamura , Taisuke Izumi , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

Given an undirected weighted graph, an (approximate) distance oracle is a data structure that can (approximately) answer distance queries. A {\em Path-Reporting Distance Oracle}, or {\em PRDO}, is a distance oracle that must also return a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ofer Neiman , Idan Shabat

Given an undirected graph $G$ with $m$ edges, $n$ vertices, and non-negative edge weights, and given an integer $k\geq 1$, we show that for some universal constant $c$, a $(2k-1)$-approximate distance oracle for $G$ of size $O(kn^{1 +…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We present an approximate distance oracle for a point set S with n points and doubling dimension {\lambda}. For every {\epsilon}>0, the oracle supports (1+{\epsilon})-approximate distance queries in (universal) constant time, occupies space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Yair Bartal , Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Moshe Lewenstein , Liam Roditty

Computing the diameter of a graph is a problem of great interest both in general algorithms research and specifically within fine-grained complexity, where it is a cornerstone hard problem. Recent work has achieved a full conditional lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yael Kirkpatrick , Liam Roditty , Richard Qi , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We present a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm running in $O(f(\epsilon)\cdot n \log^4 n)$ time for finding the diameter of an undirected planar graph with non-negative edge lengths.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Oren Weimann , Raphael Yuster

Let $G=(V, E)$ be an undirected $n$-vertices $m$-edges graph with non-negative edge weights. In this paper, we present three new algorithms for constructing a $(2k-1)$-stretch distance oracle with $O(n^{1+\frac{1}{k}})$ space. The first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Avi Kadria , Liam Roditty

Let $G$ be a graph where each vertex is associated with a label. A Vertex-Labeled Approximate Distance Oracle is a data structure that, given a vertex $v$ and a label $\lambda$, returns a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation of the distance from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Itay Laish , Shay Mozes

Let $s$ denote a distinguished source vertex of a non-negatively real weighted and undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. In this paper we present two efficient \emph{single-source approximate-distance sensitivity oracles},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Davide Bilò , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

Despite extensive research on distance oracles, there are still large gaps between the best constructions for spanners and distance oracles. Notably, there exist sparse spanners with a multiplicative stretch of $1+\varepsilon$ plus some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Davide Bilò , Shiri Chechik , Keerti Choudhary , Sarel Cohen , Tobias Friedrich , Martin Schirneck

We show how to preprocess a weighted undirected $n$-vertex planar graph in $\tilde O(n^{4/3})$ time, such that the distance between any pair of vertices can then be reported in $\tilde O(1)$ time. This improves the previous $\tilde…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Itai Boneh , Shay Golan , Shay Mozes , Daniel Prigan , Oren Weimann

We consider approximate {\em path-reporting} distance oracles, distance labeling and labeled routing with extremely low space requirement, for general undirected graphs. For distance oracles, we show how to break the n\log n space bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Michael Elkin , Ofer Neiman , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a weighted undirected graph, with $n$ vertices. A distance oracle is a data structure that can quickly answer distance queries, with some stretch factor. A seminal work of \cite{TZ01}, given an integer $k\ge 1$, provides…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Ofer Neiman , Alon Spector

We present an $f$-fault tolerant distance oracle for an undirected weighted graph where each edge has an integral weight from $[1 \dots W]$. Given a set $F$ of $f$ edges, as well as a source node $s$ and a destination node $t$, our oracle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Dipan Dey , Manoj Gupta