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We present a new approach to the minimum-cost integral flow problem for small values of the flow. It reduces the problem to the tests of simple multi-variate polynomials over a finite field of characteristic two for non-identity with zero.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Andrzej Lingas , Mia Persson

Node connectivity plays a central role in temporal network analysis. We provide a comprehensive study of various concepts of walks in temporal graphs, that is, graphs with fixed vertex sets but edge sets changing over time. Taking into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Anne-Sophie Himmel , Matthias Bentert , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

For many algorithmic problems, traditional algorithms that optimise on the number of instructions executed prove expensive on I/Os. Novel and very different design techniques, when applied to these problems, can produce algorithms that are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-20 Alka

We present the first work-optimal polylogarithmic-depth parallel algorithm for the minimum cut problem on non-sparse graphs. For $m\geq n^{1+\epsilon}$ for any constant $\epsilon>0$, our algorithm requires $O(m \log n)$ work and $O(\log^3…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Andrés López-Martínez , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Danupon Nanongkai

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 faster approximation algorithms for generalized network flow problems. A generalized flow is one in which the flow out of an edge differs from the flow into the edge by a constant factor. We limit ourselves to the lossy case,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-07 Samuel I. Daitch , Daniel A. Spielman

We give an algorithm that takes a directed graph $G$ undergoing $m$ edge insertions with lengths in $[1, W]$, and maintains $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate shortest path distances from a fixed source $s$ to all other vertices. The algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yang P. Liu

We present a randomized augmenting paths-based algorithm to compute the maximum flow in a directed, uncapacitated graph in almost $m+nF$ time, matching the algorithm of Karger and Levine for undirected graphs (SICOMP 2015). Combined with an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jason Li

This paper discusses the shortest path problem in a general directed graph with $n$ nodes and $K$ cost scenarios (objectives). In order to choose a solution, the min-max criterion is applied. The min-max version of the problem is hard to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

We study algorithms for spectral graph sparsification. The input is a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and the output is a sparse graph $\tilde{G}$ that approximates $G$ in an algebraic sense. Concretely, for all vectors $x$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Ioannis Koutis , Alex Levin , Richard Peng

We study the scheduling of flows on a switch with the goal of optimizing metrics related to the response time of the flows. The input to the problem is a sequence of flow requests on a switch, where the switch is represented by a bipartite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Hamidreza Jahanjou , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa

We provide new algorithms and conditional hardness for the problem of estimating effective resistances in $n$-node $m$-edge undirected, expander graphs. We provide an $\widetilde{O}(m\epsilon^{-1})$-time algorithm that produces with high…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath , Ishani Karmarkar , Aaron Sidford

In this paper we study the min-cost flow problem in planar networks. We start with the min-cost flow problem and apply two transformations, one is based on geometric duality of planar graphs and the other on linear programming duality. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-07-01 Haim Kaplan , Yahav Nussbaum

The minimum cost-flow problems have been attracted recently in optimization because of their applications in several areas of applied science and real life. Therefore, finding optima solution of these problems would be significant. Although…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Eghbal Hosseini

In numerical linear algebra, considerable effort has been devoted to obtaining faster algorithms for linear systems whose underlying matrices exhibit structural properties. A prominent success story is the method of generalized nested…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sally Dong , Gramoz Goranci , Lawrence Li , Sushant Sachdeva , Guanghao Ye

The All-Pairs Min-Cut problem (aka All-Pairs Max-Flow) asks to compute a minimum $s$-$t$ cut (or just its value) for all pairs of vertices $s,t$. We study this problem in directed graphs with unit edge/vertex capacities (corresponding to…

We present a combinatorial algorithm for computing exact maximum flows in directed graphs with $n$ vertices and edge capacities from $\{1,\dots,U\}$ in $n^{2+o(1)}\log U$ time, which is almost optimal in dense graphs. Our algorithm is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Aaron Bernstein , Joakim Blikstad , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Ta-Wei Tu

We provide an algorithm which, with high probability, maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate maximum flow on an undirected graph undergoing $m$-edge additions in amortized $m^{o(1)} \epsilon^{-3}$ time per update. To obtain this result, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jan van den Brand , Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva , Aaron Sidford

In this paper, we address the minimum-cost node-capacitated multiflow problem in an undirected network. For this problem, Babenko and Karzanov (2012) showed strongly polynomial-time solvability via the ellipsoid method. Our result is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Hiroshi Hirai , Motoki Ikeda

We study the problem of graph and hypergraph sparsification in insertion-only data streams. The input is a hypergraph $H=(V, E, w)$ with $n$ nodes, $m$ hyperedges, and rank $r$, and the goal is to compute a hypergraph $\widehat{H}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou