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We consider practical methods for the problem of finding a minimum-weight triangulation (MWT) of a planar point set, a classic problem of computational geometry with many applications. While Mulzer and Rote proved in 2006 that computing an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Andreas Haas

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

For a weighted graph $G = (V, E, w)$ and a designated source vertex $s \in V$, a spanning tree that simultaneously approximates a shortest-path tree w.r.t. source $s$ and a minimum spanning tree is called a shallow-light tree (SLT).…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hung Le , Shay Solomon , Cuong Than , Csaba D. Tóth , Tianyi Zhang

We show that the shortest $s$-$t$ path problem has the overlap-gap property in (i) sparse $\mathbf{G}(n,p)$ graphs and (ii) complete graphs with i.i.d. Exponential edge weights. Furthermore, we demonstrate that in sparse $\mathbf{G}(n,p)$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuangping Li , Tselil Schramm

A shortest-path algorithm finds a path containing the minimal cost between two vertices in a graph. A plethora of shortest-path algorithms is studied in the literature that span across multiple disciplines. This paper presents a survey of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Amgad Madkour , Walid G. Aref , Faizan Ur Rehman , Mohamed Abdur Rahman , Saleh Basalamah

We propose a protocol optimization technique that is applicable to both weighted or unweighted graphs. Our aim is to explore by how much a small variation around the Shortest Path or Optimal Path protocols can enhance protocol performance.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Jose J. Ramasco , Marta S. de la Lama , Eduardo Lopez , Stefan Boettcher

Many robotics applications benefit from being able to compute multiple locally optimal paths in a given configuration space. Examples include path planning for of tethered robots with cable-length constraints, systems involving cables,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Alp Sahin , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

We consider the following problem that we call the Shortest Two Disjoint Paths problem: given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge weights $w:E \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, two terminals $s$ and $t$ in $G$, find two internally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Ildikó Schlotter

We study the approximability of two related problems on graphs with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges: $n$-Pairs Shortest Paths ($n$-PSP), where the goal is to find a shortest path between $O(n)$ prespecified pairs, and All Node Shortest Cycles…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ce Jin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

Graphs with bounded highway dimension were introduced by Abraham et al. [SODA 2010] as a model of transportation networks. We show that any such graph can be embedded into a distribution over bounded treewidth graphs with arbitrarily small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Wai Shing Fung , Jochen Könemann , Ian Post

In this paper, we study the single-source shortest-path (SSSP) problem with positive edge weights, which is a notoriously hard problem in the parallel context. In practice, the $\Delta$-stepping algorithm proposed by Meyer and Sanders has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Xiaojun Dong , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun , Yunming Zhang

We consider the problem of computing an approximate weighted shortest path in a weighted subdivision, with weights assigned from the set $\{0, 1, \infty\}$. We present a data structure $B$, which stores a set of convex, non-overlapping…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Joachim Gudmundsson , Zijin Huang , André van Renssen , Sampson Wong

We design a new LP-based algorithm for the graphic $s$-$t$ path Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), which achieves the best approximation factor of 1.5. The algorithm is based on the idea of narrow cuts due to An, Kleinberg, and Shmoys. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Zhihan Gao

The parametric shortest path problem is to find the shortest paths in graph where the edge costs are of the form w_ij+lambda where each w_ij is constant and lambda is a parameter that varies. The problem is to find shortest path trees for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Neal Young , Robert Tarjan , James Orlin

In this paper, we revisit the classic approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in undirected graphs. For unweighted graphs, we provide an algorithm for $2$-approximate APSP in $\tilde O(n^{2.5-r}+n^{\omega(r)})$ time, for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Michal Dory , Sebastian Forster , Yael Kirkpatrick , Yasamin Nazari , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Tijn de Vos

A {\em parametric weighted graph} is a graph whose edges are labeled with continuous real functions of a single common variable. For any instantiation of the variable, one obtains a standard edge-weighted graph. Parametric weighted graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Eldar Fischer , Oded Lachish , Raphael Yuster

In the $k$-Disjoint Shortest Paths ($k$-DSP) problem, we are given a weighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes and $m$ edges with specified source vertices $s_1, \dots, s_k$, and target vertices $t_1, \dots, t_k$, and are tasked with determining if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shyan Akmal , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

We present new deterministic algorithms for computing distributed weighted minimum weight cycle (MWC) in undirected and directed graphs and distributed weighted all nodes shortest cycle (ANSC) in directed graphs. Our algorithms for these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Udit Agarwal

In this paper we focus on the problem of finding the optimal weights of the shallowest of neural networks consisting of a single Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU). These functions are of the form $\mathbf{x}\rightarrow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , A. Salman Avestimehr

This paper proposes earliest and latest path algorithms based on binary weight allocation, assigning weights of 2(i-1) and 2(m-i) to the i-th arc in a network. While traditional shortest path algorithms optimize only distance, our approach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Wei-Chang Yeh