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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 study streaming algorithms for the maximum directed cut problem. The edges of an $n$-vertex directed graph arrive one by one in an arbitrary order, and the goal is to estimate the value of the maximum directed cut using a single pass and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Shane Ferrante , Mohammad Saneian

We present a deterministic incremental algorithm for \textit{exactly} maintaining the size of a minimum cut with $\widetilde{O}(1)$ amortized time per edge insertion and $O(1)$ query time. This result partially answers an open question…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Mikkel Thorup

Graph pattern matching algorithms to handle million-scale dynamic graphs are widely used in many applications such as social network analytics and suspicious transaction detections from financial networks. On the other hand, the computation…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Hiroki Kanezashi , Toyotaro Suzumura , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Min-hwan Oh , Satoshi Matsuoka

We present an $m^{4/3+o(1)}\log W$-time algorithm for solving the minimum cost flow problem in graphs with unit capacity, where $W$ is the maximum absolute value of any edge weight. For sparse graphs, this improves over the best known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Kyriakos Axiotis , Aleksander Mądry , Adrian Vladu

During the last 10 years it has become popular to study dynamic graph problems in a emergency planning or sensitivity setting: Instead of considering the general fully dynamic problem, we only have to process a single batch update of size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann

In this paper we give the first efficient algorithms for the $k$-center problem on dynamic graphs undergoing edge updates. In this problem, the goal is to partition the input into $k$ sets by choosing $k$ centers such that the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Emilio Cruciani , Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Yasamin Nazari , Antonis Skarlatos

Most graphs in real life keep changing with time. These changes can be in the form of insertion or deletion of edges or vertices. Such rapidly changing graphs motivate us to study dynamic graph algorithms. However, three important graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Manoj Gupta , Shahbaz Khan

Given a simple $n$-vertex, $m$-edge graph $G$ undergoing edge insertions and deletions, we give two new fully dynamic algorithms for exactly maintaining the edge connectivity of $G$ in $\tilde{O}(n)$ worst-case update time and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Mikkel Thorup , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

The problem of finding a maximum size matching in a graph (known as the maximum matching problem) is one of the most classical problems in computer science. Despite a significant body of work dedicated to the study of this problem in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Moran Feldman , Ariel Szarf

Designing dynamic graph algorithms against an adaptive adversary is a major goal in the field of dynamic graph algorithms. While a few such algorithms are known for spanning trees, matchings, and single-source shortest paths, very little…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Aaron Bernstein , Jan van den Brand , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Aaron Sidford , He Sun

We provide the first deterministic data structure that given a weighted undirected graph undergoing edge insertions, processes each update with polylogarithmic amortized update time and answers queries for the distance between any pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg

We study connections between the problem of fully dynamic $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate maximum bipartite matching, and the dual $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate vertex cover problem, with the online matrix-vector ($\mathsf{OMv}$) conjecture which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yang P. Liu

The (non-uniform) sparsest cut problem is the following graph-partitioning problem: given a "supply" graph, and demands on pairs of vertices, delete some subset of supply edges to minimize the ratio of the supply edges cut to the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Anupam Gupta , Philip N. Klein , Jason Li

The maximum weighted matching (MWM) problem is one of the most well-studied combinatorial optimization problems in distributed graph algorithms. Despite a long development on the problem, and the recent progress of Fischer, Mitrovic, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shang-En Huang , Hsin-Hao Su

We give an algorithm for augmenting the edge connectivity of an undirected graph by using the isolating cuts framework (Li and Panigrahi, FOCS '20). Our algorithm uses poly-logarithmic calls to any max-flow algorithm, which yields a running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Ruoxu Cen , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

We consider the maintenance of the set of all maximal cliques in a dynamic graph that is changing through the addition or deletion of edges. We present nearly tight bounds on the magnitude of change in the set of maximal cliques, as well as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Apurba Das , Michael Svendsen , Srikanta Tirthapura

We present the first $m\,\text{polylog}(n)$ work, $\text{polylog}(n)$ time algorithm in the PRAM model that computes $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate single-source shortest paths on weighted, undirected graphs. This improves upon the breakthrough…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Jason Li

In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

We present two on-line algorithms for maintaining a topological order of a directed $n$-vertex acyclic graph as arcs are added, and detecting a cycle when one is created. Our first algorithm handles $m$ arc additions in $O(m^{3/2})$ time.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-13 Bernhard Haeupler , Telikepalli Kavitha , Rogers Mathew , Siddhartha Sen , Robert Endre Tarjan