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An $\alpha$-spanner of a graph $ G $ is a subgraph $ H $ such that $ H $ preserves all distances of $ G $ within a factor of $ \alpha $. In this paper, we give fully dynamic algorithms for maintaining a spanner $ H $ of a graph $ G $…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Greg Bodwin , Sebastian Krinninger

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental problem with applications to community detection, clustering, and data mining. Our work focuses on finding approximate densest subgraphs in directed graphs in computational models for processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan , Mahdi Qaempanah , Mohammad Amin Raeisi

In this paper we consider graph algorithms in models of computation where the space usage (random accessible storage, in addition to the read only input) is sublinear in the number of edges $m$ and the access to input data is constrained.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

A well-known problem in data science and machine learning is {\em linear regression}, which is recently extended to dynamic graphs. Existing exact algorithms for updating the solution of dynamic graph regression require at least a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

We initiate the study of approximate maximum matching in the vertex partition model, for graphs subject to dynamic changes. We assume that the $n$ vertices of the graph are partitioned among $k$ players, who execute a distributed algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Peter Robinson , Xianbin Zhu

We consider the problem of approximating a maximum weighted matching, when the edges of an underlying weighted graph $G(V,E)$ are revealed in a streaming fashion. We analyze a variant of the previously best-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Elena Grigorescu , Morteza Monemizadeh , Samson Zhou

In this paper we consider the problem of finding a maximum weight set subject to a $k$-extendible constraint in the data stream model. The only non-trivial algorithm known for this problem to date---to the best of our knowledge---is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Moran Feldman , Ran Haba

Small depth networks arise in a variety of network related applications, often in the form of maximum flow and maximum weighted matching. Recent works have generalized such methods to include costs arising from concave functions. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Tung Mai , Richard Peng , Anup B. Rao , Vijay V. Vazirani

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

All-Pairs Minimum Cut (APMC) is a fundamental graph problem that asks to find a minimum $s,t$-cut for every pair of vertices $s,t$. A recent line of work on fast algorithms for APMC has culminated with a reduction of APMC to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yotam Kenneth-Mordoch , Robert Krauthgamer

The minimum set cover (MSC) problem admits two classic algorithms: a greedy $\ln n$-approximation and a primal-dual $f$-approximation, where $n$ is the universe size and $f$ is the maximum frequency of an element. Both algorithms are simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Shay Solomon , Amitai Uzrad

We initiate a systematic study of algorithms that are both differentially private and run in sublinear time for several problems in which the goal is to estimate natural graph parameters. Our main result is a differentially-private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jeremiah Blocki , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

We describe a new approximation algorithm for Max Cut. Our algorithm runs in $\tilde O(n^2)$ time, where $n$ is the number of vertices, and achieves an approximation ratio of $.531$. On instances in which an optimal solution cuts a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-08 Luca Trevisan

We study dynamic algorithms in the model of algorithms with predictions. We assume the algorithm is given imperfect predictions regarding future updates, and we ask how such predictions can be used to improve the running time. This can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari , Adam Polak

We give new upper and lower bounds for the {\em dynamic} set cover problem. First, we give a $(1+\epsilon) f$-approximation for fully dynamic set cover in $O(f^2\log n /\epsilon^5)$ (amortized) update time, for any $\epsilon > 0$, where $f$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Amir Abboud , Raghavendra Addanki , Fabrizio Grandoni , Debmalya Panigrahi , Barna Saha

In the fully dynamic maximal matching problem, the goal is to maintain a maximal matching in a graph undergoing an online sequence of edge insertions and deletions. The problem has been studied extensively in the oblivious-adversary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna , Junkai Song

We devise a constant-factor approximation algorithm for the maximization version of the edge-disjoint paths problem if the supply graph together with the demand edges form a planar graph. By planar duality this is equivalent to packing cuts…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Chien-Chung Huang , Mathieu Mari , Claire Mathieu , Kevin Schewior , Jens Vygen

We present an undirected version of the recently introduced flow-augmentation technique: Given an undirected multigraph $G$ with distinguished vertices $s,t \in V(G)$ and an integer $k$, one can in randomized $k^{O(1)} \cdot (|V(G)| +…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Kratsch , Marcin Pilipczuk , Magnus Wahlström

We give a simple algorithm for maintaining a $n^{o(1)}$-approximate spanner $H$ of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices as $G$ receives edge updates by reduction to the dynamic All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem. Given an initially empty…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Rasmus Kyng , Simon Meierhans , Gernot Zöcklein

In this paper we present linear time approximation schemes for several generalized matching problems on nonbipartite graphs. Our results include $O_\epsilon(m)$-time algorithms for $(1-\epsilon)$-maximum weight $f$-factor and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Dawei Huang , Seth Pettie