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We give the first truly subquadratic time algorithm, with $O^*(n^{2-1/18})$ running time, for computing the diameter of an $n$-vertex unit-disk graph, resolving a central open problem in the literature. Our result is obtained as an instance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

We propose to study unweighted graphs of constant distance VC-dimension as a broad generalization of many graph classes for which we can compute the diameter in truly subquadratic-time. In particular for any fixed $H$, the class of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Guillaume Ducoffe , Michel Habib , Laurent Viennot

We initiate the study of diameter computation in geometric intersection graphs from the fine-grained complexity perspective. A geometric intersection graph is a graph whose vertices correspond to some shapes in $d$-dimensional Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Karl Bringmann , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser , Zahra Parsaeian

Finding the diameter of a graph in general cannot be done in truly subquadratic assuming the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH), even when the underlying graph is unweighted and sparse. When restricting to concrete classes of graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Hung Le

We study fundamental graph parameters such as the Diameter and Radius in directed graphs, when distances are measured using a somewhat unorthodox but natural measure: the distance between $u$ and $v$ is the minimum of the shortest path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nikhil Vyas , Nicole Wein , Yinzhan Xu , Yuancheng Yu

Computing the diameter of the intersection graphs of objects is a basic problem in computational geometry. Previous works showed that the complexity of computing the diameter mainly depends on the object types: for unit disks and squares in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

We study the problem of computing the diameter and the mean distance of a continuous graph, i.e., a connected graph where all points along the edges, instead of only the vertices, must be taken into account. It is known that for continuous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sergio Cabello , Delia Garijo , Antonia Kalb , Fabian Klute , Irene Parada , Rodrigo I. Silveira

The Vapnik-\v{C}ervonenkis dimension is a complexity measure of set-systems, or hypergraphs. Its application to graphs is usually done by considering the sets of neighborhoods of the vertices (cf. Alon et al. (2006) and Chepoi, Estellon,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-13 Tomasz Łuczak , Stéphan Thomassé

Calculating the diameter of an undirected graph requires quadratic running time under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis and this barrier works even against any approximation better than 3/2. For planar graphs with positive edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Michał Włodarczyk

We show that for any fixed integer $k \geq 0$, there exists an algorithm that computes the diameter and the eccentricies of all vertices of an input unweighted, undirected $n$-vertex graph of Euler genus at most $k$ in time \[…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kacper Kluk , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Giannos Stamoulis

The Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension (in short, VC-dimension) of a graph is defined as the VC-dimension of the set system induced by the neighborhoods of its vertices. We show that every $n$-vertex graph with bounded VC-dimension contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Jacob Fox , János Pach , Andrew Suk

Recent research on computing the diameter of geometric intersection graphs has made significant strides, primarily focusing on the 2D case where truly subquadratic-time algorithms were given for simple objects such as unit-disks and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

In this paper we consider the fundamental problem of approximating the diameter $D$ of directed or undirected graphs. In a seminal paper, Aingworth, Chekuri, Indyk and Motwani [SIAM J. Comput. 1999] presented an algorithm that computes in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Liam Roditty , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Computing the diameter of a graph, i.e. the largest distance, is a fundamental problem that is central in fine-grained complexity. In undirected graphs, the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) yields a lower bound on the time vs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Amir Abboud , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ray Li , Virginia Vassilevska-Williams

The Voronoi diagrams technique was introduced by Cabello to compute the diameter of planar graphs in subquadratic time. We present novel applications of this technique in static, fault-tolerant, and partially-dynamic undirected unweighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Amir Abboud , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

The radius and diameter are fundamental graph parameters. They are defined as the minimum and maximum of the eccentricities in a graph, respectively, where the eccentricity of a vertex is the largest distance from the vertex to another…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Amir Abboud , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Joshua Wang

We present an additive $\varepsilon n^{2}$-approximation algorithm for the Graph Edit Distance problem (GED) on graphs of VC dimension $d$ running in time $n^{O(d/\varepsilon^{2})}$. In particular, this recovers a previous result by Arora,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Anatole Dahan , Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen , Tomáš Novotný

The metric dimension of a graph is the minimum size of a set of vertices such that each vertex is uniquely determined by the distances to the vertices of that set. Our aim is to upper-bound the order $n$ of a graph in terms of its diameter…

We study graph connectivity problem in MPC model. On an undirected graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, $O(\log n)$ round connectivity algorithms have been known for over 35 years. However, no algorithms with better complexity bounds were…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alexandr Andoni , Clifford Stein , Zhao Song , Zhengyu Wang , Peilin Zhong

On sparse graphs, Roditty and Williams [2013] proved that no $O(n^{2-\varepsilon})$-time algorithm achieves an approximation factor smaller than $\frac{3}{2}$ for the diameter problem unless SETH fails. In this article, we solve an open…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Pierre Bergé , Guillaume Ducoffe , Michel Habib
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