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We study recovering a 1D order from a noisy, locally sampled pairwise comparison matrix under a tight query budget. We recast the task as reconstructing a sparse, noisy line graph and present, to our knowledge, the first method that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Fuming Yang , Yaron Meirovitch , Jeff W. Lichtman

We consider the problem of finding small distance-preserving subgraphs of undirected, unweighted interval graphs with $k$ terminal vertices. To start with, we show that finding an optimal distance-preserving subgraph is $\mathsf{NP}$-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Kshitij Gajjar , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

A $t$-spanner of a graph is a subgraph that $t$-approximates pairwise distances. The greedy algorithm is one of the simplest and most well-studied algorithms for constructing a sparse spanner: it computes a $t$-spanner with $n^{1+O(1/t)}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Bernhard Haeupler , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Zihan Tan

Partitioning oracles were introduced by Hassidim et al. (FOCS 2009) as a generic tool for constant-time algorithms. For any epsilon > 0, a partitioning oracle provides query access to a fixed partition of the input bounded-degree minor-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-06-24 Alan Edelman , Avinatan Hassidim , Huy N. Nguyen , Krzysztof Onak

We consider distance queries in vertex-labeled planar graphs. For any fixed $0 < \epsilon \leq 1/2$ we show how to preprocess a directed planar graph with vertex labels and arc lengths into a data structure that answers queries of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Shay Mozes , Eyal E. Skop

We use exponential start time clustering to design faster and more work-efficient parallel graph algorithms involving distances. Previous algorithms usually rely on graph decomposition routines with strict restrictions on the diameters of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng , Adrian Vladu , Shen Chen Xu

In this paper we address the problem of computing a sparse subgraph of a weighted directed graph such that the exact distances from a designated source vertex to all other vertices are preserved under bounded weight increment. Finding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das

This paper investigates expansions of distal structures by a unary subset that arises as the image of a projection map. We first provide a sufficient condition for such an expansion to remain distal. Based on this criterion, we establish…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Koki Okura

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and let $\varepsilon,\psi \in (0,1)$ be parameters. Here, we consider the task of constructing a $(1+\varepsilon)$-spanner for $P$, where every edge might fail (independently) with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Sariel Har-Peled , Maria C. Lusardi

We propose a novel approach to iterated sparse matrix dense matrix multiplication, a fundamental computational kernel in scientific computing and graph neural network training. In cases where matrix sizes exceed the memory of a single…

Given a metric space $(X,d)$, a set of terminals $K\subseteq X$, and a parameter $t\ge 1$, we consider metric structures (e.g., spanners, distance oracles, embedding into normed spaces) that preserve distances for all pairs in $K\times X$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Michael Elkin , Ofer Neiman

We revisit the asymptotic analysis of probabilistic construction of adjacency matrices of expander graphs proposed in [4]. With better bounds we derived a new reduced sample complexity for the number of nonzeros per column of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Bubacarr Bah , Jared Tanner

Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in distributed/parallel algorithms for processing large-scale graphs. By now, we have quite fast algorithms -- usually sublogarithmic-time and often $poly(\log\log n)$-time, or even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Michal Dory , Mohsen Ghaffari , Slobodan Mitrović , Yasamin Nazari

We give an improved connectivity oracle under vertex failures. After a set of $k$ vertices fails, our oracle performs an $O(k^{6})$-time update independent of the graph size $n$, and then answers pairwise connectivity queries in optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xizhe Li , Yaowei Long , David Pidugu , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Benyu Wang

When a network is prone to failures, it is very expensive to compute the shortest paths every time from the scratch. Distance sensitivity oracle provides this privilege to find the new shortest paths faster and with lower cost by once…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Golshan Golnari , Zhi-Li Zhang

We (nearly) settle the time complexity for computing vertex fault-tolerant (VFT) spanners with optimal sparsity (up to polylogarithmic factors). VFT spanners are sparse subgraphs that preserve distance information, up to a small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Merav Parter

Distance computation is one of the most fundamental primitives used in communication networks. The cost of effectively and accurately computing pairwise network distances can become prohibitive in large-scale networks such as the Internet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-07 Atish Das Sarma , Michael Dinitz , Gopal Pandurangan

Graph spanners are well-studied and widely used both in theory and practice. In a recent breakthrough, Chechik and Wulff-Nilsen [CW18] improved the state-of-the-art for light spanners by constructing a $(2k-1)(1+\epsilon)$-spanner with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Stephen Alstrup , Søren Dahlgaard , Arnold Filtser , Morten Stöckel , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

A $k$-additive spanner of a graph is a subgraph that preserves the distance between any two nodes up to a total additive error of $+k$. Efficient algorithms have been devised for constructing 2 [Aingworth et al. SIAM '99], 6 [Baswana et al.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Bandar Al-Dhalaan

We introduce and investigate a new notion of resilience in graph spanners. Let $S$ be a spanner of a graph $G$. Roughly speaking, we say that a spanner $S$ is resilient if all its point-to-point distances are resilient to edge failures.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-30 G. Ausiello , P. G. Franciosa , G. F. Italiano , A. Ribichini