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The textbook algorithm for single-source shortest paths with real-valued edge weights runs in $O(m n)$ time on a graph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices. A recent breakthrough algorithm by Fineman [Fin24] takes $\tilde O(m n^{8/9})$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yufan Huang , Peter Jin , Kent Quanrud

We present a randomized algorithm that computes single-source shortest paths (SSSP) in $O(m\log^8(n)\log W)$ time when edge weights are integral and can be negative. This essentially resolves the classic negative-weight SSSP problem. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Aaron Bernstein , Danupon Nanongkai , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

In undirected graphs with real non-negative weights, we give a new randomized algorithm for the single-source shortest path (SSSP) problem with running time $O(m\sqrt{\log n \cdot \log\log n})$ in the comparison-addition model. This is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Ran Duan , Jiayi Mao , Xinkai Shu , Longhui Yin

Consider the single-source shortest paths problem on a directed graph with real-valued edge weights. We solve this problem in $O(n^{2.5}\log^{4.5}n)$ time, improving on prior work of Fineman (STOC 2024) and Huang-Jin-Quanrud (SODA 2025,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 George Z. Li , Jason Li , Satish Rao , Junkai Zhang

In the restricted shortest paths problem, we are given a graph $G$ whose edges are assigned two non-negative weights: lengths and delays, a source $s$, and a delay threshold $D$. The goal is to find, for each target $t$, the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Adam Karczmarz

We give an algorithm to find a minimum cut in an edge-weighted directed graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges in $\tilde O(n\cdot \max(m^{2/3}, n))$ time. This improves on the 30 year old bound of $\tilde O(nm)$ obtained by Hao and Orlin…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Ruoxu Cen , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Debmalya Panigrahi , Kent Quanrud , Thatchaphol Saranurak

In most of the shortest path problems like vehicle routing problems and network routing problems, we only need an efficient path between two points source and destination, and it is not necessary to calculate the shortest path from source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Muhammad Aasim Qureshi , Dr. Fadzil B. Hassan , Sohail Safdar , Rehan Akbar

We consider the single-source shortest paths problem on a directed graph with real-valued (possibly negative) edge weights and solve this problem in $n^{2+o(1)}$ time by refining the shortcutting procedure introduced in Li, Li, Rao, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 George Z. Li , Jason Li , Junkai Zhang

A classical algorithm by Bellman and Ford from the 1950's computes shortest paths in weighted graphs on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges with possibly negative weights in $O(mn)$ time. Indeed, this algorithm is taught regularly in undergraduate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Satish Rao

We present a randomized algorithm for the single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem on directed graphs with arbitrary real-valued edge weights that runs in $n^{2+o(1)}$ time with high probability. This result yields the first almost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Sanjeev Khanna , Junkai Song

Given a weighted $n$-vertex graph $G$ with integer edge-weights taken from a range $[-M,M]$, we show that the minimum-weight simple path visiting $k$ vertices can be found in time $\tilde{O}(2^k \poly(k) M n^\omega) = O^*(2^k M)$. If the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Avinatan Hassidim , Orgad Keller , Moshe Lewenstein , Liam Roditty

The textbook algorithm for real-weighted single-source shortest paths takes $O(m n)$ time on a graph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices. The breakthrough algorithm by Fineman [Fin24] takes $\tilde{O}(m n^{8/9})$ randomized time. The running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yufan Huang , Peter Jin , Kent Quanrud

We give the first parallel algorithm with optimal $\tilde{O}(m)$ work for the classical problem of computing Single-Source Shortest Paths in general graphs with negative-weight edges. In graphs without negative edges, Dijkstra's algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Nick Fischer , Bernhard Haeupler , Rustam Latypov , Antti Roeyskoe , Aurelio L. Sulser

Given an arbitrary, non-negatively weighted, directed graph $G=(V,E)$ we present an algorithm that computes all pairs shortest paths in time $\mathcal{O}(m^* n + m \lg n + nT_\psi(m^*, n))$, where $m^*$ is the number of different edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Andrej Brodnik , Marko Grgurovič

This paper presents a new deterministic algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on real non-negative edge-weighted directed graphs, with running time $O(m\sqrt{\log n}+\sqrt{mn\log n\log \log n})$, which is $O(m\sqrt{\log n\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ran Duan , Xiao Mao , Xinkai Shu , Longhui Yin

The single-source shortest path problem is a classical problem in the research field of graph algorithm. In this paper, a new single-source shortest path algorithm for nonnegative weight graph is proposed. The algorithm can compress…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Yunpeng Li

This paper presents parallel, distributed and quantum algorithms for single-source shortest paths when edges can have negative weights (negative-weight SSSP). We show a framework that reduces negative-weight SSSP in all these setting to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Nairen Cao , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Yonggang Jiang , Danupon Nanongkai , Hsin Hao Su

A straightforward dynamic programming method for the single-source shortest paths problem (SSSP) in an edge-weighted directed acyclic graph (DAG) processes the vertices in a topologically sorted order. First, we similarly iterate this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Andrzej Lingas , Mia Persson , Dzmitry Sledneu

Let $H$ be a fixed graph and let $G$ be an $H$-minor free $n$-vertex graph with integer edge weights and no negative weight cycles reachable from a given vertex $s$. We present an algorithm that computes a shortest path tree in $G$ rooted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Christian Wulff-Nilsen

In the decremental Single-Source Shortest Path problem (SSSP), we are given a weighted directed graph $G=(V,E,w)$ undergoing edge deletions and a source vertex $r \in V$; let $n = |V|, m = |E|$ and $W$ be the aspect ratio of the graph. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen
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