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In the dynamic Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ subject to edge insertions and deletions and a source vertex $s\in V$, and the goal is to maintain the distance $d(s,t)$ for all $t\in V$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

We develop a new algorithmic framework for designing approximation algorithms for cut-based optimization problems on capacitated undirected graphs that undergo edge insertions and deletions. Specifically, our framework dynamically maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Peter Kiss , Ali Momeni , Gernot Zöcklein

We present a very simple and intuitive algorithm to find balanced sparse cuts in a graph via shortest-paths. Our algorithm combines a new multiplicative-weights framework for solving unit-weight multi-commodity flows with standard ball…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva

We consider dynamic algorithms for maintaining Single-Source Reachability (SSR) and approximate Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) on $n$-node $m$-edge directed graphs under edge deletions (decremental algorithms). The previous fastest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Monika Henzinger , Sebastian Krinninger , Danupon Nanongkai

Graph Sparsification aims at compressing large graphs into smaller ones while preserving important characteristics of the input graph. In this work we study Vertex Sparsifiers, i.e., sparsifiers whose goal is to reduce the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

Given a directed weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ undergoing vertex insertions \emph{and} deletions, the All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem asks to maintain a data structure that processes updates efficiently and returns after each update the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

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

Modern graphs are both large and dynamic, presenting significant challenges for fundamental queries, such as the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem. Naively recomputing the SSSP tree after each topology change is prohibitively…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Parshan Javanrood , Matei Ripeanu

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

In the decremental single-source shortest paths problem, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source $s$ to every vertex $v$ in an $m$-edge graph undergoing edge deletions. In this paper, we conclude a long line of research on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We study the fully dynamic All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in undirected edge-weighted graphs. Given an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with non-negative edge lengths, that undergoes an online sequence of edge insertions and deletions, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Julia Chuzhoy , Ruimin Zhang

Uncertain graphs are prevalent in several applications including communications systems, biological databases and social networks. The ever increasing size of the underlying data renders both graph storage and query processing extremely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Panos Parchas , Nikolaos Papailiou , Dimitris Papadias , Francesco Bonchi

Let $G = (V,E,w)$ be a weighted, digraph subject to a sequence of adversarial edge deletions. In the decremental single-source reachability problem (SSR), we are given a fixed source $s$ and the goal is to maintain a data structure that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

A tree-packing is a collection of spanning trees of a graph. It has been a useful tool for computing the minimum cut in static, dynamic, and distributed settings. In particular, [Thorup, Comb. 2007] used them to obtain his dynamic min-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tijn de Vos , Aleksander B. G. Christiansen

We give a deterministic $m^{1+o(1)}$ time algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs with $m$ edges and polynomially bounded integral demands, costs, and capacities. As a consequence, we obtain the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Jan van den Brand , Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva , Aaron Sidford

We give new partially-dynamic algorithms for the all-pairs shortest paths problem in weighted directed graphs. Most importantly, we give a new deterministic incremental algorithm for the problem that handles updates in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Adam Karczmarz , Jakub Łącki

Given a dynamic digraph $G = (V,E)$ undergoing edge deletions and given $s\in V$ and $\epsilon>0$, we consider the problem of maintaining $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate shortest path distances from $s$ to all vertices in $G$ over the sequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We present the first single pass algorithm for computing spectral sparsifiers of graphs in the dynamic semi-streaming model. Given a single pass over a stream containing insertions and deletions of edges to a graph G, our algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Michael Kapralov , Yin Tat Lee , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Aaron Sidford

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge capacities $c_e\geq 1$ for $e\in E$ and a subset $T$ of $k$ vertices called terminals, we say that a graph $H$ is a quality-$q$ cut sparsifier for $G$ iff $T\subseteq V(H)$, and for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Julia Chuzhoy

A \emph{tree cut-sparsifier} $T$ of quality $\alpha$ of a graph $G$ is a single tree that preserves the capacities of all cuts in the graph up to a factor of $\alpha$. A \emph{tree flow-sparsifier} $T$ of quality $\alpha$ guarantees that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Daniel Agassy , Dani Dorfman , Haim Kaplan