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We present a new fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining betweenness centrality (BC) of vertices in a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ with positive edge weights. BC is a widely used parameter in the analysis of large complex networks. We achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

The classic technique of Baker [J. ACM '94] is the most fundamental approach for designing approximation schemes on planar, or more generally topologically-constrained graphs, and it has been applied in a myriad of different variants and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Tuukka Korhonen , Wojciech Nadara , Michał Pilipczuk , Marek Sokołowski

We present two algorithms for dynamically maintaining a spanning forest of a graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. Our algorithms guarantee {\em worst-case update time} and work against an adaptive adversary, meaning that an edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak

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

Images conveniently capture the result of physical processes, representing rich source of information for data driven medicine, engineering, and science. The modeling of an image as a graph allows the application of graph-based algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli , Rolf Krause

A hypergraph spectral sparsifier of a hypergraph $G$ is a weighted subgraph $H$ that approximates the Laplacian of $G$ to a specified precision. Recent work has shown that similar to ordinary graphs, there exist $\widetilde{O}(n)$-size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li , Aaron Putterman

Let $G=(V,E)$ be an $n$-nodes non-negatively real-weighted undirected graph. In this paper we show how to enrich a {\em single-source shortest-path tree} (SPT) of $G$ with a \emph{sparse} set of \emph{auxiliary} edges selected from $E$, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Annalisa D'Andrea , Mattia D'Emidio , Daniele Frigioni , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

We propose polynomial-time algorithms that sparsify planar and bounded-genus graphs while preserving optimal or near-optimal solutions to Steiner problems. Our main contribution is a polynomial-time algorithm that, given an unweighted graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Piotr Sankowski , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Dynamic Connectivity is a fundamental algorithmic graph problem, motivated by a wide range of applications to social and communication networks and used as a building block in various other algorithms, such as the bi-connectivity and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Alexander Fedorov , Nikita Koval , Dan Alistarh

We give a fully dynamic deterministic algorithm for maintaining a maximal matching of an $n$-vertex graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{8/9})$ amortized update time. This breaks the long-standing $\Omega(n)$-update-time barrier on dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Aaron Bernstein , Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Short spanning trees subject to additional constraints are important building blocks in various approximation algorithms. Especially in the context of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), new techniques for finding spanning trees with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Martin Nägele , Rico Zenklusen

The fully dynamic transitive closure problem asks to maintain reachability information in a directed graph between arbitrary pairs of vertices, while the graph undergoes a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. The problem has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Christian Schulz

We study two popular ways to sketch the shortest path distances of an input graph. The first is distance preservers, which are sparse subgraphs that agree with the distances of the original graph on a given set of demand pairs. Prior work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Greg Bodwin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We study the problem of dynamically maintaining the connected components of an undirected graph subject to edge insertions and deletions. We give the first parallel algorithm for the problem which is work-efficient, supports batches of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Quinten De Man , Laxman Dhulipala , Adam Karczmarz , Jakub Łącki , Julian Shun , Zhongqi Wang

We provide a data structure for maintaining an embedding of a graph on a surface (represented combinatorially by a permutation of edges around each vertex) and computing generators of the fundamental group of the surface, in amortized time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Eppstein

Spectral graph sparsification has emerged as a powerful tool in the analysis of large-scale networks by reducing the overall number of edges, while maintaining a comparable graph Laplacian matrix. In this paper, we present an efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-16 David G. Anderson , Ming Gu , Christopher Melgaard

We give an algorithm that, with high probability, maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate $s$-$t$ maximum flow in undirected, uncapacitated $n$-vertex graphs undergoing $m$ edge insertions in $\tilde{O}(m+ n F^*/\epsilon)$ total update time,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Harald Räcke , A. R. Sricharan

We study reachability and shortest paths problems in dynamic directed graphs. Whereas algebraic dynamic data structures supporting edge updates and reachability/distance queries have been known for quite a long time, they do not, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Adam Karczmarz , Anish Mukherjee , Piotr Sankowski

The dynamic trees problem is to maintain a forest subject to edge insertions and deletions while facilitating queries such as connectivity, path weights, and subtree weights. Dynamic trees are a fundamental building block of a large number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Umut A. Acar , Daniel Anderson , Guy E. Blelloch , Laxman Dhulipala , Sam Westrick

Stabilization of graphs has received substantial attention in recent years due to its connection to game theory. Stable graphs are exactly the graphs inducing a matching game with non-empty core. They are also the graphs that induce a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Corinna Gottschalk , Jochen Könemann , Britta Peis , Daniel Schmand , Andreas Wierz