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Due to the importance of robustness in many real-world optimization problems, the field of robust optimization has gained a lot of attention over the past decade. We concentrate on maximum flow problems and introduce a novel robust…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Jannik Matuschke , S. Thomas McCormick , Gianpaolo Oriolo , Britta Peis , Martin Skutella

We study the computational complexity of optimally solving multi-robot path planning problems on planar graphs. For four common time- and distance-based objectives, we show that the associated path optimization problems for multiple robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingjin Yu

We consider a dissipative flow network that obeys the standard linear nodal flow conservation, and where flows on edges are driven by potential difference between adjacent nodes. We show that in the case when the flow is a monotonically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Sidhant Misra , Marc Vuffray , Michael Chertkov

The GC problem is to identify a pre-determined number of center vertices such that the distances or costs from (or to) the centers to (or from) other vertices is minimized. The bottleneck of a path is the minimum capacity of edges on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Tong-Wook Shinn , Tadao Takaoka

We study a group of new methods to solve an open problem that is the shortest paths problem on a given fix-weighted instance. It is the real significance at a considerable altitude to reach our aim to meet these qualities of generic,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Yong Tan

The goal of traffic management is efficiently utilizing network resources via adapting of source sending rates and routes selection. Traditionally, this problem is formulated into a utilization maximization problem. The single-path routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ying Liu , Hongying Liu , Ke Xu , Meng Shen , Yifeng Zhong

We provide faster strongly polynomial time algorithms solving maximum flow in structured $n$-node $m$-arc networks. Our results imply an $n^{\omega + o(1)}$-time strongly polynomial time algorithms for computing a maximum bipartite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Daniel Dadush , James B. Orlin , Aaron Sidford , László A. Végh

In this paper we study flow problems on temporal networks, where edge capacities and travel times change over time. We consider a network with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges where the capacity and length of each edge is a piecewise constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kristin Sheridan , Shuchi Chawla

We consider the problem of finding a feasible single-commodity flow in a strongly connected network with fixed supplies and demands, provided that the sum of supplies equals the sum of demands and the minimum arc capacity is at least this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-12-03 Bernhard Haeupler , Robert E. Tarjan

This work addresses the problem of evaluating optimal link capacities of a packet-flow network for the objective of congestion minimization. We present a simple model of packet flow in networks and present a numerical approach to evaluate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Saptarshi Pal , Ayan Chatterjee , Dripto Bakshi , Amitava Mukherjee

We provide a new algebraic technique to solve the sequential flow problem in polynomial space. The task is to maximise the flow through a graph where edge capacities can be changed over time by choosing a sequence of capacity labelings from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Hugo Gimbert , Corto Mascle , Patrick Totzke

Nonconvexity induced by the nonlinear AC power flow equations challenges solution algorithms for AC optimal power flow (OPF) problems. While significant research efforts have focused on reliably computing high-quality OPF solutions, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Dongchan Lee , Konstantin Turitsyn , Daniel K. Molzahn , Line A. Roald

We study an incremental network design problem, where in each time period of the planning horizon an arc can be added to the network and a maximum flow problem is solved, and where the objective is to maximize the cumulative flow over the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Thomas Kalinowski , Dmytro Matsypura , Martin W. P. Savelsbergh

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are recently proposed models for learning stochastic policies that generate compositional objects by sequences of actions with the probability proportional to a given reward function. The central problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Anh Do , Duy Dinh , Tan Nguyen , Khuong Nguyen , Stanley Osher , Nhat Ho

Generative Adversarial Networks have been shown to be powerful in generating content. To this end, they have been studied intensively in the last few years. Nonetheless, training these networks requires solving a saddle point problem that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Jingrong Lin , Keegan Lensink , Eldad Haber

We develop efficient algorithms for a fundamental network design problem arising in potential-based flow models, which are central to many energy transport networks (e.g., hydrogen and electricity). In contrast to classical network flow…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Max Klimm , Marc E. Pfetsch , Martin Skutella , Lea Strubberg

We study an ancient problem that in a static or dynamical system, sought an optimal path, which the context always means within an extremal condition. In fact, through those discussions about this theme, we established a universal essential…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Yong Tan

We give an $O(n^{1.5} \log n)$ algorithm that, given a directed planar graph with arc capacities, a set of source nodes and a single sink node, finds a maximum flow from the sources to the sink . This is the first subquadratic-time strongly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Philip N. Klein , Shay Mozes

The goal of this paper is to establish a decomposition of the network based on the maximum flow problem.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Tianhang Lu

We study the problem of computing the capacity of a discrete memoryless channel under uncertainty affecting the channel law matrix, and possibly with a constraint on the average cost of the input distribution. The problem has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Krzysztof Postek , Aharon Ben-Tal