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An influential result by Dor, Halperin, and Zwick (FOCS 1996, SICOMP 2000) implies an algorithm that can compute approximate shortest paths for all vertex pairs in $\tilde{O}(n^{2+O\left(\frac{1}{k}\right )})$ time, ensuring that the output…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Manoj Gupta

We consider the computational problem of finding short paths in the skeleton of the perfect matching polytope of a bipartite graph. We prove that unless $P=NP$, there is no polynomial-time algorithm that computes a path of constant length…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Jean Cardinal , Raphael Steiner

We design and implement an efficient parallel algorithm for finding a perfect matching in a weighted bipartite graph such that weights on the edges of the matching are large. This problem differs from the maximum weight matching problem,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Ariful Azad , Aydın Buluc , Xiaoye S. Li , Xinliang Wang , Johannes Langguth

For a graph G=(V,E), finding a set of disjoint edges that do not share any vertices is called a matching problem, and finding the maximum matching is a fundamental problem in the theory of distributed graph algorithms. Although local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Naoki Kitamura , Taisuke Izumi

We present a combinatorial method for the min-cost flow problem and prove that its expected running time is bounded by $\tilde O(m^{3/2})$. This matches the best known bounds, which previously have only been achieved by numerical algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Ruben Becker , Andreas Karrenbauer

We study the problem of finding the cycle of minimum cost-to-time ratio in a directed graph with $ n $ nodes and $ m $ edges. This problem has a long history in combinatorial optimization and has recently seen interesting applications in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Karl Bringmann , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Sebastian Krinninger

We present deterministic algorithms for maintaining a $(3/2 + \epsilon)$ and $(2 + \epsilon)$-approximate maximum matching in a fully dynamic graph with worst-case update times $\hat{O}(\sqrt{n})$ and $\tilde{O}(1)$ respectively. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Peter Kiss

Several papers have achieved time $O(\sqrt n m)$ for cardinality matching, starting from first principles. This results in a long derivation. We simplify the task by employing well-known concepts for maximum weight matching. We use Edmonds'…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Harold N. Gabow

This paper explores combinatorial optimization for problems of max-weight graph matching on multi-partite graphs, which arise in integrating multiple data sources. Entity resolution-the data integration problem of performing noisy joins on…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Duo Zhang , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Jim Gemmell

In this paper, we consider tree decompositions, branch decompositions, and clique decompositions. We improve the running time of dynamic programming algorithms on these graph decompositions for a large number of problems as a function of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Johan M. M. van Rooij , Hans L. Bodlaender , Erik Jan van Leeuwen , Peter Rossmanith , Martin Vatshelle

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, information retrieval and many other areas related to the World Wide Web. There exist several algorithms for the problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

In graph theory, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph. For some small classes of graphs, the problem can be solved in polynomial time [2, 4], but it remains NP-hard on general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Lajos L. Pongrácz

We present a simple semi-streaming algorithm for $(1-\epsilon)$-approximation of bipartite matching in $O(\log{\!(n)}/\epsilon)$ passes. This matches the performance of state-of-the-art "$\epsilon$-efficient" algorithms -- the ones with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Sepehr Assadi

Given a set of $m$ points and a set of $n$ lines in the plane, we consider the problem of computing the faces of the arrangement of the lines that contain at least one point. In this paper, we present an $O(m^{2/3}n^{2/3}+(n+m)\log n)$ time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Haitao Wang

In this paper, we give a faster width-dependent algorithm for mixed packing-covering LPs. Mixed packing-covering LPs are fundamental to combinatorial optimization in computer science and operations research. Our algorithm finds a $1+\eps$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Digvijay Boob , Saurabh Sawlani , Di Wang

We present faster algorithms for computing the 2-edge and 2-vertex strongly connected components of a directed graph, which are straightforward generalizations of strongly connected components. While in undirected graphs the 2-edge and…

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

The problem of finding a maximum size matching in a graph (known as the maximum matching problem) is one of the most classical problems in computer science. Despite a significant body of work dedicated to the study of this problem in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Moran Feldman , Ariel Szarf

In this paper, we study the parameterized complexity and inapproximability of the {\sc Induced Matching} problem in hamiltonian bipartite graphs. We show that, given a hamiltonian cycle in a hamiltonian bipartite graph, the problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Yinglei Song

He and Yuan's prediction-correction framework [SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 50: 700-709, 2012] is able to provide convergent algorithms for solving separable convex optimization problems at a rate of $O(1/t)$ ($t$ represents iteration times) in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Tao Zhang , Yong Xia , Shiru Li

The problem of identifying the maximum edge biclique in bipartite graphs has attracted considerable attention in bipartite graph analysis, with numerous real-world applications such as fraud detection, community detection, and online…

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