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We give the first almost-linear time algorithm for computing the \emph{maximal $k$-edge-connected subgraphs} of an undirected unweighted graph for any constant $k$. More specifically, given an $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph $G=(V,E)$ and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Thatchaphol Saranurak , Wuwei Yuan

We design efficient deterministic algorithms for finding short edge-disjoint paths in expanders. Specifically, given an $n$-vertex $m$-edge expander $G$ of conductance $\phi$ and minimum degree $\delta$, and a set of pairs $\{(s_i,t_i)\}_i$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Matija Bucić , Zhongtian He , Shang-En Huang , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a multigraph with a set $T\subseteq V$ of terminals. A path in $G$ is called a $T$-path if its ends are distinct vertices in $T$ and no internal vertices belong to $T$. In 1978, Mader showed a characterization of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Satoru Iwata , Yu Yokoi

We study the SHORTEST PATH problem with positive disjunctive constraints from the perspective of parameterized complexity. For positive disjunctive constraints, there are certain pair of edges such that any feasible solution must contain at…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Susobhan Bandopadhyay , Suman Banerjee , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Fahad Panolan

We study the minimum \emph{Monitoring Edge Geodetic Set} (\megset) problem introduced in [Foucaud et al., CALDAM'23]: given a graph $G$, we say that an edge is monitored by a pair $u,v$ of vertices if \emph{all} shortest paths between $u$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Davide Bilò , Giordano Colli , Luca Forlizzi , Stefano Leucci

Given a $k$-vertex-connected graph $G$ and a set $S$ of extra edges (links), the goal of the $k$-vertex-connectivity augmentation problem is to find a set $S' \subseteq S$ of minimum size such that adding $S'$ to $G$ makes it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Waldo Gálvez , Francisco Sanhueza-Matamala , José A. Soto

In the decremental single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem, the input is an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges undergoing edge deletions, together with a fixed source vertex $s\in V$. The goal is to maintain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Julia Chuzhoy , Thatchaphol Saranurak

In the $k$-connected directed Steiner tree problem ($k$-DST), we are given an $n$-vertex directed graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge costs, a connectivity requirement $k$, a root $r\in V$ and a set of terminals $T\subseteq V$. The goal is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chao Liao , Qingyun Chen , Bundit Laekhanukit , Yuhao Zhang

A long series of recent results and breakthroughs have led to faster and better distributed approximation algorithms for single source shortest paths (SSSP) and related problems in the CONGEST model. The runtime of all these algorithms,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Bernhard Haeupler , Jason Li

We study the reverse shortest path problem on disk graphs in the plane. In this problem we consider the proximity graph of a set of $n$ disks in the plane of arbitrary radii: In this graph two disks are connected if the distance between…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Haim Kaplan , Matthew J. Katz , Rachel Saban , Micha Sharir

We study an "above guarantee" version of the {\sc Longest Path} problem in directed graphs: We are given a graph $G$, two vertices $s$ and $t$ of $G$, and a non-negative integer $k$, and the objective is to determine whether $G$ contains a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Ashwin Jacob , Michał Włodarczyk , Meirav Zehavi

In this paper we revisit the classical Edge Disjoint Paths (EDP) problem, where one is given an undirected graph G and a set of terminal pairs P and asks whether G contains a set of pairwise edge-disjoint paths connecting every terminal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Robert Ganian , Sebastian Ordyniak , M. S. Ramanujan

Consider the following distance query for an $n$-node graph $G$ undergoing edge insertions and deletions: given two sets of nodes $I$ and $J$, return the distances between every pair of nodes in $I\times J$. This query is rather general and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Jan van den Brand , Danupon Nanongkai

We present a message-passing algorithm to solve the edge disjoint path problem (EDP) on graphs incorporating under a unique framework both traffic optimization and path length minimization. The min-sum equations for this problem present an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-01-21 Fabrizio Altarelli , Alfredo Braunstein , Luca Dall'Asta , Caterina De Bacco , Silvio Franz

In the Densest $k$-Subgraph problem, given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the goal is to find a subgraph of $G$ on $k$ vertices that contains maximum number of edges. Even though the state-of-the-art algorithm for the problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Pasin Manurangsi

The approximate single-source shortest-path problem is as follows: given a graph with nonnegative edge weights and a designated source vertex $s$, return estimates of the distances from~$s$ to each other vertex such that the estimate falls…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Nairen Cao , Jeremy T. Fineman , Katina Russell

We study the problem of computing a minimum equivalent digraph (also known as the problem of computing a strong transitive reduction) and its maximum objective function variant, with two types of extensions. First, we allow to declare a set…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-02 Piotr Berman , Bhaskar DasGupta , Marek Karpinski

We formulate and study the thinnest path problem in wireless ad hoc networks. The objective is to find a path from a source to its destination that results in the minimum number of nodes overhearing the message by a judicious choice of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Jianhang Gao , Qing Zhao , Ananthram Swami

We devise a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the classical geometric problem of finding an approximate short path amid weighted regions. In this problem, a triangulated region P comprising of n vertices, a positive weight associated…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-08 R Inkulu , Sanjiv Kapoor

In Maximum $k$-Vertex Cover (Max $k$-VC), the input is an edge-weighted graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and the goal is to find a subset $S$ of $k$ vertices that maximizes the total weight of edges covered by $S$. Here we say that an edge is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Pasin Manurangsi