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Given an undirected graph, $G$, and vertices, $s$ and $t$ in $G$, the tracking paths problem is that of finding the smallest subset of vertices in $G$ whose intersection with any $s$-$t$ path results in a unique sequence. This problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Michael T. Goodrich , Siddharth Gupta , Hadi Khodabandeh , Pedro Matias

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in a polygon $P$ with $m$ vertices. The geodesic unit-disk graph $G(S)$ induced by $S$ has vertex set $S$ and contains an edge between two vertices whenever their geodesic distance in $P$ is at most one. In…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Bruce W. Brewer , Haitao Wang

In this paper I present general outlook on questions relevant to the basic graph algorithms; Finding the Shortest Path with Positive Weights and Minimum Spanning Tree. I will show so far known solution set of basic graph problems and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-08-28 David S. Planeta

We show that the shortest $s$-$t$ path problem has the overlap-gap property in (i) sparse $\mathbf{G}(n,p)$ graphs and (ii) complete graphs with i.i.d. Exponential edge weights. Furthermore, we demonstrate that in sparse $\mathbf{G}(n,p)$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuangping Li , Tselil Schramm

This paper discusses the shortest path problem in a general directed graph with $n$ nodes and $K$ cost scenarios (objectives). In order to choose a solution, the min-max criterion is applied. The min-max version of the problem is hard to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

A solution of the $k$ shortest paths problem may output paths that are identical up to a single edge. On the other hand, a solution of the $k$ independent shortest paths problem consists of paths that share neither an edge nor an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Manish Kumar , Baruch Schieber

In this work we derandomize two central results in graph algorithms, replacement paths and distance sensitivity oracles (DSOs) matching in both cases the running time of the randomized algorithms. For the replacement paths problem, let G =…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Noga Alon , Shiri Chechik , Sarel Cohen

In this paper we show how to combine two algorithmic techniques to obtain linear time algorithms for various optimization problems on graphs, and present a subroutine which will be useful in doing so. The first technique is iterative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Zhentao Li , Bruce Reed

The shortest-path distance is a fundamental concept in graph analytics and has been extensively studied in the literature. In many real-world applications, quality constraints are naturally associated with edges in the graphs and finding…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-17 You Peng , Zhuo Ma , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Ying Zhang , Xiaoshuang Chen

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

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as the search for a subgraph that satisfies certain properties and minimizes the total weight. We assume here that the vertices correspond to points in a metric space and can take…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Marin Bougeret , Jérémy Omer , Michael Poss

One model of message delivery in a computer network is based on labelling each edge by a subset of a (reasonably small) universal set, and then encoding a path as the union of the labels of its edges. Earlier work suggested using random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Gokce Caylak Kayaturan , Alexei Vernitski

A common way to accelerate shortest path algorithms on graphs is the use of a bidirectional search, which simultaneously explores the graph from the start and the destination. It has been observed recently that this strategy performs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Thomas Bläsius , Cedric Freiberger , Tobias Friedrich , Maximilian Katzmann , Felix Montenegro-Retana , Marianne Thieffry

A graph $G$ is contractible to a graph $H$ if there is a set $X \subseteq E(G)$, such that $G/X$ is isomorphic to $H$. Here, $G/X$ is the graph obtained from $G$ by contracting all the edges in $X$. For a family of graphs $\cal F$, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Akanksha Agrawal , Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale

We consider first-passage percolation on the $d$ dimensional cubic lattice for $d \geq 2$; that is, we assign independently to each edge $e$ a nonnegative random weight $t_e$ with a common distribution and consider the induced random graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Michael Damron , Naoki Kubota

Given a directed acyclic graph with positive edge-weights, two vertices s and t, and a threshold-weight L, we present a fully-polynomial time approximation-scheme for the problem of counting the s-t paths of length at most L. We extend the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Matúš Mihalák , Rastislav Šrámek , Peter Widmayer

We propose a new approach to graph compression by appeal to optimal transport. The transport problem is seeded with prior information about node importance, attributes, and edges in the graph. The transport formulation can be setup for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Vikas K. Garg , Tommi Jaakkola

We consider the problem of finding an edge in a hidden undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, in a model where we only allowed queries that ask whether or not a subset of vertices contains an edge. We study the non-adaptive model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ron Kupfer , Noam Nisan

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

Prime path coverage is a powerful structural testing criterion, but generating all prime paths in a directed graph remains computationally challenging due to the potentially exponential number of them. Existing approaches typically rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jakub Zelek , Jakub Ruszil , Adam Roman , Artur Polański