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We give an algorithm that takes a directed graph $G$ undergoing $m$ edge insertions with lengths in $[1, W]$, and maintains $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate shortest path distances from a fixed source $s$ to all other vertices. The algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yang P. Liu

We consider the CONGEST model on a network with $n$ nodes, $m$ edges, diameter $D$, and integer costs and capacities bounded by $\text{poly} n$. In this paper, we show how to find an exact solution to the minimum cost flow problem in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Tijn de Vos

Finding a maximum cut is a fundamental task in many computational settings. Surprisingly, it has been insufficiently studied in the classic distributed settings, where vertices communicate by synchronously sending messages to their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Keren Censor-Hillel , Rina Levy , Hadas Shachnai

We present near-optimal algorithms for detecting small vertex cuts in the CONGEST model of distributed computing. Despite extensive research in this area, our understanding of the vertex connectivity of a graph is still incomplete,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Merav Parter , Asaf Petruschka

We consider the problem of finding a minimum cut of a weighted graph presented as a single-pass stream. While graph sparsification in streams has been intensively studied, the specific application of finding minimum cuts in streams is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Matthew Ding , Alexandro Garces , Jason Li , Honghao Lin , Jelani Nelson , Vihan Shah , David P. Woodruff

In this paper, we develop a theory of new classes of discrete convex functions, called L-extendable functions and alternating L-convex functions, defined on the product of trees. We establish basic properties for optimization: a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Hiroshi Hirai

We prove an approximate max-multiflow min-multicut theorem for bounded treewidth graphs. In particular, we show the following: Given a treewidth-$r$ graph, there exists a (fractional) multicommodity flow of value $f$, and a multicut of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Tobias Friedrich , Davis Issac , Nikhil Kumar , Nadym Mallek , Ziena Zeif

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

We give new, improved bounds for approximating the sparsest cut value or in other words the conductance $\phi$ of a graph in the CONGEST model. As our main result, we present an algorithm running in $O(\log^2 n/\phi)$ rounds in which every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yannic Maus , Tijn de Vos

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

We study deterministic algorithms for computing graph cuts, with focus on two fundamental problems: balanced sparse cut and $k$-vertex connectivity for small $k$ ($k=O(\polylog n)$). Both problems can be solved in near-linear time with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Yu Gao , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

In the restricted shortest paths problem, we are given a graph $G$ whose edges are assigned two non-negative weights: lengths and delays, a source $s$, and a delay threshold $D$. The goal is to find, for each target $t$, the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Adam Karczmarz

We initiate the study of dynamic algorithms for graph sparsification problems and obtain fully dynamic algorithms, allowing both edge insertions and edge deletions, that take polylogarithmic time after each update in the graph. Our three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ittai Abraham , David Durfee , Ioannis Koutis , Sebastian Krinninger , Richard Peng

We present a deterministic (global) mincut algorithm for weighted, undirected graphs that runs in $m^{1+o(1)}$ time, answering an open question of Karger from the 1990s. To obtain our result, we de-randomize the construction of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jason Li

In this paper we introduce a notion of spectral approximation for directed graphs. While there are many potential ways one might define approximation for directed graphs, most of them are too strong to allow sparse approximations in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michael B. Cohen , Jonathan Kelner , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Anup Rao , Aaron Sidford , Adrian Vladu

We consider the all pairs all shortest paths (APASP) problem, which maintains the shortest path dag rooted at every vertex in a directed graph G=(V,E) with positive edge weights. For this problem we present a decremental algorithm (that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Meghana Nasre , Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

A flow graph $G=(V,E,s)$ is a directed graph with a distinguished start vertex $s$. The dominator tree $D$ of $G$ is a tree rooted at $s$, such that a vertex $v$ is an ancestor of a vertex $w$ if and only if all paths from $s$ to $w$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Loukas Georgiadis , Aikaterini Karanasiou , Giannis Konstantinos , Luigi Laura

Let $G$ be an $n$-node simple directed planar graph with nonnegative edge weights. We study the fundamental problems of computing (1) a global cut of $G$ with minimum weight and (2) a~cycle of $G$ with minimum weight. The best previously…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Hung-Chun Liang , Hsueh-I Lu

Let $G = (V, E)$ be an undirected connected simple graph on $n$ vertices. A cut-equivalent tree of $G$ is an edge-weighted tree on the same vertex set $V$, such that for any pair of vertices $s, t\in V$, the minimum $(s, t)$-cut in the tree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Tianyi Zhang

Low Diameter Decompositions (LDDs) are invaluable tools in the design of combinatorial graph algorithms. While historically they have been applied mainly to undirected graphs, in the recent breakthrough for the negative-length Single Source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Karl Bringmann , Nick Fischer , Bernhard Haeupler , Rustam Latypov