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The problem of finding multiple simple shortest paths in a weighted directed graph $G=(V,E)$ has many applications, and is considerably more difficult than the corresponding problem when cycles are allowed in the paths. Even for a single…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Udit Agarwal , Vijaya Ramachandran

We give a quantum algorithm for a novel type of black-box problem: identifying a hidden $d$-regular base graph $G$ on $n$ vertices from oracle access to an obfuscated version of it, rather than traversing it. From $G$ we build the spired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Pawel Wocjan

Continuous-time quantum walks provide a natural framework to tackle the fundamental problem of finding a node among a set of marked nodes in a graph, known as spatial search. Whether spatial search by continuous-time quantum walk provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-24 Simon Apers , Shantanav Chakraborty , Leonardo Novo , Jérémie Roland

One of the most important algorithmic applications of quantum walks is to solve spatial search problems. A widely used quantum algorithm for this problem, introduced by Childs and Goldstone [Phys. Rev. A 70, 022314 (2004)], finds a marked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Shantanav Chakraborty , Leonardo Novo , Jérémie Roland

We present an algorithm for the k shortest simple path problem on weighted directed graphs (kSSP) that is based on Eppstein's algorithm for a similar problem in which paths are allowed to contain cycles. In contrast to most other algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Denis Kurz , Petra Mutzel

Given an undirected, unweighted graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the maximum cut problem is to find a partition of the $n$ vertices into disjoint subsets $V_1$ and $V_2$ such that the number of edges between them is as large as…

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

Given in the plane a set $S$ of $n$ points and a set of disks centered at these points, the disk graph $G(S)$ induced by these disks has vertex set $S$ and an edge between two vertices if their disks intersect. Note that the disks may have…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Bruce W. Brewer , Haitao Wang

In most of the shortest path problems like vehicle routing problems and network routing problems, we only need an efficient path between two points source and destination, and it is not necessary to calculate the shortest path from source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Muhammad Aasim Qureshi , Dr. Fadzil B. Hassan , Sohail Safdar , Rehan Akbar

Due to the computational complexity of finding almost shortest simple paths, we propose that identifying a larger collection of (nonbacktracking) paths is more efficient than finding almost shortest simple paths on positively weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-08 David Burstein , Leigh Metcalf

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

The Maximum Matching problem has a quantum query complexity lower bound of $\Omega(n^{3/2})$ for graphs on $n$ vertices represented by an adjacency matrix. The current best quantum algorithm has the query complexity $O(n^{7/4})$, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Alcides Gomes Andrade Júnior , Akira Matsubayashi

We give fast, simple, and implementable catalytic logspace algorithms for two fundamental graph problems. First, a randomized catalytic algorithm for $s\to t$ connectivity running in $\widetilde{O}(nm)$ time, and a deterministic catalytic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 James Cook , Edward Pyne

We present parallel algorithms for computing single-source reachability and shortest paths on directed $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs using near-linear $\tilde{O}(m)$ work and $o(\sqrt{n})$ depth whenever $m\ge n^{1+o(1)}$. At the extreme of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Large scale complex systems, such as social networks, electrical power grid, database structure, consumption pattern or brain connectivity, are often modeled using network graphs. Valuable insight can be gained by measuring the similarity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Callum Schofield , Jingbo B. Wang , Yuying Li

The problem of listing the $K$ shortest simple (loopless) $st$-paths in a graph has been studied since the early 1960s. For a non-negatively weighted graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the most efficient solution is an $O(K(mn + n^2…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Romeo Rizzi , Gustavo Sacomoto , Marie-France Sagot

Quantum computing promises to improve the information processing power to levels unreachable by classical computation. Quantum walks are heading the development of quantum algorithms for searching information on graphs more efficiently than…

We present quantum algorithms for various problems related to graph connectivity. We give simple and query-optimal algorithms for cycle detection and odd-length cycle detection (bipartiteness) using a reduction to st-connectivity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Kai DeLorenzo , Shelby Kimmel , R. Teal Witter

Fine-grained reductions have established equivalences between many core problems with $\tilde{O}(n^3)$-time algorithms on $n$-node weighted graphs, such as Shortest Cycle, All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP), Radius, Replacement Paths, Second…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Andrea Lincoln , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Ryan Williams

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