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Our work concerns algorithms for an unweighted variant of Maximum Flow. In the All-Pairs Connectivity (APC) problem, we are given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and are tasked with computing the maximum number of edge-disjoint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Shyan Akmal , Ce Jin

Emerging reconfigurable optical communication technologies allow to enhance datacenter topologies with demand-aware links optimized towards traffic patterns. This paper studies the algorithmic problem of jointly optimizing topology and…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Wenkai Dai , Michael Dinitz , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Long Luo , Stefan Schmid

In the problem of minimum connected dominating set with routing cost constraint, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$, and the goal is to find the smallest connected dominating set $D$ of $G$ such that, for any two non-adjacent vertices $u$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Tung-Wei Kuo

Increasing the connectivity of a graph is a pivotal challenge in robust network design. The weighted connectivity augmentation problem is a common version of the problem that takes link costs into consideration. The problem is then to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Ernestine Großmann , Felix Joos , Thomas Möller , Christian Schulz

Motivated by the problem of estimating bottleneck capacities on the Internet, we formulate and study the problem of vantage point selection. We are given a graph $G=(V, E)$ whose edges $E$ have unknown capacity values that are to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Rezaul Chowdhury , Jie Gao , Mayank Goswami , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Valentin Polishchuk

Edge-Geodetic Sets play a crucial role in network monitoring and optimization, wherein the goal is to strategically place monitoring stations on vertices of a network, represented as a graph, to ensure complete coverage of edges and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Giordano Colli

Given an $n$-vertex non-negatively real-weighted graph $G$, whose vertices are partitioned into a set of $k$ clusters, a \emph{clustered network design problem} on $G$ consists of solving a given network design optimization problem on $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Mattia D'Emidio , Luca Forlizzi , Daniele Frigioni , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

We investigate problems addressing combined connectivity augmentation and orientations settings. We give a polynomial-time 6-approximation algorithm for finding a minimum cost subgraph of an undirected graph $G$ that admits an orientation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Mohit Singh , László A. Végh

We study the knapsack problem with graph theoretic constraints. That is, we assume that there exists a graph structure on the set of items of knapsack and the solution also needs to satisfy certain graph theoretic properties on top of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Palash Dey , Sudeshna Kolay , Sipra Singh

We study algorithmic and structural aspects of connectivity in hypergraphs. Given a hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ with $n = |V|$, $m = |E|$ and $p = \sum_{e \in E} |e|$ the best known algorithm to compute a global minimum cut in $H$ runs in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Chandra Chekuri , Chao Xu

We give a poly-time algorithm for the $k$-edge-connected spanning subgraph ($k$-ECSS) problem that returns a solution of cost no greater than the cheapest $(k+10)$-ECSS on the same graph. Our approach enhances the iterative relaxation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-25 D Ellis Hershkowitz , Nathan Klein , Rico Zenklusen

In the Survivable Network Design problem (SNDP), we are given an undirected graph $G(V,E)$ with costs on edges, along with a connectivity requirement $r(u,v)$ for each pair $u,v$ of vertices. The goal is to find a minimum-cost subset $E^*$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-24 Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

The 2-Edge-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem (2ECSS) is among the most basic survivable network design problems: given an undirected and unweighted graph, the task is to find a spanning subgraph with the minimum number of edges that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Miguel Bosch-Calvo , Mohit Garg , Fabrizio Grandoni , Felix Hommelsheim , Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Alexander Lindermayr

The basic goal of survivable network design is to construct low-cost networks which preserve a sufficient level of connectivity despite the failure or removal of a few nodes or edges. One of the most basic problems in this area is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Mohit Garg , Fabrizio Grandoni , Afrouz Jabal Ameli

For an edge-weighted connected undirected graph, the minimum $k$-way cut problem is to find a subset of edges of minimum total weight whose removal separates the graph into $k$ connected components. The problem is NP-hard when $k$ is part…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Mingyu Xiao , Leizhen Cai , Andrew C. Yao

We design improved approximation algorithms for NP-hard graph problems by incorporating predictions (e.g., learned from past data). Our prediction model builds upon and extends the $\varepsilon$-prediction framework by Cohen-Addad, d'Orsi,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Anders Aamand , Justin Y. Chen , Siddharth Gollapudi , Sandeep Silwal , Hao Wu

We present a 6-approximation algorithm for the minimum-cost $k$-node connected spanning subgraph problem, assuming that the number of nodes is at least $k^3(k-1)+k$. We apply a combinatorial preprocessing, based on the Frank-Tardos…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Joseph Cheriyan , Laszlo A. Vegh

The All-Pairs Min-Cut problem (aka All-Pairs Max-Flow) asks to compute a minimum $s$-$t$ cut (or just its value) for all pairs of vertices $s,t$. We study this problem in directed graphs with unit edge/vertex capacities (corresponding to…

We consider a new problem of designing a network with small $s$-$t$ effective resistance. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, two designated vertices $s,t \in V$, and a budget $k$. The goal is to choose a subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Pak Hay Chan , Lap Chi Lau , Aaron Schild , Sam Chiu-wai Wong , Hong Zhou

Motivated by the increasing need to understand the algorithmic foundations of distributed large-scale graph computations, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing where $k \geq 2$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato