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We present a parallel algorithm for computing $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate mincost flow on an undirected graph with $m$ edges, where capacities and costs are assigned to both edges and vertices. Our algorithm achieves $\hat{O}(m)$ work and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Bernhard Haeupler , Yonggang Jiang , Yaowei Long , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Shengzhe Wang

We present a nearly linear work parallel algorithm for approximating the Held-Karp bound for the Metric TSP problem. Given an edge-weighted undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ on $m$ edges and $\epsilon>0$, it returns a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhuan Khye Koh , Omri Weinstein , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

Randomized parallel algorithms for many fundamental problems achieve optimal linear work in expectation, but upgrading this guarantee to hold with high probability (whp) remains a recurring theoretical challenge. In this paper, we address…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod

In this paper, we show new strongly polynomial work-depth tradeoffs for computing single-source shortest paths (SSSP) in non-negatively weighted directed graphs in parallel. Most importantly, we prove that directed SSSP can be solved within…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Adam Karczmarz , Wojciech Nadara , Marek Sokołowski

We present semi-streaming algorithms for basic graph problems that have optimal per-edge processing times and therefore surpass all previous semi-streaming algorithms for these tasks. The semi-streaming model, which is appropriate when…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-09-03 Mariano Zelke

We provide linear-time algorithms for geometric graphs with sublinearly many crossings. That is, we provide algorithms running in O(n) time on connected geometric graphs having n vertices and k crossings, where k is smaller than n by an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-12-16 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Darren Strash

We examine the possibility of approximating Maximum Vertex-Disjoint Shortest Paths. In this problem, the input is an edge-weighted (directed or undirected) $n$-vertex graph $G$ along with $k$ terminal pairs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach

We present the first semi-streaming algorithms to determine k-connectivity of an undirected graph with k being any constant. The semi-streaming model for graph algorithms was introduced by Muthukrishnan in 2003 and turns out to be useful…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mariano Zelke

We present randomized algorithms that compute $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate minimum global edge and vertex cuts in weighted directed graphs in $O(\log^4(n) / \epsilon)$ and $O(\log^5(n)/\epsilon)$ single-commodity flows, respectively. With the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Kent Quanrud

Computing the connected components of a graph is a fundamental problem in algorithmic graph theory. A major question in this area is whether we can compute connected components in $o(\log n)$ parallel time. Recent works showed an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Alireza Farhadi , S. Cliff Liu , Elaine Shi

We show the first near-linear time randomized algorithms for listing all minimum vertex cuts of polylogarithmic size that separate the graph into at least three connected components (also known as shredders) and for finding the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Kevin Hua , Daniel Li , Jaewoo Park , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We give the first parallel algorithm with optimal $\tilde{O}(m)$ work for the classical problem of computing Single-Source Shortest Paths in general graphs with negative-weight edges. In graphs without negative edges, Dijkstra's algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Nick Fischer , Bernhard Haeupler , Rustam Latypov , Antti Roeyskoe , Aurelio L. Sulser

We present a shared-memory algorithm to compute high-quality solutions to the balanced $k$-way hypergraph partitioning problem. This problem asks for a partition of the vertex set into $k$ disjoint blocks of bounded size that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Sebastian Schlag

Maintaining a $k$-core decomposition quickly in a dynamic graph has important applications in network analysis. The main challenge for designing efficient exact algorithms is that a single update to the graph can cause significant global…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Quanquan C. Liu , Jessica Shi , Shangdi Yu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

The paper proposes dynamic parallel algorithms for connectivity and bipartiteness of undirected graphs that require constant time and $O(n^{1/2+\epsilon})$ work on the CRCW PRAM model. The work of these algorithms almost matches the work of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jonas Schmidt , Thomas Schwentick

We present a factor $14D^2$ approximation algorithm for the minimum linear arrangement problem on series-parallel graphs, where $D$ is the maximum degree in the graph. Given a suitable decomposition of the graph, our algorithm runs in time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Martina Eikel , Christian Scheideler , Alexander Setzer

A fundamental question that shrouds the emergence of massively parallel computing (MPC) platforms is how can the additional power of the MPC paradigm be leveraged to achieve faster algorithms compared to classical parallel models such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Sepehr Assadi , Xiaorui Sun , Omri Weinstein

In this paper, we propose a paradigm for processing in parallel graph joins in road networks. The methodology we present can be used for distance join processing among the elements of two disjoint sets R,S of nodes from the road network,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-27 George Tsatsanifos

Given $k$ pairs of terminals $\{(s_{1}, t_{1}), \ldots, (s_{k}, t_{k})\}$ in a graph $G$, the min-sum $k$ vertex-disjoint paths problem is to find a collection $\{Q_{1}, Q_{2}, \ldots, Q_{k}\}$ of vertex-disjoint paths with minimum total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Glencora Borradaile , Amir Nayyeri , Farzad Zafarani

On an evolving graph that is continuously updated by a high-velocity stream of edges, how can one efficiently maintain if two vertices are connected? This is the connectivity problem, a fundamental and widely studied problem on graphs. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Natcha Simsiri , Kanat Tangwongsan , Srikanta Tirthapura , Kun-Lung Wu