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We present two new algorithms for solving the {\em All Pairs Shortest Paths} (APSP) problem for weighted directed graphs. Both algorithms use fast matrix multiplication algorithms. The first algorithm solves the APSP problem for weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Uri Zwick

Complex systems of interacting components often can be modeled by a simple graph $\mathcal{G}$ that consists of a set of $n$ nodes and a set of $m$ edges. Such a graph can be represented by an adjacency matrix $A\in\R^{n\times n}$, whose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-17 Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

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 study how to sparsify connectivity in graphs under a tight deletion budget. Given a graph $G$ and integers $k,x \ge 0$, Critical Node Cut (CNC) asks whether we can delete at most $k$ vertices so that the number of remaining unordered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Dušan Knop , Nikolaos Melissinos , Manolis Vasilakis

We study the complexity of some algorithmic problems on directed hypergraphs and their strongly connected components (SCCs). The main contribution is an almost linear time algorithm computing the terminal strongly connected components (i.e.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Xavier Allamigeon

In real life, it is always an urge to reach our goal in minimum effort i.e., it should have a minimum constrained path. The path may be shortest route in practical life, either physical or electronic medium. The scenario is to represents…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Sounak Sadhukhan , Samar Sen Sarma

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

Single Source Shortest Paths ($\textrm{SSSP}$) is among the most well-studied problems in computer science. In the incremental (resp. decremental) setting, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source in a graph undergoing edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Barna Saha , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu , Christopher Ye

We develop a novel graph-based trainable framework to maximize the weighted sum energy efficiency (WSEE) for power allocation in wireless communication networks. To address the non-convex nature of the problem, the proposed method consists…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Boning Li , Gunjan Verma , Santiago Segarra

In many models for large-scale computation, decomposition of the problem is key to efficient algorithms. For distance-related graph problems, it is often crucial that such a decomposition results in clusters of small diameter, while the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Ruben Becker , Yuval Emek , Christoph Lenzen

The paper addresses challenges in storing and retrieving sequences in contexts like anomaly detection, behavior prediction, and genetic information analysis. Associative Knowledge Graphs (AKGs) offer a promising approach by leveraging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Przemysław Stokłosa , Janusz A. Starzyk , Paweł Raif , Adrian Horzyk , Marcin Kowalik

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

Given a directed edge-weighted graph $G=(V, E)$ with beer vertices $B\subseteq V$, a beer path between two vertices $u$ and $v$ is a path between $u$ and $v$ that visits at least one beer vertex in $B$, and the beer distance between two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono , Kunihiko Sadakane , Kosuke Sugiyama

We introduce a graph partitioning problem motivated by computational topology and propose two algorithms that produce approximate solutions. Specifically, given a weighted, undirected graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, we desire to find…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Abdel-Rahman Madkour , Phillip Nadolny , Matthew Wright

The All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem is one of the fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. It asks to compute the distance matrix of a given $n$-vertex graph. We revisit the classical problem of maintaining the distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Xiao Mao

We present two new and efficient algorithms for computing all-pairs shortest paths. The algorithms operate on directed graphs with real (possibly negative) weights. They make use of directed path consistency along a vertex ordering d. Both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Léon R. Planken , Mathijs M. de Weerdt , Roman P. J. van der Krogt

In the problem (Unweighted) Max-Cut we are given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and asked for a set $S \subseteq V$ such that the number of edges from $S$ to $V \setminus S$ is maximal. In this paper we consider an even harder problem: (Weighted)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hauke Brinkop , Klaus Jansen

A directed acyclic graph G = (V, E) is pseudo-transitive with respect to a given subset of edges E1, if for any edge ab in E1 and any edge bc in E, we have ac in E. We give algorithms for computing longest chains and demonstrate geometric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Farhad Shahrokhi

We investigate the Minimum Eccentricity Shortest Path problem in some structured graph classes. It asks for a given graph to find a shortest path with minimum eccentricity. Although it is NP-hard in general graphs, we demonstrate that a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Feodor F. Dragan , Arne Leitert

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