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The single-source shortest path (SSSP) problem is a well-studied problem that is used in many applications. In the parallel setting, a work-efficient algorithm that additionally attains $o(n)$ parallel depth has been elusive. Alternatively,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Kyle Berney , John Iacono , Ben Karsin , Nodari Sitchinava

Safety is extremely important for urban flights of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Risk-aware path planning is one of the most effective methods to guarantee the safety of UAVs. This type of planning can be represented as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jun Xiang , Jun Chen

Graphs have been commonly used to model many applications. A natural problem which abstracts applications such as itinerary planning, playlist recommendation, and flow analysis in information networks is that of finding the heaviest path(s)…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Mohammad Khabbaz , Smriti Bhagat , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

In the dynamic Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ subject to edge insertions and deletions and a source vertex $s\in V$, and the goal is to maintain the distance $d(s,t)$ for all $t\in V$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

Constrained Stochastic Shortest Path Problems (CSSPs) model problems with probabilistic effects, where a primary cost is minimised subject to constraints over secondary costs, e.g., minimise time subject to monetary budget. Current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Johannes Schmalz , Felipe Trevizan

The Shortest-Path Problem in Graph of Convex Sets (SPP in GCS) is a recently developed optimization framework that blends discrete and continuous decision making. Many relevant problems in robotics, such as collision-free motion planning,…

We introduce stronger notions for approximate single-source shortest-path distances, show how to efficiently compute them from weaker standard notions, and demonstrate the algorithmic power of these new notions and transformations. One…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Václav Rozhoň , Bernhard Haeupler , Anders Martinsson , Christoph Grunau , Goran Zuzic

More and more large data collections are gathered worldwide in various IT systems. Many of them possess the networked nature and need to be processed and analysed as graph structures. Due to their size they require very often usage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Tomasz Kajdanowicz , Przemyslaw Kazienko , Wojciech Indyk

All Colors Shortest Path problem defined on an undirected graph aims at finding a shortest, possibly non-simple, path where every color occurs at least once, assuming that each vertex in the graph is associated with a color known in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Yunus Can Bilge , Doğukan Çağatay , Begüm Genç , Mecit Sarı , Hüseyin Akcan , Cem Evrendilek

The classic Resource Constrained Shortest Path (RCSP) problem aims to find a cost optimal path between a pair of nodes in a network such that the resources used in the path are within a given limit. Having been studied for over a decade,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Saman Ahmadi , Andrea Raith , Guido Tack , Mahdi Jalili

Policy optimization is among the most popular and successful reinforcement learning algorithms, and there is increasing interest in understanding its theoretical guarantees. In this work, we initiate the study of policy optimization for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Liyu Chen , Haipeng Luo , Aviv Rosenberg

A shortest-path algorithm finds a path containing the minimal cost between two vertices in a graph. A plethora of shortest-path algorithms is studied in the literature that span across multiple disciplines. This paper presents a survey of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Amgad Madkour , Walid G. Aref , Faizan Ur Rehman , Mohamed Abdur Rahman , Saleh Basalamah

In the decremental $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n = |V|, m = |E|$, undergoing edge deletions, and a distinguished source $s \in V$, and we are asked to process…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

Shortest path (SP) computation is the building block for many location-based services, and achieving high throughput SP query processing with real-time response is crucial for those services. However, existing solutions can hardly handle…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xinjie Zhou , Mengxuan Zhang , Lei Li , Xiaofang Zhou

In the real-time decision-making and local planning process of autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments, the autonomous driving system may fail to find a reasonable policy or even gets trapped in some situation due to the complexity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Lilin Qian , Xin Xu , Yujun Zeng , Xiaohui Li , Zhenping Sun , Hang Song

The Resource Constrained Shortest Path Problem (RCSPP) is a fundamental combinatorial optimisation problem in which the goal is to find a least-cost path in a directed graph subject to one or more resource constraints. In this paper we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Bjørn Petersen , Simon Spoorendonk

Probabilistic sampling methods have become very popular to solve single-shot path planning problems. Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) in particular have been shown to be very efficient in solving high dimensional problems. Even though…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-12-03 Nicolas A. Barriga , Mauricio Araya-López , Mauricio Solar

We present a randomized algorithm for the single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem on directed graphs with arbitrary real-valued edge weights that runs in $n^{2+o(1)}$ time with high probability. This result yields the first almost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Sanjeev Khanna , Junkai Song

The Shortest Paths Problem (SPP) is no longer unresolved. Just for a large scalar of instance on this problem, even we cannot know if an algorithm achieves the computing. Those cutting-edge methods are still in the low performance. If we go…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Yong Tan

In this work, we present a novel sampling-based path planning method, called SPRINT. The method finds solutions for high dimensional path planning problems quickly and robustly. Its efficiency comes from minimizing the number of collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Daniel Rakita , Bilge Mutlu , Michael Gleicher