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This paper investigates the complexity of finding secluded paths in graphs. We focus on the \textsc{Short Secluded Path} problem and a natural new variant we introduce, \textsc{Shortest Secluded Path}. Formally, given an undirected graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tesshu Hanaka , Daisuke Tsuru

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 consider the parameterized complexity of the problem of tracking shortest s-t paths in graphs, motivated by applications in security and wireless networks. Given an undirected and unweighted graph with a source s and a destination t,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aritra Banik , Pratibha Choudhary , Venkatesh Raman , Saket Saurabh

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

The purpose of this work is to introduce and characterize the Bounded Acceleration Shortest Path (BASP) problem, a generalization of the Shortest Path (SP) problem. This problem is associated to a graph: the nodes represent positions of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Stefano Ardizzoni , Luca Consolini , Mattia Laurini , Marco Locatelli

There have lately been several suggestions for parametrized distances on a graph that generalize the shortest path distance and the commute time or resistance distance. The need for developing such distances has risen from the observation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Ilkka Kivimäki , Masashi Shimbo , Marco Saerens

The parametric shortest path problem is to find the shortest paths in graph where the edge costs are of the form w_ij+lambda where each w_ij is constant and lambda is a parameter that varies. The problem is to find shortest path trees for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Neal Young , Robert Tarjan , James Orlin

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

We consider the problem of computing all pairs shortest paths (APSP) and shortest paths for k sources in a weighted graph in the distributed CONGEST model. For graphs with non-negative integer edge weights (including zero weights) we build…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Udit Agarwal , Vijaya Ramachandran

We prove essentially tight lower bounds, conditionally to the Exponential Time Hypothesis, for two fundamental but seemingly very different cutting problems on surface-embedded graphs: the Shortest Cut Graph problem and the Multiway Cut…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Éric Colin de Verdière , Daniel Marx , Arnaud de Mesmay

We study the {\em $k$-route} generalizations of various cut problems, the most general of which is \emph{$k$-route multicut} ($k$-MC) problem, wherein we have $r$ source-sink pairs and the goal is to delete a minimum-cost set of edges to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Guru Guruganesh , Laura Sanita , Chaitanya Swamy

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

We present improved deterministic algorithms for approximating shortest paths in the Congested Clique model of distributed computing. We obtain $poly(\log\log n)$-round algorithms for the following problems in unweighted undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Michal Dory , Merav Parter

The $k$-Detour problem is a basic path-finding problem: given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, with specified nodes $s$ and $t$, and a positive integer $k$, the goal is to determine if $G$ has an $st$-path of length exactly $\text{dist}(s, t) +…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shyan Akmal , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Ryan Williams , Zixuan Xu

In this extended abstract, we report on ongoing work towards an approximate multimodal optimization algorithm with asymptotic guarantees. Multimodal optimization is the problem of finding all local optimal solutions (modes) to a path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Andreas Orthey , Florian T. Pokorny , Marc Toussaint

This work concerns with proving space lower bounds for graph problems in the streaming model. It is known that computing the length of shortest path between two nodes in the streaming model requires $\Omega(n)$ space, where $n$ is the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Paritosh Verma

Cycle packing is a fundamental problem in optimization, graph theory, and algorithms. Motivated by recent advancements in finding vertex-disjoint paths between a specified set of vertices that either minimize the total length of the paths…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tuukka Korhonen , William Lochet , Fahad Panolan , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh , Kirill Simonov

Reconfiguring two shortest paths in a graph means modifying one shortest path to the other by changing one vertex at a time so that all the intermediate paths are also shortest paths. This problem has several natural applications, namely:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kshitij Gajjar , Agastya Vibhuti Jha , Manish Kumar , Abhiruk Lahiri

We introduce a general method for obtaining fixed-parameter algorithms for problems about finding paths in undirected graphs, where the length of the path could be unbounded in the parameter. The first application of our method is as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tuukka Korhonen , Kirill Simonov , Giannos Stamoulis

The shortest secure path (routing) problem in communication networks has to deal with multiple attack layers e.g., man-in-the-middle, eavesdropping, packet injection, packet insertion, etc. Consider different probabilities for each such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Manish Kumar