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All traditional methods of computing shortest paths depend upon edge-relaxation where the cost of reaching a vertex from a source vertex is possibly decreased if that edge is used. We introduce a method which maintains lower bounds as well…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Vijay K. Garg

Dijkstra's algorithm for the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem is notoriously hard to parallelize in $o(n)$ depth, $n$ being the number of vertices in the input graph, without increasing the required parallel work unreasonably.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Michael Kainer , Jesper Larsson Träff

The Dijkstra algorithm is a classic path planning method, which operates in a discrete graph space to determine the shortest path from a specified source point to a target node or all other nodes based on non-negative edge weights. Numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yu Zhang , Xiao-Song Yang

This paper describes the shortest path problem in weighted graphs and examines the differences in efficiency that occur when using Dijkstra's algorithm with a Fibonacci heap, binary heap, and self-balancing binary tree. Using C++…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Rhyd Lewis

We describe a new forward-backward variant of Dijkstra's and Spira's Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) algorithms. While essentially all SSSP algorithm only scan edges forward, the new algorithm scans some edges backward. The new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-30 David B. Wilson , Uri Zwick

The single-source shortest path problem is a classical problem in the research field of graph algorithm. In this paper, a new single-source shortest path algorithm for nonnegative weight graph is proposed. The algorithm can compress…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Yunpeng Li

We study the 2-Disjoint Shortest Paths (2-DSP) problem: given a directed weighted graph and two terminal pairs $(s_1,t_1)$ and $(s_2,t_2)$, decide whether there exist vertex-disjoint shortest paths between each pair. Building on recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Keerti Choudhary , Amit Kumar , Lakshay Saggi

Although Dijkstra's algorithm has near-optimal time complexity for the problem of finding a shortest path from a given vertex $s$ to a given vertex $t$, in practice other algorithms are often superior on huge graphs. A prominent example is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , Vaclav Rozhon , Robert E. Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

We revisit the problem of finding the shortest path between two selected vertices of a graph and formulate this as an $\ell_1$-regularized regression -- Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (lasso). We draw connections between a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Anqi Dong , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Tryphon T. Georgiou

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

The shortest paths problem is a fundamental challenge in graph theory, with a broad range of potential applications. The algorithms based on matrix multiplication exhibits excellent parallelism and scalability, but is constrained by high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yelai Feng , Huaixi Wang , Yining Zhu , Xiandong Liu , Hongyi Lu , Qing Liu

We study the NP-hard problem of approximating a Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Tree in the message passing model with limited bandwidth (CONGEST model). In this problem one tries to find a spanning tree of a graph $G$ over $n$ nodes that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Alexandra Hochuli , Stephan Holzer , Roger Wattenhofer

We present a novel algorithm for dynamic routing with dedicated path protection which, as the presented simulation results suggest, can be efficient and exact. We present the algorithm in the setting of optical networks, but it should be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Ireneusz Szcześniak , Ireneusz Olszewski , Bożena Woźna-Szcześniak

Recently we submitted a paper, whose title is A New Fast Unweighted All-pairs Shortest Path Search Algorithm Based on Pruning by Shortest Path Trees, to arXiv. This is related to unweighted graphs. This paper also presents a new fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yasuo Yamane , Kenichi Kobayashi

The k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) query over moving objects on road networks is essential for location-based services. Recently, this problem has been studied under road networks with distance as the metric, overlooking fluctuating travel costs.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mingjin Tao , Kailin Jiao , Yawen Li , Wei Liu , Ziqiang Yu

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

The Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem is a cornerstone of computer science with vast applications, for which Dijkstra's algorithm has long been the classical baseline. While various quantum algorithms have been proposed, their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Phuc Hao Do , Tran Duc Le

The Least Loaded (LL) routing algorithm has been in recent decades the routing method of choice in circuit switched networks and therefore it provides a benchmark against which new methods can be compared. This paper improves the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Gangxiang Shen , Longfei Li , Ya Zhang , Wei Chen , Sanjay K. Bose , Moshe Zukerman

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have shown promise in aiding and accelerating classical combinatorial optimization algorithms. ML-based speed ups that aim to learn in an end to end manner (i.e., directly output the solution) tend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zohair Shafi , Benjamin A. Miller , Ayan Chatterjee , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Rajmonda S. Caceres

This paper presents a new deterministic algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on real non-negative edge-weighted directed graphs, with running time $O(m\sqrt{\log n}+\sqrt{mn\log n\log \log n})$, which is $O(m\sqrt{\log n\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ran Duan , Xiao Mao , Xinkai Shu , Longhui Yin