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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

The multi-commodity flow-cut gap is a fundamental parameter that affects the performance of several divide \& conquer algorithms, and has been extensively studied for various classes of undirected graphs. It has been shown by Linial, London…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

We explore here surprising links between the time-cost-tradeoff problem and the minimum cost flow problem that lead to fast, strongly polynomial, algorithms for both problems. One of the main results is a new algorithm for the unit capacity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Dorit S. Hochbaum

In this paper, we consider the problem of approximating the densest subgraph in the dynamic graph stream model. In this model of computation, the input graph is defined by an arbitrary sequence of edge insertions and deletions and the goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Andrew McGregor , David Tench , Sofya Vorotnikova , Hoa T. Vu

The One Sided Crossing Minimization (OSCM) problem is an optimization problem in graph drawing that aims to minimize the number of edge crossings in bipartite graph layouts. It has practical applications in areas such as network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bogdan-Ioan Popa , Adrian-Marius Dumitran , Livia Magureanu

We present faster approximation algorithms for generalized network flow problems. A generalized flow is one in which the flow out of an edge differs from the flow into the edge by a constant factor. We limit ourselves to the lossy case,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-07 Samuel I. Daitch , Daniel A. Spielman

We study the unsplittable flow on a path problem (UFP) where we are given a path with non-negative edge capacities and tasks, which are characterized by a subpath, a demand, and a profit. The goal is to find the most profitable subset of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Aris Anagnostopoulos , Fabrizio Grandoni , Stefano Leonardi , Andreas Wiese

We give the first local algorithm for computing multi-commodity flow and apply it to obtain a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate algorithm for computing a $k$-commodity flow on an expander with $m$ edges in $(m+\epsilon^{-3}k^3D)n^{o(1)}$ time,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jason Li , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We give a deterministic algorithm for computing a global minimum vertex cut in a vertex-weighted graph $n$ vertices and $m$ edges in $\widehat O(mn)$ time. This breaks the long-standing $\widehat \Omega(n^{4})$-time barrier in dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yonggang Jiang , Chaitanya Nalam , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

Coflow scheduling models communication requests in parallel computing frameworks where multiple data flows between shared resources need to be completed before computation can continue. In this paper, we introduce Path-based Coflow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Alexander Eckl , Luisa Peter , Maximilian Schiffer , Susanne Albers

We give an algorithm that takes a directed graph $G$ undergoing $m$ edge insertions with lengths in $[1, W]$, and maintains $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate shortest path distances from a fixed source $s$ to all other vertices. The algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yang P. Liu

Many of the classic graph problems cannot be solved in the Massively Parallel Computation setting (MPC) with strongly sublinear space per machine and $o(\log n)$ rounds, unless the 1-vs-2 cycles conjecture is false. This is true even on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jacob Holm , Jakub Tětek

We study the problem of computing an approximate maximum cardinality matching in the semi-streaming model when edges arrive in a \emph{random} order. In the semi-streaming model, the edges of the input graph G = (V,E) are given as a stream…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Aaron Bernstein

Expander decompositions have become one of the central frameworks in the design of fast algorithms. For an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, a near-optimal $\phi$-expander decomposition is a partition $V_1, V_2, \ldots, V_k$ of the vertex set $V$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Daoyuan Chen , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We provide universally-optimal distributed graph algorithms for $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate shortest path problems including shortest-path-tree and transshipment. The universal optimality of our algorithms guarantees that, on any $n$-node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Goran Zuzic , Gramoz Goranci , Mingquan Ye , Bernhard Haeupler , Xiaorui Sun

We study the problem of computing approximate minimum edge cuts by distributed algorithms. We use a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round, $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over each edge (a.k.a. the CONGEST…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

We provide evidence that computing the maximum flow value between every pair of nodes in a directed graph on $n$ nodes, $m$ edges,and capacities in the range $[1..n]$, which we call the All-Pairs Max-Flow problem, cannot be solved in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Robert Krauthgamer , Ohad Trabelsi

Consider the classical Min-Sum Set Cover problem: We are given a universe $\mathcal{U}$ of $n$ elements and a collection $\mathcal{S}$ of $k$ subsets of $\mathcal{U}$. Moreover, a cost function is associated with each set. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Michał Szyfelbein

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

We give the first almost-linear time algorithms for several problems in incremental graphs including cycle detection, strongly connected component maintenance, $s$-$t$ shortest path, maximum flow, and minimum-cost flow. To solve these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Yang P. Liu , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg