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We design a generic method for reducing the task of finding weighted matchings to that of finding short augmenting paths in unweighted graphs. This method enables us to provide efficient implementations for approximating weighted matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Buddhima Gamlath , Sagar Kale , Slobodan Mitrović , Ola Svensson

Despite persistent efforts, there is no known technique for obtaining unconditional super-linear lower bounds for the computational complexity of the problems in P. Vassilevska Williams and Williams introduce a fruitful approach to advance…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Mahdi Boroujeni , Sina Dehghani , Soheil Ehsani , MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi , Saeed Seddighin

We consider the fundamental algorithmic problem of finding a cycle of minimum weight in a weighted graph. In particular, we show that the minimum weight cycle problem in an undirected n-node graph with edge weights in {1,...,M} or in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-15 Liam Roditty , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We propose a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm for the \textsc{Max-Cut} problem on embedded 1-planar graphs parameterized by the crossing number $k$ of the given embedding. A graph is called 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-08 Christine Dahn , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel

Max-Cut is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem that has been studied in various computational settings. We initiate the study of its streaming complexity in \emph{general metric spaces} with access to distance oracles. We give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Pan Peng , Haoze Wang

We present the first non-trivial algorithm for the all-pairs minimum cut problem in the cut-query model. Given cut-query access to an unweighted graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices, our randomized algorithm constructs a Gomory-Hu tree of $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yotam Kenneth-Mordoch , Robert Krauthgamer

The balanced hypergraph partitioning problem is to partition a hypergraph into $k$ disjoint blocks of bounded size such that the sum of the number of blocks connected by each hyperedge is minimized. We present an improvement to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Lars Gottesbüren , Michael Hamann , Sebastian Schlag , Dorothea Wagner

The input to the Multiway Cut problem is a weighted undirected graph, with nonnegative edge weights, and $k$ designated terminals. The goal is to partition the vertices of the graph into $k$ parts, each containing exactly one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joshua Brakensiek , Neng Huang , Aaron Potechin , Uri Zwick

As two fundamental problems, graph cuts and graph matching have been investigated over decades, resulting in vast literature in these two topics respectively. However the way of jointly applying and solving graph cuts and matching receives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tianshu Yu , Junchi Yan , Jieyi Zhao , Baoxin Li

We introduce a new computational model for data streams: asymptotically exact streaming algorithms. These algorithms have an approximation ratio that tends to one as the length of the stream goes to infinity while the memory used by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Marc Heinrich , Alexander Munteanu , Christian Sohler

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

In this paper we provide an algorithm which given any $m$-edge $n$-vertex directed graph with integer capacities at most $U$ computes a maximum $s$-$t$ flow for any vertices $s$ and $t$ in $m^{11/8+o(1)}U^{1/4}$ time with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

We study distributed algorithms built around minor-based vertex sparsifiers, and give the first algorithm in the CONGEST model for solving linear systems in graph Laplacian matrices to high accuracy. Our Laplacian solver has a round…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Xiaorui Sun , Mingquan Ye

It is a major open problem whether the $(\min,+)$-product of two $n\times n$ matrices has a truly sub-cubic (i.e. $O(n^{3-\epsilon})$ for $\epsilon>0$) time algorithm, in particular since it is equivalent to the famous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Karl Bringmann , Fabrizio Grandoni , Barna Saha , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We consider the all pairs all shortest paths (APASP) problem, which maintains the shortest path dag rooted at every vertex in a directed graph G=(V,E) with positive edge weights. For this problem we present a decremental algorithm (that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Meghana Nasre , Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

Most graphs in real life keep changing with time. These changes can be in the form of insertion or deletion of edges or vertices. Such rapidly changing graphs motivate us to study dynamic graph algorithms. However, three important graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Manoj Gupta , Shahbaz Khan

{\sc Vertex $(s, t)$-Cut} and {\sc Vertex Multiway Cut} are two fundamental graph separation problems in algorithmic graph theory. We study matroidal generalizations of these problems, where in addition to the usual input, we are given a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Aritra Banik , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Satyabrata Jana , Saket Saurabh

A multiflow in a planar graph is uncrossed if its support paths do not cross. Recently such flows have played a role in approximation algorithms for maximum disjoint paths in "fully-planar" instances, where the combined supply-demand graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chandra Chekuri , Guyslain Naves , Joseph Poremba , F. Bruce Shepherd

We present a new randomized method for computing the min-plus product (a.k.a., tropical product) of two $n \times n$ matrices, yielding a faster algorithm for solving the all-pairs shortest path problem (APSP) in dense $n$-node directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Ryan Williams

We study the problem of computing a minimum $s$--$t$ cut in an unweighted, undirected graph via \emph{cut queries}. In this model, the input graph is accessed through an oracle that, given a subset of vertices $S \subseteq V$, returns the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yonggang Jiang , Danupon Nanongkai , Pachara Sawettamalya