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Let $H$ be a fixed graph and let $G$ be an $H$-minor free $n$-vertex graph with integer edge weights and no negative weight cycles reachable from a given vertex $s$. We present an algorithm that computes a shortest path tree in $G$ rooted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We consider the problem of query-efficient global max-cut on a weighted undirected graph in the value oracle model examined by [RSW18]. Graph algorithms in this cut query model and other query models have recently been studied for various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Orestis Plevrakis , Seyoon Ragavan , S. Matthew Weinberg

We study the fully dynamic All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in undirected edge-weighted graphs. Given an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with non-negative edge lengths, that undergoes an online sequence of edge insertions and deletions, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Julia Chuzhoy , Ruimin Zhang

Low Diameter Decompositions (LDDs) are invaluable tools in the design of combinatorial graph algorithms. While historically they have been applied mainly to undirected graphs, in the recent breakthrough for the negative-length Single Source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Karl Bringmann , Nick Fischer , Bernhard Haeupler , Rustam Latypov

We consider the single-source shortest paths problem on a directed graph with real-valued (possibly negative) edge weights and solve this problem in $n^{2+o(1)}$ time by refining the shortcutting procedure introduced in Li, Li, Rao, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 George Z. Li , Jason Li , Junkai Zhang

In this paper, we present two approximation algorithms for the directed multi-multiway cut and directed multicut problems. The so called region growing paradigm \cite{1} is modified and used for these two cut problems on directed graphs. By…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Ramin Yarinezhad , Seyed Naser Hashemi

We study the vertex-decremental Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem: given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with lengths $\ell(e)\geq 1$ on its edges and a source vertex $s$, we need to support (approximate) shortest-path queries in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

Vizing's celebrated theorem states that every simple graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ admits a $(\Delta+1)$ edge coloring which can be found in $O(m \cdot n)$ time on $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs. This is just one color more than the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sepehr Assadi

We present the first data structures that maintain near optimal maximum cardinality and maximum weighted matchings on sparse graphs in sublinear time per update. Our main result is a data structure that maintains a $(1+\epsilon)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Manoj Gupta , Richard Peng

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

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

We present a massively parallel algorithm, with near-linear memory per machine, that computes a $(2+\varepsilon)$-approximation of minimum-weight vertex cover in $O(\log\log d)$ rounds, where $d$ is the average degree of the input graph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Mohsen Ghaffari , Ce Jin , Daan Nilis

We consider the Minimum Steiner Cut problem on undirected planar graphs with non-negative edge weights. This problem involves finding the minimum cut of the graph that separates a specified subset $X$ of vertices (terminals) into two parts.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Stephen Jue , Philip N. Klein

Minimum Weight Cycle (MWC) is the problem of finding a simple cycle of minimum weight in a graph $G=(V,E)$. This is a fundamental graph problem with classical sequential algorithms that run in $\tilde{O}(n^3)$ and $\tilde{O}(mn)$ time where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Vignesh Manoharan , Vijaya Ramachandran

We revisit Min-Mean-Cycle, the classical problem of finding a cycle in a weighted directed graph with minimum mean weight. Despite an extensive algorithmic literature, previous work falls short of a near-linear runtime in the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jason M. Altschuler , Pablo A. Parrilo

In most of the shortest path problems like vehicle routing problems and network routing problems, we only need an efficient path between two points source and destination, and it is not necessary to calculate the shortest path from source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Muhammad Aasim Qureshi , Dr. Fadzil B. Hassan , Sohail Safdar , Rehan Akbar

In this paper, we develop deterministic fully dynamic algorithms for computing approximate distances in a graph with worst-case update time guarantees. In particular, we obtain improved dynamic algorithms that, given an unweighted and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari

We present parallel algorithms for computing single-source reachability and shortest paths on directed $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs using near-linear $\tilde{O}(m)$ work and $o(\sqrt{n})$ depth whenever $m\ge n^{1+o(1)}$. At the extreme of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We propose an $O(\log n)$-approximation algorithm for the bipartiteness ratio of undirected graphs introduced by Trevisan (SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 41, no. 6, 2012), where $n$ is the number of vertices. Our approach extends the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tasuku Soma , Mingquan Ye , Yuichi Yoshida

Given a directed graph $G$ with arbitrary real-valued weights, the single source shortest-path problem (SSSP) asks for, given a source $s$ in $G$, finding a shortest path from $s$ to each vertex $v$ in $G$. A classical SSSP algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Sanjiang Li , Yongming Li