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Decision tree optimization is notoriously difficult from a computational perspective but essential for the field of interpretable machine learning. Despite efforts over the past 40 years, only recently have optimization breakthroughs been…

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Optimal power flow (OPF) is the central optimization problem in electric power grids. Although solved routinely in the course of power grid operations, it is known to be strongly NP-hard in general, and weakly NP-hard over tree networks. In…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Michael Chertkov , Sidhant Misra , Marc Vuffray

Given an undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ and a weight function $w:E \to \mathbb{R}$, the \textsc{Minimum Dominating Tree} problem asks to find a minimum weight sub-tree of $G$, $T = (U, F)$, such that every $v \in V \setminus U$ is adjacent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Gilad Kutiel

We present the first non-trivial fully dynamic algorithm maintaining exact single-source distances in unweighted graphs. This resolves an open problem stated by Sankowski [COCOON 2005] and van den Brand and Nanongkai [FOCS 2019]. Previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Jan van den Brand , Adam Karczmarz

The global optimization literature places large emphasis on reducing intractable optimization problems into more tractable structured optimization forms. In order to achieve this goal, many existing methods are restricted to optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Dimitris Bertsimas , Berk Öztürk

Fully dynamic graph is a data structure that (1) supports edge insertions and deletions and (2) answers problem specific queries. The time complexity of (1) and (2) are referred to as the update time and the query time respectively. There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Yoichi Iwata , Keigo Oka

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

Fast exact algorithms are known for Hamiltonian paths in undirected and directed bipartite graphs through elegant though involved algorithms that are quite different from each other. We devise algorithms that are simple and similar to each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 V. Arvind , Srijan Chakraborty , Samir Datta , Asif Khan

We revisit a classical graph-theoretic problem, the \textit{single-source shortest-path} (SSSP) problem, in weighted unit-disk graphs. We first propose an exact (and deterministic) algorithm which solves the problem in $O(n \log^2 n)$ time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Haitao Wang , Jie Xue

We study dynamic algorithms in the model of algorithms with predictions. We assume the algorithm is given imperfect predictions regarding future updates, and we ask how such predictions can be used to improve the running time. This can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari , Adam Polak

Algebraic data structures are the main subroutine for maintaining distances in fully dynamic graphs in subquadratic time. However, these dynamic algebraic algorithms generally cannot maintain the shortest paths, especially against adaptive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Anastasiia Alokhina , Jan van den Brand

Over the past decade, we witness an increasing amount of interest in the design of exact exponential-time and parameterized algorithms for problems in Graph Drawing. Unfortunately, we still lack knowledge of general methods to develop such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi

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

We present linear time {\it in-place} algorithms for several basic and fundamental graph problems including the well-known graph search methods (like depth-first search, breadth-first search, maximum cardinality search), connectivity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sankardeep Chakraborty , Kunihiko Sadakane , Srinivasa Rao Satti

In this thesis, we present new techniques to deal with fundamental algorithmic graph problems where graphs are directed and partially dynamic, i.e. undergo either a sequence of edge insertions or deletions: - Single-Source Reachability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg

An algorithm is presented that solves the Minimum Dominating Set problem exactly using polynomial space based on dynamic programming for a tree decomposition. A direct application of dynamic programming based on a tree decomposition would…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Mahdi Belbasi , Martin Fürer

Dynamic tree data structures maintain a forest while supporting insertion and deletion of edges and a broad set of queries in $O(\log n)$ time per operation. Such data structures are at the core of many modern algorithms. Recent work has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Humza Ikram , Andrew Brady , Daniel Anderson , Guy Blelloch

The dynamic trees problem is to maintain a tree under edge updates while supporting queries like connectivity queries or path queries. Despite the first data structure for this fundamental problem -- the link-cut tree -- being invented 40…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Quinten De Man , Atharva Sharma , Kishen N Gowda , Laxman Dhulipala

Hyper-minimization is a state reduction technique that allows a finite change in the semantics. The theory for hyper-minimization of deterministic weighted tree automata is provided. The presence of weights slightly complicates the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Andreas Maletti , Daniel Quernheim

We consider the global minimization of a particular type of minimum structured optimization problems wherein the variables must belong to some basic set, the feasible domain is described by the intersection of a large number of functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Guillaume Van Dessel , François Glineur