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In this letter, we study distributed optimization, where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, collaborates to minimize the average of locally-known convex functions. Most of the existing approaches over directed graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Ran Xin , Usman A. Khan

We give a deterministic, nearly logarithmic-space algorithm for mild spectral sparsification of undirected graphs. Given a weighted, undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices described by a binary string of length $N$, an integer $k\leq \log n$,…

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We study the single pair capacitated network design problem and the budget constrained max flow problem on undirected series-parallel graphs. These problems were well studied on directed series-parallel graphs, but little is known in the…

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A minimum path cover (MPC) of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) $G = (V,E)$ is a minimum-size set of paths that together cover all the vertices of the DAG. Computing an MPC is a basic polynomial problem, dating back to Dilworth's and…

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Optimal transport on a graph focuses on finding the most efficient way to transfer resources from one distribution to another while considering the graph's structure. This paper introduces a new distributed algorithm that solves the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yacine Mokhtari , Emmanuel Moulay , Patrick Coirault , Jérôme Le Ny

Computing a dense subgraph is a fundamental problem in graph mining, with a diverse set of applications ranging from electronic commerce to community detection in social networks. In many of these applications, the underlying context is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Suman K. Bera , Sayan Bhattacharya , Jayesh Choudhari , Prantar Ghosh

We consider the fundamental problems of determining the rooted and global edge and vertex connectivities (and computing the corresponding cuts) in directed graphs. For rooted (and hence also global) edge connectivity with small integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

In this paper, we revisit the classic approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in undirected graphs. For unweighted graphs, we provide an algorithm for $2$-approximate APSP in $\tilde O(n^{2.5-r}+n^{\omega(r)})$ time, for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Michal Dory , Sebastian Forster , Yael Kirkpatrick , Yasamin Nazari , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Tijn de Vos

We provide faster algorithms for approximately solving $\ell_{\infty}$ regression, a fundamental problem prevalent in both combinatorial and continuous optimization. In particular, we provide accelerated coordinate descent methods capable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

Given a directed acyclic graph with positive edge-weights, two vertices s and t, and a threshold-weight L, we present a fully-polynomial time approximation-scheme for the problem of counting the s-t paths of length at most L. We extend the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Matúš Mihalák , Rastislav Šrámek , Peter Widmayer

We study the edge-colouring problem, and give efficient algorithms where the number of colours is parameterised by the graph's arboricity, $\alpha$. In a dynamic graph, subject to insertions and deletions, we give a deterministic algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Aleksander B. G. Christiansen , Eva Rotenberg , Juliette Vlieghe

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

This paper presents efficient distributed algorithms for a number of fundamental problems in the area of graph sparsification: We provide the first deterministic distributed algorithm that computes an ultra-sparse spanner in…

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The Max-Cut problem is known to be NP-hard on general graphs, while it can be solved in polynomial time on planar graphs. In this paper, we present a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm for the problem on `almost' planar graphs: Given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi , Shuichi Miyazaki , Suguru Tamaki

We present a new randomized algorithm for computing the diameter of a weighted directed graph. The algorithm runs in $\Ot(M^{\w/(\w+1)}n^{(\w^2+3)/(\w+1)})$ time, where $\w < 2.376$ is the exponent of fast matrix multiplication, $n$ is the…

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As the popularity of graph data increases, there is a growing need to count the occurrences of subgraph patterns of interest, for a variety of applications. Many graphs are massive in scale and also fully dynamic (with insertions and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Kaixin Wang , Cheng Long , Da Yan , Jie Zhang , H. V. Jagadish

Since 1997 there has been a steady stream of advances for the maximum disjoint paths problem. Achieving tractable results has usually required focusing on relaxations such as: (i) to allow some bounded edge congestion in solutions, (ii) to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Guyslain Naves , Bruce Shepherd , Henry Xia

We investigate the distributed multi-agent sharing optimization problem in a directed graph, with a composite objective function consisting of a smooth function plus a convex (possibly non-smooth) function shared by all agents. While…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Sajad Zandi , Mehdi Korki

The max-flow and max-coflow problem on directed graphs is studied in the common generalization to regular spaces, i.e., to kernels or row spaces of totally unimodular matrices. Exhibiting a submodular structure of the family of paths within…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-25 Ulrich Faigle , Walter Kern , Britta Peis

We devise a deterministic algorithm for minimum Steiner cut, which uses $(\log n)^{O(1)}$ maximum flow calls and additional near-linear time. This algorithm improves on Li and Panigrahi's (FOCS 2020) algorithm, which uses $(\log…

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