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Our work concerns algorithms for an unweighted variant of Maximum Flow. In the All-Pairs Connectivity (APC) problem, we are given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and are tasked with computing the maximum number of edge-disjoint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Shyan Akmal , Ce Jin

Data streaming, in which a large dataset is received as a "stream" of updates, is an important model in the study of space-bounded computation. Starting with the work of Le Gall [SPAA `06], it has been known that quantum streaming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 John Kallaugher

Emerging applications such as autonomous driving pose the challenge of efficient cost-driven offloading in edge-cloud environments. This involves assigning tasks to edge and cloud servers for separate execution, with the goal of minimizing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Longkun Guo , Jiawei Lin , Xuanming Xu , Peng Li

We consider the CONGEST model on a network with $n$ nodes, $m$ edges, diameter $D$, and integer costs and capacities bounded by $\text{poly} n$. In this paper, we show how to find an exact solution to the minimum cost flow problem in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Tijn de Vos

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

We design a space efficient algorithm that approximates the transitivity (global clustering coefficient) and total triangle count with only a single pass through a graph given as a stream of edges. Our procedure is based on the classic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-05 Madhav Jha , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar

We study the correlation clustering problem in the node-arrival data stream model. Unlike previous work, where the stream consists of the graph's edges, we focus on the setting in which the stream contains only the nodes. This model better…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Kaiwen Liu , Seba Daniela Villalobos , Qin Zhang

We study the problem of solving linear program in the streaming model. Given a constraint matrix $A\in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ and vectors $b\in \mathbb{R}^m, c\in \mathbb{R}^n$, we develop a space-efficient interior point method that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-19 S. Cliff Liu , Zhao Song , Hengjie Zhang , Lichen Zhang , Tianyi Zhou

We consider directed graph algorithms in a streaming setting, focusing on problems concerning orderings of the vertices. This includes such fundamental problems as topological sorting and acyclicity testing. We also study the related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Amit Chakrabarti , Prantar Ghosh , Andrew McGregor , Sofya Vorotnikova

We revisit the complexity of online computation in the cell probe model. We consider a class of problems where we are first given a fixed pattern or vector $F$ of $n$ symbols and then one symbol arrives at a time in a stream. After each…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Raphael Clifford , Markus Jalsenius , Benjamin Sach

We revisit the well-studied problem of triangle count estimation in graph streams. Given a graph represented as a stream of $m$ edges, our aim is to compute a $(1\pm\varepsilon)$-approximation to the triangle count $T$, using a small space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Suman K. Bera , C. Seshadhri

We present an $\tilde{O}(m^{10/7})=\tilde{O}(m^{1.43})$-time algorithm for the maximum s-t flow and the minimum s-t cut problems in directed graphs with unit capacities. This is the first improvement over the sparse-graph case of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-25 Aleksander Madry

We show that fundamental learning tasks, such as finding an approximate linear separator or linear regression, require memory at least \emph{quadratic} in the dimension, in a natural streaming setting. This implies that such problems cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Yuval Dagan , Gil Kur , Ohad Shamir

A streaming algorithm to compute the spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD) of stationary random processes is presented. As new data becomes available, an incremental update of the truncated eigenbasis of the estimated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-14 Oliver T. Schmidt , Aaron Towne

We study the space complexity of solving the bias-regularized SVM problem in the streaming model. This is a classic supervised learning problem that has drawn lots of attention, including for developing fast algorithms for solving the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Alexandr Andoni , Collin Burns , Yi Li , Sepideh Mahabadi , David P. Woodruff

Let G = (V,E) be a planar n-vertex digraph. Consider the problem of computing max st-flow values in G from a fixed source s to all sinks t in V\{s}. We show how to solve this problem in near-linear O(n log^3 n) time. Previously, no better…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-10-18 Jakub Łącki , Yahav Nussbaum , Piotr Sankowski , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We are interested in computing an approximation of the maximum flow in large (brain) connectivity networks. The maximum flow in such networks is of interest in order to better understand the routing of information in the human brain.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-03 Jingyun Qian , Georg Hahn

In this paper we study flow problems on temporal networks, where edge capacities and travel times change over time. We consider a network with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges where the capacity and length of each edge is a piecewise constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kristin Sheridan , Shuchi Chawla

One of the most popular approaches to multi-target tracking is tracking-by-detection. Current min-cost flow algorithms which solve the data association problem optimally have three main drawbacks: they are computationally expensive, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Philip Lenz , Andreas Geiger , Raquel Urtasun

Problems involving the efficient arrangement of simple objects, as captured by bin packing and makespan scheduling, are fundamental tasks in combinatorial optimization. These are well understood in the traditional online and offline cases,…

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