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Flow models parameterized as time-dependent velocity fields can generate data from noise by integrating an ODE. These models are often trained using flow matching, i.e. by sampling random pairs of noise and target points…

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Densest Subgraph Problem (DSP) is an important primitive problem with a wide range of applications, including fraud detection, community detection and DNA motif discovery. Edge-based density is one of the most common metrics in DSP.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yugao Zhu , Shenghua Liu , Wenjie Feng , Xueqi Cheng

We give an $O(k^3 n \log n \min(k,\log^2 n) \log^2(nC))$-time algorithm for computing maximum integer flows in planar graphs with integer arc {\em and vertex} capacities bounded by $C$, and $k$ sources and sinks. This improves by a factor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Julian Enoch , Kyle Fox , Dor Mesica , Shay Mozes

We consider the problem of finding the value of a maximum flow over time in a network with uniform edge lengths where the edge capacities change at specific time instants. To solve this problem, we show how to construct a condensed version…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shuchi Chawla , Kristin Sheridan

In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm receives a stream of edges of a graph in arbitrary order and uses a memory of size $O(n \mbox{ polylog } n)$, where $n$ is the number of vertices of a graph. In this work, we present semi-streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-11 Christian Konrad , Frédéric Magniez , Claire Mathieu

In this paper, we investigate offline and online algorithms for rufpp, the problem of minimizing the number of rounds required to schedule a set of unsplittable flows of non-uniform sizes on a given path with non-uniform edge capacities.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Hamidreza Jahanjou , Erez Kantor , Rajmohan Rajaraman

Finding complete subgraphs in a graph, that is, cliques, is a key problem and has many real-world applications, e.g., finding communities in social networks, clustering gene expression data, modeling ecological niches in food webs, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Melisew Tefera Belachew , Nicolas Gillis

We present a general framework of designing efficient dynamic approximate algorithms for optimization on undirected graphs. In particular, we develop a technique that, given any problem that admits a certain notion of vertex sparsifiers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Li Chen , Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

The success of modern parallel paradigms such as MapReduce, Hadoop, or Spark, has attracted a significant attention to the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model over the past few years, especially on graph problems. In this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Richard M. Karp

The single-source unsplittable flow (SSUF) problem asks to send flow from a common source to different terminals with unrelated demands, each terminal being served through a single path. One of the most heavily studied SSUF objectives is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Vera Traub , Laura Vargas Koch , Rico Zenklusen

We make several advances broadly related to the maintenance of electrical flows in weighted graphs undergoing dynamic resistance updates, including: 1. More efficient dynamic spectral vertex sparsification, achieved by faster length…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jan van den Brand , Yu Gao , Arun Jambulapati , Yin Tat Lee , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Aaron Sidford

Modeling the evolution of high-dimensional systems from limited snapshot observations at irregular time points poses a significant challenge in quantitative biology and related fields. Traditional approaches often rely on dimensionality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Justin Lee , Behnaz Moradijamei , Heman Shakeri

We give an O(n log^3 n) algorithm that, given an n-node directed planar graph with arc capacities, a set of source nodes, and a set of sink nodes, finds a maximum flow from the sources to the sinks. Previously, the fastest algorithms known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-05-12 Glencora Borradaile , Philip N. Klein , Shay Mozes , Yahav Nussbaum , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

Network applications, such as multimedia streaming and video conferencing, impose growing requirements over Quality of Service (QoS), including bandwidth, delay, jitter, etc. Meanwhile, networks are expected to be load-balanced,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao , Hong Shen , Peng Li

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental algorithmic tool in data mining, community detection, and clustering. In this problem, one aims to find an induced subgraph whose edge-to-vertex ratio is maximized. We study the directed case of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan

We present algorithms for solving a large class of flow and regression problems on unit weighted graphs to $(1 + 1 / poly(n))$ accuracy in almost-linear time. These problems include $\ell_p$-norm minimizing flow for $p$ large ($p \in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Rasmus Kyng , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva , Di Wang

We explore here surprising links between the time-cost-tradeoff problem and the minimum cost flow problem that lead to fast, strongly polynomial, algorithms for both problems. One of the main results is a new algorithm for the unit capacity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Dorit S. Hochbaum

To enable fast uncertainty quantification of fluid flow in a discrete fracture network (DFN), we present two approaches to quickly compute fluid flow in DFNs using combinatorial optimization algorithms. Specifically, the presented Hanan…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. Hobé , D. Vogler , M. P. Seybold , A. Ebigbo , R. R. Settgast , M. O. Saar

We give an algorithm that, with high probability, maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate $s$-$t$ maximum flow in undirected, uncapacitated $n$-vertex graphs undergoing $m$ edge insertions in $\tilde{O}(m+ n F^*/\epsilon)$ total update time,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Harald Räcke , A. R. Sricharan

Network flow is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization problems having innumerable applications. Any flow on a directed acyclic graph $G$ having $n$ vertices and $m$ edges can be decomposed into a set of $O(m)$ paths. In some…

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