Parallel breadth-first search and exact shortest paths and stronger notions for approximate distances

V Rozhoň, B Haeupler, A Martinsson… - Proceedings of the 55th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces stronger notions for approximate single-source shortest-path
distances and gives simple reductions to compute them from weaker standard notions of …

New diameter-reducing shortcuts and directed hopsets: Breaking the barrier

S Kogan, M Parter - Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2022 - SIAM
For an n-vertex digraph G=(V, E), a shortcut set is a (small) subset of edges H taken from the
transitive closure of G that, when added to G guarantees that the diameter of G∪ H is small …

Better Lower Bounds for Shortcut Sets and Additive Spanners via an Improved Alternation Product∗

K Lu, VV Williams, N Wein, Z Xu - Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2022 - SIAM
We obtain improved lower bounds for additive spanners, additive emulators, and diameter-
reducing shortcut sets. Spanners and emulators are sparse graphs that approximately …

Parallel strong connectivity based on faster reachability

L Wang, X Dong, Y Gu, Y Sun - Proceedings of the ACM on Management …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Computing strongly connected components (SCC) is among the most fundamental problems
in graph analytics. Given the large size of today's real-world graphs, parallel SCC …

Parallel exact shortest paths in almost linear work and square root depth

N Cao, JT Fineman - Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2023 - SIAM
This paper presents a randomized parallel single-source shortest paths (SSSP) algorithm for
directed graphs with non-negative integer edge weights that solves the problem exactly in O …

Brief announcement: An improved distributed approximate single source shortest paths algorithm

N Cao, JT Fineman, K Russell - … of the 2021 ACM Symposium on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This brief announcement presents an algorithm for (1+ ε) approximate single-source shortest
paths for directed graphs with non-negative real edge weights in the CONGEST model that …

Settling SETH vs. approximate sparse directed unweighted diameter (up to (NU) NSETH)

R Li - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We prove several tight results on the fine-grained complexity of approximating the diameter
of a graph. First, we prove that, for any ε> 0, assuming the Strong Exponential Time …

Bidirectional Dijkstra's Algorithm is Instance-Optimal

B Haeupler, R Hladík, V Rozhon, RE Tarjan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
While Dijkstra's algorithm has near-optimal time complexity for the problem of finding the
shortest $ st $-path, in practice, other algorithms are often superior on huge graphs. A …

Algorithms for Large Scale Graphs

K Russell - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Constructing efficient algorithms for graph problems is a fundamental problem in computer
science theory. This dissertation studies algorithms for large scale graphs and focuses on …

New Diameter-Reducing Shortcuts and Directed Hopsets: Breaking the Barrier

S Kogan, M Parter - arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.13240, 2021 - arxiv.org
For an $ n $-vertex digraph $ G=(V, E) $, a\emph {shortcut set} is a (small) subset of edges $
H $ taken from the transitive closure of $ G $ that, when added to $ G $ guarantees that the …