Brief Announcement: (1+ε)-Approximate Shortest Paths in Dynamic Streams.

DOI10.1145/3519270.3538469arXiv2107.13309MaRDI QIDQ6202002FDOQ6202002

Authors: Michael Elkin 

Publication date: 26 March 2024

Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Computing approximate shortest paths in the dynamic streaming setting is a fundamental challenge that has been intensively studied during the last decade. Currently existing solutions for this problem either build a sparse multiplicative spanner of the input graph and compute shortest paths in the spanner offline, or compute an exact single source BFS tree. Solutions of the first type are doomed to incur a stretch-space tradeoff of $2kappa-1$ versus $n^{1+1/kappa}$, for an integer parameter $kappa$. (In fact, existing solutions also incur an extra factor of $1+epsilon$ in the stretch for weighted graphs, and an additional factor of $lo{g}^{O(1)}n$ in the space.) The only existing solution of the second type uses $n^{1/2-O(1/kappa)}$ passes over the stream (for space $O(n^{1+1/kappa})$), and applies only to unweighted graphs. In this paper we show that $(1+epsilon)$-approximate single-source shortest paths can be computed in this setting with $ildeO(n^{1+1/kappa})$ space using just emph{constantly} many passes in unweighted graphs, and polylogarithmically many passes in weighted graphs (assuming $epsilon$ and $kappa$ are constant). Moreover, in fact, the same result applies for multi-source shortest paths, as long as the number of sources is $O(n^{1/kappa})$. We achieve these results by devising efficient dynamic streaming constructions of $$-spanners and hopsets. We believe that these constructions are of independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13309

zbMATH Keywords

shortest pathsspannersapproximate distanceshopsetsdynamic streams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distributed algorithms (68W15) Distributed systems (68M14)

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