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20242026
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11 papers

cs.DS2026

Incremental Submodular Maximization: Better Than Greedy

Marcin Bienkowski, Joakim Blikstad, Jarosław Byrka +3

We consider submodular maximization under increasing cardinality constraint and ask for a good incremental solution, i.e., an ordering of the ground set such that each prefix of th…

cs.DS2026

Revisiting Diameter in Directed Graphs

Ben Bals, Joakim Blikstad, Daniel Dadush +2

The reachability diameter () of a directed graph is the maximum distance over all pairs where is reachable from . This notion is present in the def…

cs.DS2026

Greedy Algorithms for Shortcut Sets and Hopsets

Ben Bals, Joakim Blikstad, Greg Bodwin +3

For many popular graph metric sparsifiers, such as spanners, emulators, and preservers, simple and elegant greedy algorithms are known that achieve state-of-the-art or existentiall…

cs.DS2026

Deterministic Edge Coloring with few Colors in CONGEST

Joakim Blikstad, Yannic Maus, Tijn de Vos

As the main contribution of this work we present deterministic edge coloring algorithms in the CONGEST model. In particular, we present an algorithm that edge colors any -node g…

cs.CG2026

Minimum Star Partitions of Simple Polygons in Polynomial Time

Mikkel Abrahamsen, Joakim Blikstad, André Nusser +1

We devise a polynomial-time algorithm for partitioning a simple polygon into a minimum number of star-shaped polygons. The question of whether such an algorithm exists has been…

cs.DS2025

Combinatorial Maximum Flow via Weighted Push-Relabel on Shortcut Graphs

Aaron Bernstein, Joakim Blikstad, Jason Li +2

We give a combinatorial algorithm for computing exact maximum flows in directed graphs with vertices and edge capacities from in time,…