Faster Negative-Weight Shortest Paths and Directed Low-Diameter Decompositions

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Main Authors: Li, Jason, Mowry, Connor, Rao, Satish
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author Li, Jason
Mowry, Connor
Rao, Satish
author_facet Li, Jason
Mowry, Connor
Rao, Satish
contents We present a faster algorithm for low-diameter decompositions on directed graphs, matching the $O(\log n\log\log n)$ loss factor from Bringmann, Fischer, Haeupler, and Latypov (ICALP 2025) and improving the running time to $O((m+n\log\log n)\log n\log\log n)$ in expectation. We then apply our faster low-diameter decomposition to obtain an algorithm for negative-weight single source shortest paths on integer-weighted graphs in $O((m+n\log\log n)\log(nW)\log n\log\log n)$ time, a nearly log-factor improvement over the algorithm of Bringmann, Cassis, and Fischer (FOCS 2023).
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spellingShingle Faster Negative-Weight Shortest Paths and Directed Low-Diameter Decompositions
Li, Jason
Mowry, Connor
Rao, Satish
Data Structures and Algorithms
We present a faster algorithm for low-diameter decompositions on directed graphs, matching the $O(\log n\log\log n)$ loss factor from Bringmann, Fischer, Haeupler, and Latypov (ICALP 2025) and improving the running time to $O((m+n\log\log n)\log n\log\log n)$ in expectation. We then apply our faster low-diameter decomposition to obtain an algorithm for negative-weight single source shortest paths on integer-weighted graphs in $O((m+n\log\log n)\log(nW)\log n\log\log n)$ time, a nearly log-factor improvement over the algorithm of Bringmann, Cassis, and Fischer (FOCS 2023).
title Faster Negative-Weight Shortest Paths and Directed Low-Diameter Decompositions
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22721