Hopsets with Constant Hopbound, and Applications to Approximate Shortest Paths

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Abstract

A (β, ϵ)-hopset for a weighted undirected n-vertex graph G = (V, E) is a set of edges, whose addition to the graph guarantees that every pair of vertices has a path between them that contains at most β edges, whose length is within 1 + ϵ of the shortest path. In her seminal paper, Cohen [8, JACM 2000] introduced the notion of hopsets in the context of parallel computation of approximate shortest paths, and since then it has found numerous applications in various other settings, such as dynamic graph algorithms, distributed computing, and the streaming model. Cohen [8] devised efficient algorithms for constructing hopsets with polylogarithmic in n number of hops. Her constructions remain the state-of-the-art since the publication of her paper in STOC'94, i.e., for more than two decades. In this paper we exhibit the first construction of sparse hopsets with a constant number of hops. We also find efficient algorithms for hopsets in various computational settings, improving the best known constructions. Generally, our hopsets strictly outperform the hopsets of [8], both in terms of their parameters, and in terms of the resources required to construct them. We demonstrate the applicability of our results for the fundamental problem of computing approximate shortest paths from s sources. Our results improve the running time for this problem in the parallel, distributed and streaming models, for a vast range of s.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationProceedings - 57th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2016
Pages128-137
Number of pages10
Volume2016-December
ISBN (Electronic)9781509039333
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Dec 2016
Event57th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2016 - New Brunswick, United States
Duration: 9 Oct 201611 Oct 2016

Conference

Conference57th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Brunswick
Period9/10/1611/10/16

Keywords

  • Graphs
  • Hopsets
  • Shortest paths

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science

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