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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.81

A Faster Directed Single-Source Shortest Path Algorithm

Authors: Ran Duan, Xiao Mao, Xinkai Shu, and Longhui Yin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 374, 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)

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This paper presents a new deterministic algorithm for the single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem on real non-negative edge-weighted directed graphs, with running time O(m√{log n} + √{mnlog nlog log n}), which is O(m√{log nlog log n}) for sparse graphs. This improves the recent breakthrough result of O(m log^{2/3} n) time for directed SSSP algorithm [Duan, Mao, Mao, Shu, Yin 2025].

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Ran Duan, Xiao Mao, Xinkai Shu, and Longhui Yin. A Faster Directed Single-Source Shortest Path Algorithm. In 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 374, pp. 81:1-81:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{duan_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.81,
  author =	{Duan, Ran and Mao, Xiao and Shu, Xinkai and Yin, Longhui},
  title =	{{A Faster Directed Single-Source Shortest Path Algorithm}},
  booktitle =	{53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)},
  pages =	{81:1--81:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-428-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{374},
  editor =	{Bhattacharya, Sayan and Nanongkai, Danupon and Benedikt, Michael and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.81},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-264706},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.81},
  annote =	{Keywords: Shortest Paths, Graph Algorithms}
}

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