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Near-Optimal Vertex Fault-tolerant Labels �for Steiner Connectivity

Koustav Bhanja and Asaf Petruschka

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

 

ESA 2025

Funding: ERC grant of Merav Parter

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Fault-tolerant (Global) Connectivity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fault-tolerant (s,t)-Connectivity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Steiner Connectivity: A Generalization

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Fault-tolerant Steiner Connectivity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FT Global Connectivity

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FT (s,t)-connectivity

Fault-tolerant Steiner Connectivity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Global Connectivity

Steiner Connectivity

A Generalization!

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Main Problem

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Design a Labeling Scheme

for Fault-tolerant Steiner Connectivity

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What is a Labeling Scheme?

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Existing Results for Extreme Scenarios

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Global Connectivity

Steiner Connectivity

 

 

 

 

Our Results

 

[Bhanja and Petruschka, ESA 2025]

 

 

 

Does it solve the Steiner?

Generalizes global result

(different approach)

 

Fault-tolerant all-pairs

(s,t)-connectiviy

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Overview of Our Results

 

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Trivial Single Vertex Failure

 

 

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Sub-optimal Solution

 

 

 

 

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Let T be a Minimal Steiner Tree – leaves are terminals

 

 

 

 

True

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Let T be a Minimal Steiner Tree – leaves are terminals

 

 

 

 

Fails

 

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A Simple Labeling Scheme

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What happens in Global Case?

A near optimal solution by Jiang, Parter, & Petruschka

 

 

“Good” Sparsifier seems impossible

For Steiner Connectivity

One-high-deg

All-low-deg

Labeling

Scheme

A ‘Dual’ Approach

All-high-deg

One-low-deg

Trivial: store for every subset

Nagamochi-Ibaraki Sparsifier

Recursively stored

Steiner Tree

Take Best-of-both

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The Duan-Pettie Decomposition [SICOMP 2020]

 

 

 

 

 

All-high-deg

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The Duan-Pettie Decomposition [SICOMP 2020]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Future Problems

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Thank you.

Koustav Bhanja

Email: koustav.bhanja@weizmann.ac.il