Efficient Dynamic MaxFlow Computation on GPUs

Shruthi Kannappan; Ashwina Kumar; Rupesh Nasre

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Efficient Dynamic MaxFlow Computation on GPUs

Shruthi Kannappan·Ashwina Kumar·Rupesh Nasre

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Maxflow is a fundamental problem in graph theory and combinatorial optimisation, used to determine the maximum flow from a source node to a sink node in a flow network. It finds applications in diverse domains, including computer networks, transportation, and image segmentation. The core idea is to maximise the total flow across the network without violating capacity constraints on edges and ensuring flow conservation at intermediate nodes. The rapid growth of unstructured and semi-structured data has motivated the development of parallel solutions to compute MaxFlow. However, due to the higher computational complexity, computing Maxflow for real-world graphs is time-consuming in practice. In addition, these graphs are dynamic and constantly evolve over time. In this work, we propose two Push-Relabel based algorithms for processing dynamic graphs on GPUs. The key novelty of our algorithms is their ability to efficiently handle both increments and decrements in edge capacities together when they appear in a batch. We illustrate the efficacy of our algorithms with a suite of real-world graphs. Overall, we find that for small updates, dynamic recomputation is significantly faster than a static GPU-based Maxflow.

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Shruthi Kannappan, Ashwina Kumar, Rupesh Nasre. 2025-11-08. Efficient Dynamic MaxFlow Computation on GPUs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05895

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