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Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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Papers indexed

101

Venues

14

Active years

2010–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

101 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026ESAImproved Approximation Algorithms for n-Pairs Shortest Paths.Avi Kadria, Liam Roditty, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2026ESATighter Bounds for Weighted and Unweighted Shortest Cycle Approximation.Avi Kadria, Liam Roditty, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2026ICALPWitness-Sensitive Detection of Induced Diamonds.Keren Censor-Hillel, Tomer Even, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nathan Wallheimer
2026ICALPPreprocessed 3SUM for Unknown Universes with Subquadratic Space.Yael Kirkpatrick, John Kuszmaul, Surya Mathialagan, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2026ICALPNew Diameter Approximations via Distance Oracle Techniques.Yael Kirkpatrick, Liam Roditty, Richard Qi, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2026ICALPUndirected Replacement Paths: Dual Fault Reduces to Single Source.Jakob Nogler, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2026SODAImproved Additive Approximation Algorithms for APSP.Ce Jin, Yael Kirkpatrick, Michal Stawarz, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2025MFCSShortest Paths in Multimode Graphs.Yael Kirkpatrick, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2025PODSA Fine-Grained Approach to Algorithms and Complexity.Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2025SODABeyond 2-Approximation forCe Jin, Yael Kirkpatrick, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein
2025SODAMore Asymmetry Yields Faster Matrix Multiplication.Josh Alman, Ran Duan, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu, Zixuan Xu, Renfei Zhou
2025SODAAverage-Case Hardness of Parity Problems: Orthogonal Vectors, k-SUM and More.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Andrea Lincoln, Barna Saha, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2025SODAFine-Grained Optimality of Partially Dynamic Shortest Paths and More.Barna Saha, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu, Christopher Ye
2025SODAAll-Hops Shortest Paths.Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Zoe Xi, Yinzhan Xu, Uri Zwick
2025STOCAll-Pairs Shortest Paths with Few Weights per Node.Amir Abboud, Nick Fischer, Ce Jin, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Zoe Xi
2025STOCOutput-Sensitive Approximate Counting via a Measure-Bounded Hyperedge Oracle, or: How Asymmetry Helps Estimate k-Clique Counts Faster.Keren Censor-Hillel, Tomer Even, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2025STOCFaster Weighted and Unweighted Tree Edit Distance and APSP Equivalence.Jakob Nogler, Adam Polak, Barna Saha, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu, Christopher Ye
2024ICALPDetecting Disjoint Shortest Paths in Linear Time and More.Shyan Akmal, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein
2024ICALPAdditive Spanner Lower Bounds with Optimal Inner Graph Structure.Greg Bodwin, Gary Hoppenworth, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein, Zixuan Xu
2024ICALPFast Approximate Counting of Cycles.Keren Censor-Hillel, Tomer Even, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2024SODAFast 2-Approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths.Michal Dory, Sebastian Forster, Yael Kirkpatrick, Yasamin Nazari, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Tijn de Vos
2024SODAImproved Roundtrip Spanners, Emulators, and Directed Girth Approximation.Alina Harbuzova, Ce Jin, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Zixuan Xu
2024SODASimpler and Higher Lower Bounds for Shortcut Sets.Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu, Zixuan Xu
2024SODANew Bounds for Matrix Multiplication: from Alpha to Omega.Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu, Zixuan Xu, Renfei Zhou
2024STOCTowards Optimal Output-Sensitive Clique Listing or: Listing Cliques from Smaller Cliques.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Surya Mathialagan, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2023ESAOn Diameter Approximation in Directed Graphs.Amir Abboud, Mina Dalirrooyfard, Ray Li, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2023ESAFaster Detours in Undirected Graphs.Shyan Akmal, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Ryan Williams, Zixuan Xu
2023ESAApproximating Min-Diameter: Standard and Bichromatic.Aaron Berger, Jenny Kaufmann, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2023FOCSFaster Algorithms for Text-to-Pattern Hamming Distances.Timothy M. Chan, Ce Jin, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2023SODAImproved girth approximation in weighted undirected graphs.Avi Kadria, Liam Roditty, Aaron Sidford, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Uri Zwick
2023STOCFredman's Trick Meets Dominance Product: Fine-Grained Complexity of Unweighted APSP, 3SUM Counting, and More.Timothy M. Chan, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2022ESAHardness of Token Swapping on Trees.Oswin Aichholzer, Erik D. Demaine, Matias Korman, Anna Lubiw, Jayson Lynch, Zuzana Masrov, Mikhail Rudoy, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein
2022FOCSApproximation Algorithms and Hardness for n-Pairs Shortest Paths and All-Nodes Shortest Cycles.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Ce Jin, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein
2022FOCSInduced Cycles and Paths Are Harder Than You Think.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2022FOCSAlgorithms and Lower Bounds for Replacement Paths under Multiple Edge Failure.Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Eyob Woldeghebriel, Yinzhan Xu
2022ICALPNew Additive Approximations for Shortest Paths and Cycles.Mingyang Deng, Yael Kirkpatrick, Victor Rong, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Ziqian Zhong
2022ICALPListing, Verifying and Counting Lowest Common Ancestors in DAGs: Algorithms and Fine-Grained Lower Bounds.Surya Mathialagan, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2022IJCAINear-Tight Algorithms for the Chamberlin-Courant and Thiele Voting Rules.Krzysztof Sornat, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2022MFCSNew Lower Bounds and Upper Bounds for Listing Avoidable Vertices.Mingyang Deng, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Ziqian Zhong
2022SODAAlgorithmic trade-offs for girth approximation in undirected graphs.Avi Kadria, Liam Roditty, Aaron Sidford, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Uri Zwick
2022SODABetter Lower Bounds for Shortcut Sets and Additive Spanners via an Improved Alternation Product.Kevin Lu, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein, Zixuan Xu
2022STOCHardness for triangle problems under even more believable hypotheses: reductions from real APSP, real 3SUM, and OV.Timothy M. Chan, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2021FOCSHardness of Approximate Diameter: Now for Undirected Graphs.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Ray Li, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2021ICALPFine-Grained Hardness for Edit Distance to a Fixed Sequence.Amir Abboud, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2021ICALPImproved Approximation for Longest Common Subsequence over Small Alphabets.Shyan Akmal, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2021ICALPAlgorithms, Reductions and Equivalences for Small Weight Variants of All-Pairs Shortest Paths.Timothy M. Chan, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2021ICALPFaster Monotone Min-Plus Product, Range Mode, and Single Source Replacement Paths.Yuzhou Gu, Adam Polak, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2021SODAA Refined Laser Method and Faster Matrix Multiplication.Josh Alman, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2021SODANew Techniques and Fine-Grained Hardness for Dynamic Near-Additive Spanners.Thiago Bergamaschi, Monika Henzinger, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein
2020FOCSNew Techniques for Proving Fine-Grained Average-Case Hardness.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Andrea Lincoln, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2020FOCSMonochromatic Triangles, Triangle Listing and APSP.Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2020ICALPConditionally Optimal Approximation Algorithms for the Girth of a Directed Graph.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2020ICALPTowards Optimal Set-Disjointness and Set-Intersection Data Structures.Tsvi Kopelowitz, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2020OPODISDistributed Distance Approximation.Bertie Ancona, Keren Censor-Hillel, Mina Dalirrooyfard, Yuval Efron, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2020SODAEquivalences between triangle and range query problems.Lech Duraj, Krzysztof Kleiner, Adam Polak, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2020SODATruly Subcubic Min-Plus Product for Less Structured Matrices, with Applications.Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Yinzhan Xu
2020STOCNew algorithms and hardness for incremental single-source shortest paths in directed graphs.Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein
2019CRYPTOPublic-Key Cryptography in the Fine-Grained Setting.Rio LaVigne, Andrea Lincoln, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2019ICALPAlgorithms and Hardness for Diameter in Dynamic Graphs.Bertie Ancona, Monika Henzinger, Liam Roditty, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein
2019ICALPApproximation Algorithms for Min-Distance Problems.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nikhil Vyas, Nicole Wein, Yinzhan Xu, Yuancheng Yu
2019ICALPTight Approximation Algorithms for Bichromatic Graph Diameter and Related Problems.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nikhil Vyas, Nicole Wein
2019ISSACLimits on All Known (and Some Unknown) Approaches to Matrix Multiplication.Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2019STOCGraph pattern detection: hardness for all induced patterns and faster non-induced cycles.Mina Dalirrooyfard, Thuy-Duong Vuong, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2018FOCSLimits on All Known (and Some Unknown) Approaches to Matrix Multiplication.Josh Alman, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2018ICDTFine-grained Algorithms and Complexity.Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2018SODAOptimal Vertex Fault Tolerant Spanners (for fixed stretch).Greg Bodwin, Michael Dinitz, Merav Parter, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2018SODATight Hardness for Shortest Cycles and Paths in Sparse Graphs.Andrea Lincoln, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, R. Ryan Williams
2018SODAApproximating Cycles in Directed Graphs: Fast Algorithms for Girth and Roundtrip Spanners.Jakub Pachocki, Liam Roditty, Aaron Sidford, Roei Tov, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2018STOCTowards tight approximation bounds for graph diameter and eccentricities.Arturs Backurs, Liam Roditty, Gilad Segal, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Nicole Wein
2017AAAIComplexity of the Stable Invitations Problem.Hooyeon Lee, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2017ICALPDynamic Parameterized Problems and Algorithms.Josh Alman, Matthias Mnich, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2017ICALPPreserving Distances in Very Faulty Graphs.Greg Bodwin, Fabrizio Grandoni, Merav Parter, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2016AAAIWho Can Win a Single-Elimination Tournament?Michael P. Kim, Warut Suksompong, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2016ESAA 7/3-Approximation for Feedback Vertex Sets in Tournaments.Matthias Mnich, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Lszl A. Vgh
2016FOCSTruly Sub-cubic Algorithms for Language Edit Distance and RNA-Folding via Fast Bounded-Difference Min-Plus Product.Karl Bringmann, Fabrizio Grandoni, Barna Saha, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2016ICALPDeterministic Time-Space Trade-Offs for k-SUM.Andrea Lincoln, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Joshua R. Wang, R. Ryan Williams
2016MFCSRNA-Folding - From Hardness to Algorithms.Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2016SODASubtree Isomorphism Revisited.Amir Abboud, Arturs Backurs, Thomas Dueholm Hansen, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Or Zamir
2016SODAApproximation and Fixed Parameter Subquadratic Algorithms for Radius and Diameter in Sparse Graphs.Amir Abboud, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Joshua R. Wang
2016SODABetter Distance Preservers and Additive Spanners.Greg Bodwin, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2016STOCSimulating branching programs with edit distance and friends: or: a polylog shaved is a lower bound made.Amir Abboud, Thomas Dueholm Hansen, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Ryan Williams
2016STACSFine-Grained Algorithms and Complexity (Invited Talk).Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2015FOCSTight Hardness Results for LCS and Other Sequence Similarity Measures.Amir Abboud, Arturs Backurs, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2015FOCSIf the Current Clique Algorithms are Optimal, So is Valiant's Parser.Amir Abboud, Arturs Backurs, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2015IJCAIFixing Tournaments for Kings, Chokers, and More.Michael P. Kim, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2015SODASubcubic Equivalences Between Graph Centrality Problems, APSP and Diameter.Amir Abboud, Fabrizio Grandoni, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2015SODAFinding Four-Node Subgraphs in Triangle Time.Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Joshua R. Wang, Richard Ryan Williams, Huacheng Yu
2015STOCMatching Triangles and Basing Hardness on an Extremely Popular Conjecture.Amir Abboud, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Huacheng Yu
2014FOCSPopular Conjectures Imply Strong Lower Bounds for Dynamic Problems.Amir Abboud, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2014ICALPConsequences of Faster Alignment of Sequences.Amir Abboud, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Oren Weimann
2014ICALPListing Triangles.Andreas Bjrklund, Rasmus Pagh, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Uri Zwick
2014SODABetter Approximation Algorithms for the Graph Diameter.Shiri Chechik, Daniel H. Larkin, Liam Roditty, Grant Schoenebeck, Robert Endre Tarjan, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2013STOCFast approximation algorithms for the diameter and radius of sparse graphs.Liam Roditty, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2012FOCSImproved Distance Sensitivity Oracles via Fast Single-Source Replacement Paths.Fabrizio Grandoni, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2012SODASubquadratic time approximation algorithms for the girth.Liam Roditty, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2012STOCMultiplying matrices faster than coppersmith-winograd.Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2011FOCSMinimum Weight Cycles and Triangles: Equivalences and Algorithms.Liam Roditty, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2011IJCAIRigging Tournament Brackets for Weaker Players.Isabelle Stanton, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2011SODAFaster Replacement Paths.Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2010AAAIFixing a Tournament.Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2010FOCSSubcubic Equivalences between Path, Matrix and Triangle Problems.Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Ryan Williams