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Graph - Shortest Path From Algorithm Algorithm: P Vasuki

This document describes the Bellman-Ford algorithm for finding the shortest paths from a source vertex to all other vertices in a graph. It initializes all distances as infinite except the source which is 0. It then iterates through the edges |V|-1 times, updating distances if a shorter path is found. After this, it checks for a negative weight cycle by iterating through the edges one more time and checking for any distances that can still be decreased, which would indicate a negative cycle.

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Graph - Shortest Path From Algorithm Algorithm: P Vasuki

This document describes the Bellman-Ford algorithm for finding the shortest paths from a source vertex to all other vertices in a graph. It initializes all distances as infinite except the source which is 0. It then iterates through the edges |V|-1 times, updating distances if a shorter path is found. After this, it checks for a negative weight cycle by iterating through the edges one more time and checking for any distances that can still be decreased, which would indicate a negative cycle.

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Graph – Shortest Path from

Algorithm

P VASUKI
Bellman Ford Algorithm
• nput: Graph and a source vertex src
Output: Shortest distance to all vertices from src. If there is a
negative weight cycle, then shortest distances are not calculated,
negative weight cycle is reported.
Bellman Ford Algorithm
• 1) This step initializes distances from source
to all vertices as infinite and distance to source
itself as 0. Create an array dist[] of size |V|
with all values as infinite except dist[src]
where src is source vertex.

• 2) This step calculates shortest distances. Do


following |V|-1 times where |V| is the number
of vertices in given graph.
a) Do following for each edge u-v
If dist[v] > dist[u] + weight of edge uv,
then update dist[v]
dist[v] = dist[u] + weight of edge uv
Algorithm contd…
• 3) This step reports if there is a negative weight
cycle in graph. Do following for each edge u-v

• If dist[v] > dist[u] + weight of edge uv, then


“Graph contains negative weight cycle”
The idea of step 3 is, step 2 guarantees shortest
distances if graph doesn’t contain negative
weight cycle. If we iterate through all edges one
more time and get a shorter path for any vertex,
then there is a negative weight cycle
Example

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Additional Reference - Visualization

• https://visualgo.net/en/sssp

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