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All-Pairs Shortest Paths: Floyd-Warshall and Johnson's Algorithm

Dijkstra and Bellman-Ford both compute shortest paths from a single source. Some problems genuinely need shortest paths between every pair of vertices — a full pairwise distance matrix for a network of trading venues, or an all-pairs contagion-distance table across a settlement network. Running Dijkstra ∣V∣|V| times (once per source) is one way to get there; this note derives a second, structurally different approach — Floyd-Warshall's matrix dynamic program — and then shows how Johnson's algorithm combines both ideas to get the best of each for sparse graphs.

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  1. Learning objectives
  2. Floyd-Warshall
  3. Johnson's algorithm

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