A new paper titled “Greedy Algorithms for Shortcut Sets and Hopsets” has been published on arXiv. The authors are Ben Bals, Joakim Blikstad, Greg Bodwin, Daniel Dadush, Sebastian Forster, and Yasamin Nazari.

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