最短路径问题是图论研究中的一个经典算法问题，旨在寻找图（由结点和路径组成的）中两结点之间的最短路径。算法具体的形式包括：

用于解决最短路径问题的算法被称做“最短路径算法”，有时被简称作“路径算法”。最常用的路径算法有：

In graph theory, the shortest path problem is the problem of finding a path between two vertices (or nodes) in a graph such that the sum of the weights of its constituent edges is minimized.

The problem of finding the shortest path between two intersections on a road map (the graph's vertices correspond to intersections and the edges correspond to road segments, each weighted by the length of its road segment) may be modeled by a special case of the shortest path problem in graphs.