There is a 2016 paper from Bitfury on a proposed routing algorithm for LN:
Flare: An Approach to Routing in Lightning Network
What is the relation between it and was was actually implemented (the primary reference being the BOLT specs)?
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1It was implemented by Bitfury and Acinq, but only for testing purposes, it never went to the production implementation.– Dmitry LaptevMar 16, 2019 at 20:29
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As far as I know flare was never implemented for lightning nodes and is not being used. I think current implementations use sind pathfinding algorithms like BfS or Dijkstra. The pathfinding itself is not part of the BOLTs anyway. A node could do whatever it wants with the information provided from the gossip store / gossip protocol. (BOLT 07). People could in particular decide to go for the approach given by flare.
