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We consider a problem of approximating the size of the largest clique in a graph, with a monotone circuit. Concretely, we focus on distinguishing a random Erd\H{o}s-Renyi graph $\mathcal{G}_{n,p}$, with $p=n^{-\frac{2}{\alpha-1}}$ chosen…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jarosław Błasiok , Linus Meierhöfer

A (unit) disk graph is the intersection graph of closed (unit) disks in the plane. Almost three decades ago, an elegant polynomial-time algorithm was found for \textsc{Maximum Clique} on unit disk graphs [Clark, Colbourn, Johnson; Discrete…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Édouard Bonnet , Panos Giannopoulos , Eun Jung Kim , Paweł Rzążewski , Florian Sikora

The possibilities offered by quantum computing have drawn attention in the distributed computing community recently, with several breakthrough results showing quantum distributed algorithms that run faster than the fastest known classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Keren Censor-Hillel , Orr Fischer , François Le Gall , Dean Leitersdorf , Rotem Oshman

It is known for some time that a random graph $G(n,p)$ contains w.h.p. a Hamiltonian cycle if $p$ is larger than the critical value $p_{crit}= (\log n + \log \log n + \omega_n)/n$. The determination of a concrete Hamiltonian cycle is even…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Volker Turau

Graphlets are induced subgraphs of a large network and are important for understanding and modeling complex networks. Despite their practical importance, graphlets have been severely limited to applications and domains with relatively small…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Ryan A. Rossi , Rong Zhou , Nesreen K. Ahmed

In distributed networks, it is often useful for the nodes to be aware of dense subgraphs, e.g., such a dense subgraph could reveal dense subtructures in otherwise sparse graphs (e.g. the World Wide Web or social networks); these might…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Atish Das Sarma , Ashwin Lall , Danupon Nanongkai , Amitabh Trehan

We study a planted clique model introduced by Feige where a complete graph of size $c\cdot n$ is planted uniformly at random in an arbitrary $n$-vertex graph. We give a simple deterministic algorithm that, in almost linear time, recovers a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Francesco Agrimonti , Marco Bressan , Tommaso d'Orsi

We consider the question of how many edge-disjoint near-maximal cliques may be found in the dense Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G(n,p)$. Recently Acan and Kahn showed that the largest such family contains only $O(n^2/(\log{n})^3)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Simon Griffiths , Letícia Mattos

We study efficient algorithms for recovering cliques in dense random intersection graphs (RIGs). In this model, $d = n^{\Omega(1)}$ cliques of size approximately $k$ are randomly planted by choosing the vertices to participate in each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Andreas Göbel , Janosch Ruff , Leon Schiller

In this work we address the question of efficiency of distributed computing in anonymous, congested and highly dynamic and not-always-connected networks/systems. More precisely, the system consists of an unknown number of anonymous nodes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Miguel A. Mosteiro

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

We design new polynomial-time algorithms for recovering planted cliques in the semi-random graph model introduced by Feige and Kilian 2001. The previous best algorithms for this model succeed if the planted clique has size at least…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Rares-Darius Buhai , Pravesh K. Kothari , David Steurer

We study the complexity of local graph centrality estimation, with the goal of approximating the centrality score of a given target node while exploring only a sublinear number of nodes/arcs of the graph and performing a sublinear number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Marco Bressan , Enoch Peserico , Luca Pretto

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental algorithmic tool in data mining, community detection, and clustering. In this problem, one aims to find an induced subgraph whose edge-to-vertex ratio is maximized. We study the directed case of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan

Chordal decomposition techniques are used to reduce large structured positive semidefinite matrix constraints in semidefinite programs (SDPs). The resulting equivalent problem contains multiple smaller constraints on the nonzero blocks (or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Michael Garstka , Mark Cannon , Paul Goulart

The Cluster Deletion problem takes a graph $G$ as input and asks for a minimum size set of edges $X$ such that $G-X$ is the disjoint union of complete graphs. An equivalent formulation is the Clique Partition problem, which asks to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Nicola Galesi , Tony Huynh , Fariba Ranjbar

Listing copies of small subgraphs (such as triangles, $4$-cycles, small cliques) in the input graph is an important and well-studied problem in algorithmic graph theory. In this paper, we give a simple algorithm that lists $t$ (non-induced)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ce Jin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Renfei Zhou

Motivated by the need for robust and fast distributed computation in highly dynamic Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, we study algorithms for the fundamental distributed agreement problem. P2P networks are highly dynamic networks that experience…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 John Augustine , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Eli Upfal

We propose efficient algorithms for two key tasks in the analysis of large nonuniform networks: uniform node sampling and cluster detection. Our sampling technique is based on augmenting a simple, but slowly mixing uniform MCMC sampler with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Pekka Orponen , Satu Elisa Schaeffer

A significant problem in analysis of complex network is to reveal community structure, in which network nodes are tightly connected in the same communities, between which there are sparse connections. Previous algorithms for community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-25 Jingming Zhang , Jianjun Cheng , Xing Su , Xinhong Yin , Shiyan Zhao , Xiaoyun Chen