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The clique-width is a measure of complexity of decomposing graphs into certain tree-like structures. The class of graphs with bounded clique-width contains bounded tree-width graphs. We give a polynomial time graph isomorphism algorithm for…

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We consider a variant of the clustering problem for a complete weighted graph. The aim is to partition the nodes into clusters maximizing the sum of the edge weights within the clusters. This problem is known as the clique partitioning…

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We study the possibility of designing $N^{o(1)}$-round protocols for problems of substantially super-linear polynomial-time (sequential) complexity on the congested clique with about $N^{1/2}$ nodes, where $N$ is the input size. We show…

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In this paper, we prove that assuming the exponential time hypothesis (ETH), there is no $f(k)\cdot n^{k^{o(1/\log\log k)}}$-time algorithm that can decide whether an $n$-vertex graph contains a clique of size $k$ or contains no clique of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Bingkai Lin , Xuandi Ren , Yican Sun , Xiuhan Wang

The k-Clique problem is a canonical hard problem in parameterized complexity. In this paper, we study the parameterized complexity of approximating the k-Clique problem where an integer k and a graph G on n vertices are given as input, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Karthik C. S. , Subhash Khot

Finding cliques in random graphs and the closely related "planted" clique variant, where a clique of size t is planted in a random G(n,1/2) graph, have been the focus of substantial study in algorithm design. Despite much effort, the best…

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In this note, we investigate listing cliques of arbitrary sizes in bandwidth-limited, dynamic networks. The problem of detecting and listing triangles and cliques was originally studied in great detail by Bonne and Censor-Hillel (ICALP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Quanquan C. Liu

A clique transversal in a graph is a set of vertices intersecting all maximal cliques. The problem of determining the minimum size of a clique transversal has received considerable attention in the literature. In this paper, we initiate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Martin Milanič , Yushi Uno

Cliques, or fully connected subgraphs, are among the most important and well-studied graph motifs in network science. We consider the problem of finding a statisti- cally anomalous clique hidden in a large network. There are two parts to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-11 Subhankar Bhadra , Srijan Sengupta

Clique-width is a well-studied graph parameter. For graphs of bounded clique-width, many problems that are NP-hard in general can be polynomial-time solvable. The fact motivates several studies to investigate whether the clique-width of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yu Nakahata

Potential maximal cliques and minimal separators are combinatorial objects which were introduced and studied in the realm of minimal triangulations problems including Minimum Fill-in and Treewidth. We discover unexpected applications of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-12-22 Fedor V. Fomin , Yngve Villanger

Let $G$ be a 2-connected $n$-vertex graph and $N_s(G)$ be the total number of $s$-cliques in $G$. Let $k\ge 4$ and $s\ge 2$ be integers. In this paper, we show that if $G$ has an edge $e$ which is not on any cycle of length at least $k$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Naidan Ji , Dong Ye

We prove the following theorem. Given a planar graph $G$ and an integer $k$, it is possible in polynomial time to randomly sample a subset $A$ of vertices of $G$ with the following properties: (i) $A$ induces a subgraph of $G$ of treewidth…

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We formalize the problem of detecting a community in a network into testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. We observe an undirected and unweighted graph on N nodes. Under the null hypothesis,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Ery Arias-Castro , Nicolas Verzelen

When searching for characteristic subpatterns in potentially noisy graph data, it appears self-evident that having multiple observations would be better than having just one. However, it turns out that the inconsistencies introduced when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Novi Quadrianto , Chao Chen , Christoph Lampert

The planted clique problem is a paradigmatic model of statistical-to-computational gaps: the planted clique is information-theoretically detectable if its size $k\ge 2\log_2 n$ but polynomial-time algorithms only exist for the recovery task…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Reza Gheissari , Aukosh Jagannath , Yiming Xu

Many NP-complete graph problems are polynomial-time solvable on graph classes of bounded clique-width. Several of these problems are polynomial-time solvable on a hereditary graph class ${\cal G}$ if they are so on the atoms (graphs with no…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná , Daniël Paulusma , Paweł Rzążewski

Finding cohesive subgraphs in a large graph has many important applications, such as community detection and biological network analysis. Clique is often a too strict cohesive structure since communities or biological modules rarely form as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Qihao Cheng , Da Yan , Tianhao Wu , Lyuheng Yuan , Ji Cheng , Zhongyi Huang , Yang Zhou

We study graph-theoretic properties of random $0/1$ polytopes. Specifically, let $Q_p^n \subseteq \{0,1\}^n$ be a random subset where each point is included independently with probability $p$, and consider the graph $G_p$ of the polytope…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Catherine Babecki , Tycho Elling , Asaf Ferber

A strong clique in a graph is a clique intersecting every maximal independent set. We study the computational complexity of six algorithmic decision problems related to strong cliques in graphs and almost completely determine their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Ademir Hujdurović , Martin Milanič , Bernard Ries