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Finding maximum-weight independent sets in graphs is an important NP-hard optimization problem. Given a vertex-weighted graph $G$, the task is to find a subset of pairwise non-adjacent vertices of $G$ with maximum weight. Most recently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Mattthias Schimek

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Alexander Belyi , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Alexander Kurbatski , Carlo Ratti

As a fundamental task in graph data management, maximal clique enumeration (MCE) has attracted extensive attention from both academic and industrial communities due to its wide range of applications. However, MCE is very challenging as the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Wen Deng , Weiguo Zheng , Hong Cheng

Maximal cliques play a fundamental role in numerous application domains, where their enumeration can prove extremely useful. Yet their sheer number, even in sparse real-world graphs, can make them impractical to be exploited effectively. To…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Marco D'Elia , Irene Finocchi , Maurizio Patrignani

We consider the problem of identifying a maximum clique in a given graph. We have proposed a mathematical model for this problem. The model resembles the matrix decomposition of the adjacency matrix of a given graph. The objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Salma Omer , Montaz Ali

Interaction between users in online social networks plays a key role in social network analysis. One on important types of social group is full connected relation between some users, which known as clique structure. Therefore finding a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Mohammad Soleimani-Pouri , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammad Reza Meybodi

In this paper we modify an algorithm for updating a maximal clique enumeration after an edge insertion to provide an algorithm that runs in linear time with respect to the number of cliques containing one of the edge's endpoints, whereas…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Neal Lawton

One of the biggest huddles faced by researchers studying algorithms for massive graphs is the lack of large input graphs that are essential for the development and test of the graph algorithms. This paper proposes two efficient and highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-22 Andy Yoo , Keith Henderson

We tackle the problem of counting the number of $k$-cliques in large-scale graphs, for any constant $k \ge 3$. Clique counting is essential in a variety of applications, among which social network analysis. Due to its computationally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Irene Finocchi , Marco Finocchi , Emanuele G. Fusco

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

We consider the maintenance of the set of all maximal cliques in a dynamic graph that is changing through the addition or deletion of edges. We present nearly tight bounds on the magnitude of change in the set of maximal cliques, as well as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Apurba Das , Michael Svendsen , Srikanta Tirthapura

Consider an Erd\"os-Renyi random graph in which each edge is present independently with probability 1/2, except for a subset $\sC_N$ of the vertices that form a clique (a completely connected subgraph). We consider the problem of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

We present CLIPPER+, an algorithm for finding maximal cliques in unweighted graphs for outlier-robust global registration. The registration problem can be formulated as a graph and solved by finding its maximum clique. This formulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Kaveh Fathian , Tyler Summers

We propose a simple, powerful, and flexible machine learning framework for (i) reducing the search space of computationally difficult enumeration variants of subset problems and (ii) augmenting existing state-of-the-art solvers with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Juho Lauri , Sourav Dutta

This manuscript provides a comprehensive review of the Maximum Clique Problem, a computational problem that involves finding subsets of vertices in a graph that are all pairwise adjacent to each other. The manuscript covers in a simple way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Raffaele Marino , Lorenzo Buffoni , Bogdan Zavalnij

Extracting cohesive subgraphs from complex networks is a fundamental task in graph analytics and is essential for understanding biological, social, and web graphs. The edge-based $\gamma$-quasi-clique model offers a flexible alternative by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hongbo Xia , Shengxin Liu , Zhaoquan Gu

We study the problem of approximating the number of $k$-cliques in a graph when given query access to the graph. We consider the standard query model for general graphs via (1) degree queries, (2) neighbor queries and (3) pair queries. Let…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

Clique partitioning is a fundamental network clustering task, with applications in a wide range of computational sciences. It involves identifying an optimal partition of the nodes for a real-valued weighted graph according to the edge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Samin Aref , Boris Ng

We present shared-memory parallel methods for Maximal Clique Enumeration (MCE) from a graph. MCE is a fundamental and well-studied graph analytics task, and is a widely used primitive for identifying dense structures in a graph. Due to its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Apurba Das , Seyed-Vahid Sanei-Mehri , Srikanta Tirthapura

We analyze the problem of identifying large cliques in graphs that are affected by adversarial uncertainty. More specifically, we consider a new formulation, namely the adversarial maximum clique problem, which extends the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Immanuel Bomze , Chiara Faccio , Francesco Rinaldi , Giovanni Spisso