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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

Markov Networks are widely used through out computer vision and machine learning. An important subclass are the Associative Markov Networks which are used in a wide variety of applications. For these networks a good approximate minimum cost…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Chris Russell , L'ubor Ladicky , Pushmeet Kohli , Philip H. S. Torr

The densest subgraph problem has received significant attention, both in theory and in practice, due to its applications in problems such as community detection, social network analysis, and spam detection. Due to the high cost of obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Pattara Sukprasert , Quanquan C. Liu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

The Maximum Clique Problem (MCP) is a foundational NP-hard problem with wide-ranging applications, yet no single algorithm consistently outperforms all others across diverse graph instances. This underscores the critical need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiang Li , Shanshan Wang , Chenglong Xiao

Counts of small subgraphs, or graphlet counts, are widely applicable to measure graph similarity. Computing graphlet counts can be computationally expensive and may pose obstacles in network analysis. We study the role of cliques in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Anthony Bonato , Zhiyuan Zhang

Community detection is a powerful tool from complex networks analysis that finds applications in various research areas. Several image segmentation methods rely for instance on community detection algorithms as a black box in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Anthony Perez

Dense subgraph extraction is a fundamental problem in graph analysis and data mining, aimed at identifying cohesive and densely connected substructures within a given graph. It plays a crucial role in various domains, including social…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Chia-Yang Hung , Chih-Ya Shen

In this article we use the modular decomposition technique for exact solving the weighted maximum clique problem. Our algorithm takes the modular decomposition tree from the paper of Tedder et. al. and finds solution recursively. Also, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Irina Utkina

We propose a multi-stage learning approach for pruning the search space of maximum clique enumeration, a fundamental computationally difficult problem arising in various network analysis tasks. In each stage, our approach learns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Marco Grassia , Juho Lauri , Sourav Dutta , Deepak Ajwani

Seeding then expanding is a commonly used scheme to discover overlapping communities in a network. Most seeding methods are either too complex to scale to large networks or too simple to select high-quality seeds, and the non-principled…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Changxing Shang , Shengzhong Feng , Zhongying Zhao , Jianping Fan

Mining dense subgraphs is an important primitive across a spectrum of graph-mining tasks. In this work, we formally establish that two recurring characteristics of real-world graphs, namely heavy-tailed degree distributions and large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aritra Konar , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

In complex network research clique percolation, introduced by Palla et al., is a deterministic community detection method, which allows for overlapping communities and is purely based on local topological properties of a network. Here we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Jussi M. Kumpula , Mikko Kivela , Kimmo Kaski , Jari Saramaki

We study the complexity of Maximum Clique in intersection graphs of convex objects in the plane. On the algorithmic side, we extend the polynomial-time algorithm for unit disks [Clark '90, Raghavan and Spinrad '03] to translates of any…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Édouard Bonnet , Nicolas Grelier , Tillmann Miltzow

Finding groups of connected individuals in large graphs with tens of thousands or more nodes has received considerable attention in academic research. In this paper, we analyze three main issues with respect to the recent influx of papers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Pieter Leyman , Patrick De Causmaecker

A \emph{disk graph} is the intersection graph of (closed) disks in the plane. We consider the classic problem of finding a maximum clique in a disk graph. For general disk graphs, the complexity of this problem is still open, but for unit…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jie Gao , Pawel Gawrychowski , Panos Giannopoulos , Wolfgang Mulzer , Satyam Singh , Frank Staals , Meirav Zehavi

A strong clique in a graph is a clique intersecting all inclusion-maximal stable sets. Strong cliques play an important role in the study of perfect graphs. We study strong cliques in the class of diamond-free graphs, from both structural…

Natural Language Processing (NLP) provides highly effective tools for interpreting and handling human language, offering a broad spectrum of applications. In this paper, we address a classic combinatorial problem -- finding graph partitions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Marco D'Elia , Irene Finocchi , Maurizio Patrignani

Community detection is crucial for analyzing social and biological networks, and comprehensive approaches have been proposed in the last two decades. Nevertheless, finding all overlapping communities in large networks that could accurately…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yanhao Yang , Pan Shi , Yuyi Wang , Kun He

Nowadays, networks are almost ubiquitous. In the past decade, community detection received an increasing interest as a way to uncover the structure of networks by grouping nodes into communities more densely connected internally than…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin

Although it has been claimed in two different papers that the maximum cardinality cut problem is polynomial-time solvable for proper interval graphs, both of them turned out to be erroneous. In this paper, we give FPT algorithms for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Arman Boyacı , Tınaz Ekim , Mordechai Shalom