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Finding the maximum clique is a known NP-Complete problem and it is also hard to approximate. This work proposes two efficient algorithms to obtain it. Nevertheless, the first one is able to fins the maximum for some special cases, while…

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We present an algorithm for maintaining maximal matching in a graph under addition and deletion of edges. Our data structure is randomized that takes O(log n) expected amortized time for each edge update where n is the number of vertices in…

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A $k$-defective clique of an undirected graph $G$ is a subset of its vertices that induces a nearly complete graph with a maximum of $k$ missing edges. The maximum $k$-defective clique problem, which asks for the largest $k$-defective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Chunyu Luo , Yi Zhou , Zhengren Wang , Mingyu Xiao

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…

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We give a fully dynamic deterministic algorithm for maintaining a maximal matching of an $n$-vertex graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{8/9})$ amortized update time. This breaks the long-standing $\Omega(n)$-update-time barrier on dense graphs,…

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Finding a Maximum Clique is a classic property test from graph theory; find any one of the largest complete subgraphs in an Erd\"os-R\'enyi G(N, p) random graph. We use Maximum Clique to explore the structure of the problem as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

Maximal clique enumeration (MCE) is a fundamental problem in graph theory and is used in many applications, such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, intelligent agent systems, cyber security, etc. Most existing MCE algorithms focus…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xiaofan Li , Rui Zhou , Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Qiang He , Yun Yang

In this paper, we present a polynomial-time algorithm for the maximum clique problem, which implies P = NP. Our algorithm is based on a continuous game-theoretic representation of this problem and at its heart lies a discrete-time dynamical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ioannis Avramopoulos

We propose improved exact and heuristic algorithms for solving the maximum weight clique problem, a well-known problem in graph theory with many applications. Our algorithms interleave successful techniques from related work with novel data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Roman Erhardt , Kathrin Hanauer , Nils Kriege , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

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

Let $P$ be a path graph of $n$ vertices embedded in a metric space. We consider the problem of adding a new edge to $P$ so that the radius of the resulting graph is minimized, where any center is constrained to be one of the vertices of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Haitao Wang , Yiming Zhao

We consider the enumeration of maximal bipartite cliques (bicliques) from a large graph, a task central to many practical data mining problems in social network analysis and bioinformatics. We present novel parallel algorithms for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Arko Provo Mukherjee , Srikanta Tirthapura

Combinatorial optimization problems arise in a wide range of applications from diverse domains. Many of these problems are NP-hard and designing efficient heuristics for them requires considerable time and experimentation. On the other…

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Finding maximum cliques in large networks is a challenging combinatorial problem with many real-world applications. We present a fast algorithm to achieve the exact solution for the maximum clique problem in large sparse networks based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Tianlong Fan , Wenjun Jiang , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Linyuan Lü

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 set of vertices in a graph forms a potential maximal clique if there exists a minimal chordal completion in which it is a maximal clique. Potential maximal cliques were first introduced as a key tool to obtain an efficient, though…

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In this paper, we provide polynomial-time algorithms for different extensions of the matching counting problem, namely maximal matchings, path matchings (linear forest) and paths, on graph classes of bounded clique-width. For maximal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus , Takeaki Uno

A $k$-defective clique is a relaxation of the traditional clique definition, allowing up to $k$ missing edges. This relaxation is crucial in various real-world applications such as link prediction, community detection, and social network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jihoon Jang , Yehyun Nam , Kunsoo Park , Hyunjoon Kim

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

This contribution extends the Bron Kerbosch algorithm for solving the maximum weight clique problem, where continuous-valued weights are assigned to both, vertices and edges. We applied the proposed algorithm to graph matching problems.

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