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The {Congested Clique} is a distributed-computing model for single-hop networks with restricted bandwidth that has been very intensively studied recently. It models a network by an $n$-vertex graph in which any pair of vertices can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Leonid Barenboim , Victor Khazanov

Graphlets of order $k$ in a graph $G$ are connected subgraphs induced by $k$ nodes (called $k$-graphlets) or by $k$ edges (called edge $k$-graphlets). They are among the interesting subgraphs in network analysis to get insights on both the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Alessio Conte , Roberto Grossi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Davide Rucci , Takeaki Uno , Kunihiro Wasa

We are given a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, where a random subset of $k$ vertices has been made into a clique, and the remaining edges are chosen independently with probability $\tfrac12$. This random graph model is denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-15 Yael Dekel , Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Yuval Peres

Given query access to an undirected graph $G$, we consider the problem of computing a $(1\pm\epsilon)$-approximation of the number of $k$-cliques in $G$. The standard query model for general graphs allows for degree queries, neighbor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

Listing k-cliques plays a fundamental role in various data mining tasks, such as community detection and mining of cohesive substructures. Existing algorithms for the k-clique listing problem are built upon a general framework, which finds…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yehyun Nam , Jihoon Jang , Kunsoo Park , Jianye Yang , Cheng Long

In a seminal work, Chiba and Nishizeki [SIAM J. Comput. `85] developed subgraph listing algorithms for triangles, 4-cycle and $k$-cliques, where $k \geq 3.$ The runtimes of their algorithms are parameterized by the number of edges $m$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yael Kirkpatrick , Surya Mathialagan

There is substantial literature dealing with fixed parameter algorithms for the dominating set problem on various families of graphs. In this paper, we give a $k^{O(dk)} n$ time algorithm for finding a dominating set of size at most $k$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Noga Alon , Shai Gutner

The family of $(k,\ell)$-sparse graphs, introduced by Lorea, plays a central role in combinatorial optimization and has a wide range of applications, particularly in rigidity theory. A key algorithmic problem is to decide whether a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Bence Deák , Péter Madarasi

The problem of enumerating all connected induced subgraphs of a given order $k$ from a given graph arises in many practical applications: bioinformatics, information retrieval, processor design,to name a few. The upper bound on the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Shanshan Wang , Chenglong Xiao , Emmanuel Casseau

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

Connectivity related concepts are of fundamental interest in graph theory. The area has received extensive attention over four decades, but many problems remain unsolved, especially for directed graphs. A directed graph is 2-edge-connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Shiri Chechik , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Veronika Loitzenbauer , Nikos Parotsidis

In this paper, we address the problem of enumerating all induced subtrees in an input k-degenerate graph, where an induced subtree is an acyclic and connected induced subgraph. A graph G = (V, E) is a k-degenerate graph if for any its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Kunihiro Wasa , Hiroki Arimura , Takeaki Uno

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

A $k$-clique is a dense graph, consisting of $k$ fully-connected nodes, that finds numerous applications, such as community detection and network analysis. In this paper, we study a new problem, that finds a maximum set of disjoint…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wenqing Lin , Xin Chen , Haoxuan Xie , Sibo Wang , Siqiang Luo

Coudert et al. (SODA'18) proved that under the Strong Exponential-Time Hypothesis, for any $\epsilon >0$, there is no ${\cal O}(2^{o(k)}n^{2-\epsilon})$-time algorithm for computing the diameter within the $n$-vertex cubic graphs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Guillaume Ducoffe

Dynamics of interactions play an increasingly important role in the analysis of complex networks. A modeling framework to capture this are temporal graphs which consist of a set of vertices (entities in the network) and a set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Anne-Sophie Himmel , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Manuel Sorge

The problem of enumerating connected subgraphs of a given size in a graph has been extensively studied in recent years. In this paper, we propose an algorithm with a delay of $O(k\Delta)$ for enumerating all connected induced subgraphs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Chenglong Xiao , Chengyong Mao , Shanshan Wang

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

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

Graph spanners are sparse subgraphs that faithfully preserve the distances in the original graph up to small stretch. Spanner have been studied extensively as they have a wide range of applications ranging from distance oracles, labeling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Merav Parter , Eylon Yogev