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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

The maximum clique (MC) problem is a challenging graph mining problem which, due to its NP-hard nature, can take a substantial amount of execution time. The MC problem is dominated by set intersection operations similar to Maximal Clique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hans Vandierendonck

The Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS) problem plays a crucial role across various domains, bridging theoretical exploration and practical applications in fields like bioinformatics and social network analysis. Despite its wide applicability,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Davide Guidobene , Guido Cera

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

There are many methods to find a maximum (or maximal) clique in large networks. Due to the nature of combinatorics, computation becomes exponentially expensive as the number of vertices in a graph increases. Thus, there is a need for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-27 S. Y. Chan , K. Morgan , J. Ugon

In a random intersection graph $G_{n,m,p}$, each of $n$ vertices selects a random subset of a set of $m$ labels by including each label independently with probability $p$ and edges are drawn between vertices that have at least one label in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Filippos Christodoulou , Sotiris Nikoletseas , Christoforos Raptopoulos , Paul Spirakis

Finding large cliques or cliques missing a few edges is a fundamental algorithmic task in the study of real-world graphs, with applications in community detection, pattern recognition, and clustering. A number of effective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Balaram Behera , Edin Husić , Shweta Jain , Tim Roughgarden , C. Seshadhri

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

We present a new formulation of the maximum clique problem of a graph in complex space. We start observing that the adjacency matrix A of a graph can always be written in the form A = B B where B is a complex, symmetric matrix formed by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-03 Marco Budinich , Paolo Budinich

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving maximal cliques for simple undirected graphs using the theory of prime numbers. A novel approach using prime numbers is used to find cliques and ends with a discussion of the algorithm.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dhananjay D. Kulkarni , Shekhar Verma , Prashant

This paper describes a method of global localization based on graph-theoretic association of instances between a query and the prior map. The proposed framework employs correspondence matching based on the maximum clique problem (MCP). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shigemichi Matsuzaki , Kenji Koide , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Atsuhiko Banno

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

In this paper we introduce a new algorithm to study some NP-complete problems. This algorithm is a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inspired by the cavity method developed in the study of spin glass. We will focus on the maximum clique…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Antonio Iovanella , Benedetto Scoppola , Elisabetta Scoppola

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

Maximum Clique Problem(MCP) is one of the 21 original NP--complete problems enumerated by Karp in 1972. In recent years a large number of exact methods to solve MCP have been appeared(Babel, Wood, Kumlander, Fahle, Li, Tomita and etc). Most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Nikolay Lavnikevich

MAX CLIQUE problem (MCP) is an NPO problem, which asks to find the largest complete sub-graph in a graph $G, G = (V, E)$ (directed or undirected). MCP is well known to be $NP-Hard$ to approximate in polynomial time with an approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tapani Toivonen , Janne Karttunen

Clique is one of the most fundamental models for cohesive subgraph mining in network analysis. Existing clique model mainly focuses on unsigned networks. However, in real world, many applications are modeled as signed networks with positive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zi Chen , Long Yuan , Xuemin Lin , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang

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

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

I present a single algorithm which solves the clique problems, "What is the largest size clique?", "What are all the maximal cliques?" and the decision problem, "Does a clique of size k exist?" for any given graph in polynomial time. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michael LaPlante