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Counting small patterns in a large dataset is a fundamental algorithmic task. The most common version of this task is subgraph/homomorphism counting, wherein we count the number of occurrences of a small pattern graph $H$ in an input graph…

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The minimum rank of a graph G is the minimum rank over all real symmetric matrices whose off-diagonal sparsity pattern is the same as that of the adjacency matrix of G. In this note we present the first exact algorithm for the minimum rank…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Boris Brimkov , Zachary Scherr

The \emph{maximal $k$-edge-connected subgraphs} problem is a classical graph clustering problem studied since the 70's. Surprisingly, no non-trivial technique for this problem in weighted graphs is known: a very straightforward…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chaitanya Nalam , Thatchaphol Saranurak

A hypergraph is a set V of vertices and a set of non-empty subsets of V, called hyperedges. Unlike graphs, hypergraphs can capture higher-order interactions in social and communication networks that go beyond a simple union of pairwise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-02 Jianhang Gao , Qing Zhao , Wei Ren , Ananthram Swami , Ram Ramanathan , Amotz Bar-Noy

In this paper, we present exact exponential algorithms for computing branchwidth that are fast both in theory and in practice. The running times of these algorithms are single-exponential in the number of vertices. Our basic algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Taiki Kaneda , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Hisao Tamaki

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

Let $H=(V,E)$ be an edge-weighted hypergraph of rank $r$. Kogan and Krauthgamer extended Bencz\'{u}r and Karger's random sampling scheme for cut sparsification from graphs to hypergraphs. The sampling requires an algorithm for computing the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Chandra Chekuri , Chao Xu

We consider the (exact, minimum) $k$-cut problem: given a graph and an integer $k$, delete a minimum-weight set of edges so that the remaining graph has at least $k$ connected components. This problem is a natural generalization of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jason Li

Given an edge-weighted graph, how many minimum $k$-cuts can it have? This is a fundamental question in the intersection of algorithms, extremal combinatorics, and graph theory. It is particularly interesting in that the best known bounds…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li

We design an algorithm for computing connectivity in hypergraphs which runs in time $\hat O_r(p + \min\{\lambda^{\frac{r-3}{r-1}} n^2, n^r/\lambda^{r/(r-1)}\})$ (the $\hat O_r(\cdot)$ hides the terms subpolynomial in the main parameter and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Calvin Beideman , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Danupon Nanongkai

Quasi-cliques are dense incomplete subgraphs of a graph that generalize the notion of cliques. Enumerating quasi-cliques from a graph is a robust way to detect densely connected structures with applications to bio-informatics and social…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Seyed-Vahid Sanei-Mehri , Apurba Das , Srikanta Tirthapura

Listing all triangles is a fundamental graph operation. Triangles can have important interpretations in real-world graphs, especially social and other interaction networks. Despite the lack of provably efficient (linear, or slightly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-07 Jonathan W. Berry , Luke A. Fostvedt , Daniel J. Nordman , Cynthia A. Phillips , C. Seshadhri , Alyson G. Wilson

A hypergraph is a useful combinatorial object to model ternary or higher-order relations among entities. Clustering hypergraphs is a fundamental task in network analysis. In this study, we develop two clustering algorithms based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuuki Takai , Atsushi Miyauchi , Masahiro Ikeda , Yuichi Yoshida

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 ranked enumeration of join-query results according to very general orders defined by selective dioids. Our main contribution is a framework for ranked enumeration over a class of dynamic programming problems that generalizes…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nikolaos Tziavelis , Deepak Ajwani , Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Mirek Riedewald , Xiaofeng Yang

We study algorithmic and structural aspects of connectivity in hypergraphs. Given a hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ with $n = |V|$, $m = |E|$ and $p = \sum_{e \in E} |e|$ the best known algorithm to compute a global minimum cut in $H$ runs in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Chandra Chekuri , Chao Xu

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

The subgraph number of a vertex in a graph is defined as the number of connected subgraphs containing that vertex. The graph and its vertex which correspond to the minimum subgraph number among all graphs on $n$ vertices and $k$ cut…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Dinesh Pandey , Peruvemba Sundaram Ravi

Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph, and $s,t$ vertices of $G$. We present an efficient algorithm which enumerates the set of minimal $st$-separators of $G$ in ascending order of cardinality, with a delay of $O(n^{3.5})$ per separator. In…

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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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