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A popular model to measure network stability is the $k$-core, that is the maximal induced subgraph in which every vertex has degree at least $k$. For example, $k$-cores are commonly used to model the unraveling phenomena in social networks.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

Graph clustering or community detection constitutes an important task for investigating the internal structure of graphs, with a plethora of applications in several domains. Traditional techniques for graph clustering, such as spectral…

An ordered graph is a graph enhanced with a linear order on the vertex set. An ordered graph is a core if it does not have an order-preserving homomorphism to a proper subgraph. We say that $H$ is the core of $G$ if (i) $H$ is a core, (ii)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

In this paper we give the first efficient algorithms for the $k$-center problem on dynamic graphs undergoing edge updates. In this problem, the goal is to partition the input into $k$ sets by choosing $k$ centers such that the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Emilio Cruciani , Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Yasamin Nazari , Antonis Skarlatos

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised to model complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, have gained significant attention for representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dahee Kim , Hyewon Kim , Song Kim , Minseok Kim , Junghoon Kim , Yeon-Chang Lee , Sungsu Lim

Truss was proposed to study social network data represented by graphs. A k-truss of a graph is a cohesive subgraph, in which each edge is contained in at least k-2 triangles within the subgraph. While truss has been demonstrated as superior…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Rui Zhou , Chengfei Liu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Weifa Liang , Yanchun Zhang

On an evolving graph that is continuously updated by a high-velocity stream of edges, how can one efficiently maintain if two vertices are connected? This is the connectivity problem, a fundamental and widely studied problem on graphs. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Natcha Simsiri , Kanat Tangwongsan , Srikanta Tirthapura , Kun-Lung Wu

Among the novel metrics used to study the relative importance of nodes in complex networks, k-core decomposition has found a number of applications in areas as diverse as sociology, proteinomics, graph visualization, and distributed system…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-03-30 Alberto Montresor , Francesco De Pellegrini , Daniele Miorandi

The k-truss is a type of cohesive subgraphs proposed recently for the study of networks. While the problem of computing most cohesive subgraphs is NP-hard, there exists a polynomial time algorithm for computing k-truss. Compared with k-core…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Jia Wang , James Cheng

This paper proposes efficient solutions for $k$-core decomposition with high parallelism. The problem of $k$-core decomposition is fundamental in graph analysis and has applications across various domains. However, existing algorithms face…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Youzhe Liu , Xiaojun Dong , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

With the proliferation of mobile technology and IT development, people can use social network services at any place and anytime. Among many social network mining problems, identifying cohesive subgraphs attract many attentions from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Junghoon Kim , Sungsu Lim , Jungeun Kim

We show how to find and efficiently maintain maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs in undirected graphs. In particular, we provide the following results. (1) A general framework for maintaining the maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Evangelos Kosinas , Debasish Pattanayak

In this paper, we investigate the problem of (k,r)-core which intends to find cohesive subgraphs on social networks considering both user engagement and similarity perspectives. In particular, we adopt the popular concept of k-core to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Fan Zhang , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

In this paper, we investigate the parallelization of $k$-core decomposition, a method used in graph analysis to identify cohesive substructures and assess node centrality. Although efficient sequential algorithms exist for this task, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Davide Rucci , Sebastian Parfeniuc , Matteo Mordacchini , Emanuele Carlini , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Patrizio Dazzi

Discovering dense subgraphs and understanding the relations among them is a fundamental problem in graph mining. We want to not only identify dense subgraphs, but also build a hierarchy among them (e.g., larger but sparser subgraphs formed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-18 A. Erdem Sariyuce , Ali Pinar

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

Core decomposition is a fundamental operator in network analysis. In this paper, we study the problem of computing distance-generalized core decomposition on a network. A distance-generalized core, also termed $(k, h)$-core, is a maximal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Qiangqiang Dai , Rong-Hua Li , Lu Qin , Guoren Wang , Weihua Yang , Zhiwei Zhang , Ye Yuan

$k$-core is a subgraph where every node has at least $k$ neighbors within the subgraph. The $k$-core subgraphs has been employed in large platforms like Network Repository to comprehend the underlying structures and dynamics of the network.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yiping Liu , Bo Yan , Bo Zhao , Hongyi Su , Yang Chen , Michael Witbrock

In the analysis of large-scale network data, a fundamental operation is the comparison of observed phenomena to the predictions provided by null models: when we find an interesting structure in a family of real networks, it is important to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Katherine Van Koevering , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

Many graph problems can be solved using ordered parallel graph algorithms that achieve significant speedup over their unordered counterparts by reducing redundant work. This paper introduces a new priority-based extension to GraphIt, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Yunming Zhang , Ajay Brahmakshatriya , Xinyi Chen , Laxman Dhulipala , Shoaib Kamil , Saman Amarasinghe , Julian Shun