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Is detecting a $k$-clique in $k$-partite regular (hyper-)graphs as hard as in the general case? Intuition suggests yes, but proving this -- especially for hypergraphs -- poses notable challenges. Concretely, we consider a strong notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nick Fischer , Marvin Künnemann , Mirza Redžić , Julian Stieß

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

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 problem of finding the densest subgraph in a given graph has several applications in graph mining, particularly in areas like social network analysis, protein and gene analyses etc. Depending on the application, finding dense subgraphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Naga V. C. Gudapati , Enrico Malaguti , Michele Monaci

Finding dense components in graphs is of great importance in analyzing the structure of networks. Popular and computationally feasible frameworks for discovering dense subgraphs are core and truss decompositions. Recently, Sariyuce et al.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Fatemeh Esfahani , Venkatesh Srinivasan , Alex Thomo , Kui Wu

Dense subgraph discovery is an important problem in graph mining and network analysis with several applications. Two canonical problems here are to find a maxcore (subgraph of maximum min degree) and to find a densest subgraph (subgraph of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chandra Chekuri , Manuel R. Torres

A graph with $n$ vertices is an $f(\cdot)$-dense graph if it has at least $f(n)$ edges, $f(\cdot)$ being a well-defined function. The notion $f(\cdot)$-dense graph encompasses various clique models like $\gamma$-quasi cliques, $k$-defective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yi Zhou , Chunyu Luo , Zhengren Wang , Zhang-Hua Fu

We study the Densest At-Least-$k$-Subgraph (DAL$k$S) problem, in which we are given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and the goal is to find a subgraph of $G$ with at least $k$ vertices with maximum density. The best-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bundit Laekhanukit , Pasin Manurangsi , Ohad Trabelsi

The problem of finding dense components of a graph is a widely explored area in data analysis, with diverse applications in fields and branches of study including community mining, spam detection, computer security and bioinformatics. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 B. D. M. De Zoysa , Y. A. M. M. A. Ali , M. D. I. Maduranga , Indika Perera , Saliya Ekanayake , Anil Vullikanti

Decomposing a graph into a hierarchical structure via $k$-core analysis is a standard operation in any modern graph-mining toolkit. $k$-core decomposition is a simple and efficient method that allows to analyze a graph beyond its mere…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Nikolaj Tatti

We study the densest subgraph problem and its NP-hard densest at-most-$k$ subgraph variant through the lens of learning-augmented algorithms. We show that, given a reasonably accurate predictor that estimates whether a node belongs to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Thai Bui , Luan Nguyen , Hoa T. Vu

Finding the largest clique is a notoriously hard problem, even on random graphs. It is known that the clique number of a random graph G(n,1/2) is almost surely either k or k+1, where k = 2log n - 2log(log n) - 1. However, a simple greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-22 Atish Das Sarma , Amit Deshpande , Ravi Kannan

We present a parallel k-clique listing algorithm with improved work bounds (for the same depth) in sparse graphs with low degeneracy or arboricity. We achieve this by introducing and analyzing a new pruning criterion for a backtracking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Lukas Gianinazzi , Maciej Besta , Yannick Schaffner , Torsten Hoefler

Dense subgraph discovery aims to find a dense component in edge-weighted graphs. This is a fundamental graph-mining task with a variety of applications and thus has received much attention recently. Although most existing methods assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yuko Kuroki , Atsushi Miyauchi , Junya Honda , Masashi Sugiyama

We study the recently introduced problem of finding dense common subgraphs: Given a sequence of graphs that share the same vertex set, the goal is to find a subset of vertices $S$ that maximizes some aggregate measure of the density of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Moses Charikar , Yonatan Naamad , Jimmy Wu

Detecting locally, non-overlapping, near-clique densest subgraphs is a crucial problem for community search in social networks. As a vertex may be involved in multiple overlapped local cliques, detecting locally densest sub-structures…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiaojia Xu , Haoyu Liu , Xiaowei Lv , Yongcai Wang , Deying Li

In distributed networks, it is often useful for the nodes to be aware of dense subgraphs, e.g., such a dense subgraph could reveal dense subtructures in otherwise sparse graphs (e.g. the World Wide Web or social networks); these might…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Atish Das Sarma , Ashwin Lall , Danupon Nanongkai , Amitabh Trehan

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

Dense subgraph mining is a fundamental technique in graph mining, commonly applied in fraud detection, community detection, product recommendation, and document summarization. In such applications, we are often interested in identifying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Qiheng Lu , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Aritra Konar

Finding dense subgraphs is a core problem with numerous graph mining applications such as community detection in social networks and anomaly detection. However, in many real-world networks connections are not equal. One way to label edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chamalee Wickrama Arachchi , Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti