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$k$-defective cliques relax cliques by allowing up-to $k$ missing edges from being a complete graph. This relaxation enables us to find larger near-cliques and has applications in link prediction, cluster detection, social network analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Lijun Chang

We take an existing implementation of an algorithm for the maximum clique problem and modify it so that we can distribute it over an ad-hoc cluster of machines. Our goal was to achieve a significant speedup in performance with minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

We study the problem of approximating the number of $k$-cliques in a graph when given query access to the graph. We consider the standard query model for general graphs via (1) degree queries, (2) neighbor queries and (3) pair queries. Let…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

The Cluster Deletion problem takes a graph $G$ as input and asks for a minimum size set of edges $X$ such that $G-X$ is the disjoint union of complete graphs. An equivalent formulation is the Clique Partition problem, which asks to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Nicola Galesi , Tony Huynh , Fariba Ranjbar

Cohesive subgraph mining on attributed graphs is a fundamental problem in graph data analysis. Existing cohesive subgraph mining algorithms on attributed graphs do not consider the fairness of attributes in the subgraph. In this paper, we,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Qi Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Minjia Pan , Yongheng Dai , Qun Tian , Guoren Wang

Clique problem has a wide range of applications due to its pattern matching ability. There are various formulation of clique problem like $k$-clique problem, maximum clique problem, etc. The $k$-Clique problem, determines whether an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Arpita Sanyal , Amit Saha , Banani Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti

Multiple interval graphs are variants of interval graphs where instead of a single interval, each vertex is assigned a set of intervals on the real line. We study the complexity of the MAXIMUM CLIQUE problem in several classes of multiple…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-03-12 Mathew C. Francis , Daniel Gonçalves , Pascal Ochem

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

We present an efficient algorithm for the min-max correlation clustering problem. The input is a complete graph where edges are labeled as either positive $(+)$ or negative $(-)$, and the objective is to find a clustering that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nairen Cao , Steven Roche , Hsin-Hao Su

This manuscript provides a comprehensive review of the Maximum Clique Problem, a computational problem that involves finding subsets of vertices in a graph that are all pairwise adjacent to each other. The manuscript covers in a simple way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Raffaele Marino , Lorenzo Buffoni , Bogdan Zavalnij

We present a new parallel algorithm for $k$-clique counting/listing that has polylogarithmic span (parallel time) and is work-efficient (matches the work of the best sequential algorithm) for sparse graphs. Our algorithm is based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Maximal biclique enumeration is a fundamental problem in bipartite graph data analysis. Existing biclique enumeration methods mainly focus on non-attributed bipartite graphs and also ignore the \emph{fairness} of graph attributes. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Ziqi Yin , Qi Zhang , Wentao Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Enumerating maximal $k$-biplexes (MBPs) of a bipartite graph has been used for applications such as fraud detection. Nevertheless, there usually exists an exponential number of MBPs, which brings up two issues when enumerating MBPs, namely…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Kaiqiang Yu , Cheng Long

We consider the problems of finding a maximum clique in a graph and finding a maximum-edge biclique in a bipartite graph. Both problems are NP-hard. We write both problems as matrix-rank minimization and then relax them using the nuclear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-01-22 Brendan Ames , Stephen Vavasis

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

Finding the maximum clique is a known NP-Complete problem and it is also hard to approximate. This work proposes two efficient algorithms to obtain it. Nevertheless, the first one is able to fins the maximum for some special cases, while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-21 José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin

The Edge Interdiction Clique Problem (EICP) aims to remove at most $k$ edges from a graph so as to minimize the size of the largest clique in the remaining graph. This problem captures a fundamental question in graph manipulation: which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yi Zhou , Haoyu Jiang , Chenghao Zhu , André Rossi

Automatic detection of relevant groups of nodes in large real-world graphs, i.e. community detection, has applications in many fields and has received a lot of attention in the last twenty years. The most popular method designed to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alexis Baudin , Maximilien Danisch , Sergey Kirgizov , Clémence Magnien , Marwan Ghanem

The problem of identifying the maximum edge biclique in bipartite graphs has attracted considerable attention in bipartite graph analysis, with numerous real-world applications such as fraud detection, community detection, and online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Donghang Cui , Ronghua Li , Qiangqiang Dai , Hongchao Qin , Guoren Wang

Maximal clique enumeration appears in various real-world networks, such as social networks and protein-protein interaction networks for different applications. For general graph inputs, the number of maximal cliques can be up to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hodaka Yamaji