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Given an undirected graph and a size parameter $k$, the Densest $k$-Subgraph (D$k$S) problem extracts the subgraph on $k$ vertices with the largest number of induced edges. While D$k$S is NP--hard and difficult to approximate, penalty-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Ya Liu , Junbin Liu , Wing-Kin Ma , Aritra Konar

Subgraph counting is a fundamental task that underpins several network analysis methodologies, including community detection and graph two-sample tests. Counting subgraphs is a computationally intensive problem. Substantial research has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Feng Yu , Mingao Yuan

Given a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and a positive integer $k\le n$, a subgraph of $G$ on $k$ vertices is called a $k$-subgraph in $G$. We design combinatorial approximation algorithms for finding a connected $k$-subgraph in $G$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Xujin Chen , Xiaodong Hu , Changjun Wang

We give the first polynomial-time, differentially node-private, and robust algorithm for estimating the edge density of Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs and their generalization, inhomogeneous random graphs. We further prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongjie Chen , Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , David Steurer

In the Densest k-Subgraph problem, given a graph G and a parameter k, one needs to find a subgraph of G induced on k vertices that contains the largest number of edges. There is a significant gap between the best known upper and lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-19 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Eden Chlamtac , Uriel Feige , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We consider the densest submatrix problem, which seeks the submatrix of fixed size of a given binary matrix that contains the most nonzero entries. This problem is a natural generalization of fundamental problems in combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Valentine Olanubi , Phineas Agar , Brendan Ames

Recently [Bhattacharya et al., STOC 2015] provide the first non-trivial algorithm for the densest subgraph problem in the streaming model with additions and deletions to its edges, i.e., for dynamic graph streams. They present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David P. Woodruff

We consider the Exact-Weight-H problem of finding a (not necessarily induced) subgraph H of weight 0 in an edge-weighted graph G. We show that for every H, the complexity of this problem is strongly related to that of the infamous k-Sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Amir Abboud , Kevin Lewi

Finding dense subgraphs of a large graph is a standard problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications. In this paper we introduce a new family of dense…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

Graphs are a fundamental data structure used to represent relationships in domains as diverse as the social sciences, bioinformatics, cybersecurity, the Internet, and more. One of the central observations in network science is that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Sabyasachi Basu , Daniel Paul-Pena , Kun Qian , C. Seshadhri , Edward W Huang , Karthik Subbian

We determine the asymptotic behavior of the maximum subgraph density of large random graphs with a prescribed degree sequence. The result applies in particular to the Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi model, where it settles a conjecture of Hajek [IEEE…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Venkat Anantharam , Justin Salez

A central problem in graph mining is finding dense subgraphs, with several applications in different fields, a notable example being identifying communities. While a lot of effort has been put on the problem of finding a single dense…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Riccardo Dondi , Mohammad Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Giancarlo Mauri , Italo Zoppis

In this paper, we study the exact learning problem for weighted graphs, where we are given the vertex set, $V$, of a weighted graph, $G=(V,E,w)$, but we are not given $E$. The problem, which is also known as graph reconstruction, is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Michael T. Goodrich , Songyu Liu , Ioannis Panageas

An $s{\operatorname{-}}t$ minimum cut in a graph corresponds to a minimum weight subset of edges whose removal disconnects vertices $s$ and $t$. Finding such a cut is a classic problem that is dual to that of finding a maximum flow from $s$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Simon Apers , Arinta Auza , Troy Lee

For any undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set $E_W$ of candidate edges with $E\cap E_W=\emptyset$, the $(k,\gamma)$-spectral augmentability problem is to find a set $F$ of $k$ edges from $E_W$ with appropriate weighting, such that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Bogdan-Adrian Manghiuc , Pan Peng , He Sun

Finding a maximum-weight matching is a classical and well-studied problem in computer science, solvable in cubic time in general graphs. We consider the specialization called assignment problem where the input is a bipartite graph, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Romaric Duvignau , Noël Gillet , Ralf Klasing

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

The problem of finding locally dense components of a graph is an important primitive in data analysis, with wide-ranging applications from community mining to spam detection and the discovery of biological network modules. In this paper we…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Bahman Bahmani , Ravi Kumar , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Boson sampling devices are a prime candidate for exhibiting quantum supremacy, yet their application for solving problems of practical interest is less well understood. Here we show that Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) can be used for dense…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Thomas R. Bromley

In this paper we consider the problem of reconstructing a hidden weighted hypergraph of constant rank using additive queries. We prove the following: Let $G$ be a weighted hidden hypergraph of constant rank with n vertices and $m$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-01-05 Nader H. Bshouty , Hanna Mazzawi