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The problem of finding large cliques in random graphs and its "planted" variant, where one wants to recover a clique of size $\omega \gg \log{(n)}$ added to an \Erdos-\Renyi graph $G \sim G(n,\frac{1}{2})$, have been intensely studied.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Samuel B. Hopkins , Pravesh K. Kothari , Aaron Potechin

The planted clique problem is well-studied in the context of observing, explaining, and predicting interesting computational phenomena associated with statistical problems. When equating computational efficiency with the existence of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jay Mardia

The problem of identifying a planted assignment given a random $k$-SAT formula consistent with the assignment exhibits a large algorithmic gap: while the planted solution becomes unique and can be identified given a formula with $O(n\log…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Vitaly Feldman , Will Perkins , Santosh Vempala

A clique in an undirected graph G= (V, E) is a subset V' V of vertices, each pair of which is connected by an edge in E. The clique problem is an optimization problem of finding a clique of maximum size in graph. The clique problem is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-10-04 Murali Krishna P , Sabu . M Thampi

To understand how hidden information can be extracted from statistical networks, planted models in random graphs have been the focus of intensive study in recent years. In this work, we consider the detection of a planted matching, i.e., an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Timothy L. H. Wee , Cheng Mao

We study computational limitations in \emph{multi-plant} average-case inference problems, in which $t$ disjoint planted structures of size $k$ are embedded in a random background on $n$ elements. A natural parameter in this setting is the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Matvey Mosievskiy , Lev Reyzin

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

We address the problem of enumerating all maximal clique-partitions of an undirected graph and present an algorithm based on the observation that every maximal clique-partition can be produced from the maximal clique-cover of the graph by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mircea Marin , Temur Kutsia , Cleo Pau , Mikheil Rukhaia

We consider the task of detecting a hidden bipartite subgraph in a given random graph. This is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem, under the null hypothesis, the graph is a realization of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph over $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Asaf Rotenberg , Wasim Huleihel , Ofer Shayevitz

We present a simple nonadaptive randomized algorithm that estimates the number of edges in a simple, unweighted, undirected graph, possibly containing isolated vertices, using only degree and random edge queries. For an $n$-vertex graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Arijit Bishnu , Debarshi Chanda , Buddha Dev Das , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra

Multiple methods of finding the vertices belonging to a planted dense subgraph in a random dense $G(n, p)$ graph have been proposed, with an emphasis on planted cliques. Such methods can identify the planted subgraph in polynomial time, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Itay Levinas , Yoram Louzoun

We consider a problem introduced by Feige, Gamarnik, Neeman, R\'acz and Tetali [2020], that of finding a large clique in a random graph $G\sim G(n,\frac{1}{2})$, where the graph $G$ is accessible by queries to entries of its adjacency…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Uriel Feige , Tom Ferster

We consider the problem of finding a large clique in an Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph where we are allowed unbounded computational time but can only query a limited number of edges. Recall that the largest clique in $G \sim G(n,1/2)$ has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Endre Csóka , András Pongrácz

In the planted partition problem, the $n$ vertices of a random graph are partitioned into $k$ "clusters," and edges between vertices in the same cluster and different clusters are included with constant probability $p$ and $q$, respectively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Sam Cole

We study finding and listing $k$-cliques in a graph, for constant $k\geq 3$, a fundamental problem of both theoretical and practical importance. Our main contribution is a new output-sensitive algorithm for listing $k$-cliques in graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Surya Mathialagan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu

Let k_r(n,m) denote the minimum number of r-cliques in graphs with n vertices and m edges. For r=3,4 we give a lower bound on k_r(n,m) that approximates k_r(n,m) with an error smaller than n^r/(n^2-2m). The solution is based on a constraint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-19 Vladimir Nikiforov

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, the unit-disk graph $G(P)$ is a graph with $P$ as its vertex set such that two points of $P$ have an edge if their Euclidean distance is at most $1$. We consider the problem of computing a maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Anastasiia Tkachenko , Haitao Wang

We tackle the problem of counting the number of $k$-cliques in large-scale graphs, for any constant $k \ge 3$. Clique counting is essential in a variety of applications, among which social network analysis. Due to its computationally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Irene Finocchi , Marco Finocchi , Emanuele G. Fusco

We present an alternate formulation of the partial assignment problem as matching random clique complexes, that are higher-order analogues of random graphs, designed to provide a set of invariants that better detect higher-order structure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Charu Sharma , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

Given a large data matrix $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, we consider the problem of determining whether its entries are i.i.d. with some known marginal distribution $A_{ij}\sim P_0$, or instead $A$ contains a principal submatrix $A_{{\sf…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari