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We consider the Densest-Subgraph problem, where a graph and an integer k is given and we search for a subgraph on exactly k vertices that induces the maximum number of edges. We prove that this problem is NP-hard even when the input graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-28 Manuel Sorge

Subgraph matching is a core task in graph analytics, widely used in domains such as biology, finance, and social networks. Existing top-k diversified methods typically focus on maximizing vertex coverage, but often return results in the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Liuyi Chen , Yuchen Hu , Zhengyi Yang , Xu Zhou , Wenjie Zhang , Kenli Li

Finding dense subgraphs of a large network is a fundamental problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications over the last five decades. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ali Behrouz , Farnoosh Hashemi

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

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

The densest subgraph problem, introduced in the 80s by Picard and Queyranne as well as Goldberg, is a classic problem in combinatorial optimization with a wide range of applications. The lowest outdegree orientation problem is known to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hsin-Hao Su , Hoa T. Vu

This paper addresses the problem of finding the densest $k$-vertex subgraph in an arbitrary graph. This problem is NP-hard and has important applications in social network analysis, fraud detection, recommendation systems, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yu. A. Biriukov , R. D. Morozov , I. V. Dyakonov , S. S. Straupe

The use of network based approaches to model and analyse large datasets is currently a growing research field. For instance in biology and medicine, networks are used to model interactions among biological molecules as well as relations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Pietro Hiram Guzzi , Emanuel Salerno , Giuseppe Tradigo , Pierangelo Veltri

The densest subgraph problem (DSG) aiming at finding an induced subgraph such that the average edge-weights of the subgraph is maximized, is a well-studied problem. However, when the input graph is a hypergraph, the existing notion of DSG…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yi Zhou , Shan Hu , Zimo Sheng

Identifying cohesive subgraphs in hypergraphs is a fundamental problem that has received recent attention in data mining and engineering fields. Existing approaches mainly focus on a strongly induced subhypergraph or edge cardinality,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dahee Kim , Junghoon Kim , Sungsu Lim , Hyun Ji Jeong

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

Given a dynamic network, where edges appear and disappear over time, we are interested in finding sets of edges that have similar temporal behavior and form a dense subgraph. Formally, we define the problem as the enumeration of the maximal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Giulia Preti , Polina Rozenshtein , Aristides Gionis , Yannis Velegrakis

We give the first fully dynamic algorithm which maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate densest subgraph in worst-case time $\text{poly}(\log n, \epsilon^{-1})$ per update. Dense subgraph discovery is an important primitive for many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Saurabh Sawlani , Junxing Wang

Networks are largely used for modelling and analysing data and relations among them. Recently, it has been shown that the use of a single network may not be the optimal choice, since a single network may misses some aspects. Consequently,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Riccardo Dondi , Pietro Hiram Guzzi , Mohammad Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Many approaches focus on detecting dense blocks in the tensor of multimodal data to prevent fraudulent entities (e.g., accounts, links) from retweet boosting, hashtag hijacking, link advertising, etc. However, no existing method is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yikun Ban , Xin Liu , Yitao Duan , Xue Liu , Wei Xu

With an exponentially growing number of graphs from disparate repositories, there is a strong need to analyze a graph database containing an extensive collection of small- or medium-sized data graphs (e.g., chemical compounds). Although…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Kai Huang , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Kai Tian , Bolong Zheng , Xiaofang Zhou

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 the $k$-Disjoint Shortest Paths ($k$-DSP) problem, we are given a weighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes and $m$ edges with specified source vertices $s_1, \dots, s_k$, and target vertices $t_1, \dots, t_k$, and are tasked with determining if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shyan Akmal , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

The planted densest subgraph detection problem refers to the task of testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. Specifically, we observe an undirected and unweighted graph on $n$ vertices. Under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Wasim Huleihel , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal

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