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In this paper, we consider the problem of approximating the densest subgraph in the dynamic graph stream model. In this model of computation, the input graph is defined by an arbitrary sequence of edge insertions and deletions and the goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Andrew McGregor , David Tench , Sofya Vorotnikova , Hoa T. Vu

Given a directed graph $G$ and integers $k$ and $l$, a D-core is the maximal subgraph $H \subseteq G$ such that for every vertex of $H$, its in-degree and out-degree are no smaller than $k$ and $l$, respectively. For a directed graph $G$,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xuankun Liao , Qing Liu , Jiaxin Jiang , Xin Huang , Jianliang Xu , Byron Choi

We consider the densest $k$-subgraph problem, which seeks to identify the $k$-node subgraph of a given input graph with maximum number of edges. This problem is well-known to be NP-hard, by reduction to the maximum clique problem. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Polina Bombina , Brendan Ames

Finding dense subgraphs is a core problem in graph mining with many applications in diverse domains. At the same time many real-world networks vary over time, that is, the dataset can be represented as a sequence of graph snapshots. Hence,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Chamalee Wickrama Arachchi , Nikolaj Tatti

K-core decomposition is a commonly used metric to analyze graph structure or study the relative importance of nodes in complex graphs. Recent years have seen rapid growth in the scale of the graph, especially in industrial settings. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Shicheng Gao , Jie Xu , Xiaosen Li , Fangcheng Fu , Wentao Zhang , Wen Ouyang , Yangyu Tao , Bin Cui

In the densest subgraph problem, given a weighted undirected graph $G(V,E,w)$, with non-negative edge weights, we are asked to find a subset of nodes $S\subseteq V$ that maximizes the degree density $w(S)/|S|$, where $w(S)$ is the sum of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis , Tianyi Chen , Naonori Kakimura , Jakub Pachocki

Computing cohesive subgraphs is a central problem in graph theory. While many formulations of cohesive subgraphs lead to NP-hard problems, finding a densest subgraph can be done in polynomial time. As such, the densest subgraph model has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Riccardo Dondi , Danny Hermelin

The k-core of a graph is its maximal subgraph with minimum degree at least k, and the core value of a vertex u is the largest k for which u is contained in the k-core of the graph. Among cohesive subgraphs, k-core and its variants have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yan S. Couto , Cristina G. Fernandes

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

Massive networks have shown that the determination of dense subgraphs, where vertices interact a lot, is necessary in order to visualize groups of common interest, and therefore be able to decompose a big graph into smaller structures. Many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Etienne Callies , Tomás Yany-Anich

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

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

In many complex systems, the interactions between objects span multiple aspects. Multiplex networks are accurate paradigms to model such systems, where each edge is associated with a type. A key graph mining primitive is extracting dense…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Farnoosh Hashemi , Ali Behrouz

How can we find a good graph clustering of a real-world network, that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new graph clustering algorithm Dcut from a density point of view.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Junming Shao , Qinli Yang , Jinhu Liu , Stefan Kramer

Given a graph, the densest subgraph problem asks for a set of vertices such that the average degree among these vertices is maximized. Densest subgraph has numerous applications in learning, e.g., community detection in social networks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Elaine Shi

Discovering dense subgraphs and understanding the relations among them is a fundamental problem in graph mining. We want to not only identify dense subgraphs, but also build a hierarchy among them (e.g., larger but sparser subgraphs formed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-18 A. Erdem Sariyuce , Ali Pinar

Computing a dense subgraph is a fundamental problem in graph mining, with a diverse set of applications ranging from electronic commerce to community detection in social networks. In many of these applications, the underlying context is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Suman K. Bera , Sayan Bhattacharya , Jayesh Choudhari , Prantar Ghosh

Given a graph G and a query vertex q, the topic of community search (CS), aiming to retrieve a dense subgraph of G containing q, has gained much attention. Most existing works focus on undirected graphs which overlooks the rich information…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Yankai Chen , Jie Zhang , Yixiang Fang , Xin Cao , Irwin King

We study the Densest Subgraph (DSG) problem under the additional constraint of differential privacy. DSG is a fundamental theoretical question which plays a central role in graph analytics, and so privacy is a natural requirement. All known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Michael Dinitz , Satyen Kale , Silvio Lattanzi , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Due to the increasing discovery and implementation of networks within all disciplines of life, the study of subgraph connectivity has become increasingly important. Motivated by the idea of community (or sub-graph) detection within a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Linda Eroh , Henry Escuardo , Ralucca Gera , Samuel Prahlow , Karl R. B. Schmitt