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Graph mining to extract interesting components has been studied in various guises, e.g., communities, dense subgraphs, cliques. However, most existing works are based on notions of frequency and connectivity and do not capture subjective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Hao Wu , Maoyuan Sun , Jilles Vreeken , Nikolaj Tatti , Chris North , Naren Ramakrishnan

Researchers, policy makers, and engineers need to make sense of data from spreading processes as diverse as rumor spreading in social networks, viral infections, and water contamination. Classical questions include predicting infection…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ben Bals , Michelle Döring , Nicolas Klodt , George Skretas

The longest induced (or chordless) cycle problem is a graph problem classified as NP-complete and involves the task of determining the largest possible subset of vertices within a graph in such a way that the induced subgraph forms a cycle.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Ahmad T. Anaqreh , Boglárka G. -Tóth , Tamás Vinkó

Cycle packing is a fundamental problem in optimization, graph theory, and algorithms. Motivated by recent advancements in finding vertex-disjoint paths between a specified set of vertices that either minimize the total length of the paths…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tuukka Korhonen , William Lochet , Fahad Panolan , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh , Kirill Simonov

Anomalies represent rare observations (e.g., data records or events) that deviate significantly from others. Over several decades, research on anomaly mining has received increasing interests due to the implications of these occurrences in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Shan Xue , Jian Yang , Chuan Zhou , Quan Z. Sheng , Hui Xiong , Leman Akoglu

A cycle cover of a graph is a set of cycles such that every vertex is part of exactly one cycle. An L-cycle cover is a cycle cover in which the length of every cycle is in the set L. The weight of a cycle cover of an edge-weighted graph is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Bodo Manthey

We initiate the algorithmic study of retracting a graph into a cycle in the graph, which seeks a mapping of the graph vertices to the cycle vertices, so as to minimize the maximum stretch of any edge, subject to the constraint that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Samuel Haney , Mehraneh Liaee , Bruce M. Maggs , Debmalya Panigrahi , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Ravi Sundaram

Owing to their versatility, graph structures admit representations of intricate relationships between the separate entities comprising the data. We formalise the notion of connection between two vertex sets in terms of edge and vertex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Peter Belcak , Roger Wattenhofer

We present an interactive Web platform that, given a directed graph, allows identifying the most relevant nodes related to a given query node. Besides well-established algorithms such as PageRank and Personalized PageRank, the demo includes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Luca Cavalcanti , Cristian Consonni , Martin Brugnara , David Laniado , Alberto Montresor

We give a polynomial-time algorithm for detecting very long cycles in dense regular graphs. Specifically, we show that, given $\alpha \in (0,1)$, there exists a $c=c(\alpha)$ such that the following holds: there is a polynomial-time…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Viresh Patel , Fabian Stroh

With the ever-increasing prevalence of graph data in a wide spectrum of applications, it becomes essential to analyze structural trends in dynamic graphs on a continual basis. The shortest cycle is a fundamental pattern in graph analytics.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Qingshuai Feng , You Peng , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

In the age of social computing, finding interesting network patterns or motifs is significant and critical for various areas such as decision intelligence, intrusion detection, medical diagnosis, social network analysis, fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shuo Yu , Feng Xia , Yuchen Sun , Tao Tang , Xiaoran Yan , Ivan Lee

Computing paths in graph structures is a fundamental operation in a wide range of applications, from transportation networks to data analysis. The beer path problem, which captures the option of visiting points of interest, such as gas…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andrea D'Ascenzo , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Sotiris Kanellopoulos , Anna Mpanti , Aris Pagourtzis , Christos Pergaminelis

Graphs are extremely versatile and ubiquitous mathematical structures with potential to model a wide range of domains. For this reason, graph problems have been of interest since the early days of computer science. Some of these problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Rui Ferreira

We prove two dichotomy results for detecting long paths as patterns in a given graph. The NP-hard problem Longest Induced Path is to determine the longest induced path in a graph. The NP-hard problem Longest Path Contractibility is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Walter Kern , Daniel Paulusma

In a graph, a community may be loosely defined as a group of nodes that are more closely connected to one another than to the rest of the graph. While there are a variety of metrics that can be used to specify the quality of a given…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Christine Klymko , David Gleich , Tamara G. Kolda

Given a network, the critical node detection problem finds a subset of nodes whose removal disrupts the network connectivity. Since many real-world systems are naturally modeled as graphs, assessing the vulnerability of the network is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tuguldur Bayarsaikhan , Altannar Chinchuluun , Ashwin Arulselvan , Panos Pardalos

Finding Hamitonian Cycles in square grid graphs is a well studied and important questions. More recent work has extended these results to triangular and hexagonal grids, as well as further restricted versions. In this paper, we examine a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Kaiying Hou , Jayson Lynch

In 2021, Gupta and Suzumura proposed a novel algorithm for enumerating all bounded-length simple cycles in directed graphs. In this work, we present concrete examples demonstrating that the proposed algorithm fails to enumerate certain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Frank Bauernöppel , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

Motivated by a relaxed notion of the celebrated Hamiltonian cycle, this paper investigates its variant, parity Hamiltonian cycle (PHC): A PHC of a graph is a closed walk which visits every vertex an odd number of times, where we remark that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Hiroshi Nishiyama , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yukiko Yamauchi , Shuji Kijima , Masafumi Yamashita