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We explore the use of machine-learning techniques to detect quantum speedup in random walks on graphs. Specifically, we investigate the performance of three different neural-network architectures (variations on fully connected and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Hanna Linn , Yu Zheng , Anton Frisk Kockum

Finding large cliques or cliques missing a few edges is a fundamental algorithmic task in the study of real-world graphs, with applications in community detection, pattern recognition, and clustering. A number of effective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Balaram Behera , Edin Husić , Shweta Jain , Tim Roughgarden , C. Seshadhri

A strong clique in a graph is a clique intersecting every maximal independent set. We study the computational complexity of six algorithmic decision problems related to strong cliques in graphs and almost completely determine their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Ademir Hujdurović , Martin Milanič , Bernard Ries

Given an undirected, weighted graph, with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and two special vertices $s$ and $t$, the problem is to find the shortest path between them. We give two bounded-error quantum algorithms with improved runtime in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Adam Wesołowski , Stephen Piddock

A (unit) disk graph is the intersection graph of closed (unit) disks in the plane. Almost three decades ago, an elegant polynomial-time algorithm was found for \textsc{Maximum Clique} on unit disk graphs [Clark, Colbourn, Johnson; Discrete…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Édouard Bonnet , Panos Giannopoulos , Eun Jung Kim , Paweł Rzążewski , Florian Sikora

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving maximal cliques for simple undirected graphs using the theory of prime numbers. A novel approach using prime numbers is used to find cliques and ends with a discussion of the algorithm.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dhananjay D. Kulkarni , Shekhar Verma , Prashant

The quantum walk is a powerful tool to develop quantum algorithms, which usually are based on searching for a vertex in a graph with multiple marked vertices, Ambainis's quantum algorithm for solving the element distinctness problem being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 G. A. Bezerra , P. H. G. Lugão , R. Portugal

The maximal clique enumeration (MCE) problem has numerous applications in biology, chemistry, sociology, and graph modeling. Though this problem is well studied, most current research focuses on finding solutions in large sparse graphs or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Pablo San Segundo , Jorge Artieda , Darren Strash

We consider the maintenance of the set of all maximal cliques in a dynamic graph that is changing through the addition or deletion of edges. We present nearly tight bounds on the magnitude of change in the set of maximal cliques, as well as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Apurba Das , Michael Svendsen , Srikanta Tirthapura

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

In this paper we introduce a new algorithm to study some NP-complete problems. This algorithm is a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inspired by the cavity method developed in the study of spin glass. We will focus on the maximum clique…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Antonio Iovanella , Benedetto Scoppola , Elisabetta Scoppola

A set of vertices in a graph forms a potential maximal clique if there exists a minimal chordal completion in which it is a maximal clique. Potential maximal cliques were first introduced as a key tool to obtain an efficient, though…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Caroline Brosse , Alessio Conte , Vincent Limouzy , Giulia Punzi , Davide Rucci

In this paper, we consider a continuous-time quantum walk based search algorithm. We introduce equitable partition of the graph and perfect state transfer on it. By these two methods, we can calculate the success probability and the finding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Yusuke Ide , Akihiro Narimatsu

Mining cohesive subgraphs from a graph is a fundamental problem in graph data analysis. One notable cohesive structure is $\gamma$-quasi-clique (QC), where each vertex connects at least a fraction $\gamma$ of the other vertices inside.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kaiqiang Yu , Cheng Long

Continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) provide a valuable model for quantum transport, universal quantum computation and quantum spatial search, among others. Recently, the empowering role of new degrees of freedom in the Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Massimo Frigerio , Claudia Benedetti , Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

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

Testing graph completeness is a critical problem in computer science and network theory. Leveraging quantum computation, we present an efficient algorithm using the Szegedy quantum walk and quantum phase estimation (QPE). Our algorithm,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Sara Giordano , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Finding cohesive subgraphs in a large graph has many important applications, such as community detection and biological network analysis. Clique is often a too strict cohesive structure since communities or biological modules rarely form as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Qihao Cheng , Da Yan , Tianhao Wu , Lyuheng Yuan , Ji Cheng , Zhongyi Huang , Yang Zhou

The Clique Problem has a reduction to the Maximum Flow Network Interdiction Problem. We review the reduction to evolve a polynomial time algorithm for the Clique Problem. A computer program in C language has been written to validate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Pawan Tamta , B. P. Pande , H. S. Dhami

Finding a maximum clique in a given graph is one of the fundamental NP-hard problems. We compare two multi-core thread-parallel adaptations of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for the maximum clique problem, and provide a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser