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Reducing the running time of graph algorithms is vital for tackling real-world problems such as shortest paths and matching in large-scale graphs, where path information plays a crucial role. To address this critical challenge, this paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Akshar Chavan , Sanaz Rabinia , Daniel Grosu , Marco Brocanelli

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to growing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods such as spectral partitioning can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Julian Shun , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Kimon Fountoulakis , Michael W. Mahoney

A graph is $k$-degenerate if any induced subgraph has a vertex of degree at most $k$. In this paper we prove new algorithms for cliques and similar structures for these graphs. We design linear time Fixed-Parameter Tractable algorithms for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 George Manoussakis

Big graphs (networks) arising in numerous application areas pose significant challenges for graph analysts as these graphs grow to billions of nodes and edges and are prohibitively large to fit in the main memory. Finding the number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Shaikh Arifuzzaman , Maleq Khan , Madhav Marathe

The maximum labelled clique problem is a variant of the maximum clique problem where edges in the graph are given labels, and we are not allowed to use more than a certain number of distinct labels in a solution. We introduce a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

Detecting locally, non-overlapping, near-clique densest subgraphs is a crucial problem for community search in social networks. As a vertex may be involved in multiple overlapped local cliques, detecting locally densest sub-structures…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiaojia Xu , Haoyu Liu , Xiaowei Lv , Yongcai Wang , Deying Li

We give the first Congested Clique algorithm that computes a sparse hopset with polylogarithmic hopbound in polylogarithmic time. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a $(\beta,\epsilon)$-hopset $H$ with "hopbound" $\beta$, is a set of edges added to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yasamin Nazari

Is detecting a $k$-clique in $k$-partite regular (hyper-)graphs as hard as in the general case? Intuition suggests yes, but proving this -- especially for hypergraphs -- poses notable challenges. Concretely, we consider a strong notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nick Fischer , Marvin Künnemann , Mirza Redžić , Julian Stieß

A $k$-defective clique is a relaxation of the traditional clique definition, allowing up to $k$ missing edges. This relaxation is crucial in various real-world applications such as link prediction, community detection, and social network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jihoon Jang , Yehyun Nam , Kunsoo Park , Hyunjoon Kim

We present a randomized parallel algorithm in the {\sf PRAM} model for $k$-vertex connectivity. Given an undirected simple graph, our algorithm either finds a set of fewer than $k$ vertices whose removal disconnects the graph or reports…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yonggang Jiang , Changki Yun

Triangle counting is a fundamental graph analytic operation that is used extensively in network science and graph mining. As the size of the graphs that needs to be analyzed continues to grow, there is a requirement in developing scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Ancy Sarah Tom , George Karypis

Graph sparsification underlies a large number of algorithms, ranging from approximation algorithms for cut problems to solvers for linear systems in the graph Laplacian. In its strongest form, "spectral sparsification" reduces the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Simon Apers , Ronald de Wolf

We consider the enumeration of maximal bipartite cliques (bicliques) from a large graph, a task central to many practical data mining problems in social network analysis and bioinformatics. We present novel parallel algorithms for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Arko Provo Mukherjee , Srikanta Tirthapura

Given a large graph, the densest-subgraph problem asks to find a subgraph with maximum average degree. When considering the top-$k$ version of this problem, a na\"ive solution is to iteratively find the densest subgraph and remove it in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Muhammad Anis Uddin Nasir , Aristides Gionis , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Sarunas Girdzijauskas

The problem of identifying the maximum edge biclique in bipartite graphs has attracted considerable attention in bipartite graph analysis, with numerous real-world applications such as fraud detection, community detection, and online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Donghang Cui , Ronghua Li , Qiangqiang Dai , Hongchao Qin , Guoren Wang

Counting (p,q)-bicliques in bipartite graphs poses a foundational challenge with broad applications, from densest subgraph discovery in algorithmic research to personalized content recommendation in practical scenarios. Despite its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Linshan Qiu , Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao

We introduce Tiered Sampling, a novel technique for approximate counting sparse motifs in massive graphs whose edges are observed in a stream. Our technique requires only a single pass on the data and uses a memory of fixed size $M$, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lorenzo De Stefani , Erisa Terolli , Eli Upfal

From social science to biology, numerous applications often rely on graphlets for intuitive and meaningful characterization of networks at both the global macro-level as well as the local micro-level. While graphlets have witnessed a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Jennifer Neville , Ryan A. Rossi , Nick Duffield , Theodore L. Willke

Listing and counting triangles in graphs is a key algorithmic kernel for network analyses, including community detection, clustering coefficients, k-trusses, and triangle centrality. In this paper, we propose the novel concept of a…