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Clique counting is a fundamental task in network analysis, and even the simplest setting of $3$-cliques (triangles) has been the center of much recent research. Getting the count of $k$-cliques for larger $k$ is algorithmically challenging,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Shweta Jain , C. Seshadhri

We tackle the problem of counting the number of $k$-cliques in large-scale graphs, for any constant $k \ge 3$. Clique counting is essential in a variety of applications, among which social network analysis. Due to its computationally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Irene Finocchi , Marco Finocchi , Emanuele G. Fusco

A $k$-clique is a dense graph, consisting of $k$ fully-connected nodes, that finds numerous applications, such as community detection and network analysis. In this paper, we study a new problem, that finds a maximum set of disjoint…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wenqing Lin , Xin Chen , Haoxuan Xie , Sibo Wang , Siqiang Luo

Finding dense substructures in a graph is a fundamental graph mining operation, with applications in bioinformatics, social networks, and visualization to name a few. Yet most standard formulations of this problem (like clique, quasiclique,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar , Umit V. Catalyurek

Mining cohesive subgraphs in attributed graphs is an essential problem in the domain of graph data analysis. The integration of fairness considerations significantly fuels interest in models and algorithms for mining fairness-aware cohesive…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Qi Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Zifan Zheng , Hongchao Qin , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

In this work, we consider the problem of sampling a $k$-clique in a graph from an almost uniform distribution in sublinear time in the general graph query model. Specifically the algorithm should output each $k$-clique with probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

Tur\'{a}n's theorem is a cornerstone of extremal graph theory. It asserts that for any integer $r \geq 2$ every graph on $n$ vertices with more than ${\tfrac{r-2}{2(r-1)}\cdot n^2}$ edges contains a clique of size $r$, i.e., $r$ mutually…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Christian Reiher

We present a new parallel algorithm for $k$-clique counting/listing that has polylogarithmic span (parallel time) and is work-efficient (matches the work of the best sequential algorithm) for sparse graphs. Our algorithm is based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Counting the number of triangles in a graph has many important applications in network analysis. Several frequently computed metrics like the clustering coefficient and the transitivity ratio need to count the number of triangles in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

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

We study the problem of counting the number of {\em isomorphic} copies of a given {\em template} graph, say $H$, in the input {\em base} graph, say $G$. In general, it is believed that polynomial time algorithms that solve this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Kashyap Dixit , Martin Fürer

Subgraph discovery in a single data graph---finding subsets of vertices and edges satisfying a user-specified criteria---is an essential and general graph analytics operation with a wide spectrum of applications. Depending on the criteria,…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Aparna Joshi , Yu Zhang , Petko Bogdanov , Jeong-Hyon Hwang

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, informatics, and many other areas. Although there exist several algorithms with acceptable runtimes for certain classes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

Given query access to an undirected graph $G$, we consider the problem of computing a $(1\pm\epsilon)$-approximation of the number of $k$-cliques in $G$. The standard query model for general graphs allows for degree queries, neighbor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

Automatic detection of relevant groups of nodes in large real-world graphs, i.e. community detection, has applications in many fields and has received a lot of attention in the last twenty years. The most popular method designed to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alexis Baudin , Maximilien Danisch , Sergey Kirgizov , Clémence Magnien , Marwan Ghanem

We propose a fast, parallel maximum clique algorithm for large sparse graphs that is designed to exploit characteristics of social and information networks. The method exhibits a roughly linear runtime scaling over real-world networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Ryan A. Rossi , David F. Gleich , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary

The fundamental theorem of Tur\'{a}n from Extremal Graph Theory determines the exact bound on the number of edges $t_r(n)$ in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain a clique of size $r+1$. We establish an interesting link between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

Maximal clique enumeration is a fundamental graph mining task, but its utility is often limited by computational intractability and highly redundant output. To address these challenges, we introduce \emph{$\rho$-dense aggregators}, a novel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Noga Alon , Sabyasachi Basu , Shweta Jain , Haim Kaplan , Jakub Łącki , Blair D. Sullivan

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber

Finding large "cliquish" subgraphs is a central topic in graph mining and community detection. A popular clique relaxation are 2-clubs: instead of asking for subgraphs of diameter one (these are cliques), one asks for subgraphs of diameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier , Marten Picker