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Our primary objective in this paper is to study the distribution of the maximal clique size of the vertices in complex networks. We define the maximal clique size for a vertex as the maximum size of the clique that the vertex is part of and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Natarajan Meghanathan

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

Complex networks can be used to represent complex systems which originate in the real world. Here we study a transformation of these complex networks into simplicial complexes, where cliques represent the simplices of the complex. We extend…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Ernesto Estrada , Grant Ross

We introduce new algebro-topological invariants of directed networks, based on the topological construction of the directed clique complex. The shape of the underlying directed graph is encoded in a way that can be studied mathematically to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-06 Paolo Masulli , Alessandro E. P. Villa

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, information retrieval and many other areas related to the World Wide Web. There exist several algorithms for the problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

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

The network homology Hk-core decomposition proposed in this article is similar to the k-core decomposition based on node degrees of the network. The C. elegans neural network and the cat cortical network are used as examples to reveal the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Dinghua Shi , Yang Zhao , Guanrong Chen

Cliques are defined as complete graphs or subgraphs; they are the strongest form of cohesive subgroup, and are of interest in both social science and engineering contexts. In this paper we show how to efficiently estimate the distribution…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Minas Gjoka , Emily Smith , Carter T. Butts

Finding "densely connected clusters" in a graph is in general an important and well studied problem in the literature \cite{Schaeffer}. It has various applications in pattern recognition, social networking and data mining…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-04-28 Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

Exact maximum clique finders have progressed to the point where we can investigate cliques in million-node social and information networks, as well as find strongly connected components in temporal networks. We use one such finder to study…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Ryan A. Rossi , David F. Gleich , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary

Cliques, or fully connected subgraphs, are among the most important and well-studied graph motifs in network science. We consider the problem of finding a statisti- cally anomalous clique hidden in a large network. There are two parts to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-11 Subhankar Bhadra , Srijan Sengupta

We propose and study a hierarchical algorithm to generate graphs having a predetermined distribution of cliques, the fully connected subgraphs. The construction mechanism may be either random or incorporate preferential attachment. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregor Kaczor , Claudius Gros

We consider the problem of finding a large clique in an Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph where we are allowed unbounded computational time but can only query a limited number of edges. Recall that the largest clique in $G \sim G(n,1/2)$ has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Endre Csóka , András Pongrácz

An abundance of real-world problems manifest as covering edges and/or vertices of a graph with cliques that are optimized for some objectives. We consider different structural parameters of graph, and design fixed-parameter tractable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Ahammed Ullah

It is shown how to construct a clique graph in which properties of cliques of a fixed order in a given graph are represented by vertices in a weighted graph. Various definitions and motivations for these weights are given. The detection of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-01-04 T. S. Evans

Finding a Maximum Clique is a classic property test from graph theory; find any one of the largest complete subgraphs in an Erd\"os-R\'enyi G(N, p) random graph. We use Maximum Clique to explore the structure of the problem as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

Networks are a fundamental tool for understanding and modeling complex systems in physics, biology, neuroscience, engineering, and social science. Many networks are known to exhibit rich, lower-order connectivity patterns that can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , David F. Gleich , Jure Leskovec

Deep neural networks have been applied to a wide range of problems across different application domains with great success. Recently, research into combinatorial optimization problems in particular has generated much interest in the machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Jason Van Hulse , Joshua S. Friedman

We show that the algorithm presented in [J. Fox, T. Roughgarden, C. Seshadhri, F. Wei, and N. Wein. Finding cliques in social networks: A new distribution-free model. SIAM journal on computing, 49(2):448-464, 2020.] can be modified to have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-23 George Manoussakis

In Network Science node neighbourhoods, also called ego-centered networks have attracted large attention. In particular the clustering coefficient has been extensively used to measure their local cohesiveness. In this paper, we show how,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-22 Alexander P. Kartun-Giles , Ginestra Bianconi