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In the well known planted clique problem, a clique (or alternatively, an independent set) of size $k$ is planted at random in an Erdos-Renyi random $G(n, p)$ graph, and the goal is to design an algorithm that finds the maximum clique (or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Uriel Feige , Vadim Grinberg

In a distinguishing problem, the input is a sample drawn from one of two distributions and the algorithm is tasked with identifying the source distribution. The performance of a distinguishing algorithm is measured by its advantage, i.e.,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ansh Nagda , Prasad Raghavendra

Graph connectivity is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem that arises in many practical applications, where usually a spanning subgraph of a network is used for its operation. However, in the real world, links may fail…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Dimitris Fotakis , Evangelia Gergatsouli , Charilaos Pipis , Miltiadis Stouras , Christos Tzamos

Correlation analysis is a fundamental problem in statistics. In this paper, we consider the correlation detection problem between a pair of Erdos-Renyi graphs. Specifically, the problem is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem: under…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Dong Huang , Pengkun Yang

Bonne and Censor-Hillel (ICALP 2019) initiated the study of distributed subgraph finding in dynamic networks of limited bandwidth. For the case where the target subgraph is a clique, they determined the tight bandwidth complexity bounds in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yi-Jun Chang , Lyuting Chen , Yanyu Chen , Gopinath Mishra , Mingyang Yang

Fan-planar graphs were recently introduced as a generalization of 1-planar graphs. A graph is fan-planar if it can be embedded in the plane, such that each edge that is crossed more than once, is crossed by a bundle of two or more edges…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Michael A. Bekos , Sabine Cornelsen , Luca Grilli , Seok-Hee Hong , Michael Kaufmann

Given a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and a positive integer $k\le n$, a subgraph of $G$ on $k$ vertices is called a $k$-subgraph in $G$. We design combinatorial approximation algorithms for finding a connected $k$-subgraph in $G$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Xujin Chen , Xiaodong Hu , Changjun Wang

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. Motivated by several recent studies of local graph algorithms, we consider the following variant of this problem. Let G be a connected bounded-degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Reut Levi , Guy Moshkovitz , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Asaf Shapira

Many studies have been conducted on seeking the efficient solution for subgraph similarity search over certain (deterministic) graphs due to its wide application in many fields, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang , Lei Chen , Haixun Wang

A central problem in graph mining is finding dense subgraphs, with several applications in different fields, a notable example being identifying communities. While a lot of effort has been put on the problem of finding a single dense…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Riccardo Dondi , Mohammad Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Giancarlo Mauri , Italo Zoppis

This paper looks at the task of network topology inference, where the goal is to learn an unknown graph from nodal observations. One of the novelties of the approach put forth is the consideration of prior information about the density of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Samuel Rey , T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Hypergraph data are often projected onto a weighted graph by constructing an adjacency matrix whose $(i,j)$ entry counts the number of hyperedges containing both nodes $i$ and $j$. This reduction is computationally convenient, but it can…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Kalle Alaluusua , B. R. Vinay Kumar

The densest subgraph problem, introduced in the 80s by Picard and Queyranne as well as Goldberg, is a classic problem in combinatorial optimization with a wide range of applications. The lowest outdegree orientation problem is known to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hsin-Hao Su , Hoa T. Vu

It is $\mathsf{NP}$-hard to determine the minimum number of branching vertices needed in a single-source distance-preserving subgraph of an undirected graph. We show that this problem can be solved in polynomial time if the input graph is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Kshitij Gajjar , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

The problem of finding locally dense components of a graph is an important primitive in data analysis, with wide-ranging applications from community mining to spam detection and the discovery of biological network modules. In this paper we…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Bahman Bahmani , Ravi Kumar , Sergei Vassilvitskii

We investigate the asymptotic number of induced subgraphs in power-law uniform random graphs. We show that these induced subgraphs appear typically on vertices with specific degrees, which are found by solving an optimization problem.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Clara Stegehuis

In the last decade, algorithmic frameworks based on a structural graph parameter called mim-width have been developed to solve generally NP-hard problems. However, it is known that the frameworks cannot be applied to the Clique problem, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yota Otachi , Akira Suzuki , Yuma Tamura

In this thesis we consider ordered graphs (that is, graphs with a fixed linear ordering on their vertices). We summarize and further investigations on the number of edges an ordered graph may have while avoiding a fixed forbidden ordered…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Craig Weidert

In this paper, we study the Planted Clique problem in a semi-random model. Our model is inspired from the Feige-Kilian model [16] which has been studied in many other works [8,11,17,26,35,38] for a variety of graph problems. Our algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yash Khanna

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi