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Finding dense subgraphs of a large network is a fundamental problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications over the last five decades. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ali Behrouz , Farnoosh Hashemi

Dynamically maintaining the minimum cut in a graph $G$ under edge insertions and deletions is a fundamental problem in dynamic graph algorithms for which no conditional lower bound on the time per operation exists. In an $n$-node graph the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Antoine El-Hayek , Monika Henzinger , Jason Li

Densest subgraph discovery (DSD) is a fundamental problem in graph mining. It has been studied for decades, and is widely used in various areas, including network science, biological analysis, and graph databases. Given a graph G, DSD aims…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Yixiang Fang , Kaiqiang Yu , Reynold Cheng , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Xuemin Lin

During the last 10 years it has become popular to study dynamic graph problems in a emergency planning or sensitivity setting: Instead of considering the general fully dynamic problem, we only have to process a single batch update of size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann

The densest $k$-subgraph problem is the problem of finding a $k$-vertex subgraph of a graph with the maximum number of edges. In order to solve large instances of the densest $k$-subgraph problem, we introduce two algorithms that are based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Renata Sotirov

Finding dense subgraphs in a graph is a fundamental graph mining task, with applications in several fields. Algorithms for identifying dense subgraphs are used in biology, in finance, in spam detection, etc. Standard formulations of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-10 G. Nikolentzos , P. Meladianos , Y. Stavrakas , M. Vazirgiannis

We give a fully dynamic deterministic algorithm for maintaining a maximal matching of an $n$-vertex graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{8/9})$ amortized update time. This breaks the long-standing $\Omega(n)$-update-time barrier on dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Aaron Bernstein , Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We consider the problems of maintaining an approximate maximum matching and an approximate minimum vertex cover in a dynamic graph undergoing a sequence of edge insertions/deletions. Starting with the seminal work of Onak and Rubinfeld…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Sayan Bhattacharya , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Monika Henzinger

We study the problem of graph and hypergraph sparsification in insertion-only data streams. The input is a hypergraph $H=(V, E, w)$ with $n$ nodes, $m$ hyperedges, and rank $r$, and the goal is to compute a hypergraph $\widehat{H}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Vincent Cohen-Addad , David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou

Independent set is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. While in general graphs the problem is essentially inapproximable, for many important graph classes there are approximation algorithms known in the offline setting.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Andreas Wiese

Finding dense subgraphs is a core problem in graph mining with many applications in diverse domains. At the same time many real-world networks vary over time, that is, the dataset can be represented as a sequence of graph snapshots. Hence,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Chamalee Wickrama Arachchi , Nikolaj Tatti

Dense subgraph discovery is an important problem in graph mining and network analysis with several applications. Two canonical problems here are to find a maxcore (subgraph of maximum min degree) and to find a densest subgraph (subgraph of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chandra Chekuri , Manuel R. Torres

In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

In the Densest k-Subgraph problem, given a graph G and a parameter k, one needs to find a subgraph of G induced on k vertices that contains the largest number of edges. There is a significant gap between the best known upper and lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-19 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Eden Chlamtac , Uriel Feige , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Dense subgraph search in bipartite graphs is a fundamental problem in graph analysis, with wide-ranging applications in fraud detection, recommendation systems, and social network analysis. The recently proposed $(\alpha, \beta)$-dense…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yalong Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Qi Zhang , Guoren Wang

Given a dynamic network, where edges appear and disappear over time, we are interested in finding sets of edges that have similar temporal behavior and form a dense subgraph. Formally, we define the problem as the enumeration of the maximal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Giulia Preti , Polina Rozenshtein , Aristides Gionis , Yannis Velegrakis

Given an undirected graph $G$, the Densest $k$-subgraph problem (DkS) asks to compute a set $S \subset V$ of cardinality $\left\lvert S\right\rvert \leq k$ such that the weight of edges inside $S$ is maximized. This is a fundamental NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yash Khanna , Anand Louis

The Densest Subgraph Problem requires to find, in a given graph, a subset of vertices whose induced subgraph maximizes a measure of density. The problem has received a great deal of attention in the algorithmic literature since the early…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Tommaso Lanciano , Atsushi Miyauchi , Adriano Fazzone , Francesco Bonchi

We consider a variant of the densest subgraph problem in networks with single or multiple edge attributes. For example, in a social network, the edge attributes may describe the type of relationship between users, such as friends, family,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Lutz Oettershagen , Honglian Wang , Aristides Gionis

The densest subgraph of a large graph usually refers to some subgraph with the highest average degree, which has been extended to the family of $p$-means dense subgraph objectives by~\citet{veldt2021generalized}. The $p$-mean densest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li , Hanyu Peng