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We implement a new algorithm for listing all maximal cliques in sparse graphs due to Eppstein, L\"offler, and Strash (ISAAC 2010) and analyze its performance on a large corpus of real-world graphs. Our analysis shows that this algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-03 David Eppstein , Darren Strash

Finding large cliques or cliques missing a few edges is a fundamental algorithmic task in the study of real-world graphs, with applications in community detection, pattern recognition, and clustering. A number of effective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Balaram Behera , Edin Husić , Shweta Jain , Tim Roughgarden , C. Seshadhri

As a fundamental task in graph data management, maximal clique enumeration (MCE) has attracted extensive attention from both academic and industrial communities due to its wide range of applications. However, MCE is very challenging as the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Wen Deng , Weiguo Zheng , Hong Cheng

We study a planted clique model introduced by Feige where a complete graph of size $c\cdot n$ is planted uniformly at random in an arbitrary $n$-vertex graph. We give a simple deterministic algorithm that, in almost linear time, recovers a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Francesco Agrimonti , Marco Bressan , Tommaso d'Orsi

The monography presents a new algorithm for finding the clique of maximal length in a nonseparable graph. The algorithm is based on the properties of the representation of a clique as a subset of the set of cycles with a length of three,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sergey Kurapov , Maxim Davidovsky

The maximum edge-weight clique problem is to find a clique whose sum of edge-weight is the maximum for a given edge-weighted undirected graph. The problem is NP-hard and some branch-and-bound algorithms have been proposed. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Satoshi Shimizu , Kazuaki Yamaguchi , Sumio Masuda

A grounded 1-bend string graph is an intersection graph of a set of polygonal lines, each with one bend, such that the lines lie above a common horizontal line $\ell$ and have exactly one endpoint on $\ell$. We show that the problem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-13 J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal , Ehsan Moradi , Yakov Nekrich

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

Let k_r(n,m) denote the minimum number of r-cliques in graphs with n vertices and m edges. For r=3,4 we give a lower bound on k_r(n,m) that approximates k_r(n,m) with an error smaller than n^r/(n^2-2m). The solution is based on a constraint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-19 Vladimir Nikiforov

We study graphs whose chromatic number is close to the order of the graph (the number of vertices). Both when the chromatic number is a constant multiple of the order and when the difference of the chromatic number and the order is a small…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-14 Csaba Biró

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

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

For a $k$-graph $\mathcal{F}\subset \binom{[n]}{k}$, the clique number of $\mathcal{F}$ is defined to be the maximum size of a subset $Q$ of $[n]$ with $\binom{Q}{k}\subset \mathcal{F}$. In the present paper, we determine the maximum number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Peter Frankl , Erica L. L. Liu , Jian Wang

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

A $k$-defective clique of an undirected graph $G$ is a subset of its vertices that induces a nearly complete graph with a maximum of $k$ missing edges. The maximum $k$-defective clique problem, which asks for the largest $k$-defective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Chunyu Luo , Yi Zhou , Zhengren Wang , Mingyu Xiao

We propose improved exact and heuristic algorithms for solving the maximum weight clique problem, a well-known problem in graph theory with many applications. Our algorithms interleave successful techniques from related work with novel data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Roman Erhardt , Kathrin Hanauer , Nils Kriege , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

We consider a variant of the clustering problem for a complete weighted graph. The aim is to partition the nodes into clusters maximizing the sum of the edge weights within the clusters. This problem is known as the clique partitioning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Alexander Belyi , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Alexander Kurbatski , Carlo Ratti

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

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, the unit-disk graph $G(P)$ is a graph with $P$ as its vertex set such that two points of $P$ have an edge if their Euclidean distance is at most $1$. We consider the problem of computing a maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Anastasiia Tkachenko , Haitao Wang

The maximal clique problem, to find the maximally sized clique in a given graph, is classically an NP-complete computational problem, which has potential applications ranging from electrical engineering, computational chemistry,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Weng-Long Chang , Qi Yu , Zhaokai Li , Jiahui Chen , Xinhua Peng , Mang Feng