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We consider the question of how many edge-disjoint near-maximal cliques may be found in the dense Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G(n,p)$. Recently Acan and Kahn showed that the largest such family contains only $O(n^2/(\log{n})^3)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Simon Griffiths , Letícia Mattos

A clique in a graph is a set of vertices, each of which is adjacent to every other vertex in this set. A k-clique relaxes this requirement, requiring vertices to be within a distance k of each other, rather than directly adjacent. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-28 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

When searching for characteristic subpatterns in potentially noisy graph data, it appears self-evident that having multiple observations would be better than having just one. However, it turns out that the inconsistencies introduced when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Novi Quadrianto , Chao Chen , Christoph Lampert

Recently, Ma, Qian and Shi determined the maximum size of an $n$-vertex graph with given fractional matching number $s$ and maximum degree at most $d$. Motivated by this result, we determine the maximum number of $\ell$-cliques in a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Chengli Li , Yurui Tang

We estimate the maximum possible number of cliques of size $r$ in an $n$-vertex graph free of a fixed complete $r$-partite graph $K_{s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_r}$. By viewing every $r$-clique as a hyperedge, the upper bound on the Tur\'an number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 József Balogh , Suyun Jiang , Haoran Luo

The Cluster Deletion problem takes a graph $G$ as input and asks for a minimum size set of edges $X$ such that $G-X$ is the disjoint union of complete graphs. An equivalent formulation is the Clique Partition problem, which asks to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Nicola Galesi , Tony Huynh , Fariba Ranjbar

Maximal cliques play a fundamental role in numerous application domains, where their enumeration can prove extremely useful. Yet their sheer number, even in sparse real-world graphs, can make them impractical to be exploited effectively. To…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Marco D'Elia , Irene Finocchi , Maurizio Patrignani

Counts of small subgraphs, or graphlet counts, are widely applicable to measure graph similarity. Computing graphlet counts can be computationally expensive and may pose obstacles in network analysis. We study the role of cliques in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Anthony Bonato , Zhiyuan Zhang

It was experimentally observed that the majority of real-world networks follow power law degree distribution. The aim of this paper is to study the algorithmic complexity of such "typical" networks. The contribution of this work is twofold.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Paweł Brach , Marek Cygan , Jakub Łącki , Piotr Sankowski

We consider the maintenance of the set of all maximal cliques in a dynamic graph that is changing through the addition or deletion of edges. We present nearly tight bounds on the magnitude of change in the set of maximal cliques, as well as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Apurba Das , Michael Svendsen , Srikanta Tirthapura

We present an exact algorithm for computing all common subgraphs with the maximum number of vertices across multiple graphs. Our approach is further extended to handle the connected Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS), identifying the largest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Johannes B. S. Petersen , Akbar Davoodi , Thomas Gärtner , Marc Hellmuth , Daniel Merkle

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

A set of vertices in a graph forms a potential maximal clique if there exists a minimal chordal completion in which it is a maximal clique. Potential maximal cliques were first introduced as a key tool to obtain an efficient, though…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Caroline Brosse , Alessio Conte , Vincent Limouzy , Giulia Punzi , Davide Rucci

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

The maximum clique problem is a classical NP-complete problem in graph theory and has important applications in many domains. In this paper we show, in a partially non-constructive way, the existence of an exact polynomial-time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-20 R. Dharmarajan , D. Ramachandran

We consider the problem of identifying a maximum clique in a given graph. We have proposed a mathematical model for this problem. The model resembles the matrix decomposition of the adjacency matrix of a given graph. The objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Salma Omer , Montaz Ali

The most commonly used method to tackle the graph partitioning problem in practice is the multilevel approach. During a coarsening phase, a multilevel graph partitioning algorithm reduces the graph size by iteratively contracting nodes and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Henning Meyerhenke , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

In extremal graph theory, the problem of finding the elements of a given class of graphs which contain the most cliques traces its routes back to Tur\'an's famous theorem. We consider the implications of the connectivity property of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Corbin Groothuis

We consider mining dense substructures (maximal cliques) from an uncertain graph, which is a probability distribution on a set of deterministic graphs. For parameter 0 < {\alpha} < 1, we present a precise definition of an {\alpha}-maximal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Arko Provo Mukherjee , Pan Xu , Srikanta Tirthapura

A \emph{clique} is a set of pairwise adjacent vertices in a graph. We determine the maximum number of cliques in a graph for the following graph classes: (1) graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges; (2) graphs with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-17 David R. Wood