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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

A popular model to measure network stability is the $k$-core, that is the maximal induced subgraph in which every vertex has degree at least $k$. For example, $k$-cores are commonly used to model the unraveling phenomena in social networks.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

Finding dense subgraphs of a large graph is a standard problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications. In this paper we introduce a new family of dense…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

Network analysis has played a key role in knowledge discovery and data mining. In many real-world applications in recent years, we are interested in mining multilayer networks, where we have a number of edge sets called layers, which encode…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yasushi Kawase , Atsushi Miyauchi , Hanna Sumita

Graphs have been widely used in many applications such as social networks, collaboration networks, and biological networks. One important graph analytics is to explore cohesive subgraphs in a large graph. Among several cohesive subgraphs…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Yikai Zhang , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin

Finding the dense regions of a graph and relations among them is a fundamental problem in network analysis. Core and truss decompositions reveal dense subgraphs with hierarchical relations. The incremental nature of algorithms for computing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar

The $k$-core decomposition is a widely studied summary statistic that describes a graph's global connectivity structure. In this paper, we move beyond using $k$-core decomposition as a tool to summarize a graph and propose using $k$-core…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Vishesh Karwa , Michael J. Pelsmajer , Sonja Petrović , Despina Stasi , Dane Wilburne

Finding dense components in graphs is of great importance in analyzing the structure of networks. Popular and computationally feasible frameworks for discovering dense subgraphs are core and truss decompositions. Recently, Sariyuce et al.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Fatemeh Esfahani , Venkatesh Srinivasan , Alex Thomo , Kui Wu

Going beyond networks, to include higher-order interactions of arbitrary sizes, is a major step to better describe complex systems. In the resulting hypergraph representation, tools to identify structures and central nodes are scarce. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-11 Marco Mancastroppa , Iacopo Iacopini , Giovanni Petri , Alain Barrat

Partitioning a graph into blocks of "roughly equal" weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with a wide range of applications. In particular, the problem is a building block in applications that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier

The concept of k-core in complex networks plays a key role in many applications, e.g., understanding the global structure, or identifying central/critical nodes, of a network. A malicious attacker with jamming ability can exploit the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Bo Zhou , Yuqian Lv , Jinhuan Wang , Jian Zhang , Qi Xuan

The $k$-core of a graph is defined as the maximal subgraph in which every vertex is connected to at least $k$ other vertices within that subgraph. In this work we introduce a distance-based generalization of the notion of $k$-core, which we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Francesco Bonchi , Arijit Khan , Lorenzo Severini

A graph with $n$ vertices is an $f(\cdot)$-dense graph if it has at least $f(n)$ edges, $f(\cdot)$ being a well-defined function. The notion $f(\cdot)$-dense graph encompasses various clique models like $\gamma$-quasi cliques, $k$-defective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yi Zhou , Chunyu Luo , Zhengren Wang , Zhang-Hua Fu

Nucleus decompositions have been shown to be a useful tool for finding dense subgraphs. The coreness value of a clique represents its density based on the number of other cliques it is adjacent to. One useful output of nucleus decomposition…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Core decomposition is a fundamental graph problem with a large number of applications. Most existing approaches for core decomposition assume that the graph is kept in memory of a machine. Nevertheless, many real-world graphs are big and…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Dong Wen , Lu Qin , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Jeffrey Xu Yu

We consider the $k$-core decomposition of network models and Internet graphs at the autonomous system (AS) level. The $k$-core analysis allows to characterize networks beyond the degree distribution and uncover structural properties and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-04-16 José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin , Luca Dall'Asta , Alain Barrat , Alessandro Vespignani

We propose neighborhood-based core decomposition: a novel way of decomposing hypergraphs into hierarchical neighborhood-cohesive subhypergraphs. Alternative approaches to decomposing hypergraphs, e.g., reduction to clique or bipartite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Naheed Anjum Arafat , Arijit Khan , Arpit Kumar Rai , Bishwamittra Ghosh

Given a directed graph $G$ and integers $k$ and $l$, a D-core is the maximal subgraph $H \subseteq G$ such that for every vertex of $H$, its in-degree and out-degree are no smaller than $k$ and $l$, respectively. For a directed graph $G$,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xuankun Liao , Qing Liu , Jiaxin Jiang , Xin Huang , Jianliang Xu , Byron Choi

In this paper, we investigate the problem of (k,r)-core which intends to find cohesive subgraphs on social networks considering both user engagement and similarity perspectives. In particular, we adopt the popular concept of k-core to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Fan Zhang , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Hypergraphs serve as a powerful tool for modeling complex relationships across domains like social networks, transactions, and recommendation systems. The (k,g)-core model effectively identifies cohesive subgraphs by assessing internal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hyewon Kim , Woocheol Shin , Dahee Kim , Junghoon Kim , Sungsu Lim , Hyunji Jeong