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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

A 2-packing set for an undirected, weighted graph G=(V,E,w) is a subset S of the vertices V such that any two vertices are not adjacent and have no common neighbors. The Maximum Weight 2-Packing Set problem that asks for a 2-packing set of…

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Given a vertex-weighted graph, the maximum weight independent set problem asks for a pair-wise non-adjacent set of vertices such that the sum of their weights is maximum. The branch-and-reduce paradigm is the de facto standard approach to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Alexander Gellner , Sebastian Lamm , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash , Bogdán Zaválnij

The maximal clique enumeration (MCE) problem has numerous applications in biology, chemistry, sociology, and graph modeling. Though this problem is well studied, most current research focuses on finding solutions in large sparse graphs or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Pablo San Segundo , Jorge Artieda , Darren Strash

The maximum vertex weight clique problem (MVWCP) is an important generalization of the maximum clique problem (MCP) that has a wide range of real-world applications. In situations where rigorous guarantees regarding the optimality of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yi Chu , Chuan Luo , Holger H. Hoos , QIngwei Lin , Haihang You

Combinatorial optimization problems arise in a wide range of applications from diverse domains. Many of these problems are NP-hard and designing efficient heuristics for them requires considerable time and experimentation. On the other…

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Extracting cohesive subgraphs from complex networks is a fundamental task in graph analytics and is essential for understanding biological, social, and web graphs. The edge-based $\gamma$-quasi-clique model offers a flexible alternative by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hongbo Xia , Shengxin Liu , Zhaoquan Gu

A novel algorithm to detect an optimal set of semantic lines is proposed in this work. We develop two networks: selection network (S-Net) and harmonization network (H-Net). First, S-Net computes the probabilities and offsets of line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Dongkwon Jin , Wonhui Park , Seong-Gyun Jeong , Chang-Su Kim

Finding maximum cliques in large networks is a challenging combinatorial problem with many real-world applications. We present a fast algorithm to achieve the exact solution for the maximum clique problem in large sparse networks based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Tianlong Fan , Wenjun Jiang , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Linyuan Lü

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 Edge Interdiction Clique Problem (EICP) aims to remove at most $k$ edges from a graph so as to minimize the size of the largest clique in the remaining graph. This problem captures a fundamental question in graph manipulation: which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yi Zhou , Haoyu Jiang , Chenghao Zhu , André Rossi

In this paper, we relate the problem of finding a maximum clique to the intersection number of the input graph (i.e. the minimum number of cliques needed to edge cover the graph). In particular, we consider the maximum clique problem for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-04-19 S. Nikoletseas , C. Raptopoulos , P. G. Spirakis

This manuscript provides a comprehensive review of the Maximum Clique Problem, a computational problem that involves finding subsets of vertices in a graph that are all pairwise adjacent to each other. The manuscript covers in a simple way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Raffaele Marino , Lorenzo Buffoni , Bogdan Zavalnij

We develop an FPT algorithm and a bi-kernel for the Weighted Edge Clique Partition (WECP) problem, where a graph with $n$ vertices and integer edge weights is given together with an integer $k$, and the aim is to find $k$ cliques, such that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Davis Issac , Ashutosh Rai

The edge clique cover (ECC) problem -- where the goal is to find a minimum cardinality set of cliques that cover all the edges of a graph -- is a classic NP-hard problem that has received much attention from both the theoretical and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Anthony Hevia , Benjamin Kallus , Summer McClintic , Samantha Reisner , Darren Strash , Johnathan Wilson

We study the densest subgraph problem and give algorithms via multiplicative weights update and area convexity that converge in $O\left(\frac{\log m}{\epsilon^{2}}\right)$ and $O\left(\frac{\log m}{\epsilon}\right)$ iterations,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ta Duy Nguyen , Alina Ene

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

We investigate computational problems involving large weights through the lens of kernelization, which is a framework of polynomial-time preprocessing aimed at compressing the instance size. Our main focus is the weighted Clique problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Bart M. P. Jansen , Shivesh K. Roy , Michał Włodarczyk

There are many methods to find a maximum (or maximal) clique in large networks. Due to the nature of combinatorics, computation becomes exponentially expensive as the number of vertices in a graph increases. Thus, there is a need for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-27 S. Y. Chan , K. Morgan , J. Ugon

The $k$-defective clique model relaxes the strict completeness constraint of the traditional clique by allowing up to $k$ missing edges, providing a robust formulation for detecting cohesive structures in noisy graphs. Consequently, the…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kewu Yang , Kaiqiang Yu , Shengxin Liu , Zhaoquan Gu