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Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Alexandre Gondran , Laurent Moalic

Given an undirected graph and a size parameter $k$, the Densest $k$-Subgraph (D$k$S) problem extracts the subgraph on $k$ vertices with the largest number of induced edges. While D$k$S is NP--hard and difficult to approximate, penalty-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Ya Liu , Junbin Liu , Wing-Kin Ma , Aritra Konar

The graph coloring problem (GCP) is one of the most studied NP-HARD problems in computer science. Given a graph , the task is to assign a color to all vertices such that no vertices sharing an edge receive the same color and that the number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Robiul Islam , Arup Kumar Pramanik

We consider the densest $k$-subgraph problem, which seeks to identify the $k$-node subgraph of a given input graph with maximum number of edges. This problem is well-known to be NP-hard, by reduction to the maximum clique problem. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Polina Bombina , Brendan Ames

Finding a Maximum Clique is a classic property test from graph theory; find any one of the largest complete subgraphs in an Erd\"os-R\'enyi G(N, p) random graph. We use Maximum Clique to explore the structure of the problem as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

Mining dense subgraphs on multi-layer graphs is an interesting problem, which has witnessed lots of applications in practice. To overcome the limitations of the quasi-clique-based approach, we propose d-coherent core (d-CC), a new notion of…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Rong Zhu , Zhaonian Zou , Jianzhong Li

Clique problem has a wide range of applications due to its pattern matching ability. There are various formulation of clique problem like $k$-clique problem, maximum clique problem, etc. The $k$-Clique problem, determines whether an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Arpita Sanyal , Amit Saha , Banani Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti

Given a bipartite graph, the maximum balanced biclique (\textsf{MBB}) problem, discovering a mutually connected while equal-sized disjoint sets with the maximum cardinality, plays a significant role for mining the bipartite graph and has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Rui Zhou , Jiajie Xu , Jianxin Li

Given a large graph, the densest-subgraph problem asks to find a subgraph with maximum average degree. When considering the top-$k$ version of this problem, a na\"ive solution is to iteratively find the densest subgraph and remove it in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Muhammad Anis Uddin Nasir , Aristides Gionis , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Sarunas Girdzijauskas

In this paper, we present a collection of novel and scalable algorithms designed to tackle the challenges inherent in the $k$-clique densest subgraph problem (\kcdsp) within network analysis. We propose \psctl, a novel algorithm based on…

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The concept of k-core, which indicates the largest induced subgraph where each node has k or more neighbors, plays a significant role in measuring the cohesiveness and the engagement of a network, and it is exploited in diverse…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yuqian Lv , Bo Zhou , Jinhuan Wang , Qi Xuan

The $k$-Maximum Dispersion Problem with Cardinality Constraints ($k$-MDCC) asks for a partition of a given item set with pairwise dissimilarities into $k$ cardinality-constrained groups such that the minimum pairwise intra-group…

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Identifying dense subgraphs known as quasi-cliques is pivotal in numerous graph mining tasks across domains such as social networks, biology, and e-commerce. While prior work has developed efficient algorithms for quasi-clique detection in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jingbang Chen , Weinuo Li , Yingli Zhou , Hao Wu , Can Wang , Yixiang Fang , Chenhao Ma

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, informatics, and many other areas. Although there exist several algorithms with acceptable runtimes for certain classes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

The maximum clique (MC) problem is a challenging graph mining problem which, due to its NP-hard nature, can take a substantial amount of execution time. The MC problem is dominated by set intersection operations similar to Maximal Clique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hans Vandierendonck

Edge-coloured directed graphs provide an essential structure for modelling and analysis of complex systems arising in many scientific disciplines (e.g. feature-oriented systems, gene regulatory networks, etc.). One of the fundamental…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Nikola Beneš , Luboš Brim , Samuel Pastva , David Šafránek

This paper targets to a novel but practical recommendation problem named exact-K recommendation. It is different from traditional top-K recommendation, as it focuses more on (constrained) combinatorial optimization which will optimize to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Yu Gong , Yu Zhu , Lu Duan , Qingwen Liu , Ziyu Guan , Fei Sun , Wenwu Ou , Kenny Q. Zhu

Chordal decomposition techniques are used to reduce large structured positive semidefinite matrix constraints in semidefinite programs (SDPs). The resulting equivalent problem contains multiple smaller constraints on the nonzero blocks (or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Michael Garstka , Mark Cannon , Paul Goulart

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

A $k$-clique is a dense graph, consisting of $k$ fully-connected nodes, that finds numerous applications, such as community detection and network analysis. In this paper, we study a new problem, that finds a maximum set of disjoint…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wenqing Lin , Xin Chen , Haoxuan Xie , Sibo Wang , Siqiang Luo