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We address the problem of enumerating all maximal clique-partitions of an undirected graph and present an algorithm based on the observation that every maximal clique-partition can be produced from the maximal clique-cover of the graph by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mircea Marin , Temur Kutsia , Cleo Pau , Mikheil Rukhaia

Given a graph, a $k$-plex is a set of vertices in which each vertex is not adjacent to at most $k-1$ other vertices in the set. The maximum $k$-plex problem, which asks for the largest $k$-plex from the given graph, is an important but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Zhengren Wang , Yi Zhou , Chunyu Luo , Mingyu Xiao , Jin-Kao Hao

We provide a fast distributed algorithm for detecting $h$-cycles in the \textsf{Congested Clique} model, whose running time decreases as the number of $h$-cycles in the graph increases. In undirected graphs, constant-round algorithms are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Keren Censor-Hillel , Tomer Even , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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

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

Complex networks contain complete subgraphs such as nodes, edges, triangles, etc., referred to as simplices and cliques of different orders. Notably, cavities consisting of higher-order cliques play an important role in brain functions.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Dinghua Shi , Zhifeng Chen , Xiang Sun , Qinghua Chen , Chuang Ma , Yang Lou , Guanrong Chen

In this work, we consider the problem of sampling a $k$-clique in a graph from an almost uniform distribution in sublinear time in the general graph query model. Specifically the algorithm should output each $k$-clique with probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

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

Many common graph data mining tasks take the form of identifying dense subgraphs (e.g. clustering, clique-finding, etc). In biological applications, the natural model for these dense substructures is often a complete bipartite graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Kyle Kloster , Blair D. Sullivan , Andrew van der Poel

We study the construction of $d$-deletion-correcting binary codes by formulating the problem as a Maximum Clique Problem (MCP). In this formulation, vertices represent candidate codewords and edges connect pairs whose longest common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Aniruddh Pandav , Rajshekhar V Bhat

Clustering multidimensional points is a fundamental data mining task, with applications in many fields, such as astronomy, neuroscience, bioinformatics, and computer vision. The goal of clustering algorithms is to group similar objects…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yihao Huang , Shangdi Yu , Julian Shun

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

Finding the maximum clique is a known NP-Complete problem and it is also hard to approximate. This work proposes two efficient algorithms to obtain it. Nevertheless, the first one is able to fins the maximum for some special cases, while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-21 José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin

Current flow closeness centrality (CFCC) has a better discriminating ability than the ordinary closeness centrality based on shortest paths. In this paper, we extend this notion to a group of vertices in a weighted graph, and then study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Huan Li , Richard Peng , Liren Shan , Yuhao Yi , Zhongzhi Zhang

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a powerful tool for tackling a wide range of computationally hard problems such as clustering. Despite the high accuracy, semidefinite programs are often too slow in practice with poor scalability on large…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Yubo Zhuang , Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang

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 clique problems, including $k$-CLIQUE and Triangle Finding, form an important class of computational problems; the former is an NP-complete problem, while the latter directly gives lower bounds for Matrix Multiplication. A number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Ali Hadizadeh Moghadam , Payman Kazemikhah , Hossein Aghababa

In this paper we modify an algorithm for updating a maximal clique enumeration after an edge insertion to provide an algorithm that runs in linear time with respect to the number of cliques containing one of the edge's endpoints, whereas…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Neal Lawton

In a distinguishing problem, the input is a sample drawn from one of two distributions and the algorithm is tasked with identifying the source distribution. The performance of a distinguishing algorithm is measured by its advantage, i.e.,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ansh Nagda , Prasad Raghavendra

In network analysis and graph mining, closeness centrality is a popular measure to infer the importance of a vertex. Computing closeness efficiently for individual vertices received considerable attention. The NP-hard problem of group…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Eugenio Angriman , Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke