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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

In the family of clustering problems, we are given a set of objects (vertices of the graph), together with some observed pairwise similarities (edges). The goal is to identify clusters of similar objects by slightly modifying the graph to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Anudhyan Boral , Marek Cygan , Tomasz Kociumaka , Marcin Pilipczuk

k-plex is a representative definition of communities in networks. While the cliques is too stiff to applicate to real cases, the k-plex relaxes the notion of the clique, allowing each node to miss up to k connections. Although k-plexes are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Yun-Ya Huang , Chih-Ya Shen

Discovering large cohesive subgraphs is a key task for graph mining. Existing models, such as clique, k-plex, and {\gamma}-quasi-clique, use fixed density thresholds that overlook the natural decay of connectivity as the subgraph size…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Song Kim , Hyewon Kim , Kaiqiang Yu , Taejoon Han , Junghoon Kim , Susik Yoon , Jungeun Kim

Clique counting is a fundamental task in network analysis, and even the simplest setting of $3$-cliques (triangles) has been the center of much recent research. Getting the count of $k$-cliques for larger $k$ is algorithmically challenging,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Shweta Jain , C. Seshadhri

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

We propose a simple, powerful, and flexible machine learning framework for (i) reducing the search space of computationally difficult enumeration variants of subset problems and (ii) augmenting existing state-of-the-art solvers with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Juho Lauri , Sourav Dutta

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

Finding large cliques or cliques missing a few edges is a fundamental algorithmic task in the study of real-world graphs, with applications in community detection, pattern recognition, and clustering. A number of effective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Balaram Behera , Edin Husić , Shweta Jain , Tim Roughgarden , C. Seshadhri

We study finding and listing $k$-cliques in a graph, for constant $k\geq 3$, a fundamental problem of both theoretical and practical importance. Our main contribution is a new output-sensitive algorithm for listing $k$-cliques in graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Surya Mathialagan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu

A canonical problem in graph mining is the detection of dense communities. This problem is exacerbated for a graph with a large order and size -- the number of vertices and edges -- as many community detection algorithms scale poorly. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Heng Wang , Da Zheng , Randal Burns , Carey Priebe

Listing k-cliques plays a fundamental role in various data mining tasks, such as community detection and mining of cohesive substructures. Existing algorithms for the k-clique listing problem are built upon a general framework, which finds…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yehyun Nam , Jihoon Jang , Kunsoo Park , Jianye Yang , Cheng Long

Automatic detection of relevant groups of nodes in large real-world graphs, i.e. community detection, has applications in many fields and has received a lot of attention in the last twenty years. The most popular method designed to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alexis Baudin , Maximilien Danisch , Sergey Kirgizov , Clémence Magnien , Marwan Ghanem

A clique in an undirected graph G= (V, E) is a subset V' V of vertices, each pair of which is connected by an edge in E. The clique problem is an optimization problem of finding a clique of maximum size in graph. The clique problem is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-10-04 Murali Krishna P , Sabu . M Thampi

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

K-clique percolation is an overlapping community finding algorithm which extracts particular structures, comprised of overlapping cliques, from complex networks. While it is conceptually straightforward, and can be elegantly expressed using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-02 Fergal Reid , Aaron McDaid , Neil Hurley

Reducing the running time of graph algorithms is vital for tackling real-world problems such as shortest paths and matching in large-scale graphs, where path information plays a crucial role. To address this critical challenge, this paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Akshar Chavan , Sanaz Rabinia , Daniel Grosu , Marco Brocanelli

Maximal Clique Enumeration (MCE) is a fundamental graph mining problem, and is useful as a primitive in identifying dense structures in a graph. Due to the high computational cost of MCE, parallel methods are imperative for dealing with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Apurba Das , Seyed-Vahid Sanei-Mehri , Srikanta Tirthapura

Cohesive subgraph mining on attributed graphs is a fundamental problem in graph data analysis. Existing cohesive subgraph mining algorithms on attributed graphs do not consider the fairness of attributes in the subgraph. In this paper, we,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Qi Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Minjia Pan , Yongheng Dai , Qun Tian , Guoren Wang

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