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$k$-defective cliques relax cliques by allowing up-to $k$ missing edges from being a complete graph. This relaxation enables us to find larger near-cliques and has applications in link prediction, cluster detection, social network analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Lijun Chang

The maximum edge-weight clique problem is to find a clique whose sum of edge-weight is the maximum for a given edge-weighted undirected graph. The problem is NP-hard and some branch-and-bound algorithms have been proposed. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Satoshi Shimizu , Kazuaki Yamaguchi , Sumio Masuda

Since its first use by Euler on the problem of the seven bridges of K\"onigsberg, graph theory has shown excellent abilities in solving and unveiling the properties of multiple discrete optimization problems. The study of the structure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Ahmed Douik , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The Maximum Clique Problem (MCP) is a foundational NP-hard problem with wide-ranging applications, yet no single algorithm consistently outperforms all others across diverse graph instances. This underscores the critical need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiang Li , Shanshan Wang , Chenglong Xiao

The advent of new special-purpose hardware such as FPGA or ASIC-based annealers and quantum processors has shown potential in solving certain families of complex combinatorial optimization problems more efficiently than conventional CPUs.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Ali Narimani , Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei , Arman Zaribafiyan

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

We study the problem of outlier correspondence pruning for non-rigid point cloud registration. In rigid registration, spatial consistency has been a commonly used criterion to discriminate outliers from inliers. It measures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zheng Qin , Hao Yu , Changjian Wang , Yuxing Peng , Kai Xu

Counting instances of specific subgraphs in a larger graph is an important problem in graph mining. Finding cliques of size k (k-cliques) is one example of this NP-hard problem. Different algorithms for clique counting avoid counting the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Amogh Lonkar , Scott Beamer

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

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

Robust point cloud registration in real-time is an important prerequisite for many mapping and localization algorithms. Traditional methods like ICP tend to fail without good initialization, insufficient overlap or in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Kai Fischer , Martin Simon , Florian Oelsner , Stefan Milz , Horst-Michael Gross , Patrick Maeder

Finding locally optimal solutions for max-cut and max-$k$-cut are well-known PLS-complete problems. An instinctive approach to finding such a locally optimum solution is the FLIP method. Even though FLIP requires exponential time in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Ali Bibak , Charles Carlson , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran

One of the most useful measures of cluster quality is the modularity of a partition, which measures the difference between the number of the edges joining vertices from the same cluster and the expected number of such edges in a random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Hristo Djidjev

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving maximal cliques for simple undirected graphs using the theory of prime numbers. A novel approach using prime numbers is used to find cliques and ends with a discussion of the algorithm.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dhananjay D. Kulkarni , Shekhar Verma , Prashant

A variety of tasks on dynamic graphs, including anomaly detection, community detection, compression, and graph understanding, have been formulated as problems of identifying constituent (near) bi-cliques (i.e., complete bipartite graphs).…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Hyeonjeong Shin , Taehyung Kwon , Neil Shah , Kijung Shin

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

The Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm and its variants are a fundamental technique for rigid registration between two point sets, with wide applications in different areas from robotics to 3D reconstruction. The main drawbacks for ICP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Juyong Zhang , Yuxin Yao , Bailin Deng

Non-rigid 3D registration, which deforms a source 3D shape in a non-rigid way to align with a target 3D shape, is a classical problem in computer vision. Such problems can be challenging because of imperfect data (noise, outliers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yuxin Yao , Bailin Deng , Weiwei Xu , Juyong Zhang

Finding dense subgraphs in a graph is a fundamental graph mining task, with applications in several fields. Algorithms for identifying dense subgraphs are used in biology, in finance, in spam detection, etc. Standard formulations of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-10 G. Nikolentzos , P. Meladianos , Y. Stavrakas , M. Vazirgiannis

We implement a new algorithm for listing all maximal cliques in sparse graphs due to Eppstein, L\"offler, and Strash (ISAAC 2010) and analyze its performance on a large corpus of real-world graphs. Our analysis shows that this algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-03 David Eppstein , Darren Strash