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Finding complete subgraphs in a graph, that is, cliques, is a key problem and has many real-world applications, e.g., finding communities in social networks, clustering gene expression data, modeling ecological niches in food webs, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Melisew Tefera Belachew , Nicolas Gillis

The Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS) problem plays a key role in many applications, including cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and pattern recognition, where it is used to identify the largest shared substructure between two graphs. Although…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Buddhi Kothalawala , Henning Koehler , Muhammad Farhan

The Maximum Weight Independent Set problem is a fundamental NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization with several real-world applications. Given an undirected vertex-weighted graph, the problem is to find a subset of the vertices with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Ernestine Großmann , Kenneth Langedal , Christian Schulz

The maximum clique problem (MCP) is a fundamental problem in graph theory and in computational complexity. Given a graph G, the problem is that of finding the largest clique (complete subgraph) in G. The MCP has many important applications…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Michael Vella , John Abela , Kristian Guillaumier

We propose improved exact and heuristic algorithms for solving the maximum weight clique problem, a well-known problem in graph theory with many applications. Our algorithms interleave successful techniques from related work with novel data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Roman Erhardt , Kathrin Hanauer , Nils Kriege , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

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

Combinatorial Optimization (CO) addresses many important problems, including the challenging Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem. Alongside exact and heuristic solvers, differentiable approaches have emerged, often using continuous…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ismail Alkhouri , Cedric Le Denmat , Yingjie Li , Cunxi Yu , Jia Liu , Rongrong Wang , Alvaro Velasquez

The graph retrieval problem is to search in a large corpus of graphs for ones that are most similar to a query graph. A common consideration for scoring similarity is the maximum common subgraph (MCS) between the query and corpus graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Indradyumna Roy , Soumen Chakrabarti , Abir De

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

Several important tasks in medical image analysis can be stated in the form of an optimization problem whose feasible solutions are connected subgraphs. Examples include the reconstruction of neural or vascular structures under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Markus Rempfler , Bjoern Andres , Bjoern H. Menze

In this paper, we develop a general regularization-based continuous optimization framework for the maximum clique problem. In particular, we consider a broad class of regularization terms that can be included in the classic Motzkin-Strauss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-11 James T. Hungerford , Francesco Rinaldi

Most graphs in real life keep changing with time. These changes can be in the form of insertion or deletion of edges or vertices. Such rapidly changing graphs motivate us to study dynamic graph algorithms. However, three important graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Manoj Gupta , Shahbaz Khan

Maximum Clique Problem(MCP) is one of the 21 original NP--complete problems enumerated by Karp in 1972. In recent years a large number of exact methods to solve MCP have been appeared(Babel, Wood, Kumlander, Fahle, Li, Tomita and etc). Most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Nikolay Lavnikevich

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, information retrieval and many other areas related to the World Wide Web. There exist several algorithms for the problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

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

Branch-and-bound (BnB) algorithms are widely used to solve combinatorial problems, and the performance crucially depends on its branching heuristic.In this work, we consider a typical problem of maximum common subgraph (MCS), and propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Yan-li Liu , Chu-min Li , Hua Jiang , Kun He

Maximal clique enumeration (MCE) is a fundamental problem in graph theory and is used in many applications, such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, intelligent agent systems, cyber security, etc. Most existing MCE algorithms focus…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xiaofan Li , Rui Zhou , Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Qiang He , Yun Yang

Given an undirected node-weighted graph, the Maximum-Weight Connected Subgraph problem (MWCS) is to identify a subset of nodes of maximalsum of weights that induce a connected subgraph. MWCS is closely related to the well-studied Prize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Mohammed El-Kebir , Gunnar W. Klau

Computing a maximum independent set (MaxIS) is a fundamental NP-hard problem in graph theory, which has important applications in a wide spectrum of fields. Since graphs in many applications are changing frequently over time, the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Xiangyu Gao , Jianzhong Li , Dongjing Miao

The Minimum Consistent Subset (MCS) problem arises naturally in the context of supervised clustering and instance selection. In supervised clustering, one aims to infer a meaningful partitioning of data using a small labeled subset.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Aritra Banik , Mano Prakash Parthasarathi , Venkatesh Raman , Diya Roy , Abhishek Sahu
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