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The maximum $k$-colorable subgraph (M$k$CS) problem is to find an induced $k$-colorable subgraph with maximum cardinality in a given graph. This paper is an in-depth analysis of the M$k$CS problem that considers various semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Renata Sotirov , Olga Kuryatnikova , Juan Vera

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

Given simple undirected graph G = (V, E), the Maximum Clique Problem(MCP) is that of finding a maximum-cardinality subset Q of V such that any two vertices in Q are adjacent. We present a modified local search algorithm for this problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Lavnikevich Nikolay

We analyze the problem of identifying large cliques in graphs that are affected by adversarial uncertainty. More specifically, we consider a new formulation, namely the adversarial maximum clique problem, which extends the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Immanuel Bomze , Chiara Faccio , Francesco Rinaldi , Giovanni Spisso

Multiple interval graphs are variants of interval graphs where instead of a single interval, each vertex is assigned a set of intervals on the real line. We study the complexity of the MAXIMUM CLIQUE problem in several classes of multiple…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-03-12 Mathew C. Francis , Daniel Gonçalves , Pascal Ochem

Cohesive subgraph mining is a fundamental problem in graph theory with numerous real-world applications, such as social network analysis and protein-protein interaction modeling. Among various cohesive subgraphs, the $\gamma$-quasi-clique…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hongbo Xia , Kaiqiang Yu , Shengxin Liu , Cheng Long , Xun Zhou

Combinatorial optimization problems arise in a wide range of applications from diverse domains. Many of these problems are NP-hard and designing efficient heuristics for them requires considerable time and experimentation. On the other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Juho Lauri , Sourav Dutta , Marco Grassia , Deepak Ajwani

The Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model is an emerging model which distills core aspects of distributed and parallel computation. It has been developed as a tool to solve (typically graph) problems in systems where the input is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies , Merav Parter

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

In this paper, we study the minimum dominating set (MDS) problem and the minimum total dominating set MTDS) problem which have many applications in real world. We propose a new idea to compute approximate MDS and MTDS. Next, we give an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Sharareh Alipour , Mohammadhadi Salari

Two of the most fundamental distributed symmetry-breaking problems are that of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) and a maximal matching (MM) in a graph. It is a major open question whether these problems can be solved in constant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Keren Censor-Hillel , Tomer Even , Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson

The Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) problem is a well-established combinatorial optimization problem with numerous real-world applications. Its NP-hard nature makes it increasingly difficult to obtain exact solutions as the graph size grows.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Enqiang Zhu , Qiqi Bao , Yu Zhang , Pu Wu , Chanjuan Liu

In the Minimum Consistent Subset (MCS) problem, we are presented with a connected simple undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, consisting of a vertex set $V$ of size $n$ and an edge set $E$. Each vertex in $V$ is assigned a color from the set…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Aritra Banik , Sayani Das , Anil Maheshwari , Bubai Manna , Subhas C Nandy , Krishna Priya K M , Bodhayan Roy , Sasanka Roy , Abhishek Sahu

The MaxClique problem, finding the largest complete subgraph in an Erd{\"o}s-R{\'e}nyi $G(N,p)$ random graph in the large $N$ limit, is a well-known example of a simple problem for which finding any approximate solution within a factor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

The maximal clique enumeration (MCE) problem has numerous applications in biology, chemistry, sociology, and graph modeling. Though this problem is well studied, most current research focuses on finding solutions in large sparse graphs or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Pablo San Segundo , Jorge Artieda , Darren Strash

As a fundamental task in graph data management, maximal clique enumeration (MCE) has attracted extensive attention from both academic and industrial communities due to its wide range of applications. However, MCE is very challenging as the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Wen Deng , Weiguo Zheng , Hong Cheng

The maximum clique problem, a well-known graph-based combinatorial optimization problem, has been addressed through various algorithmic approaches, though systematic analyses of the problem instances remain sparse. This study employs the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Bharat Sharman , Elkafi Hassini

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

This work presents a graph neural network (GNN) framework for solving the maximum independent set (MIS) problem, inspired by dynamic programming (DP). Specifically, given a graph, we propose a DP-like recursive algorithm based on GNNs that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lorenzo Brusca , Lars C. P. M. Quaedvlieg , Stratis Skoulakis , Grigorios G Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

The Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) problem is one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in distributed computing. While it is well-known that minimum dominating sets cannot be approximated locally on general graphs, over the last…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Stefan Schmid , Sebastian Siebertz