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In a bipartite graph, a subgraph is an $s$-biplex if each vertex of the subgraph is adjacent to all but at most $s$ vertices on the opposite set. The enumeration of $s$-biplexes from a given graph is a fundamental problem in bipartite graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhenxiang Xu , Yiping Liu , Yi Zhou , Yimin Hao , Zhengren Wang

In this paper, we investigate the parallelization of $k$-core decomposition, a method used in graph analysis to identify cohesive substructures and assess node centrality. Although efficient sequential algorithms exist for this task, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Davide Rucci , Sebastian Parfeniuc , Matteo Mordacchini , Emanuele Carlini , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Patrizio Dazzi

$k$-core decomposition is widely used to identify the center of a large network, it is a pruning process in which the nodes with degrees less than $k$ are recursively removed. Although the simplicity and effectiveness of this method…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-22 Gui-Yuan Shi , Rui-Jie Wu , Yi-Xiu Kong , H. Eugene Stanley , Yi-Cheng Zhang

The $k$-core of a graph is its largest subgraph with minimum degree at least $k$, a fundamental concept for uncovering hierarchical structures. In this paper, we establish a connection between the $k$-core and the high-order spectra of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Chunmeng Liu , Qing Xu , Changjiang Bu

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised to model complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, have gained significant attention for representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dahee Kim , Hyewon Kim , Song Kim , Minseok Kim , Junghoon Kim , Yeon-Chang Lee , Sungsu Lim

In the analysis of large-scale network data, a fundamental operation is the comparison of observed phenomena to the predictions provided by null models: when we find an interesting structure in a family of real networks, it is important to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Katherine Van Koevering , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

Community search over large graphs is a fundamental problem in graph analysis. Recent studies propose to compute top-k influential communities, where each reported community not only is a cohesive subgraph but also has a high influence…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Fei Bi , Lijun Chang , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang

Coresets have become an invaluable tool for solving $k$-means and kernel $k$-means clustering problems on large datasets with small numbers of clusters. On the other hand, spectral clustering works well on sparse graphs and has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ben Jourdan , Gregory Schwartzman , Peter Macgregor , He Sun

Maintaining a $k$-core decomposition quickly in a dynamic graph has important applications in network analysis. The main challenge for designing efficient exact algorithms is that a single update to the graph can cause significant global…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Quanquan C. Liu , Jessica Shi , Shangdi Yu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Finding the longest common subsequence in $k$-length substrings (LCS$k$) is a recently proposed problem motivated by computational biology. This is a generalization of the well-known LCS problem in which matching symbols from two sequences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Sebastian Deorowicz , Szymon Grabowski

In the $k$-Edge Connected Spanning Subgraph ($k$-ECSS) problem we are given a (multi-)graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge costs and an integer $k$, and seek a min-cost $k$-edge-connected spanning subgraph of $G$. The problem admits a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zeev Nutov , Reut Cohen

In this paper, we present a collection of novel and scalable algorithms designed to tackle the challenges inherent in the $k$-clique densest subgraph problem (\kcdsp) within network analysis. We propose \psctl, a novel algorithm based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xiaowei Ye , Miao Qiao , Rong-Hua Li , Qi Zhang , Guoren Wang

Subgraph queries also known as subgraph isomorphism search is a fundamental problem in querying graph-like structured data. It consists to enumerate the subgraphs of a data graph that match a query graph. This problem arises in many…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-11 C. Nabti , T. Mecharnia , S. E. Boukhetta , H. Seba , K. Amrouche

Interactive graph search leverages human intelligence to categorize target labels in a hierarchy, which are useful for image classification, product categorization, and database search. However, many existing studies of interactive graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Xuliang Zhu , Xin Huang , Byron Choi , Jiaxin Jiang , Zhaonian Zou , Jianliang Xu

Counting k-cliques in a graph is an important problem in graph analysis with many applications such as community detection and graph partitioning. Counting k-cliques is typically done by traversing search trees starting at each vertex in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Mohammad Almasri , Izzat El Hajj , Rakesh Nagi , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

Finding dense subgraphs of a large graph is a standard problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications. In this paper we introduce a new family of dense…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

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

With the urbanization and development of infrastructure, the community search over road networks has become increasingly important in many real applications such as urban/city planning, social study on local communities, and community…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Niranjan Rai , Xiang Lian

Graph analytics attract much attention from both research and industry communities. Due to the linear time complexity, the $k$-core decomposition is widely used in many real-world applications such as biology, social networks, community…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Bin Guo , Emil Sekerinski

Stochastic Optimization is a cornerstone of operations research, providing a framework to solve optimization problems under uncertainty. Despite the development of numerous algorithms to tackle these problems, several persistent challenges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Di Zhang , Suvrajeet Sen