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Given an undirected graph $G$, a quasi-clique is a subgraph of $G$ whose density is at least $\gamma$ $(0 < \gamma \leq 1)$. Two optimization problems can be defined for quasi-cliques: the Maximum Quasi-Clique (MQC) Problem, which finds a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Daniela Scherer dos Santos , Kathrin Klamroth , Pedro Martins , Luís Paquete

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

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

Mining cohesive subgraphs from a graph is a fundamental problem in graph data analysis. One notable cohesive structure is $\gamma$-quasi-clique (QC), where each vertex connects at least a fraction $\gamma$ of the other vertices inside.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kaiqiang Yu , Cheng Long

Given a user-specified minimum degree threshold $\gamma$, a $\gamma$-quasi-clique is a subgraph $g=(V_g,E_g)$ where each vertex $v\in V_g$ connects to at least $\gamma$ fraction of the other vertices (i.e., $\lceil…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Guimu Guo , Da Yan , M. Tamer Özsu , Zhe Jiang , Jalal Khalil

Identifying dense subgraphs known as quasi-cliques is pivotal in numerous graph mining tasks across domains such as social networks, biology, and e-commerce. While prior work has developed efficient algorithms for quasi-clique detection in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jingbang Chen , Weinuo Li , Yingli Zhou , Hao Wu , Can Wang , Yixiang Fang , Chenhao Ma

Quasi-cliques are dense incomplete subgraphs of a graph that generalize the notion of cliques. Enumerating quasi-cliques from a graph is a robust way to detect densely connected structures with applications to bio-informatics and social…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Seyed-Vahid Sanei-Mehri , Apurba Das , Srikanta Tirthapura

Mining dense subgraphs is an important primitive across a spectrum of graph-mining tasks. In this work, we formally establish that two recurring characteristics of real-world graphs, namely heavy-tailed degree distributions and large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aritra Konar , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

In this paper, we apply the Rank-Sparsity Matrix Decomposition to the planted Maximum Quasi-Clique Problem (MQCP). This problem has the planted Maximum Clique Problem (MCP) as a special case. The maximum clique problem is NP-hard. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Sakirudeen A. Abdulsalaam , Montaz Ali

Mining dense quasi-cliques is a well-known clustering task with applications ranging from social networks over collaboration graphs to document analysis. Recent work has extended this task to multiple graphs; i.e. the goal is to find groups…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Roberto Alonso , Stephan Günnemann

This paper is related to the problem of finding the maximal quasi-bicliques in a bipartite graph (bigraph). A quasi-biclique in the bigraph is its "almost" complete subgraph. The relaxation of completeness can be understood variously; here,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Dmitry I. Ignatov , Polina Ivanova , Albina Zamaletdinova

Mining dense subgraphs on multi-layer graphs is an interesting problem, which has witnessed lots of applications in practice. To overcome the limitations of the quasi-clique-based approach, we propose d-coherent core (d-CC), a new notion of…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Rong Zhu , Zhaonian Zou , Jianzhong Li

Many graph mining applications rely on detecting subgraphs which are near-cliques. There exists a dichotomy between the results in the existing work related to this problem: on the one hand the densest subgraph problem (DSP) which maximizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

We study the problem of approximating the number of $k$-cliques in a graph when given query access to the graph. We consider the standard query model for general graphs via (1) degree queries, (2) neighbor queries and (3) pair queries. Let…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

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

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

Given a fixed graph $H$ and a constant $c \in [0,1]$, we can ask what graphs $G$ with edge density $c$ asymptotically maximize the homomorphism density of $H$ in $G$. For all $H$ for which this problem has been solved, the maximum is always…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Grigoriy Blekherman , Shyamal Patel

The maximum clique problem (MCP) is to find the largest complete subgraph in an undirected graph, that is, the subgraph in which there are edges between every two different vertices. It is an NP-Hard problem with wide applications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Wenmin Han , Shiqi Zheng , Peian Chen , Yukun Wang

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

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
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