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This paper studies the nucleus decomposition problem, which has been shown to be useful in finding dense substructures in graphs. We present a novel parallel algorithm that is efficient both in theory and in practice. Our algorithm achieves…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Jessica Shi , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

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

Finding "densely connected clusters" in a graph is in general an important and well studied problem in the literature \cite{Schaeffer}. It has various applications in pattern recognition, social networking and data mining…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-04-28 Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

Finding a Maximum Clique is a classic property test from graph theory; find any one of the largest complete subgraphs in an Erd\"os-R\'enyi G(N, p) random graph. We use Maximum Clique to explore the structure of the problem as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

Maximal clique enumeration is a fundamental graph mining task, but its utility is often limited by computational intractability and highly redundant output. To address these challenges, we introduce \emph{$\rho$-dense aggregators}, a novel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Noga Alon , Sabyasachi Basu , Shweta Jain , Haim Kaplan , Jakub Łącki , Blair D. Sullivan

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

The maximum clique problem is a classical NP-complete problem in graph theory and has important applications in many domains. In this paper we show, in a partially non-constructive way, the existence of an exact polynomial-time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-20 R. Dharmarajan , D. Ramachandran

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

In the last decade, algorithmic frameworks based on a structural graph parameter called mim-width have been developed to solve generally NP-hard problems. However, it is known that the frameworks cannot be applied to the Clique problem, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yota Otachi , Akira Suzuki , Yuma Tamura

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

When searching for characteristic subpatterns in potentially noisy graph data, it appears self-evident that having multiple observations would be better than having just one. However, it turns out that the inconsistencies introduced when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Novi Quadrianto , Chao Chen , Christoph Lampert

The most commonly used method to tackle the graph partitioning problem in practice is the multilevel approach. During a coarsening phase, a multilevel graph partitioning algorithm reduces the graph size by iteratively contracting nodes and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Henning Meyerhenke , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

We consider the enumeration of maximal bipartite cliques (bicliques) from a large graph, a task central to many practical data mining problems in social network analysis and bioinformatics. We present novel parallel algorithms for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Arko Provo Mukherjee , Srikanta Tirthapura

The Cluster Deletion problem takes a graph $G$ as input and asks for a minimum size set of edges $X$ such that $G-X$ is the disjoint union of complete graphs. An equivalent formulation is the Clique Partition problem, which asks to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Nicola Galesi , Tony Huynh , Fariba Ranjbar

Discovering large cohesive subgraphs is a key task for graph mining. Existing models, such as clique, k-plex, and {\gamma}-quasi-clique, use fixed density thresholds that overlook the natural decay of connectivity as the subgraph size…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Song Kim , Hyewon Kim , Kaiqiang Yu , Taejoon Han , Junghoon Kim , Susik Yoon , Jungeun Kim

We consider the problem of identifying a maximum clique in a given graph. We have proposed a mathematical model for this problem. The model resembles the matrix decomposition of the adjacency matrix of a given graph. The objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Salma Omer , Montaz Ali

In this article we use the modular decomposition technique for exact solving the weighted maximum clique problem. Our algorithm takes the modular decomposition tree from the paper of Tedder et. al. and finds solution recursively. Also, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Irina Utkina

Finding dense substructures in a graph is a fundamental graph mining operation, with applications in bioinformatics, social networks, and visualization to name a few. Yet most standard formulations of this problem (like clique, quasiclique,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar , Umit V. Catalyurek

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

Finding cohesive subgraphs in a large graph has many important applications, such as community detection and biological network analysis. Clique is often a too strict cohesive structure since communities or biological modules rarely form as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Qihao Cheng , Da Yan , Tianhao Wu , Lyuheng Yuan , Ji Cheng , Zhongyi Huang , Yang Zhou