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In network analysis and graph mining, closeness centrality is a popular measure to infer the importance of a vertex. Computing closeness efficiently for individual vertices received considerable attention. The NP-hard problem of group…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Eugenio Angriman , Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke

We consider the densest $k$-subgraph problem, which seeks to identify the $k$-node subgraph of a given input graph with maximum number of edges. This problem is well-known to be NP-hard, by reduction to the maximum clique problem. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Polina Bombina , Brendan Ames

Local clustering aims to find a compact cluster near the given starting instances. This work focuses on graph local clustering, which has broad applications beyond graphs because of the internal connectivities within various modalities.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zihao Li , Dongqi Fu , Hengyu Liu , Jingrui He

Deep graph embedding is an important approach for community discovery. Deep graph neural network with self-supervised mechanism can obtain the low-dimensional embedding vectors of nodes from unlabeled and unstructured graph data. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shuliang Xu , Shenglan Liu , Lin Feng

Dense subgraph discovery is an important primitive in graph mining, which has a wide variety of applications in diverse domains. In the densest subgraph problem, given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with an edge-weight vector $w=(w_e)_{e\in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Atsushi Miyauchi , Akiko Takeda

Given a dynamic network, where edges appear and disappear over time, we are interested in finding sets of edges that have similar temporal behavior and form a dense subgraph. Formally, we define the problem as the enumeration of the maximal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Giulia Preti , Polina Rozenshtein , Aristides Gionis , Yannis Velegrakis

The densest subgraph problem is a classic problem in combinatorial optimisation. Danisch, Chan, and Sozio propose a definition for \emph{local density} that assigns to each vertex $v$ a value $\rho^*(v)$. This local density is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Aleksander Bjørn Christiansen , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

Dense subgraph discovery is an important graph-mining primitive with a variety of real-world applications. One of the most well-studied optimization problems for dense subgraph discovery is the densest subgraph problem, where given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Francesco Bonchi , David García-Soriano , Atsushi Miyauchi , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental problem with applications to community detection, clustering, and data mining. Our work focuses on finding approximate densest subgraphs in directed graphs in computational models for processing…

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In the constraint programming framework, state-of-the-art static and dynamic decomposition techniques are hard to apply to problems with complete initial constraint graphs. For such problems, we propose a hybrid approach of these techniques…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Stephane Zampelli , Martin Mann , Yves Deville , Rolf Backofen

A graph with $n$ vertices is an $f(\cdot)$-dense graph if it has at least $f(n)$ edges, $f(\cdot)$ being a well-defined function. The notion $f(\cdot)$-dense graph encompasses various clique models like $\gamma$-quasi cliques, $k$-defective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yi Zhou , Chunyu Luo , Zhengren Wang , Zhang-Hua Fu

We present a novel method for detecting communities in bipartite networks. Based on an extension of the $k$-clique community detection algorithm, we demonstrate how modular structure in bipartite networks presents itself as overlapping…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-07-22 Sune Lehmann , Martin Schwartz , Lars Kai Hansen

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider a relaxed version of this problem in the setting of local algorithms. The relaxation is that the constructed subgraph is a sparse spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Finding dense components in graphs is of great importance in analyzing the structure of networks. Popular and computationally feasible frameworks for discovering dense subgraphs are core and truss decompositions. Recently, Sariyuce et al.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Fatemeh Esfahani , Venkatesh Srinivasan , Alex Thomo , Kui Wu

The densest subgraph problem, introduced in the 80s by Picard and Queyranne as well as Goldberg, is a classic problem in combinatorial optimization with a wide range of applications. The lowest outdegree orientation problem is known to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hsin-Hao Su , Hoa T. Vu

Community detection is a foundational capability in large-scale industrial graph analytics, powering applications such as fraud-ring discovery, recommendation systems, and hierarchical indexing for retrieval-augmented generation. Among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chunxu Lin , Yumao Xie , Yixiang Fang , Yongmin Hu , Yingqian Hu , Chen Cheng

Community detection remains an important problem in data mining, owing to the lack of scalable algorithms that exploit all aspects of available data - namely the directionality of flow of information and the dynamics thereof. Most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Rajagopal Venkatesaramani , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Unsupervised node clustering (or community detection) is a classical graph learning task. In this paper, we study algorithms, which exploit the geometry of the graph to identify densely connected substructures, which form clusters or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Tian , Zachary Lubberts , Melanie Weber

We study the family of intersection graphs of low density objects in low dimensional Euclidean space. This family is quite general, and includes planar graphs. We prove that such graphs have small separators. Next, we present efficient…

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