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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

We address the problem of enumerating all maximal clique-partitions of an undirected graph and present an algorithm based on the observation that every maximal clique-partition can be produced from the maximal clique-cover of the graph by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mircea Marin , Temur Kutsia , Cleo Pau , Mikheil Rukhaia

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

The monography presents a new algorithm for finding the clique of maximal length in a nonseparable graph. The algorithm is based on the properties of the representation of a clique as a subset of the set of cycles with a length of three,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sergey Kurapov , Maxim Davidovsky

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

A novel approach to complex problems has been previously applied to graph classification and the graph equivalence problem. Here we apply it to the NP complete problem of finding the largest perfect clique within a graph $G$.

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Gudkov , Shmuel Nussinov , Zohar Nussinov

The Clique Interdiction Problem (CIP) aims to minimize the size of the largest clique in a given graph by removing a given number of vertices. The CIP models a special Stackelberg game and has important applications in fields such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Chenghao Zhu , Yi Zhou , Haoyu Jiang

Finding the maximum clique is a known NP-Complete problem and it is also hard to approximate. This work proposes two efficient algorithms to obtain it. Nevertheless, the first one is able to fins the maximum for some special cases, while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-21 José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin

There are many methods to find a maximum (or maximal) clique in large networks. Due to the nature of combinatorics, computation becomes exponentially expensive as the number of vertices in a graph increases. Thus, there is a need for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-27 S. Y. Chan , K. Morgan , J. Ugon

This paper describes a method of global localization based on graph-theoretic association of instances between a query and the prior map. The proposed framework employs correspondence matching based on the maximum clique problem (MCP). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shigemichi Matsuzaki , Kenji Koide , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Atsuhiko Banno

The $ k $-plex model, which allows each vertex to miss connections with up to $ k $ neighbors, serves as a relaxation of the clique. Its adaptability makes it more suitable for analyzing real-world graphs where noise and imperfect data are…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xiaofan Li , Gao Cong , Rui Zhou

In this work, we consider the application of continuous time quantum walking(CTQW) to the Maximum Clique(MC) Problem. Performing CTQW on graphs will generate distinct periodic probability amplitude for different vertices. We will show that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xi Li , Mingyou Wu , Hanwu Chen

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

The edge clique cover (ECC) problem -- where the goal is to find a minimum cardinality set of cliques that cover all the edges of a graph -- is a classic NP-hard problem that has received much attention from both the theoretical and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Anthony Hevia , Benjamin Kallus , Summer McClintic , Samantha Reisner , Darren Strash , Johnathan Wilson

Mining cohesive subgraphs in attributed graphs is an essential problem in the domain of graph data analysis. The integration of fairness considerations significantly fuels interest in models and algorithms for mining fairness-aware cohesive…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Qi Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Zifan Zheng , Hongchao Qin , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

This paper addresses the problem of finding the densest $k$-vertex subgraph in an arbitrary graph. This problem is NP-hard and has important applications in social network analysis, fraud detection, recommendation systems, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yu. A. Biriukov , R. D. Morozov , I. V. Dyakonov , S. S. Straupe

We consider the fundamental problem of detecting/counting copies of a fixed pattern graph in a host graph. The recent progress on this problem has not included complete pattern graphs, i.e., cliques (and their complements, i.e., edge-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Mirosław Kowaluk , Andrzej Lingas

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

We study the Maximum Balanced Biclique (MBB) problem: Given a bipartite graph $G$ with $n$ vertices on each side, find a balanced biclique in $G$ with maximum size. We give a polynomial-time $\left(\frac{n}{\widetilde{\Omega}\left((\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Pasin Manurangsi

A disk graph is an intersection graph of disks in the Euclidean plane, where the disks correspond to the vertices of the graph and a pair of vertices are adjacent if and only if their corresponding disks intersect. The problem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Jared Espenant , J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal