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The maximum clique problem (MCP) is a fundamental problem in graph theory and in computational complexity. Given a graph G, the problem is that of finding the largest clique (complete subgraph) in G. The MCP has many important applications…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Michael Vella , John Abela , Kristian Guillaumier

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 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

The Maximum Clique Problem (MCP) is a foundational NP-hard problem with wide-ranging applications, yet no single algorithm consistently outperforms all others across diverse graph instances. This underscores the critical need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiang Li , Shanshan Wang , Chenglong Xiao

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

We propose improved exact and heuristic algorithms for solving the maximum weight clique problem, a well-known problem in graph theory with many applications. Our algorithms interleave successful techniques from related work with novel data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Roman Erhardt , Kathrin Hanauer , Nils Kriege , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

In the Minimum Clique Routing Problem on Cycles \textsc{MCRPC} we are given a cycle together with a set of demands (weighted origin-destination pairs) and the goal is to route all the pairs minimizing the maximum weighted clique of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Mariana Escalante , Martín Matamala , Iván Rapaport , Paola Tolomei , Luis Miguel Torres

This manuscript provides a comprehensive review of the Maximum Clique Problem, a computational problem that involves finding subsets of vertices in a graph that are all pairwise adjacent to each other. The manuscript covers in a simple way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Raffaele Marino , Lorenzo Buffoni , Bogdan Zavalnij

The maximum clique problem, a well-known graph-based combinatorial optimization problem, has been addressed through various algorithmic approaches, though systematic analyses of the problem instances remain sparse. This study employs the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Bharat Sharman , Elkafi Hassini

The Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS) problem plays a crucial role across various domains, bridging theoretical exploration and practical applications in fields like bioinformatics and social network analysis. Despite its wide applicability,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Davide Guidobene , Guido Cera

The Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS) problem plays a key role in many applications, including cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and pattern recognition, where it is used to identify the largest shared substructure between two graphs. Although…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Buddhi Kothalawala , Henning Koehler , Muhammad Farhan

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

Given a set ${\cal R}=\{R_1,R_2,..., R_n\}$ of $n$ randomly positioned axis parallel rectangles in 2D, the problem of computing the minimum clique cover (MCC) and maximum independent set (MIS) for the intersection graph $G({\cal R})$ of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-12-05 Ritankar Mandal , Anirban Ghosh , Sasanka Roy , Subhas C. Nandy

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 $k$-defective clique model relaxes the strict completeness constraint of the traditional clique by allowing up to $k$ missing edges, providing a robust formulation for detecting cohesive structures in noisy graphs. Consequently, the…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kewu Yang , Kaiqiang Yu , Shengxin Liu , Zhaoquan Gu

Maximum Clique Problem(MCP) is one of the 21 original NP--complete problems enumerated by Karp in 1972. In recent years a large number of exact methods to solve MCP have been appeared(Babel, Wood, Kumlander, Fahle, Li, Tomita and etc). Most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Nikolay Lavnikevich

The Clique Problem has a reduction to the Maximum Flow Network Interdiction Problem. We review the reduction to evolve a polynomial time algorithm for the Clique Problem. A computer program in C language has been written to validate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Pawan Tamta , B. P. Pande , H. S. Dhami

Automatic detection of relevant groups of nodes in large real-world graphs, i.e. community detection, has applications in many fields and has received a lot of attention in the last twenty years. The most popular method designed to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alexis Baudin , Maximilien Danisch , Sergey Kirgizov , Clémence Magnien , Marwan Ghanem

Multi-clique-width is obtained by a simple modification in the definition of clique-width. It has the advantage of providing a natural extension of tree-width. Unlike clique-width, it does not explode exponentially compared to tree-width.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Martin Fürer

We present CLIPPER+, an algorithm for finding maximal cliques in unweighted graphs for outlier-robust global registration. The registration problem can be formulated as a graph and solved by finding its maximum clique. This formulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Kaveh Fathian , Tyler Summers