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In this work we advance the understanding of the fundamental limits of computation for Binary Polynomial Optimization (BPO), which is the problem of maximizing a given polynomial function over all binary points. In our main result we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Alberto Del Pia , Silvia Di Gregorio

Counting the number of $(p, q)$-bicliques (complete bipartite subgraphs) in a bipartite graph is a fundamental problem which plays a crucial role in numerous bipartite graph analysis applications. However, existing algorithms for counting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xiaowei Ye , Rong-Hua Li , Longlong Lin , Shaojie Qiao , Guoren Wang

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

Finding a maximum independent set is a fundamental NP-hard problem that is used in many real-world applications. Given an unweighted graph, this problem asks for a maximum cardinality set of pairwise non-adjacent vertices. Some of the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Demian Hespe , Sebastian Lamm , Christian Schorr

Counting (p,q)-bicliques in bipartite graphs poses a foundational challenge with broad applications, from densest subgraph discovery in algorithmic research to personalized content recommendation in practical scenarios. Despite its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Linshan Qiu , Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao

In this paper, we consider the multiple probabilistic covering location problem (MPCLP), which attempts to open a fixed number of facilities to maximize the total covered customer demand under a joint probabilistic coverage setting. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Yan-Ru Wang , Wei-Kun Chen , Ivana Ljubić

An intense activity is nowadays devoted to the definition of models capturing the properties of complex networks. Among the most promising approaches, it has been proposed to model these graphs via their clique incidence bipartite graphs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Matthieu Latapy , Thi Ha Duong Phan , Christophe Crespelle , Thanh Qui Nguyen

Detecting dense subgraphs from large graphs is a core component in many applications, ranging from social networks mining, bioinformatics. In this paper, we focus on mining dense subgraphs in a bipartite graph. The work is motivated by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yikun Ban

A set of vertices in a graph forms a potential maximal clique if there exists a minimal chordal completion in which it is a maximal clique. Potential maximal cliques were first introduced as a key tool to obtain an efficient, though…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Caroline Brosse , Alessio Conte , Vincent Limouzy , Giulia Punzi , Davide Rucci

Given a bipartite graph $G = (V_1,V_2,E)$ where edges take on {\it both} positive and negative weights from set $\mathcal{S}$, the {\it maximum weighted edge biclique} problem, or $\mathcal{S}$-MWEB for short, asks to find a bipartite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-03-23 Jinsong Tan

The maximum labelled clique problem is a variant of the maximum clique problem where edges in the graph are given labels, and we are not allowed to use more than a certain number of distinct labels in a solution. We introduce a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

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

As a fundamental task in graph data management, maximal clique enumeration (MCE) has attracted extensive attention from both academic and industrial communities due to its wide range of applications. However, MCE is very challenging as the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Wen Deng , Weiguo Zheng , Hong Cheng

We establish sufficient conditions of exact and almost full recovery of the node partition in Bipartite Stochastic Block Model (BSBM) using polynomial time algorithms. First, we improve upon the known conditions of almost full recovery by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Mohamed Ndaoud , Suzanne Sigalla , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

In a bipartite graph, a subgraph is an $s$-biplex if each vertex of the subgraph is adjacent to all but at most $s$ vertices on the opposite set. The enumeration of $s$-biplexes from a given graph is a fundamental problem in bipartite graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhenxiang Xu , Yiping Liu , Yi Zhou , Yimin Hao , Zhengren Wang

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

Finding all maximal $k$-plexes on networks is a fundamental research problem in graph analysis due to many important applications, such as community detection, biological graph analysis, and so on. A $k$-plex is a subgraph in which every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Qiangqiang Dai , Rong-Hua Li , Hongchao Qin , Meihao Liao , Guoren Wang

Clique is one of the most fundamental models for cohesive subgraph mining in network analysis. Existing clique model mainly focuses on unsigned networks. However, in real world, many applications are modeled as signed networks with positive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zi Chen , Long Yuan , Xuemin Lin , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang

One powerful technique to solve NP-hard optimization problems in practice is branch-and-reduce search---which is branch-and-bound that intermixes branching with reductions to decrease the input size. While this technique is known to be very…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Sebastian Lamm , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash , Robert Williger , Huashuo Zhang

The length-constrained cycle partition problem (LCCP) is a graph optimization problem in which a set of nodes must be partitioned into a minimum number of cycles. Every node is associated with a critical time and the length of every cycle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Mohammed Ghannam , Gioni Mexi , Edward Lam , Ambros Gleixner