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Given an undirected graph and a size parameter $k$, the Densest $k$-Subgraph (D$k$S) problem extracts the subgraph on $k$ vertices with the largest number of induced edges. While D$k$S is NP--hard and difficult to approximate, penalty-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Ya Liu , Junbin Liu , Wing-Kin Ma , Aritra Konar

Dense subgraph mining is a fundamental technique in graph mining, commonly applied in fraud detection, community detection, product recommendation, and document summarization. In such applications, we are often interested in identifying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Qiheng Lu , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Aritra Konar

Finding the densest subgraph (DS) from a graph is a fundamental problem in graph databases. The DS obtained, which reveals closely related entities, has been found to be useful in various application domains such as e-commerce, social…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yi Yang , Chenhao Ma , Reynold Cheng , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Xiaolin Han

In the Densest k-Subgraph problem, given a graph G and a parameter k, one needs to find a subgraph of G induced on k vertices that contains the largest number of edges. There is a significant gap between the best known upper and lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-19 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Eden Chlamtac , Uriel Feige , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Many real-world networks can be modeled as graphs. Finding dense subgraphs is a key problem in graph mining with applications in diverse domains. In this paper, we consider two variants of the densest subgraph problem where multiple graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chamalee Wickrama Arachchi , Nikolaj Tatti

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

Given a graph and an integer $k$, Densest $k$-Subgraph is the algorithmic task of finding the subgraph on $k$ vertices with the maximum number of edges. This is a fundamental problem that has been subject to intense study for decades, with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Chris Jones , Aaron Potechin , Goutham Rajendran , Jeff Xu

The densest k-subgraph (DkS) problem (i.e. find a size k subgraph with maximum number of edges), is one of the notorious problems in approximation algorithms. There is a significant gap between known upper and lower bounds for DkS: the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-07 Aditya Bhaskara , Moses Charikar , Venkatesan Guruswami , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan , Yuan Zhou

Dense subgraph discovery methods are routinely used in a variety of applications including the identification of a team of skilled individuals for collaboration from a social network. However, when the network's node set is associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Atsushi Miyauchi , Tianyi Chen , Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

In the densest subgraph problem, given an edge-weighted undirected graph $G=(V,E,w)$, we are asked to find $S\subseteq V$ that maximizes the density, i.e., $w(S)/|S|$, where $w(S)$ is the sum of weights of the edges in the subgraph induced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yasushi Kawase , Atsushi Miyauchi

\textsc{Densest $k$-Subgraph} is the problem to find a vertex subset $S$ of size $k$ such that the number of edges in the subgraph induced by $S$ is maximized. In this paper, we show that \textsc{Densest $k$-Subgraph} is fixed parameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Tesshu Hanaka

Many graph mining applications rely on detecting subgraphs which are near-cliques. There exists a dichotomy between the results in the existing work related to this problem: on the one hand the densest subgraph problem (DSP) which maximizes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Computing the densest subgraph is a primitive graph operation with critical applications in detecting communities, events, and anomalies in biological, social, Web, and financial networks. In this paper, we study the novel problem of Most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Arkaprava Saha , Xiangyu Ke , Arijit Khan , Cheng Long

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

Boson sampling devices are a prime candidate for exhibiting quantum supremacy, yet their application for solving problems of practical interest is less well understood. Here we show that Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) can be used for dense…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Thomas R. Bromley

The volume of image repositories continues to grow. Despite the availability of content-based addressing, we still lack a lightweight tool that allows us to discover images of distinct characteristics from a large collection. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Shanfeng Hu

We give the first fully dynamic algorithm which maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate densest subgraph in worst-case time $\text{poly}(\log n, \epsilon^{-1})$ per update. Dense subgraph discovery is an important primitive for many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Saurabh Sawlani , Junxing Wang

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

Dense subgraph extraction is a fundamental problem in graph analysis and data mining, aimed at identifying cohesive and densely connected substructures within a given graph. It plays a crucial role in various domains, including social…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Chia-Yang Hung , Chih-Ya Shen

Given an undirected graph $G$, a quasi-clique is a subgraph of $G$ whose density is at least $\gamma$ $(0 < \gamma \leq 1)$. Two optimization problems can be defined for quasi-cliques: the Maximum Quasi-Clique (MQC) Problem, which finds a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Daniela Scherer dos Santos , Kathrin Klamroth , Pedro Martins , Luís Paquete