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The problem of finding dense components of a graph is a widely explored area in data analysis, with diverse applications in fields and branches of study including community mining, spam detection, computer security and bioinformatics. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 B. D. M. De Zoysa , Y. A. M. M. A. Ali , M. D. I. Maduranga , Indika Perera , Saliya Ekanayake , Anil Vullikanti

Finding dense subgraphs of a large graph is a standard problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications. In this paper we introduce a new family of dense…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

We define a proportionally dense subgraph (PDS) as an induced subgraph of a graph with the property that each vertex in the PDS is adjacent to proportionally as many vertices in the subgraph as in the graph. We prove that the problem of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Cristina Bazgan , Janka Chlebíková , Clément Dallard , Thomas Pontoizeau

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

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

In this paper we solve the problem of finding in a given weighted hypergraph a subhypergraph with a maximum possible density. We introduce the notion of a support matrix and prove that the density of an optimal subhypergraph is equal to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Yuly Billig

The significant progress in constructing graph spanners that are sparse (small number of edges) or light (low total weight) has skipped spanners that are everywhere-sparse (small maximum degree). This disparity is in line with other network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-02 Eden Chlamtac , Michael Dinitz , Robert Krauthgamer

Dense subgraph discovery is a key primitive in many graph mining applications, such as detecting communities in social networks and mining gene correlation from biological data. Most studies on dense subgraph mining only deal with one…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Yu Yang , Lingyang Chu , Yanyan Zhang , Zhefeng Wang , Jian Pei , Enhong Chen

The use of network based approaches to model and analyse large datasets is currently a growing research field. For instance in biology and medicine, networks are used to model interactions among biological molecules as well as relations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Pietro Hiram Guzzi , Emanuel Salerno , Giuseppe Tradigo , Pierangelo Veltri

In distributed networks, it is often useful for the nodes to be aware of dense subgraphs, e.g., such a dense subgraph could reveal dense subtructures in otherwise sparse graphs (e.g. the World Wide Web or social networks); these might…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Atish Das Sarma , Ashwin Lall , Danupon Nanongkai , Amitabh Trehan

We consider the minimum vertex cover problem in hypergraphs in which every hyperedge has size k (also known as minimum hitting set problem, or minimum set cover with element frequency k). Simple algorithms exist that provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Jean Cardinal , Marek Karpinski , Richard Schmied , Claus Viehmann

The study of Dense-$3$-Subhypergraph problem was initiated in Chlamt{\'{a}}c et al. [Approx'16]. The input is a universe $U$ and collection ${\cal S}$ of subsets of $U$, each of size $3$, and a number $k$. The goal is to choose a set $W$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Amey Bhangale , Rajiv Gandhi , Guy Kortsarz

Finding the k-medianin a network involves identifying a subset of k vertices that minimize the total distance to all other vertices in a graph. This problem has been extensively studied in computer science, graph theory, operations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Roldan Pozo

Finding dense subgraphs is a core problem in graph mining with many applications in diverse domains. At the same time many real-world networks vary over time, that is, the dataset can be represented as a sequence of graph snapshots. Hence,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Chamalee Wickrama Arachchi , Nikolaj Tatti

We consider the problem of partitioning a graph into a non-fixed number of non-overlapping subgraphs of maximum density. The density of a partition is the sum of the densities of the subgraphs, where the density of a subgraph is its average…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Cristina Bazgan , Katrin Casel , Pierre Cazals

Densest Subgraph Problem (DSP) is an important primitive problem with a wide range of applications, including fraud detection, community detection and DNA motif discovery. Edge-based density is one of the most common metrics in DSP.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yugao Zhu , Shenghua Liu , Wenjie Feng , Xueqi Cheng

We analyze the computational complexity of the following computational problems called Bounded-Density Edge Deletion and Bounded-Density Vertex Deletion: Given a graph $G$, a budget $k$ and a target density $\tau_\rho$, are there $k$ edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Cristina Bazgan , André Nichterlein , Sofia Vazquez Alferez

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 problem of finding the largest connected subgraph of a given undirected host graph, subject to constraints on the maximum degree $\Delta$ and the diameter $D$, was introduced in \cite{maxddbs}, as a generalization of the Degree-Diameter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Mirka Miller , Hebert Perez-Roses , Joe Ryan

The problem of finding the densest subgraph in a given graph has several applications in graph mining, particularly in areas like social network analysis, protein and gene analyses etc. Depending on the application, finding dense subgraphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Naga V. C. Gudapati , Enrico Malaguti , Michele Monaci