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Dense subgraph search in bipartite graphs is a fundamental problem in graph analysis, with wide-ranging applications in fraud detection, recommendation systems, and social network analysis. The recently proposed $(\alpha, \beta)$-dense…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yalong Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Qi Zhang , Guoren Wang

Dense subgraph discovery is a fundamental primitive in graph and hypergraph analysis which among other applications has been used for real-time story detection on social media and improving access to data stores of social networking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yufan Huang , David F. Gleich , Nate Veldt

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

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 algorithmic problem of finding large \textit{balanced} independent sets in sparse random bipartite graphs, and more generally the problem of finding independent sets with specified proportions of vertices on each side of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Will Perkins , Yuzhou Wang

The planted densest subgraph detection problem refers to the task of testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. Specifically, we observe an undirected and unweighted graph on $n$ vertices. Under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Wasim Huleihel , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal

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

Polynomial algorithms are given for the following two problems: given a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, where $m \ge 3 n^{3/2}$, find a complete balanced bipartite subgraph with parts about $\ln n/(\ln (n^2/m))$, given a graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-18 D. Mubayi , G. Turan

The problem of finding dense induced bipartite subgraphs in $H$-free graphs has a long history, and was posed 30 years ago by Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Pach and Spencer. In this paper, we obtain several results in this direction. First we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Matthew Kwan , Shoham Letzter , Benny Sudakov , Tuan Tran

Connectivity related concepts are of fundamental interest in graph theory. The area has received extensive attention over four decades, but many problems remain unsolved, especially for directed graphs. A directed graph is 2-edge-connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Shiri Chechik , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Veronika Loitzenbauer , Nikos Parotsidis

Subgraph enumeration problems ask to output all subgraphs of an input graph that belongs to the specified graph class or satisfy the given constraint. These problems have been widely studied in theoretical computer science. As far, many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Kunihiro Wasa , Takeaki Uno

We consider two optimization problems related to finding dense subgraphs. The densest at-least-k-subgraph problem (DalkS) is to find an induced subgraph of highest average degree among all subgraphs with at least k vertices, and the densest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Reid Andersen

Identifying dense bipartite subgraphs is a common graph data mining task. Many applications focus on the enumeration of all maximal bicliques (MBs), though sometimes the stricter variant of maximal induced bicliques (MIBs) is of interest.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Blair D. Sullivan , Andrew van der Poel , Trey Woodlief

Let $H$ be a fixed $k$-vertex graph with $m$ edges and minimum degree $d >0$. We use the learning graph framework of Belovs to show that the bounded-error quantum query complexity of determining if an $n$-vertex graph contains $H$ as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Troy Lee , Frederic Magniez , Miklos Santha

We contribute an approach to the problem of locally computing sparse connected subgraphs of dense graphs. In this setting, given an edge in a connected graph $G = (V, E)$, an algorithm locally decides its membership in a sparse connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Rogers Epstein

Computing cohesive subgraphs is a central problem in graph theory. While many formulations of cohesive subgraphs lead to NP-hard problems, finding a densest subgraph can be done in polynomial time. As such, the densest subgraph model has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Riccardo Dondi , Danny Hermelin

Let d = (d1, d2, ..., dn) be a vector of non-negative integers with even sum. We prove some basic facts about the structure of a random graph with degree sequence d, including the probability of a given subgraph or induced subgraph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Brendan D McKay

The Subgraph Isomorphism problem asks, given a host graph G on n vertices and a pattern graph P on k vertices, whether G contains a subgraph isomorphic to P. The restriction of this problem to planar graphs has often been considered. After…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Bonsma

In this paper we study the problem of finding a maximum induced d-degenerate subgraph in a given n-vertex graph from the point of view of exact algorithms. We show that for any fixed d one can find a maximum induced d-degenerate subgraph in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-23 Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

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