A survey on the densest subgraph problem and its variants

T Lanciano, A Miyauchi, A Fazzone, F Bonchi - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Densest Subgraph Problem requires us to find, in a given graph, a subset of vertices
whose induced subgraph maximizes a measure of density. The problem has received a …

Extreme Point Pursuit—Part I: A Framework for Constant Modulus Optimization

J Liu, Y Liu, WK Ma, M Shao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study develops a framework for a class of constant modulus (CM) optimization
problems, which covers binary constraints, discrete phase constraints, semi-orthogonal …

The triangle-densest-k-subgraph problem: Hardness, Lovász extension, and application to document summarization

A Konar, ND Sidiropoulos - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
We introduce the triangle-densest-K-subgraph problem (TDKS) for undirected graphs: given
a size parameter K, compute a subset of K vertices that maximizes the number of induced …

Local Centrality Minimization with Quality Guarantees

A Miyauchi, L Severini, F Bonchi - … of the ACM Web Conference 2024, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Centrality measures, quantifying the importance of vertices or edges, play a fundamental
role in network analysis. To date, triggered by some positive approximability results, a large …

Extreme Point Pursuit—Part II: Further Error Bound Analysis and Applications

J Liu, Y Liu, WK Ma, M Shao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the first part of this study, a convex-constrained penalized formulation was studied for a
class of constant modulus (CM) problems. In particular, the error bound techniques were …

Optimal quasi-clique: hardness, equivalence with densest-k-subgraph, and quasi-partitioned community mining

A Konar, ND Sidiropoulos - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Dense subgraph discovery (DSD) is a key primitive in graph mining that typically deals with
extracting cliques and near-cliques. In this paper, we revisit the optimal quasi-clique (OQC) …

Mining Triangle-Dense Subgraphs of a Fixed Size: Hardness, Lovasz extension and´ Applications

A Konar, ND Sidiropoulos - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce the triangle-densest-k-subgraph problem (TDkS) for undirected graphs: given
a size parameter k, compute a subset of k vertices that maximizes the number of induced …

Cardinality-constrained binary quadratic optimization via extreme point pursuit, with application to the densest k-subgraph problem

Y Liu, J Liu, WK Ma - ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cardinality-constrained binary quadratic optimization appears in various applications such
as finding a densest size-constrained subgraph from a graph. It is a challenging …

Classifier construction under budget constraints

S Gershtein, T Milo, S Novgorodov… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Search mechanisms over large assortments of items are central to the operation of many
platforms. As users commonly express filtering conditions based on item properties that are …

Fairness-Regulated Dense Subgraph Discovery

E Kariotakis, N Sidiropoulos, A Konar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.02604, 2024 - arxiv.org
Dense subgraph discovery (DSD) is a key graph mining primitive with myriad applications
including finding densely connected communities which are diverse in their vertex …