A Counting-based Approach for Efficient k-Clique Densest Subgraph Discovery

Summary: k-clique densest subgraph via Frank-Wolfe reformulation that replaces expensive k-clique enumeration with counting. Efficient approximation using state-of-the-art counting plus optimizations; up to 10^7× faster than prior methods at same guarantee. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on May 24 2026)

Paper ID: h0d48e8d472167c77
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.4495451e-05
Overall Rank: 7,807 | 47.52%
DOI: 10.1145/3654922

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Authors

1. Yingli Zhou (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
2. Qingshuo Guo (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
3. Yixiang Fang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
4. Chenhao Ma (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhou_sigmod24,
        title = {{A Counting-based Approach for Efficient k-Clique Densest Subgraph Discovery}},
        author = {Zhou, Yingli and Guo, Qingshuo and Fang, Yixiang and Ma, Chenhao},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3654922},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654922},
        year = {2024}
}

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274	3-HOP: A High-Compression Indexing Scheme for Reachability Query	2009	SIGMOD	0.00022490994
561	Densest Subgraph in Streaming and MapReduce	2012	VLDB	0.00016396211
589	Large Scale Cohesive Subgraphs Discovery for Social Network Visual Analysis	2013	VLDB	0.00015905948
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1,209	KClist++: A Simple Algorithm for Finding k-Clique Densest Subgraphs in Large Graphs	2020	VLDB	0.00011534572
1,443	Local Algorithms for Hierarchical Dense Subgraph Discovery	2019	VLDB	0.00010635542
2,042	Efficient Algorithms for Densest Subgraph Discovery	2019	VLDB	9.1416822e-05
2,905	Piggybacking on Social Networks	2013	VLDB	7.8780984e-05
3,064	Finding Locally Densest Subgraphs: A Convex Programming Approach	2022	VLDB	7.6898682e-05
3,412	Scaling Up k-Clique Densest Subgraph Detection	2023	SIGMOD	7.3251247e-05
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4,358	Anchored Densest Subgraph	2022	SIGMOD	6.6402693e-05
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5,720	Local Algorithms for Distance-generalized Core Decomposition over Large Dynamic Graphs	2021	VLDB	6.018559e-05
8,974	Efficient and Effective Algorithms for Generalized Densest Subgraph Discovery	2023	SIGMOD	5.2454233e-05
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