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Efficient Algorithms for Densest Subgraph Discovery

Summary: Reduces densest-subgraph discovery to strategically identifying k-cores, enabling exact and approximation algorithms with guarantees. Generalizes across edge-, clique-, and pattern-based densities, achieving up to 10,000× speedups over prior methods. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h8233b2b86f59632c
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
9.2189157e-05
Overall Rank
1,995 | 86.63%
DOI
10.14778/3342263.3342645
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BibTeX Citation

@article{fang_vldb19,
        title = {{Efficient Algorithms for Densest Subgraph Discovery}},
        author = {Fang, Yixiang and Yu, Kaiqiang and Cheng, Reynold and Lakshmanan, Laks V.S. and Lin, Xuemin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1719--1732},
        doi = {10.14778/3342263.3342645},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3342263.3342645},
        year = {2019}
}

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