Massive Quasi-Clique Detection

  • Authors:
  • James Abello;Mauricio G. C. Resende;Sandra Sudarsky

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • LATIN '02 Proceedings of the 5th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We describe techniques that are useful for the detection of dense subgraphs (quasi-cliques) in massive sparse graphs whose vertex set, but not the edge set, fits in RAM. The algorithms rely on efficient semi-external memory algorithms used to preprocess the input and on greedy randomized adaptive search procedures (GRASP) to extract the dense subgraphs. A software platform was put together allowing graphs with hundreds of millions of nodes to be processed. Computational results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.