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A Sparse Matrix Approach for Covering Large Complex Networks by Cliques

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A classical NP-hard problem is the Minimum Edge Clique Cover (minECC) problem, which is concerned with covering the edges of a network (graph) with the minimum number of cliques. There are many real-life applications of this problem, such as in food science, computational biology, efficient representation of pairwise information, and so on. Borrowing ideas from [8], we propose using a compact representation, the intersection representation, of network data and design an efficient and scalable algorithm for minECC. Edges are considered for inclusion in cliques in degree-based orders during the clique construction step. The intersection representation of the input graph enabled efficient computer implementation of the algorithm by utilizing an existing sparse matrix package [11]. We present results from numerical experiments on a representative set of real-world and synthetically constructed benchmark graph instances. Our algorithm significantly outperforms the current state-of-the-art heuristic algorithm of [4] in terms of the quality of the edge clique covers returned and running time performance on the benchmark test instances. On some of the largest graph instances whilst existing heuristics failed to terminate, our algorithm could finish the computation within a reasonable amount of time.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported in part by NSERC Discovery Grant (Individual), and the AITF Graduate Student Scholarship. A part of our computations were performed on Compute Canada HPC system (http://www.computecanada.ca), and we gratefully acknowledge their support.

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Abdullah, W.M., Hossain, S. (2022). A Sparse Matrix Approach for Covering Large Complex Networks by Cliques. In: Groen, D., de Mulatier, C., Paszynski, M., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2022. ICCS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13352. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08757-8_43

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