Finding a planted clique by adaptive probing

zbMATH Open1448.05181arXiv1903.12050MaRDI QIDQ5126325FDOQ5126325

Miklós Z. Rácz, Benjamin Schiffer

Publication date: 16 October 2020

Abstract: We consider a variant of the planted clique problem where we are allowed unbounded computational time but can only investigate a small part of the graph by adaptive edge queries. We determine (up to logarithmic factors) the number of queries necessary both for detecting the presence of a planted clique and for finding the planted clique. Specifically, let $GsimG(n,1/2,k)$ be a random graph on $n$ vertices with a planted clique of size $k$. We show that no algorithm that makes at most $q=o(n^2/k^2+n)$ adaptive queries to the adjacency matrix of $G$ is likely to find the planted clique. On the other hand, when $kgeq(2+epsilon)lo{g}_{2}n$ there exists a simple algorithm (with unbounded computational power) that finds the planted clique with high probability by making $q=O((n^2/k^2)lo{g}^{2}n+nlogn)$ adaptive queries. For detection, the additive $n$ term is not necessary: the number of queries needed to detect the presence of a planted clique is $n^2/k^2$ (up to logarithmic factors).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12050

zbMATH Keywords

random graphplanted cliqueadaptive query model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C85) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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