# Listing All Maximal Cliques in Large Sparse Real-World Graphs

@article{Eppstein2013ListingAM,
title={Listing All Maximal Cliques in Large Sparse Real-World Graphs},
author={David Eppstein and Maarten L{\"o}ffler and Darren Strash},
journal={ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithms},
year={2013},
volume={18}
}
• Published 2013
• Mathematics
• ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithms
We implement a new algorithm for listing all maximal cliques in sparse graphs due to Eppstein, Loffler, and Strash (ISAAC 2010) and analyze its performance on a large corpus of real-world graphs. Our analysis shows that this algorithm is the first to offer a practical solution to listing all maximal cliques in large sparse graphs. All other theoretically-fast algorithms for sparse graphs have been shown to be significantly slower than the algorithm of Tomita et al. (Theoretical Computer Science… Expand
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