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Preliminary Results on Mixed Integer Programming for Searching Maximum Quasi-Bicliques and Large Dense Biclusters
This short paper is related to the problem of finding maximum quasi-bicliques in a bipartite graph (bigraph). A quasi-biclique in a bigraph is its “almost” complete subgraph; here, we assume that the subgraph is a quasi-biclique if it lacks γ · 100% of the edges to become a biclique. The problem of finding the maximal quasi-biclique(s) consists of finding subset(s) of vertices of an input bigraph such that the induced by these subsets subgraph is a quasi-biclique and its size is maximal. A model based on mixed integer programming (MIP) to search for a quasi-biclique is proposed and tested. Another its variant is tested that simultaneously maximizes both the size of the quasi-biclique and its density, using the least-square criterion similar to the one exploited by TriBox method for tricluster generation. Therefore, the output patterns can be called large dense biclusters as well.