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Learning to Select Maximum Clique Algorithms: From Traditional Machine Learning to a Dual-Channel Hybrid Neural Architecture

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arXiv:2508. 08005v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Maximum Clique Problem (MCP) is an NP-hard problem with wide-ranging applications in fields such as bioinformatics, network science, and social computing, yet no single algorithm consistently outperforms all others across diverse graph instances.

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