We design and evaluate a novel layout fine-tuning technique for node-link diagrams that facilitates exemplar-based adjustment of a group of substructures in batching mode. The key idea is to transfer user modifications on a local substructure to other substructures in the whole graph that are topologically similar to the exemplar. We first precompute a canonical representation for each substructure with node embedding techniques and then use it for on-the-fly substructure retrieval. We design and develop a light-weight interactive system to enable intuitive adjustment, modification transfer, and visual graph exploration. We also report some results of quantitative comparisons, three case studies, and a within-participant user study.
@article{arxiv.2008.00666,
title = {Exemplar-based Layout Fine-tuning for Node-link Diagrams},
author = {Jiacheng Pan and Wei Chen and Xiaodong Zhao and Shuyue Zhou and Wei Zeng and Minfeng Zhu and Jian Chen and Siwei Fu and Yingcai Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.00666},
year = {2020}
}