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Finding a \emph{single} best solution is the most common objective in combinatorial optimization problems. However, such a single solution may not be applicable to real-world problems as objective functions and constraints are only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Tesshu Hanaka , Masashi Kiyomi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yota Otachi

Image matching is a key component of many tasks in computer vision and its main objective is to find correspondences between features extracted from different natural images. When images are represented as graphs, image matching boils down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Nancy Xu , Giannis Nikolentzos , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Henrik Boström

Graph matching is an important problem that has received widespread attention, especially in the field of computer vision. Recently, state-of-the-art methods seek to incorporate graph matching with deep learning. However, there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhoubo Xu , Puqing Chen , Romain Raveaux , Xin Yang , Huadong Liu

Multilayer graphs are appealing mathematical tools for modeling multiple types of relationship in the data. In this paper, we aim at analyzing multilayer graphs by properly combining the information provided by individual layers, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

This paper introduces a discrete relaxation for the class of combinatorial optimization problems which can be described by a set partitioning formulation under packing constraints. We present two combinatorial relaxations based on computing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Phillippe Samer , Evellyn Cavalcante , Sebastián Urrutia , Johan Oppen

This work considers the distributed computation of the one-to-one vertex correspondences between two undirected and connected graphs, which is called \textit{graph matching}, over multi-agent networks. Given two \textit{isomorphic} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Quoc Van Tran , Zhiyong Sun , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Graph comparison is fundamentally important for many applications such as the analysis of social networks and biological data and has been a significant research area in the pattern recognition and pattern analysis domains. Nowadays, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Hamida Seba , Sofiane Lagraa , Elsen Ronando

The problem of finding the vertex correspondence between two noisy graphs with different number of vertices where the smaller graph is still large has many applications in social networks, neuroscience, and computer vision. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-03 Daniel L. Sussman , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe , Vince Lyzinski

Multigraph matching is a recent variant of the graph matching problem. In this framework, the optimization procedure considers several graphs and enforces the consistency of the matches along the graphs. This constraint can be formalized as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 François-Xavier Dupé , Rohit Yadav , Guillaume Auzias , S. Takerkart

Graph matching is the process of computing the similarity between two graphs. Depending on the requirement, it can be exact or inexact. Exact graph matching requires a strict correspondence between nodes of two graphs, whereas inexact…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

Given two graphs, the graph matching problem is to align the two vertex sets so as to minimize the number of adjacency disagreements between the two graphs. The seeded graph matching problem is the graph matching problem when we are first…

Inspired by notorious combinatorial optimization problems on graphs, in this paper we consider a series of related problems defined using a metric space and topology determined by a graph. Particularly, we present the Independent Set,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Alexander Grigoriev , Katherine Faulkner

The graph matching problem emerges naturally in various applications such as web privacy, image processing and computational biology. In this paper, graph matching is considered under a stochastic model, where a pair of randomly generated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Farhad Shirani , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

Graph matching consists of aligning the vertices of two unlabeled graphs in order to maximize the shared structure across networks; when the graphs are unipartite, this is commonly formulated as minimizing their edge disagreements. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-13 Jesús Arroyo , Carey E. Priebe , Vince Lyzinski

Problem solving is a composite cognitive process, invoking a number of cognitive mechanisms, such as perception and memory. Individuals may form collectives to solve a given problem together in collaboration, especially when complexity is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Dimitar Garkov , Tommaso Piselli , Emilio Di Giacomo , Karsten Klein , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Falk Schreiber

We state a combinatorial optimization problem whose feasible solutions define both a decomposition and a node labeling of a given graph. This problem offers a common mathematical abstraction of seemingly unrelated computer vision tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Evgeny Levinkov , Jonas Uhrig , Siyu Tang , Mohamed Omran , Eldar Insafutdinov , Alexander Kirillov , Carsten Rother , Thomas Brox , Bernt Schiele , Bjoern Andres

Combinatorial optimization problems are pervasive across science and industry. Modern deep learning tools are poised to solve these problems at unprecedented scales, but a unifying framework that incorporates insights from statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Martin J. A. Schuetz , J. Kyle Brubaker , Helmut G. Katzgraber

The graph matching problem is a significant special case of the Quadratic Assignment Problem, with extensive applications in pattern recognition, computer vision, protein alignments and related fields. As the problem is NP-hard, relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Rongxuan Li

A panoply of multi-view clustering algorithms has been developed to deal with prevalent multi-view data. Among them, spectral clustering-based methods have drawn much attention and demonstrated promising results recently. Despite progress,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Zhao Kang , Guoxin Shi , Shudong Huang , Wenyu Chen , Xiaorong Pu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Zenglin Xu

Image feature matching is a fundamental part of many geometric computer vision applications, and using multiple images can improve performance. In this work, we formulate multi-image matching as a graph embedding problem then use a Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Stephen Phillips , Kostas Daniilidis