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A geometric graph is a graph whose vertex set is a set of points in the plane and whose edge set contains straight-line segments. A matching in a graph is a subset of edges of the graph with no shared vertices. A matching is called perfect…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Ahmad Biniaz

Graph alignment refers to the problem of finding a bijective mapping across vertices of two graphs such that, if two nodes are connected in the first graph, their images are connected in the second graph. This problem arises in many fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Soheil Feizi , Gerald Quon , Mariana Recamonde-Mendoza , Muriel Medard , Manolis Kellis , Ali Jadbabaie

In this paper we consider the multiparty equality problem in graphs, where every vertex of a graph $G$ is given an input, and the goal of the vertices is to decide whether all inputs are equal. We study this problem in the local broadcast…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Louis Esperet , Jean-Florent Raymond

Graph matching is a challenging problem with very important applications in a wide range of fields, from image and video analysis to biological and biomedical problems. We propose a robust graph matching algorithm inspired in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Marcelo Fiori , Pablo Sprechmann , Joshua Vogelstein , Pablo Musé , Guillermo Sapiro

Motivated by various data science applications including de-anonymizing user identities in social networks, we consider the graph alignment problem, where the goal is to identify the vertex/user correspondence between two correlated graphs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ning Zhang , Ziao Wang , Weina Wang , Lele Wang

In recent years, network embedding methods have garnered increasing attention because of their effectiveness in various information retrieval tasks. The goal is to learn low-dimensional representations of vertexes in an information network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Chih-Ming Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Yian Chen , Ming-Feng Tsai

In recent years many algorithms have been developed for finding patterns in graphs and networks. A disadvantage of these algorithms is that they use subgraph isomorphism to determine the support of a graph pattern; subgraph isomorphism is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Anton Dries , Siegfried Nijssen

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

In this paper, we focus on graph learning from multi-view data of shared entities for spectral clustering. We can explain interactions between the entities in multi-view data using a multi-layer graph with a common vertex set, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Sravanthi Gurugubelli , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Finding dense subgraphs of a large network is a fundamental problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications over the last five decades. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ali Behrouz , Farnoosh Hashemi

The graph alignment problem, which considers the optimal node correspondence across networks, has recently gained significant attention due to its wide applications. There are graph alignment methods suited for various network types, but we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ashley Wang , Peter Chin

This paper deals with the problem of finding a collection of vertex-disjoint paths in a given graph G=(V,E) such that each path has at least four vertices and the total number of vertices in these paths is maximized. The problem is NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Mingyang Gong , Zhi-Zhong Chen , Guohui Lin , Zhaohui Zhan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be useful for many different practical applications. However, many existing GNN models have implicitly assumed homophily among the nodes connected in the graph, and therefore have largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jiong Zhu , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Tung Mai , Nedim Lipka , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Danai Koutra

Network topology inference is a cornerstone problem in statistical analyses of complex systems. In this context, the fresh look advocated here permeates benefits from convex optimization and graph signal processing, to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph (or network) is a mathematical structure that has been widely used to model relational data. As real-world systems get more complex, multilayer (or multiple) networks are employed to represent diverse patterns of relationships among…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-10 Mingao Yuan , Qianqian Yao

Graph coloring is a fundamental problem in combinatorics with many applications in practice. In this problem, the vertices in a given graph must be colored by using the least number of colors in such a way that a vertex has a different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Arda Asik , Ibrahim Bugra Demir , Berker Demirel , Baris Batuhan Topal , Kamer Kaya

Quantifying the similarity between two networks is critical in many applications. A number of algorithms have been proposed to compute graph similarity, mainly based on the properties of nodes and edges. Interestingly, most of these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-22 Ahmad Mheich , Mahmoud Hassan , Mohamad Khalil , Vincent Gripon , Olivier Dufor , Fabrice Wendling

The maximum matching problem on random graphs is studied analytically by the cavity method of statistical physics. When the average vertex degree \mth{c} is larger than \mth{2.7183}, groups of max-matching patterns which differ greatly from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Haijun Zhou , Zhong-can Ou-Yang

The graph isomorphism problem asks whether two graphs are identical up to vertex relabeling. While the exact problem admits quasi-polynomial-time classical algorithms, many applications in molecular comparison, noisy network analysis, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Prateek P. Kulkarni

We address the correspondence search problem among multiple graphs with complex properties while considering the matching consistency. We describe each pair of graphs by combining multiple attributes, then jointly match them in a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Han-Mu Park , Kuk-Jin Yoon