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Graph embedding has recently gained momentum in the research community, in particular after the introduction of random walk and neural network based approaches. However, most of the embedding approaches focus on representing the local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Joerg Schloetterer , Martin Wehking , Fatemeh Salehi Rizi , Michael Granitzer

The Hausdorff distance is a relatively new measure of similarity of graphs. The notion of the Hausdorff distance considers a special kind of a common subgraph of the compared graphs and depends on the structural properties outside of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Aleksander Kelenc

Applications to support pedestrian mobility in urban areas require a complete, and routable graph representation of the built environment. Globally available information, including aerial imagery provides a scalable source for constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yuxiang Zhang , Bill Howe , Sachin Mehta , Nicholas-J Bolten , Anat Caspi

There have lately been several suggestions for parametrized distances on a graph that generalize the shortest path distance and the commute time or resistance distance. The need for developing such distances has risen from the observation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Ilkka Kivimäki , Masashi Shimbo , Marco Saerens

Trajectories that capture object movement have numerous applications, in which similarity computation between trajectories often plays a key role. Traditionally, the similarity between two trajectories is quantified by means of heuristic…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yanchuan Chang , Egemen Tanin , Gao Cong , Christian S. Jensen , Jianzhong Qi

Graph comparison plays a major role in many network applications. We often need a similarity metric for comparing networks according to their structural properties. Various network features - such as degree distribution and clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Sadegh Aliakbary , Sadegh Motallebi , Jafar Habibi , Ali Movaghar

Graphs with bounded highway dimension were introduced by Abraham et al. [SODA 2010] as a model of transportation networks. We show that any such graph can be embedded into a distribution over bounded treewidth graphs with arbitrarily small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Wai Shing Fung , Jochen Könemann , Ian Post

Vertex connectivity and edge connectivity are fundamental concepts in graph theory that have been widely studied from both structural and algorithmic perspectives. The focus of this paper is on computing these two parameters for graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Therese Biedl , Prosenjit Bose , Karthik Murali

Floor plans depict building layouts and are often represented as graphs to capture the underlying spatial relationships. Comparison of these graphs is critical for applications like search, clustering, and data visualization. The most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Casper van Engelenburg , Jan van Gemert , Seyran Khademi

Graph comparison deals with identifying similarities and dissimilarities between graphs. A major obstacle is the unknown alignment of graphs, as well as the lack of accurate and inexpensive comparison metrics. In this work we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille El Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

Learning node representations is a fundamental problem in graph machine learning. While existing embedding methods effectively preserve local similarity measures, they often fail to capture global functions like graph distances. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 My Le , Luana Ruiz , Souvik Dhara

Numerous works have proven that existing neighbor-averaging Graph Neural Networks cannot efficiently catch structure features, and many works show that injecting structure, distance, position or spatial features can significantly improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Zhiguo Huang , Xiaowei Chen , Bojuan Wang

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

The emergence of geometric deep learning as a novel framework to deal with graph-based representations has faded away traditional approaches in favor of completely new methodologies. In this paper, we propose a new framework able to combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Pau Riba , Andreas Fischer , Josep Lladós , Alicia Fornés

Network embedding techniques aim at representing structural properties of graphs in geometric space. Those representations are considered useful in downstream tasks such as link prediction and clustering. However, the number of graph…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-03 Yi-Jiao Zhang , Kai-Cheng Yang , Filippo Radicchi

In transportation network analysis, various types of road network data can be used even when focusing on the same region. Since different road network datasets can make different performance in analyses, it is necessary to compare them and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hengyi Zhong , Toru Seo

Geodesic paths and distances are among the most popular intrinsic properties of 3D surfaces. Traditionally, geodesic paths on discrete polygon surfaces were computed using shortest path algorithms, such as Dijkstra. However, such algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Alexandros Neofytou , Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi , Stefanos Zafeiriou

This work considers the problem of computing distances between structured objects such as undirected graphs, seen as probability distributions in a specific metric space. We consider a new transportation distance (i.e. that minimizes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Titouan Vayer , Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Nicolas Courty

The comparison of graphs is a vitally important, yet difficult task which arises across a number of diverse research areas including biological and social networks. There have been a number of approaches to define graph distance however…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Andrew Mellor , Angelica Grusovin

We present a method for balancing between the Local and Global Structures (LGS) in graph embedding, via a tunable parameter. Some embedding methods aim to capture global structures, while others attempt to preserve local neighborhoods. Few…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jacob Miller , Vahan Huroyan , Stephen Kobourov