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We give algorithms to compute the Fr\'echet distance of trees and graphs with bounded tree width. Our algorithms run in $O(n^2)$ time for trees of bounded degree, and $O(n^2\sqrt{n \log n})$ time for trees of arbitrary degree. For graphs of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Maike Buchin , Amer Krivošija , Alexander Neuhaus

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

Edit distance between trees is a natural generalization of the classical edit distance between strings, in which the allowed elementary operations are contraction, uncontraction and relabeling of an edge. Demaine et al. [ACM Trans. on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Bartłomiej Dudek , Paweł Gawrychowski

The tree edit distance is a natural dissimilarity measure between rooted ordered trees whose nodes are labeled over an alphabet $\Sigma$. It is defined as the minimum number of node edits (insertions, deletions, and relabelings) required to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Tomasz Kociumaka , Ali Shahali

In scientific visualization, scalar fields are often compared through edit distances between their merge trees. Typical tasks include ensemble analysis, feature tracking and symmetry or periodicity detection. Tree edit distances represent…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Florian Wetzels , Christoph Garth

There are several interrelated notions of discrete curvature on graphs. Many approaches utilize the optimal transportation metric on its probability simplex or the distance matrix of the graph. In this survey article, we compute formulas…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sawyer Jack Robertson

Graph edit distance (GED) is a powerful and flexible graph matching paradigm that can be used to address different tasks in structural pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining. In this paper, some new binary linear programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Julien Lerouge , Zeina Abu-Aisheh , Romain Raveaux , Pierre Héroux , Sébastien Adam

Comparing and computing distances between phylogenetic trees are important biological problems, especially for models where edge lengths play an important role. The geodesic distance measure between two phylogenetic trees with edge lengths…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-05 Megan Owen , J. Scott Provan

CONTEXT. Attack treesare a recommended threat modeling tool, but there is no established method to compare them. OBJECTIVE. We aim to establish a method to compare "real" attack trees, based on both the structure of the tree itself and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Nathan D. Schiele , Olga Gadyatskaya

Feature tracking in time-varying scalar fields is a fundamental task in scientific computing. Topological descriptors, which summarize important features of data, have proved to be viable tools to facilitate this task. The merge tree is a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Son Le Thanh , Tino Weinkauf

In graph theory, a tree is one of the more popular families of graphs with a wide range of applications in computer science as well as many other related fields. While there are several distance measures over the set of all trees, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Lev Yohananov , Eitan yaakobi

A widely used method for determining the similarity of two labeled trees is to compute a maximum agreement subtree of the two trees. Previous work on this similarity measure is only concerned with the comparison of labeled trees of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming-Yang Kao , Tak-Wah Lam , Wing-Kin Sung , Hing-Fung Ting

Tree comparison metrics have proven to be an invaluable aide in the reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic (evolutionary) trees. The path-length distance between trees is a particularly attractive measure as it reflects differences in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-05 David Bryant , Celine Scornavacca

Quantifying the similarity between two graphs is a fundamental algorithmic problem at the heart of many data analysis tasks for graph-based data. In this paper, we study the computational complexity of a family of similarity measures based…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Timo Gervens , Martin Grohe

The problem of comparing trees representing the evolutionary histories of cancerous tumors has turned out to be crucial, since there is a variety of different methods which typically infer multiple possible trees. A departure from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Giulia Bernardini , Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Murray Patterson

The edit distance between two rooted ordered trees with $n$ nodes labeled from an alphabet~$\Sigma$ is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence of elementary operations consisting of deleting and relabeling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Karl Bringmann , Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

A matching cut is a partition of the vertex set of a graph into two sets $A$ and $B$ such that each vertex has at most one neighbor in the other side of the cut. The MATCHING CUT problem asks whether a graph has a matching cut, and has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Ignasi Sau

It is an open question whether there exists a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the rotation distances between pairs of extended ordered binary trees. The problem of computing the rotation distance between an arbitrary pair of trees,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Sean Cleary , Roland Maio

Edit distance is a measurement of similarity between two sequences such as strings, point sequences, or polygonal curves. Many matching problems from a variety of areas, such as signal analysis, bioinformatics, etc., need to be solved in a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Kyle Fox , Xinyi Li

In this paper, we consider the problem of reconstructing trees from traces in the tree edit distance model. Previous work by Davies et al. (2019) analyzed special cases of reconstructing labeled trees. In this work, we significantly expand…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Thomas Maranzatto