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Error-tolerant graph matching gathers an important family of problems. These problems aim at finding correspondences between two graphs while integrating an error model. In the Graph Edit Distance (GED) problem, the insertion/deletion of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Romain Raveaux

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

The graph edit distance (GED) measures the dissimilarity between two graphs as the minimal cost of a sequence of elementary operations transforming one graph into another. This measure is fundamental in many areas such as structural pattern…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Nicolas Boria , David B. Blumenthal , Sébastien Bougleux , Luc Brun

Given a graph pair $(G^1, G^2)$, graph edit distance (GED) is defined as the minimum number of edit operations converting $G^1$ to $G^2$. GED is a fundamental operation widely used in many applications, but its exact computation is NP-hard,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Qihao Cheng , Da Yan , Tianhao Wu , Zhongyi Huang , Qin Zhang

We present an additive $\varepsilon n^{2}$-approximation algorithm for the Graph Edit Distance problem (GED) on graphs of VC dimension $d$ running in time $n^{O(d/\varepsilon^{2})}$. In particular, this recovers a previous result by Arora,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Anatole Dahan , Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen , Tomáš Novotný

Graph Similarity Computation (GSC) is a fundamental graph related task where Graph Edit Distance (GED) serves as a prevalent metric. GED is determined by an optimal alignment between a pair of graphs that partitions each into aligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhentao Zhan , Xiaoliang Xu , Jingjing Wang , Junmei Wang

The ability to compute similarity scores between graphs based on metrics such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) is important in many real-world applications. Computing exact GED values is typically an NP-hard problem and traditional algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Haoyan Xu , Runjian Chen , Yueyang Wang , Ziheng Duan , Jie Feng

In this paper, we study the problem of graph similarity search with graph edit distance (GED) constraints. Due to the NP-hardness of GED computation, existing solutions to this problem adopt the filtering-and-verification framework with a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Jongik Kim

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a fundamental graph similarity metric widely used in various applications. However, computing GED is an NP-hard problem. Recent state-of-the-art hybrid GED solver has shown promising performance by formulating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wei Huang , Hanchen Wang , Dong Wen , Shaozhen Ma , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Graph similarity search is among the most important graph-based applications, e.g. finding the chemical compounds that are most similar to a query compound. Graph similarity computation, such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) and Maximum Common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Song Bian , Ting Chen , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

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 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

We study Geometric Graph Edit Distance (GGED), a graph-editing model to compute the minimum edit distance of intersection graphs that uses moving objects as an edit operation. We first show an $O(n\log n)$-time algorithm that minimises the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nicolás Honorato-Droguett , Kazuhiro Kurita , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono

The need to identify graphs with small structural distances from a query arises in domains such as biology, chemistry, recommender systems, and social network analysis. Among several methods for measuring inter-graph distance, Graph Edit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Aditya Bommakanti , Harshith Reddy Vonteri , Sayan Ranu , Panagiotis Karras

We consider the graph similarity computation (GSC) task based on graph edit distance (GED) estimation. State-of-the-art methods treat GSC as a learning-based prediction task using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). To capture fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Wei Zhuo , Guang Tan

Graph similarity computation is one of the core operations in many graph-based applications, such as graph similarity search, graph database analysis, graph clustering, etc. Since computing the exact distance/similarity between two graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

We introduce GSimCNN (Graph Similarity Computation via Convolutional Neural Networks) for predicting the similarity score between two graphs. As the core operation of graph similarity search, pairwise graph similarity computation is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Yizhou Sun , Wei 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 graph edit distance (GED) is a flexible distance measure which is widely used for inexact graph matching. Since its exact computation is NP-hard, heuristics are used in practice. A popular approach is to obtain upper bounds for GED via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-29 David B. Blumenthal , Johann Gamper , Sébastien Bougleux , Luc Brun

The graph edit distance is an intuitive measure to quantify the dissimilarity of graphs, but its computation is NP-hard and challenging in practice. We introduce methods for answering nearest neighbor and range queries regarding this…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Franka Bause , Erich Schubert , Nils M. Kriege