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The graph edit distance is used for comparing graphs in various domains. Due to its high computational complexity it is primarily approximated. Widely-used heuristics search for an optimal assignment of vertices based on the distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Franka Bause , Christian Permann , Nils M. Kriege

Graph similarity is critical in graph-related tasks such as graph retrieval, where metrics like maximum common subgraph (MCS) and graph edit distance (GED) are commonly used. However, exact computations of these metrics are known to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zhouyang Liu , Yixin Chen , Ning Liu , Jiezhong He , Dongsheng Li

Finding the graphs that are most similar to a query graph in a large database is a common task with various applications. A widely-used similarity measure is the graph edit distance, which provides an intuitive notion of similarity and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Franka Bause , David B. Blumenthal , Erich Schubert , Nils M. Kriege

Recently, more and more research has focused on using Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to solve the Graph Similarity Computation problem (GSC), i.e., computing the Graph Edit Distance (GED) between two graphs. These methods treat GSC as an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiaxi Lv , Liang Zhang , Yi Huang , Jiancheng Huang , Shifeng Chen

Graph edit distance / similarity is widely used in many tasks, such as graph similarity search, binary function analysis, and graph clustering. However, computing the exact graph edit distance (GED) or maximum common subgraph (MCS) between…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Haibo Xiu , Xiao Yan , Xiaoqiang Wang , James Cheng , Lei Cao

The graph isomorphism, subgraph isomorphism, and graph edit distance problems are combinatorial problems with many applications. Heuristic exact and approximate algorithms for each of these problems have been developed for different kinds…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sheung Chi Chan , James Cheney

Subgraph similarity search, one of the core problems in graph search, concerns whether a target graph approximately contains a query graph. The problem is recently touched by neural methods. However, current neural methods do not consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Linfeng Liu , Xu Han , Dawei Zhou , Li-Ping Liu

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Geometric Edit Distance (GED) are basic similarity measures between curves or general temporal sequences (e.g., time series) that are represented as sequences of points in some metric space $(X,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Omer Gold , Micha Sharir

Notions of graph similarity provide alternative perspective on the graph isomorphism problem and vice-versa. In this paper, we consider measures of similarity arising from mismatch norms as studied in Gervens and Grohe: the edit distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 He Sun , Danny Vagnozzi

Removing overlaps is a central task in domains such as scheduling, visibility, and map labelling. This can be modelled using graphs, where overlap removals correspond to enforcing a certain sparsity constraint on the graph structure. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Nicolás Honorato-Droguett , Kazuhiro Kurita , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono , Alexander Wolff

In a way similar to the string-to-string correction problem we address time series similarity in the light of a time-series-to-time-series-correction problem for which the similarity between two time series is measured as the minimum cost…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-12-28 Pierre-François Marteau

The edit distance between two graphs is a widely used measure of similarity that evaluates the smallest number of vertex and edge deletions/insertions required to transform one graph to another. It is NP-hard to compute in general, and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Utkan Onur Candogan , Venkat Chandrasekaran

Graph similarity computation (GSC) is to calculate the similarity between one pair of graphs, which is a fundamental problem with fruitful applications in the graph community. In GSC, graph edit distance (GED) and maximum common subgraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Haoran Zheng , Jieming Shi , Renchi Yang

This paper presents a spectral framework for quantifying the differentiation between graph data samples by introducing a novel metric named Graph Geodesic Distance (GGD). For two different graphs with the same number of nodes, our framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Soumen Sikder Shuvo , Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

The graph traversal edit distance (GTED), introduced by Ebrahimpour Boroojeny et al.~(2018), is an elegant distance measure defined as the minimum edit distance between strings reconstructed from Eulerian trails in two edge-labeled graphs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Yutong Qiu , Yihang Shen , Carl Kingsford

The edit distance between two graphs on the same vertex set is defined to be size of the symmetric difference of their edge sets. The edit distance function of a hereditary property, $\mathcal{H}$, is a function of $p$ and measures,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Ryan Martin , Tracy McKay

An edge-operation on a graph $G$ is defined to be either the deletion of an existing edge or the addition of a nonexisting edge. Given a family of graphs $\mathcal{G}$, the editing distance from $G$ to $\mathcal{G}$ is the smallest number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Maria Axenovich , André Kézdy , Ryan R. Martin

Finding an optimal assignment between two sets of objects is a fundamental problem arising in many applications, including the matching of `bag-of-words' representations in natural language processing and computer vision. Solving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Nils M. Kriege , Pierre-Louis Giscard , Franka Bause , Richard C. Wilson

The aim of edge editing or modification problems is to change a given graph by adding and deleting of a small number of edges in order to satisfy a certain property. We consider the Edge Editing to a Connected Graph of Given Degrees problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Petr A. Golovach

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to excel in predictive modeling tasks where the underlying data is a graph. However, as GNNs are extensively used in human-centered applications, the issue of fairness has arisen. While edge deletion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Donald Loveland , Jiayi Pan , Aaresh Farrokh Bhathena , Yiyang Lu