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Measuring similarity between two objects is the core operation in existing clustering algorithms in grouping similar objects into clusters. This paper introduces a new similarity measure called point-set kernel which computes the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Ye Zhu

Graph neural networks have attracted wide attentions to enable representation learning of graph data in recent works. In complement to graph convolution operators, graph pooling is crucial for extracting hierarchical representation of graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Xing Gao , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Hongkai Xiong , Pascal Frossard

Acyclic digraphs arise in many natural and artificial processes. Among the broader set, dynamic citation networks represent a substantively important form of acyclic digraphs. For example, the study of such networks includes the spread of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-07-26 Michael J. Bommarito , Daniel Martin Katz , Jon Zelner , James H. Fowler

We develop new methods based on graph motifs for graph clustering, allowing more efficient detection of communities within networks. We focus on triangles within graphs, but our techniques extend to other clique motifs as well. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Charalampos Tsourakakis , Jakub Pachocki , Michael Mitzenmacher

We introduce propagation kernels, a general graph-kernel framework for efficiently measuring the similarity of structured data. Propagation kernels are based on monitoring how information spreads through a set of given graphs. They leverage…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-14 Marion Neumann , Roman Garnett , Christian Bauckhage , Kristian Kersting

The well-known graph-based clustering methods, including spectral clustering, symmetric non-negative matrix factorization, and doubly stochastic normalization, can be viewed as relaxations of the kernel $k$-means approach. However, we posit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Wenlong Lyu , Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou

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

We consider the problem of classifying graphs using graph kernels. We define a new graph kernel, called the generalized shortest path kernel, based on the number and length of shortest paths between nodes. For our example classification…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Linus Hermansson , Fredrik D. Johansson , Osamu Watanabe

Graph-structured data arise in wide applications, such as computer vision, bioinformatics, and social networks. Quantifying similarities among graphs is a fundamental problem. In this paper, we develop a framework for computing graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-11 Zhen Zhang , Mianzhi Wang , Yijian Xiang , Yan Huang , Arye Nehorai

Several researchers proposed using non-Euclidean metrics on point sets in Euclidean space for clustering noisy data. Almost always, a distance function is desired that recognizes the closeness of the points in the same cluster, even if the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Michael B. Cohen , Brittany Terese Fasy , Gary L. Miller , Amir Nayyeri , Donald R. Sheehy , Ameya Velingker

We study a semi-supervised learning method based on the similarity graph and RegularizedLaplacian. We give convenient optimization formulation of the Regularized Laplacian method and establishits various properties. In particular, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Pavel Chebotarev , Alexey Mishenin

Random walk kernels have been introduced in seminal work on graph learning and were later largely superseded by kernels based on the Weisfeiler-Leman test for graph isomorphism. We give a unified view on both classes of graph kernels. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Nils M. Kriege

Measuring similarity between complex objects is a fundamental task in many scientific fields. When objects are represented as graphs, graph similarity/distance measures offer a powerful framework for quantifying structural resemblance.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Matthias Dehmer , Izudin Redžepović , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

Recently there has been much interest in graph-based learning, with applications in collaborative filtering for recommender networks, link prediction for social networks and fraud detection. These networks can consist of millions of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Purnamrita Sarkar , Andrew Moore

Model-based clustering is widely-used in a variety of application areas. However, fundamental concerns remain about robustness. In particular, results can be sensitive to the choice of kernel representing the within-cluster data density.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-27 Leo L Duan , David B Dunson

Graph kernels are widely used for measuring the similarity between graphs. Many existing graph kernels, which focus on local patterns within graphs rather than their global properties, suffer from significant structure information loss when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lingfei Wu , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Zhen Zhang , Kun Xu , Liang Zhao , Xi Peng , Yinglong Xia , Charu Aggarwal

The study of the topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, and today we have a fairly good understanding of the types and reoccurring characteristics of many different complex networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Trédan

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to the increasing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest. Scalability problems…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Kimon Fountoulakis , David F. Gleich , Michael W. Mahoney

Multiple kernel clustering (MKC) is committed to achieving optimal information fusion from a set of base kernels. Constructing precise and local kernel matrices is proved to be of vital significance in applications since the unreliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Liang Li , Siwei Wang , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Li Shen , Kenli Li , Keqin Li

This work derives closed-form expressions computing the expectation of co-presence and of number of co-occurrences of nodes on paths sampled from a network according to general path weights (a bag of paths). The underlying idea is that two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Guillaume Guex , Sylvain Courtain , Marco Saerens