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Subgraph matching is vital in knowledge graph (KG) question answering, molecule design, scene graph, code and circuit search, etc. Neural methods have shown promising results for subgraph matching. Our study of recent systems suggests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Vaibhav Raj , Indradyumna Roy , Ashwin Ramachandran , Soumen Chakrabarti , Abir De

The phenomenal growth of graph data from a wide variety of real-world applications has rendered graph querying to be a problem of paramount importance. Traditional techniques use structural as well as node similarities to find matches of a…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Jithin Vachery , Akhil Arora , Sayan Ranu , Arnab Bhattacharya

We study the recently introduced problem of finding dense common subgraphs: Given a sequence of graphs that share the same vertex set, the goal is to find a subset of vertices $S$ that maximizes some aggregate measure of the density of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Moses Charikar , Yonatan Naamad , Jimmy Wu

Image matching is a key component of many tasks in computer vision and its main objective is to find correspondences between features extracted from different natural images. When images are represented as graphs, image matching boils down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Nancy Xu , Giannis Nikolentzos , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Henrik Boström

The Minimum Vertex Cover (MinVC) problem is a well-known NP-hard problem. Recently there has been great interest in solving this problem on real-world massive graphs. For such graphs, local search is a promising approach to finding optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Yi Fan , Chengqian Li , Zongjie Ma , LjiLjana Brankovic , Vladimir Estivill-Castro , Abdul Sattar

The problem of finding the vertex correspondence between two noisy graphs with different number of vertices where the smaller graph is still large has many applications in social networks, neuroscience, and computer vision. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-03 Daniel L. Sussman , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe , Vince Lyzinski

Graph isomorphism is an important computer science problem. The problem for the general case is unknown to be in polynomial time. The base algorithm for the general case works in quasi-polynomial time. The solutions in polynomial time for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Vaibhav Amit Patel

Similarity search approaches based on graph walks have recently attained outstanding speed-accuracy trade-offs, taking aside the memory requirements. In this paper, we revisit these approaches by considering, additionally, the memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Matthijs Douze , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Hervé Jégou

Problems in scientific computing, such as distributing large sparse matrix operations, have analogous formulations as hypergraph partitioning problems. A hypergraph is a generalization of a traditional graph wherein "hyperedges" may connect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Justin Sybrandt , Ruslan Shaydulin , Ilya Safro

Graph pattern matching is a routine process for a wide variety of applications such as social network analysis. It is typically defined in terms of subgraph isomorphism which is NP-Complete. To lower its complexity, many extensions of graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Houari Mahfoud

Subgraph isomorphism is a fundamental problem in graph analysis that seeks to find all instances of a pattern graph within a larger data graph while preserving structural relationships. This NP-complete problem is central to domains such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yulun Wang , Esteban Ginez , Jamie Friel , Yuval Baum , Jin-Sung Kim , Alex Shih , Oded Green

Subgraph matching is a fundamental problem in graph analysis with a wide range of applications. However, due to its inherent NP-hardness, enumerating subgraph matches efficiently on large real-world graphs remains highly challenging. Most…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Linglin Yang , Xunbin Su , Lei Zou , Xiangyang Gou , Yinnian Lin

Finding dense subgraphs of a large network is a fundamental problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications over the last five decades. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ali Behrouz , Farnoosh Hashemi

The Subgraph Isomorphism problem asks, given a host graph G on n vertices and a pattern graph P on k vertices, whether G contains a subgraph isomorphic to P. The restriction of this problem to planar graphs has often been considered. After…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Bonsma

Dense subgraph extraction is a fundamental problem in graph analysis and data mining, aimed at identifying cohesive and densely connected substructures within a given graph. It plays a crucial role in various domains, including social…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Chia-Yang Hung , Chih-Ya Shen

Computing subgraph frequencies is a fundamental task that lies at the core of several network analysis methodologies, such as network motifs and graphlet-based metrics, which have been widely used to categorize and compare networks from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Pedro Ribeiro , Pedro Paredes , Miguel E. P. Silva , David Aparicio , Fernando Silva

Hypergraphs are generalisation of graphs in which a hyperedge can connect any number of vertices. It can describe n-ary relationships and high-order information among entities compared to conventional graphs. In this paper, we study the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhengyi Yang , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Ying Zhang , Shunyang Li

Determining whether two graphs are structurally identical is a fundamental problem with applications spanning mathematics, computer science, chemistry, and network science. Despite decades of study, graph isomorphism remains a challenging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Sara Najem , Amer E. Mouawad

Many real world networks contain a statistically surprising number of certain subgraphs, called network motifs. In the prevalent approach to motif analysis, network motifs are detected by comparing subgraph frequencies in the original…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Anatol E. Wegner

In this work, we propose a novel approach for subgraph matching, the problem of finding a given query graph in a large source graph, based on the fused Gromov-Wasserstein distance. We formulate the subgraph matching problem as a partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Wen-Xin Pan , Isabel Haasler , Pascal Frossard