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The Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) dimension of a graph is a measure for the inherent descriptive complexity of the graph. While originally derived from a combinatorial graph isomorphism test called the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm, the WL dimension…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Martin Grohe , Sandra Kiefer

Recently, the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) graph isomorphism test was used to measure the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNN). It was shown that the popular message passing GNN cannot distinguish between graphs that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Haggai Maron , Heli Ben-Hamu , Hadar Serviansky , Yaron Lipman

We prove that the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) dimension of the class of all finite planar graphs is at most 3. In particular, every finite planar graph is definable in first-order logic with counting using at most 4 variables. The previously best…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Sandra Kiefer , Ilia Ponomarenko , Pascal Schweitzer

The Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) dimension is an established measure for the inherent descriptive complexity of graphs and relational structures. It corresponds to the number of variables that are needed and sufficient to define the object of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Sandra Kiefer , Daniel Neuen

The color refinement algorithm is mainly known as a heuristic method for graph isomorphism testing. It has surprising but natural characterizations in terms of, for example, homomorphism counts from trees and solutions to a system of linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Jan Böker

The Weisfeiler-Leman dimension of a graph $G$ is the least number $k$ such that the $k$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm distinguishes $G$ from every other non-isomorphic graph. The dimension is a standard measure of the descriptive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Moritz Lichter , Simon Raßmann , Pascal Schweitzer

The expressive power of graph neural network formalisms is commonly measured by their ability to distinguish graphs. For many formalisms, the k-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman (k-WL) graph isomorphism test is used as a yardstick. In this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Floris Geerts

We investigate the relationship between various isomorphism invariants for finite groups. Specifically, we use the Weisfeiler-Leman dimension (WL) to characterize, compare and quantify the effectiveness and complexity of invariants for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Jendrik Brachter , Pascal Schweitzer

The expressive power of graph neural networks is usually measured by comparing how many pairs of graphs or nodes an architecture can possibly distinguish as non-isomorphic to those distinguishable by the $k$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Arjun Subramonian , Adina Williams , Maximilian Nickel , Yizhou Sun , Levent Sagun

Subgraph counting is a fundamental task for analyzing structural patterns in graph-structured data, with important applications in domains such as computational biology and social network analysis, where recurring motifs reveal functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shubhajit Roy , Shrutimoy Das , Binita Maity , Anant Kumar , Anirban Dasgupta

It is well known that almost all graphs are canonizable by a simple combinatorial routine known as color refinement, also referred to as the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm. With high probability, this method assigns a unique label…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Oleg Verbitsky , Maksim Zhukovskii

Two simple undirected graphs are cospectral if their respective adjacency matrices have the same multiset of eigenvalues. Cospectrality yields an equivalence relation on the family of graphs which is provably weaker than isomorphism. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Gaurav Rattan , Tim Seppelt

The $k$-Weisfeiler-Leman ($k$-WL) graph isomorphism test hierarchy is a common method for assessing the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNNs). Recently, GNNs whose expressive power is equivalent to the $2$-WL test were proven to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Snir Hordan , Tal Amir , Nadav Dym

The $W$-random graphs provide a flexible framework for modeling large random networks. Using the Large Deviation Principle (LDP) for $W$-random graphs from [9], we prove the LDP for the corresponding class of random symmetric…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Mahya Ghandehari , Georgi S. Medvedev

Current GNN architectures use a vertex neighborhood aggregation scheme, which limits their discriminative power to that of the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) graph isomorphism test. Here, we propose a novel graph convolution operator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Clemens Damke , Vitalik Melnikov , Eyke Hüllermeier

Combinatorial complexes have unified set-based (e.g., graphs, hypergraphs) and part-whole (e.g., simplicial, cellular complexes) structures into a common topological framework. Existing topological neural networks and Weisfeiler-Lehman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jiawen Chen , Qi Shao , Duxin Chen , Wenwu Yu

It is unknown whether two graphs can be tested for isomorphism in polynomial time. A classical approach to the Graph Isomorphism Problem is the d-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm. The d-dimensional WL-algorithm can distinguish many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-10 Harm Derksen

This paper presents a new graph isomorphism invariant, called $\mathfrak{w}$-labeling, that can be used to design a polynomial-time algorithm for solving the graph isomorphism problem for various graph classes. For example, all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Alpár Jüttner , Péter Madarasi

This paper presents the Persistent Weisfeiler-Lehman Random walk scheme (abbreviated as PWLR) for graph representations, a novel mathematical framework which produces a collection of explainable low-dimensional representations of graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Sun Woo Park , Yun Young Choi , Dosang Joe , U Jin Choi , Youngho Woo

A strong interaction is known to exist between edge-colored graphs (which encode PL pseudo-manifolds of arbitrary dimension) and random tensor models (as a possible approach to the study of Quantum Gravity). The key tool is the {\it…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Maria Rita Casali , Luigi Grasselli