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Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a widely used metric for measuring similarity between two graphs. Computing the optimal GED is NP-hard, leading to the development of various neural and non-neural heuristics. While neural methods have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Samidha Verma , Arushi Goyal , Ananya Mathur , Ankit Anand , Sayan Ranu

The Graph Edit Distance (GED) problem, which aims to compute the minimum number of edit operations required to transform one graph into another, is a fundamental challenge in graph analysis with wide-ranging applications. However, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Wei Huang , Hanchen Wang , Dong Wen , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

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

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

Node similarity is a fundamental problem in graph analytics. However, node similarity between nodes in different graphs (inter-graph nodes) has not received a lot of attention yet. The inter-graph node similarity is important in learning a…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Haohan Zhu , Xianrui Meng , George Kollios

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

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 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

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

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a fundamental, albeit NP-hard, metric for structural graph similarity. Recent neural graph matching architectures approximate GED by first encoding graphs with a Graph Neural Network (GNN) and then applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jyotirmaya Shivottam , Subhankar Mishra

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

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

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 \textit{biharmonic distance} (BD) is a fundamental metric that measures the distance of two nodes in a graph. It has found applications in network coherence, machine learning, and computational graphics, among others. In spite of BD's…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Changan Liu , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Zhongzhi Zhang

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

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

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

\Graph similarity computation is an essential task in many real-world graph-related applications such as retrieving the similar drugs given a query chemical compound or finding the user's potential friends from the social network database.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jingjing Wang , Hongjie Zhu , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Xiaoliang Xu , Yuxiang Wang

Text similarity calculation is a fundamental problem in natural language processing and related fields. In recent years, deep neural networks have been developed to perform the task and high performances have been achieved. The neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Yilin Niu , Chao Qiao , Hang Li , Minlie Huang

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