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In this paper, matching pairs of random graphs under the community structure model is considered. The problem emerges naturally in various applications such as privacy, image processing and DNA sequencing. A pair of randomly generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-01 F. Shirani , S. Garg , E. Erkip

We present an algorithm for maintaining maximal matching in a graph under addition and deletion of edges. Our data structure is randomized that takes O(log n) expected amortized time for each edge update where n is the number of vertices in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Surender Baswana , Manoj Gupta , Sandeep Sen

Statistical inference using pairwise comparison data is an effective approach to analyzing large-scale sparse networks. In this paper, we propose a general framework to model the mutual interactions in a network, which enjoys ample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-11 Ruijian Han , Yiming Xu , Kani Chen

A matching cut in a graph G is an edge cut of G that is also a matching. This short survey gives an overview of old and new results and open problems for Maximum Matching Cut, which is to determine the size of a largest matching cut in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Van Bang Le , Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

Graphs provide an efficient tool for object representation in various computer vision applications. Once graph-based representations are constructed, an important question is how to compare graphs. This problem is often formulated as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-04-30 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

Network alignment generalizes and unifies several approaches for forming a matching or alignment between the vertices of two graphs. We study a mathematical programming framework for network alignment problem and a sparse variation of it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Mohsen Bayati , David F. Gleich , Amin Saberi , Ying Wang

Graph matching problem aims to identify node correspondence between two or more correlated graphs. Previous studies have primarily focused on models where only edge information is provided. However, in many social networks, not only the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

In preference modelling, it is essential to determine the number of questions and their arrangements to ask from the decision maker. We focus on incomplete pairwise comparison matrices, and provide the optimal filling in patterns, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Zsombor Szádoczki , Sándor Bozóki

Graph matching is one of the most important problems in graph theory and combinatorial optimization, with many applications in various domains. Although meta-heuristic algorithms have had good performance on many NP-Hard and NP-Complete…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Hashem Ezzati , Mahmood Amintoosi , Hashem Tabasi

Error-tolerant graph matching gathers an important family of problems. These problems aim at finding correspondences between two graphs while integrating an error model. In the Graph Edit Distance (GED) problem, the insertion/deletion of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Romain Raveaux

Graph matching can be formalized as a combinatorial optimization problem, where there are corresponding relationships between pairs of nodes that can be represented as edges. This problem becomes challenging when there are potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Dongdong Chen , Yuxing Dai , Lichi Zhang , Zhihong Zhang

An instance of the maximum mixed graph orientation problem consists of a mixed graph and a collection of source-target vertex pairs. The objective is to orient the undirected edges of the graph so as to maximize the number of pairs that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Iftah Gamzu , Moti Medina

Previously, the controllability problem of a linear time-invariant dynamical system was mapped to the maximum matching (MM) problem on the bipartite representation of the underlying directed graph, and the sizes of MMs on random bipartite…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-18 Jin-Hua Zhao , Hai-Jun Zhou

In this paper, we study linear programming based approaches to the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model. The semi-streaming model has gained attention as a model for processing massive graphs as the importance of such graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

Given two graphs, the graph matching problem is to align the two vertex sets so as to minimize the number of adjacency disagreements between the two graphs. The seeded graph matching problem is the graph matching problem when we are first…

Given a graph in which a few vertices are deemed interesting a priori, the vertex nomination task is to order the remaining vertices into a nomination list such that there is a concentration of interesting vertices at the top of the list.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-30 Vince Lyzinski , Keith Levin , Donniell E. Fishkind , Carey E. Priebe

We consider the problem of approximating a maximum weighted matching, when the edges of an underlying weighted graph $G(V,E)$ are revealed in a streaming fashion. We analyze a variant of the previously best-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Elena Grigorescu , Morteza Monemizadeh , Samson Zhou

In this paper, we study the problem of recovering the latent vertex correspondence between two correlated random graphs with vastly inhomogeneous and unknown edge probabilities between different pairs of vertices. Inspired by and extending…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jian Ding , Yumou Fei , Yuanzheng Wang

This work studies fundamental limits for recovering the underlying correspondence among multiple correlated graphs. In the setting of inhomogeneous random graphs, we present and analyze a matching algorithm: first partially match the graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Taha Ameen , Bruce Hajek

Quantifying the similarity between two graphs is a fundamental algorithmic problem at the heart of many data analysis tasks for graph-based data. In this paper, we study the computational complexity of a family of similarity measures based…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Timo Gervens , Martin Grohe