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Graph matching involves combinatorial optimization based on edge-to-edge affinity matrix, which can be generally formulated as Lawler's Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). This paper presents a QAP network directly learning with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Runzhong Wang , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

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

Graph matching aims to establish correspondences between vertices of graphs such that both the node and edge attributes agree. Various learning-based methods were recently proposed for finding correspondences between image key points based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhenzhang Ye , Tarun Yenamandra , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

What is the best way to match the nodes of two graphs? This graph alignment problem generalizes graph isomorphism and arises in applications from social network analysis to bioinformatics. Some solutions assume that auxiliary information on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Judith Hermanns , Anton Tsitsulin , Marina Munkhoeva , Alex Bronstein , Davide Mottin , Panagiotis Karras

Graph-based representations such as Scene Graphs enable localization in structured indoor environments by matching a locally observed graph, constructed from sensor data, to a prior map. This process is particularly challenging in…

Graph neural networks aim to learn representations for graph-structured data and show impressive performance, particularly in node classification. Recently, many methods have studied the representations of GNNs from the perspective of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiaqi Sun , Lin Zhang , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang , Peng XU , Yujiu Yang

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

Sparsity-constrained optimization is an important and challenging problem that has wide applicability in data mining, machine learning, and statistics. In this paper, we focus on sparsity-constrained optimization in cases where the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Feng Chen , Baojian Zhou

Graph matching refers to finding node correspondence between graphs, such that the corresponding node and edge's affinity can be maximized. In addition with its NP-completeness nature, another important challenge is effective modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Runzhong Wang , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Graph partitioning is the problem of dividing the nodes of a graph into balanced partitions while minimizing the edge cut across the partitions. Due to its combinatorial nature, many approximate solutions have been developed, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

We consider the problem of exact and inexact matching of weighted undirected graphs, in which a bijective correspondence is sought to minimize a quadratic weight disagreement. This computationally challenging problem is often relaxed as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Yonathan Aflalo , Alex Bronstein , Ron Kimmel

Finding optimal matchings in dense graphs is of general interest and of particular importance in social, transportation and biological networks. While developing optimal solutions for various matching problems is important, the running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Nitish K. Panigrahy , Prithwish Basu , Don Towsley

The representation of graphs is commonly based on the adjacency matrix concept. This formulation is the foundation of most algebraic and computational approaches to graph processing. The advent of deep learning language models offers a wide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ezequiel Lopez-Rubio

The generalization ability of Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for biometrics drops greatly due to the adverse effects of various occlusions. To this end, we propose a novel unified framework integrated the merits of both CNNs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Min Ren , Yunlong Wang , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

Finding corresponding pixels within a pair of images is a fundamental computer vision task with various applications. Due to the specific requirements of different tasks like optical flow estimation and local feature matching, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Songyan Zhang , Xinyu Sun , Hao Chen , Bo Li , Chunhua Shen

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

In traditional graph retrieval tools, graph matching is commonly used to retrieve desired graphs from extensive graph datasets according to their structural similarities. However, in real applications, graph nodes have numerous attributes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuhua Liu , Haoxuan Wang , Jiajia Kou , Ling Sun , Heyu Wang , Yongheng Wang , Yigang Wang , Jinchang Lic , Zhiguang Zhou

Multi-attributed graph matching is a problem of finding correspondences between two sets of data while considering their complex properties described in multiple attributes. However, the information of multiple attributes is likely to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Han-Mu Park , Kuk-Jin Yoon

We consider the class of conditional graph patterns (\emph{CGPs}) that allow user to query data graphs with complex patterns that contain negation and predicates. To overcome the prohibitive cost of subgraph isomorphism, we consider…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Houari Mahfoud