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Comparison among graphs is ubiquitous in graph analytics. However, it is a hard task in terms of the expressiveness of the employed similarity measure and the efficiency of its computation. Ideally, graph comparison should be invariant to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Anton Tsitsulin , Davide Mottin , Panagiotis Karras , Alex Bronstein , Emmanuel Müller

Due to their capacity to encode rich structural information, labeled graphs are often used for modeling various kinds of objects such as images, molecules, and chemical compounds. If pattern recognition problems such as clustering and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-02 David B. Blumenthal

In recent years, networks with higher-order interactions have emerged as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Comparing these higher-order systems remains however a challenge. Traditional similarity measures designed for pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-24 Cosimo Agostinelli , Marco Mancastroppa , Alain Barrat

Built upon the shoulders of graph theory, the field of complex networks has become a central tool for studying real systems across various fields of research. Represented as graphs, different systems can be studied using the same analysis…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-30 Gorka Zamora-López , Matthieu Gilson

The public sharing of user information opens the door for adversaries to infer private data, leading to privacy breaches and facilitating malicious activities. While numerous studies have concentrated on privacy leakage via public user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Hanyang Yuan , Jiarong Xu , Cong Wang , Ziqi Yang , Chunping Wang , Keting Yin , Yang Yang

We introduce COPT, a novel distance metric between graphs defined via an optimization routine, computing a coordinated pair of optimal transport maps simultaneously. This gives an unsupervised way to learn general-purpose graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yihe Dong , Will Sawin

Knowledge graphs play a central role for linking different data which leads to multiple layers. Thus, they are widely used in big data integration, especially for connecting data from different domains. Few studies have investigated the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jens Dörpinghaus , Vera Weil , Carsten Düing , Martin W. Sommer

The structure of a social network contains information useful for predicting its evolution. Nodes that are "close" in some sense are more likely to become linked in the future than more distant nodes. We show that structural information can…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Kristina Lerman , Suradej Intagorn , Jeon-Hyung Kang , Rumi Ghosh

The rise of graph analytic systems has created a need for ways to measure and compare the capabilities of these systems. Graph analytics present unique scalability difficulties. The machine learning, high performance computing, and visual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Siddharth Samsi , Vijay Gadepally , Michael Hurley , Michael Jones , Edward Kao , Sanjeev Mohindra , Paul Monticciolo , Albert Reuther , Steven Smith , William Song , Diane Staheli , Jeremy Kepner

Many systems comprising entities in interactions can be represented as graphs, whose structure gives significant insights about how these systems work. Network theory has undergone further developments, in particular in relation to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-06-14 Ronan Hamon , Pierre Borgnat , Patrick Flandrin , Céline Robardet

In the past two decades, significant advances have been made in understanding the structural and functional properties of biological networks, via graph-theoretic analysis. In general, most graph-theoretic studies are conducted in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-21 Michelle Rudolph-Lilith , Lyle E. Muller

Graph embedding provides a feasible methodology to conduct pattern classification for graph-structured data by mapping each data into the vectorial space. Various pioneering works are essentially coding method that concentrates on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xue Liu , Dan Sun , Xiaobo Cao , Hao Ye , Wei Wei

The modern age has seen an exponential growth of social network data available on the web. Analysis of these networks reveal important structural information about these networks in particular and about our societies in general. More often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Aneeq Hashmi , Faraz Zaidi , Arnaud Sallaberry , Tariq Mehmood

The Graph Edit Distance (GED) is an important metric for measuring the similarity between two (labeled) graphs. It is defined as the minimum cost required to convert one graph into another through a series of (elementary) edit operations.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Andrea D'Ascenzo , Julian Meffert , Petra Mutzel , Fabrizio Rossi

In this survey, we explore recent literature on finding the cores of higher graphs using geometric and topological means. We study graphs, hypergraphs, and simplicial complexes, all of which are models of higher graphs. We study the notion…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Inés García-Redondo , Claudia Landi , Sarah Percival , Anda Skeja , Bei Wang , Ling Zhou

Dynamically changing graphs are used in many applications of graph algorithms. The scope of these graphs are in graphics, communication networks and in VLSI designs where graphs are subjected to change, such as addition and deletion of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Megha Tyagi , Deepak Garg

Graph-structured data are an integral part of many application domains, including chemoinformatics, computational biology, neuroimaging, and social network analysis. Over the last two decades, numerous graph kernels, i.e. kernel functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Karsten Borgwardt , Elisabetta Ghisu , Felipe Llinares-López , Leslie O'Bray , Bastian Rieck

Topological data analysis is an emerging area in exploratory data analysis and data mining. Its main tool, persistent homology, has become a popular technique to study the structure of complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Mustafa Hajij , Bei Wang , Carlos Scheidegger , Paul Rosen

The format of graphing algorithms for genomic data has been a debate in recent biotechnology. In this paper, we discuss the construction of population graphs using said genomic data. We first examine the GENPOFAD distance measurement,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-15 Kimberly Ayers , Maxwell Kooiker

Distance measures between graphs are important primitives for a variety of learning tasks. In this work, we describe an unsupervised, optimal transport based approach to define a distance between graphs. Our idea is to derive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Michael Scholkemper , Damin Kühn , Gerion Nabbefeld , Simon Musall , Björn Kampa , Michael T. Schaub