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We propose a learning framework for graph kernels, which is theoretically grounded on regularizing optimal transport. This framework provides a novel optimal transport distance metric, namely Regularized Wasserstein (RW) discrepancy, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Asiri Wijesinghe , Qing Wang , Stephen Gould

The isomorphism problem is a fundamental problem in network analysis, which involves capturing both low-order and high-order structural information. In terms of extracting low-order structural information, graph isomorphism algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Yifan Feng , Jiashu Han , Shihui Ying , Yue Gao

Node embeddings map graph vertices into low-dimensional Euclidean spaces while preserving structural information. They are central to tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and signal reconstruction. A key goal is to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Valentin de Bassompierre , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Laurent Jacques

Graph kernels are often used in bioinformatics and network applications to measure the similarity between graphs; therefore, they may be used to construct efficient graph classifiers. Many graph kernels have been developed thus far, but to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Kaito Kishi , Takahiko Satoh , Rudy Raymond , Naoki Yamamoto , Yasubumi Sakakibara

Finding the mean of sampled data is a fundamental task in machine learning and statistics. However, in cases where the data samples are graph objects, defining a mean is an inherently difficult task. We propose a novel framework for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Isabel Haasler , Pascal Frossard

Graph kernels are widely used for measuring the similarity between graphs. Many existing graph kernels, which focus on local patterns within graphs rather than their global properties, suffer from significant structure information loss when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lingfei Wu , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Zhen Zhang , Kun Xu , Liang Zhao , Xi Peng , Yinglong Xia , Charu Aggarwal

Can neural networks learn to compare graphs without feature engineering? In this paper, we show that it is possible to learn representations for graph similarity with neither domain knowledge nor supervision (i.e.\ feature engineering or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Rami Al-Rfou , Dustin Zelle , Bryan Perozzi

Subgraph representation learning has been effective in solving various real-world problems. However, current graph neural networks (GNNs) produce suboptimal results for subgraph-level tasks due to their inability to capture complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Dongkwan Kim , Alice Oh

We introduce propagation kernels, a general graph-kernel framework for efficiently measuring the similarity of structured data. Propagation kernels are based on monitoring how information spreads through a set of given graphs. They leverage…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-14 Marion Neumann , Roman Garnett , Christian Bauckhage , Kristian Kersting

Graph kernels are usually defined in terms of simpler kernels over local substructures of the original graphs. Different kernels consider different types of substructures. However, in some cases they have similar predictive performances,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti , Riccardo Tesselli

A novel Gromov-Wasserstein learning framework is proposed to jointly match (align) graphs and learn embedding vectors for the associated graph nodes. Using Gromov-Wasserstein discrepancy, we measure the dissimilarity between two graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Hongteng Xu , Dixin Luo , Hongyuan Zha , Lawrence Carin

We analytically study proximity and distance properties of various kernels and similarity measures on graphs. This helps to understand the mathematical nature of such measures and can potentially be useful for recommending the adoption of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Pavel Chebotarev , Dmytro Rubanov

This paper provides a new similarity detection algorithm. Given an input set of multi-dimensional data points, where each data point is assumed to be multi-dimensional, and an additional reference data point for similarity finding, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Yariv Aizenbud , Amir Averbuch , Gil Shabat , Guy Ziv

Various Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful in analyzing data in non-Euclidean spaces, however, they have limitations such as oversmoothing, i.e., information becomes excessively averaged as the number of hidden layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jaeyoon Sim , Sooyeon Jeon , InJun Choi , Guorong Wu , Won Hwa Kim

Many data clustering applications must handle objects that cannot be represented as vectors. In this context, the bag-of-vectors representation describes complex objects through discrete distributions, for which the Wasserstein distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Alfredo Oneto , Blazhe Gjorgiev , Giovanni Sansavini

Random walk kernels have been introduced in seminal work on graph learning and were later largely superseded by kernels based on the Weisfeiler-Leman test for graph isomorphism. We give a unified view on both classes of graph kernels. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Nils M. Kriege

The Wasserstein distance is a powerful metric based on the theory of optimal transport. It gives a natural measure of the distance between two distributions with a wide range of applications. In contrast to a number of the common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Jung Hun Oh , Maryam Pouryahya , Aditi Iyer , Aditya P. Apte , Allen Tannenbaum , Joseph O. Deasy

Missing node attributes is a common problem in real-world graphs. Graph neural networks have been demonstrated power in graph representation learning while their performance is affected by the completeness of graph information. Most of them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Zhixian Chen , Tengfei Ma , Yangqiu Song , Yang Wang

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

Measuring similarity between complex objects is a fundamental task in many scientific fields. When objects are represented as graphs, graph similarity/distance measures offer a powerful framework for quantifying structural resemblance.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Matthias Dehmer , Izudin Redžepović , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek