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Computing efficiently a robust measure of similarity or dissimilarity between graphs is a major challenge in Pattern Recognition. The Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a flexible measure of dissimilarity between graphs which arises in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Sébastien Bougleux , Luc Brun , Vincenzo Carletti , Pasquale Foggia , Benoit Gaüzère , Mario Vento

Graph edit distance (GED) is a powerful and flexible graph matching paradigm that can be used to address different tasks in structural pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining. In this paper, some new binary linear programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Julien Lerouge , Zeina Abu-Aisheh , Romain Raveaux , Pierre Héroux , Sébastien Adam

The graph edit distance (GED) is a well-established distance measure widely used in many applications. However, existing methods for the GED computation suffer from several drawbacks including oversized search space, huge memory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Xiaoyang Chen , Hongwei Huo , Jun Huan , Jeffrey Scott Vitter

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

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is defined as the minimum cost transformation of one graph into another and is a widely adopted metric for measuring the dissimilarity between graphs. The major problem of GED is that its computation is NP-hard,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Francesco Leonardi , Markus Orsi , Jean-Louis Reymond , Kaspar Riesen

Distance measures provide the foundation for many popular algorithms in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. Different notions of distance can be used depending on the types of the data the algorithm is working on. For graph-shaped…

Graph Edit Distance (GED) measures the (dis-)similarity between two given graphs, in terms of the minimum-cost edit sequence that transforms one graph to the other. However, the exact computation of GED is NP-Hard, which has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Eeshaan Jain , Indradyumna Roy , Saswat Meher , Soumen Chakrabarti , Abir De

Graph representation is a powerful abstraction of real-world objects and relations. Computing the Graph Edit Distance (GED) between graphs is critical in domains such as bioinformatics, machine learning, and pattern recognition. GED…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Adel Dabah , Andreas Herten

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 graph edit distance (GED) is a flexible distance measure which is widely used for inexact graph matching. Since its exact computation is NP-hard, heuristics are used in practice. A popular approach is to obtain upper bounds for GED via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-29 David B. Blumenthal , Johann Gamper , Sébastien Bougleux , Luc Brun

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

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a popular similarity measurement for pairwise graphs and it also refers to the recovery of the edit path from the source graph to the target graph. Traditional A* algorithm suffers scalability issues due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Runzhong Wang , Tianqi Zhang , Tianshu Yu , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

A geometric graph is a combinatorial graph, endowed with a geometry that is inherited from its embedding in a Euclidean space. Formulation of a meaningful measure of (dis-)similarity in both the combinatorial and geometric structures of two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

Among various distance functions for graphs, graph and subgraph edit distances (GED and SED respectively) are two of the most popular and expressive measures. Unfortunately, exact computations for both are NP-hard. To overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Rishabh Ranjan , Siddharth Grover , Sourav Medya , Venkatesan Chakaravarthy , Yogish Sabharwal , Sayan Ranu

Graph edit distance (GED) is an important similarity measure adopted in a similarity-based analysis between two graphs, and computing GED is a primitive operator in graph database analysis. Partially due to the NP-hardness, the existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Lijun Chang , Xing Feng , Xuemin Lin , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang

Graph similarity search is a common and fundamental operation in graph databases. One of the most popular graph similarity measures is the Graph Edit Distance (GED) mainly because of its broad applicability and high interpretability.…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Zijian Li , Xun Jian , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a widely used measure of graph similarity, valued for its flexibility in encoding domain knowledge through operation costs. However, existing learning-based approximation methods follow a modeling paradigm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhouyang Liu , Ning Liu , Yixin Chen , Jiezhong He , Shuai Ma , Dongsheng Li

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 graph edit distance (GED) measures the dissimilarity between two graphs as the minimal cost of a sequence of elementary operations transforming one graph into another. This measure is fundamental in many areas such as structural pattern…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Nicolas Boria , David B. Blumenthal , Sébastien Bougleux , Luc Brun

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
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