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Node similarity is a fundamental problem in graph analytics. However, node similarity between nodes in different graphs (inter-graph nodes) has not received a lot of attention yet. The inter-graph node similarity is important in learning a…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Haohan Zhu , Xianrui Meng , George Kollios

Graph Similarity Computation (GSC) is a fundamental graph related task where Graph Edit Distance (GED) serves as a prevalent metric. GED is determined by an optimal alignment between a pair of graphs that partitions each into aligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhentao Zhan , Xiaoliang Xu , Jingjing Wang , Junmei Wang

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a general and domain-agnostic metric to measure graph similarity, widely used in graph search or retrieving tasks. However, the exact GED computation is known to be NP-complete. For instance, the widely used A*…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Junfeng Liu , Min Zhou , Shuai Ma , Lujia Pan

The need to identify graphs with small structural distances from a query arises in domains such as biology, chemistry, recommender systems, and social network analysis. Among several methods for measuring inter-graph distance, Graph Edit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Aditya Bommakanti , Harshith Reddy Vonteri , Sayan Ranu , Panagiotis Karras

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a fundamental, albeit NP-hard, metric for structural graph similarity. Recent neural graph matching architectures approximate GED by first encoding graphs with a Graph Neural Network (GNN) and then applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jyotirmaya Shivottam , Subhankar Mishra

In this paper, we study the problem of graph similarity search with graph edit distance (GED) constraints. Due to the NP-hardness of GED computation, existing solutions to this problem adopt the filtering-and-verification framework with a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Jongik Kim

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a fundamental graph similarity metric widely used in various applications. However, computing GED is an NP-hard problem. Recent state-of-the-art hybrid GED solver has shown promising performance by formulating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wei Huang , Hanchen Wang , Dong Wen , Shaozhen Ma , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

\Graph similarity computation is an essential task in many real-world graph-related applications such as retrieving the similar drugs given a query chemical compound or finding the user's potential friends from the social network database.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jingjing Wang , Hongjie Zhu , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Xiaoliang Xu , Yuxiang Wang

Removing overlaps is a central task in domains such as scheduling, visibility, and map labelling. This can be modelled using graphs, where overlap removals correspond to enforcing a certain sparsity constraint on the graph structure. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Nicolás Honorato-Droguett , Kazuhiro Kurita , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono , Alexander Wolff

The edit distance between two graphs is a widely used measure of similarity that evaluates the smallest number of vertex and edge deletions/insertions required to transform one graph to another. It is NP-hard to compute in general, and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Utkan Onur Candogan , Venkat Chandrasekaran

Given a graph pair $(G^1, G^2)$, graph edit distance (GED) is defined as the minimum number of edit operations converting $G^1$ to $G^2$. GED is a fundamental operation widely used in many applications, but its exact computation is NP-hard,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Qihao Cheng , Da Yan , Tianhao Wu , Zhongyi Huang , Qin Zhang

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

Graph similarity computation (GSC) is to calculate the similarity between one pair of graphs, which is a fundamental problem with fruitful applications in the graph community. In GSC, graph edit distance (GED) and maximum common subgraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Haoran Zheng , Jieming Shi , Renchi Yang

The graph traversal edit distance (GTED), introduced by Ebrahimpour Boroojeny et al.~(2018), is an elegant distance measure defined as the minimum edit distance between strings reconstructed from Eulerian trails in two edge-labeled graphs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Yutong Qiu , Yihang Shen , Carl Kingsford

The emergence of geometric deep learning as a novel framework to deal with graph-based representations has faded away traditional approaches in favor of completely new methodologies. In this paper, we propose a new framework able to combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Pau Riba , Andreas Fischer , Josep Lladós , Alicia Fornés

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

The graph isomorphism, subgraph isomorphism, and graph edit distance problems are combinatorial problems with many applications. Heuristic exact and approximate algorithms for each of these problems have been developed for different kinds…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sheung Chi Chan , James Cheney

Graph similarity computation is one of the core operations in many graph-based applications, such as graph similarity search, graph database analysis, graph clustering, etc. Since computing the exact distance/similarity between two graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

The ability to compute similarity scores between graphs based on metrics such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) is important in many real-world applications. Computing exact GED values is typically an NP-hard problem and traditional algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Haoyan Xu , Runjian Chen , Yueyang Wang , Ziheng Duan , Jie Feng

This paper presents a spectral framework for quantifying the differentiation between graph data samples by introducing a novel metric named Graph Geodesic Distance (GGD). For two different graphs with the same number of nodes, our framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Soumen Sikder Shuvo , Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng