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Graph similarity search is among the most important graph-based applications, e.g. finding the chemical compounds that are most similar to a query compound. Graph similarity computation, such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) and Maximum Common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Song Bian , Ting Chen , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Graphs are versatile tools for representing structured data. As a result, a variety of machine learning methods have been studied for graph data analysis. Although many such learning methods depend on the measurement of differences between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-18 Tomoki Yoshida , Ichiro Takeuchi , Masayuki Karasuyama

Graph entity dependencies (GEDs) are novel graph constraints, unifying keys and functional dependencies, for property graphs. They have been found useful in many real-world data quality and data management tasks, including fact checking on…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Dehua Liu , Selasi Kwashie , Yidi Zhang , Guangtong Zhou , Michael Bewong , Xiaoying Wu , Xi Guo , Keqing He , Zaiwen Feng

Finding the graphs that are most similar to a query graph in a large database is a common task with various applications. A widely-used similarity measure is the graph edit distance, which provides an intuitive notion of similarity and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Franka Bause , David B. Blumenthal , Erich Schubert , Nils M. Kriege

Subgraph similarity search, one of the core problems in graph search, concerns whether a target graph approximately contains a query graph. The problem is recently touched by neural methods. However, current neural methods do not consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Linfeng Liu , Xu Han , Dawei Zhou , Li-Ping Liu

In well-studied graph modification problems, adding and deleting vertices and edges are used as graph editing operations. We propose a model for graph modification on geometric intersection graphs called Geometric Graph Edit Distance that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Nicolás Honorato-Droguett , Kazuhiro Kurita , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono

We present a method for learning "spectrally descriptive" edge weights for graphs. We generalize a previously known distance measure on graphs (Graph Diffusion Distance), thereby allowing it to be tuned to minimize an arbitrary loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Cory Braker Scott , Eric Mjolsness , Diane Oyen , Chie Kodera , David Bouchez , Magalie Uyttewaal

Recently, more and more research has focused on using Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to solve the Graph Similarity Computation problem (GSC), i.e., computing the Graph Edit Distance (GED) between two graphs. These methods treat GSC as an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiaxi Lv , Liang Zhang , Yi Huang , Jiancheng Huang , Shifeng Chen

Quantifying the similarity between two graphs is a fundamental algorithmic problem at the heart of many data analysis tasks for graph-based data. In this paper, we study the computational complexity of a family of similarity measures based…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Timo Gervens , Martin Grohe

In this paper, we propose a new type of graph, denoted as "embedded-graph", and its theory, which employs a distributed representation to describe the relations on the graph edges. Embedded-graphs can express linguistic and complicated…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Atsushi Yokoyama

This work introduces two new distance metrics for comparing labeled arrays, which are common outputs of image segmentation algorithms. Each pixel in an image is assigned a label, with binary segmentation providing only two labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Maryam Berijanian , Katrina Gensterblum , Doruk Alp Mutlu , Katelyn Reagan , Andrew Hart , Dirk Colbry

This paper proposes a metric to measure the dissimilarity between graphs that may have a different number of nodes. The proposed metric extends the generalised optimal subpattern assignment (GOSPA) metric, which is a metric for sets, to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jinhao Gu , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Robert E. Firth , Lennart Svensson

The problem of Distance Edge Labeling is a variant of Distance Vertex Labeling (also known as $L_{2,1}$ labeling) that has been studied for more than twenty years and has many applications, such as frequency assignment. The Distance Edge…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík

The graph edit distance is used for comparing graphs in various domains. Due to its high computational complexity it is primarily approximated. Widely-used heuristics search for an optimal assignment of vertices based on the distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Franka Bause , Christian Permann , Nils M. Kriege

The distance of a graph from being triangle-free is a fundamental graph parameter, counting the number of edges that need to be removed from a graph in order for it to become triangle-free. Its corresponding computational problem is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Majd Khoury

We present an additive $\varepsilon n^{2}$-approximation algorithm for the Graph Edit Distance problem (GED) on graphs of VC dimension $d$ running in time $n^{O(d/\varepsilon^{2})}$. In particular, this recovers a previous result by Arora,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Anatole Dahan , Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen , Tomáš Novotný

Pairwise comparison of graphs is key to many applications in Machine learning ranging from clustering, kernel-based classification/regression and more recently supervised graph prediction. Distances between graphs usually rely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-29 Junjie Yang , Matthieu Labeau , Florence d'Alché-Buc

We introduce GSimCNN (Graph Similarity Computation via Convolutional Neural Networks) for predicting the similarity score between two graphs. As the core operation of graph similarity search, pairwise graph similarity computation is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

One of the most important combinatorial optimization problems is graph coloring. There are several variations of this problem involving additional constraints either on vertices or edges. They constitute models for real applications, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Rosiane de Freitas , Bruno Dias , Nelson Maculan , Jayme Szwarcfiter

In this paper, we develop a novel weighted Laplacian method, which is partially inspired by the theory of graph Laplacian, to study recent popular graph problems, such as multilevel graph partitioning and balanced minimum cut problem, in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shijie Xu , Jiayan Fang , Xiang-Yang Li