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The Weisfeiler--Lehman (WL) test is a fundamental iterative algorithm for checking isomorphism of graphs. It has also been observed that it underlies the design of several graph neural network architectures, whose capabilities and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Valentino Delle Rose , Alexander Kozachinskiy , Cristóbal Rojas , Mircea Petrache , Pablo Barceló

We present a novel approach for graph classification based on tabularizing graph data via new variants of the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm and then applying methods for tabular data. The variants are obtained by modifying the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Reijo Jaakkola , Tomi Janhunen , Antti Kuusisto , Magdalena Ortiz , Matias Selin , Mantas Šimkus

Seminal research in the field of graph neural networks (GNNs) has revealed a direct correspondence between the expressive capabilities of GNNs and the $k$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman ($k$WL) test, a widely-recognized method for verifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Matthias Lanzinger , Pablo Barceló

A graph is said to be distance-hereditary if the distance function in every connected induced subgraph is the same as in the graph itself. We prove that the ordinary Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm correctly tests the isomorphism of any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Alexander L. Gavrilyuk , Roman Nedela , Ilia Ponomarenko

We show that on graphs with n vertices, the 2-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm requires at most O(n^2/log(n)) iterations to reach stabilization. This in particular shows that the previously best, trivial upper bound of O(n^2) is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Sandra Kiefer , Pascal Schweitzer

The problem of graph isomorphism is an important but challenging problem in the field of graph analysis, for example: analyzing the similarity of two chemical molecules, or studying the expressive ability of graph neural networks. WL test…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Wanghan Xu

Graph isomorphism, a classical algorithmic problem, determines whether two input graphs are structurally identical or not. Interestingly, it is one of the few problems that is not yet known to belong to either the P or NP-complete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Sourav Dutta , Arnab Bhattacharya

In this paper, we show that computing canonical labelings of graphs of bounded rank-width is in $\textsf{TC}^{2}$. Our approach builds on the framework of K\"obler & Verbitsky (CSR 2008), who established the analogous result for graphs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Michael Levet , Puck Rombach , Nicholas Sieger

The expressive power of graph neural networks is usually measured by comparing how many pairs of graphs or nodes an architecture can possibly distinguish as non-isomorphic to those distinguishable by the $k$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Arjun Subramonian , Adina Williams , Maximilian Nickel , Yizhou Sun , Levent Sagun

The Colour Refinement procedure and its generalisation to higher dimensions, the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm, are central subroutines in approaches to the graph isomorphism problem. In an iterative fashion, Colour Refinement computes a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Sandra Kiefer , Brendan D. McKay

The classical Weisfeiler-Lehman method WL[2] uses edge colors to produce a powerful graph invariant. It is at least as powerful in its ability to distinguish non-isomorphic graphs as the most prominent algebraic graph invariants. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Martin Fürer

K-core decomposition is a commonly used metric to analyze graph structure or study the relative importance of nodes in complex graphs. Recent years have seen rapid growth in the scale of the graph, especially in industrial settings. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Shicheng Gao , Jie Xu , Xiaosen Li , Fangcheng Fu , Wentao Zhang , Wen Ouyang , Yangyu Tao , Bin Cui

Properties of the `$k$-equivalent' graph families constructed in Cai, F\"{u}rer and Immerman, and Evdokimov and Ponomarenko are analysed relative the the recursive $k$-dim WL method. An extension to the recursive $k$-dim WL method is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-28 B. L. Douglas

Subgraph counting is a fundamental task for analyzing structural patterns in graph-structured data, with important applications in domains such as computational biology and social network analysis, where recurring motifs reveal functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shubhajit Roy , Shrutimoy Das , Binita Maity , Anant Kumar , Anirban Dasgupta

Let $m$ be a positive integer, $X$ a graph with vertex set $\Omega$, and ${\rm WL}_m(X)$ the coloring of the Cartesian $m$-power $\Omega^m$, obtained by the $m$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm. The ${\rm WL}$-dimension of the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Haiyan Li , Ilia Ponomarenko , Peter Zeman

Given a pair of graphs $\textbf{A}$ and $\textbf{B}$, the problems of deciding whether there exists either a homomorphism or an isomorphism from $\textbf{A}$ to $\textbf{B}$ have received a lot of attention. While graph homomorphism is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Silvia Butti , Victor Dalmau

In this paper we present a novel graph kernel framework inspired the by the Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) isomorphism tests. Any WL test comprises a relabelling phase of the nodes based on test-specific information extracted from the graph, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Giovanni Da San Martino , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

Decomposing a graph into a hierarchical structure via $k$-core analysis is a standard operation in any modern graph-mining toolkit. $k$-core decomposition is a simple and efficient method that allows to analyze a graph beyond its mere…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Nikolaj Tatti

The invariance to permutations of the adjacency matrix, i.e., graph isomorphism, is an overarching requirement for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Conventionally, this prerequisite can be satisfied by the invariant operations over node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhongyu Huang , Yingheng Wang , Chaozhuo Li , Huiguang He

The k-th power of a n-vertex graph X is the iterated cartesian product of X with itself. The k-th symmetric power of X is the quotient graph of certain subgraph of its k-th power by the natural action of the symmetric group. It is natural…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-01-16 Alfredo Alzaga , Rodrigo Iglesias , Ricardo Pignol