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Determining whether two graphs are structurally identical is a fundamental problem with applications spanning mathematics, computer science, chemistry, and network science. Despite decades of study, graph isomorphism remains a challenging…

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Graph coloring is one of the most famous computational problems with applications in a wide range of areas such as planning and scheduling, resource allocation, and pattern matching. So far coloring problems are mostly studied on static…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-12 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Viktor Zamaraev

We present the Douglas-Rachford algorithm as a successful heuristic for solving graph coloring problems. Given a set of colors, these type of problems consist in assigning a color to each node of a graph, in such a way that every pair of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Francisco J. Aragón Artacho , Rubén Campoy

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

Colour refinement is a basic algorithmic routine for graph isomorphism testing, appearing as a subroutine in almost all practical isomorphism solvers. It partitions the vertices of a graph into "colour classes" in such a way that all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Martin Grohe , Kristian Kersting , Martin Mladenov , Erkal Selman

We tackle three optimization problems in which a colored graph, where each node is assigned a color, must be partitioned into colorful connected components. A component is defined as colorful if each color appears at most once. The problems…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Claudia Archetti , Martina Cerulli , Carmine Sorgente

The graph isomorphism (GI) problem, which asks whether two graphs are structurally identical, occupies a unique position in computational complexity -- it is neither known to be solvable in polynomial time, nor proven to be NP-complete. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Wenjie Xiao , Mathieu Besançon , Patrick Gelß , Deborah Hendrych , Stefan Klus , Sebastian Pokutta

The graph isomorphism problem is a main problem which has numerous applications in different fields. Thus, finding an efficient and easy to implement method to discriminate non-isomorphic graphs is valuable. In this paper, a new method is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Ameneh Farhadian

The problems studied in this paper originate from Graph Motif, a problem introduced in 2006 in the context of biological networks. Informally speaking, it consists in deciding if a multiset of colors occurs in a connected subgraph of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Romeo Rizzi , Florian Sikora

The kTree problem is a special case of Subgraph Isomorphism where the pattern graph is a tree, that is, the input is an $n$-node graph $G$ and a $k$-node tree $T$, and the goal is to determine whether $G$ has a subgraph isomorphic to $T$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Robert Krauthgamer , Ohad Trabelsi

Subgraph Isomorphism uses a small graph as a pattern to identify within a larger graph a set of vertices that have matching edges. This paper addresses a logic program written in Prolog for a specific relatively complex graph pattern for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Claire Y. Yin , Peter M. Kogge

Subgraph isomorphism counting is known as #P-complete and requires exponential time to find the accurate solution. Utilizing representation learning has been shown as a promising direction to represent substructures and approximate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xin Liu , Weiqi Wang , Jiaxin Bai , Yangqiu Song

Graph isomorphism is an important problem as its worst-case time complexity is not yet fully understood. In this study, we try to draw parallels between a related optimization problem called point set registration. A graph can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Yigit Oktar

We investigate a special case of the Induced Subgraph Isomorphism problem, where both input graphs are interval graphs. We show the NP-hardness of this problem, and we prove fixed-parameter tractability of the problem with non-standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-08 Dániel Marx , Ildikó Schlotter

Subgraph counting aims to count occurrences of a template T in a given network G(V, E). It is a powerful graph analysis tool and has found real-world applications in diverse domains. Scaling subgraph counting problems is known to be memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Langshi Chen , Jiayu Li , Ariful Azad , Cenk Sahinalp , Madhav Marathe , Anil Vullikanti , Andrey Nikolaev , Egor Smirnov , Ruslan Israfilov , Judy Qiu

If distinct colours represent distinct technology types that are placed at the vertices of a simple graph in accordance to a minimum proper colouring, a disaster recovery strategy could rely on an answer to the question: "What is the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Johan Kok , Sudev Naduvath , M. Jerlin Seles , U. Mary

A hypergraph is a generalization of a graph, in which a hyperedge can connect multiple vertices, modeling complex relationships involving multiple vertices simultaneously. Hypergraph pattern matching, which is to find all isomorphic…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Siwoo Song , Wonseok Shin , Kunsoo Park , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Zhengyi Yang , Wenjie Zhang

The graph isomorphism is to determine whether two graphs are isomorphic. A closely related problem is automorphism detection, where an isomorphism between two graphs is a bijection between their vertex sets that preserves adjacency, and an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Can Lu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Zhiwei Zhang , Hong Cheng

The graph isomorphism problem is considered. We assign modified $n$-variable characteristic polynomials for graphs and reduce the graph isomorphism problem to the problem of the polynomials isomorphism. It is required to find out, is there…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Alexander Prolubnikov

Subgraph isomorphism, also known as subgraph matching, is typically regarded as an NP-complete problem. This complexity is further compounded in practical applications where edge weights are real-valued and may be affected by measurement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Arpan Kusari , Wenbo Sun