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In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

Graph neural network (GNN) is a popular tool to learn the lower-dimensional representation of a graph. It facilitates the applicability of machine learning tasks on graphs by incorporating domain-specific features. There are various options…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Md. Khaledur Rahman

Graph learning is often a necessary step in processing or representing structured data, when the underlying graph is not given explicitly. Graph learning is generally performed centrally with a full knowledge of the graph signals, namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Mapper graphs are widely used tools in topological data analysis and visualization. They can be understood as discrete approximations of Reeb graphs, providing insight into the shape and connectivity of complex data. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Erin Wolf Chambers , Ishika Ghosh , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

In large scale machine learning and data mining problems with high feature dimensionality, the Euclidean distance between data points can be uninformative, and Distance Metric Learning (DML) is often desired to learn a proper similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Pengtao Xie , Eric Xing

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a standard approach for learning from graph-structured data. However, their reliance on parametric classifiers (most often linear softmax layers) limits interpretability and sometimes hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zeljko Bolevic , Milos Brajovic , Isidora Stankovic , Ljubisa Stankovic

While the celebrated graph neural networks yield effective representations for individual nodes of a graph, there has been relatively less success in extending to the task of graph similarity learning. Recent work on graph similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Xiang Ling , Lingfei Wu , Saizhuo Wang , Tengfei Ma , Fangli Xu , Alex X. Liu , Chunming Wu , Shouling Ji

Statistical analysis of large and sparse graphs is a challenging problem in data science due to the high dimensionality and nonlinearity of the problem. This paper presents a fast and scalable algorithm for partitioning such graphs into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Hannu Reittu , Lasse Leskelä , Tomi Räty , Marco Fiorucci

Many complex engineering systems can be represented in a topological form, such as graphs. This paper utilizes a machine learning technique called Geometric Deep Learning (GDL) to aid designers with challenging, graph-centric design…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Anthony Sirico , Daniel R. Herber

Real-world heterogeneous graphs are inherently noisy and usually not in the optimal graph structures for downstream tasks, which often adversely affects the performance of GRL models in downstream tasks. Although Graph Structure Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 He Zhao , Zhiwei Zeng , Yongwei Wang , Chunyan Miao

This work addresses the challenge of using a deep learning model to prune graphs and the ability of this method to integrate explainability into spatio-temporal problems through a new approach. Instead of applying explainability to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Javier García-Sigüenza , Mirco Nanni , Faraón Llorens-Largo , José F. Vicent

We study the problem of computing shortest path or distance between two query vertices in a graph, which has numerous important applications. Quite a number of indexes have been proposed to answer such distance queries. However, all of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Huanhuan Wu , James Cheng , Shumo Chu , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

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

We introduce new distance measures for comparing straight-line embedded graphs based on the Fr\'echet distance and the weak Fr\'echet distance. These graph distances are defined using continuous mappings and thus take the combinatorial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Hugo A. Akitaya , Maike Buchin , Bernhard Kilgus , Stef Sijben , Carola Wenk

Understanding generalization and robustness of machine learning models fundamentally relies on assuming an appropriate metric on the data space. Identifying such a metric is particularly challenging for non-Euclidean data such as graphs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Ching-Yao Chuang , Stefanie Jegelka

A well-defined distance on the parameter space is key to evaluating estimators, ensuring consistency, and building confidence sets. While there are typically standard distances to adopt in a continuous space, this is not the case for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Armeen Taeb , F. Richard Guo , Leonard Henckel

Graph Representation Learning (GRL) is a fundamental task in machine learning, aiming to encode high-dimensional graph-structured data into low-dimensional vectors. Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods are widely used in GRL because they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shifeng Xie , Aref Einizade , Jhony H. Giraldo

This paper considers the problem of interpolating signals defined on graphs. A major presumption considered by many previous approaches to this problem has been lowpass/ band-limitedness of the underlying graph signal. However, inspired by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Maryam Fallah , Farokh Marvasti

Graph embedding methods aim at finding useful graph representations by mapping nodes to a low-dimensional vector space. It is a task with important downstream applications, such as link prediction, graph reconstruction, data visualization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Said Kerrache , Hafida Benhidour

Graph representation learning has attracted a surge of interest recently, whose target at learning discriminant embedding for each node in the graph. Most of these representation methods focus on supervised learning and heavily depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Pengpeng Shao , Tong Liu , Dawei Zhang , Jianhua Tao , Feihu Che , Guohua Yang