English
Related papers

Related papers: Wasserstein-based Graph Alignment

200 papers

We propose a new approach for unsupervised alignment of heterogeneous datasets, which maps data from two different domains without any known correspondences to a common metric space. Our method is based on an unbalanced optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Florian Beier , Moritz Piening , Robert Beinert , Gabriele Steidl

Consider a finite directed graph without cycles in which the arrows are weighted. We present an algorithm for the computation of a new distance, called path-length-weighted distance, which has proven useful for graph analysis in the context…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 R. Arnau , J. M. Calabuig , L. M. García Raffi , E. A. Sánchez Pérez , S. Sanjuan

Graph alignment aims at finding the vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs, a task that frequently occurs in graph mining applications such as social network analysis. Attributed graph alignment is a variant of graph alignment,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ziao Wang , Ning Zhang , Weina Wang , Lele Wang

Due to exponential growth of complex data, graph structure has become increasingly important to model various entities and their interactions, with many interesting applications including, bioinformatics, social network analysis, etc.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Muhammad Abulaish , Jahiruddin

Comparing structured objects such as graphs is a fundamental operation involved in many learning tasks. To this end, the Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance, based on Optimal Transport (OT), has proven to be successful in handling the specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Cédric Vincent-Cuaz , Rémi Flamary , Marco Corneli , Titouan Vayer , Nicolas Courty

Subgraph matching is a core task in graph analytics, widely used in domains such as biology, finance, and social networks. Existing top-k diversified methods typically focus on maximizing vertex coverage, but often return results in the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Liuyi Chen , Yuchen Hu , Zhengyi Yang , Xu Zhou , Wenjie Zhang , Kenli Li

The graph alignment problem aims to identify the vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs. Most existing studies focus on the scenario in which the two graphs share the same vertex set. However, in many real-world applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chun Hei Michael Shiu , Hei Victor Cheng , Lele Wang

Despite of its importance for safe machine learning, uncertainty quantification for neural networks is far from being solved. State-of-the-art approaches to estimate neural uncertainties are often hybrid, combining parametric models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Joachim Sicking , Maram Akila , Maximilian Pintz , Tim Wirtz , Asja Fischer , Stefan Wrobel

A popular method of force-directed graph drawing is multidimensional scaling using graph-theoretic distances as input. We present an algorithm to minimize its energy function, known as stress, by using stochastic gradient descent (SGD) to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Jonathan X. Zheng , Samraat Pawar , Dan F. M. Goodman

We present new algorithms to compute the mean of a set of empirical probability measures under the optimal transport metric. This mean, known as the Wasserstein barycenter, is the measure that minimizes the sum of its Wasserstein distances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-18 Marco Cuturi , Arnaud Doucet

A regularized optimization problem over a large unstructured graph is studied, where the regularization term is tied to the graph geometry. Typical regularization examples include the total variation and the Laplacian regularizations over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Adil Salim , Pascal Bianchi , Walid Hachem

Distribution data refers to a data set where each sample is represented as a probability distribution, a subject area receiving burgeoning interest in the field of statistics. Although several studies have developed…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-09 Ryo Okano , Masaaki Imaizumi

Twin-width is a graph parameter introduced in the context of first-order model checking, and has since become a central parameter in algorithmic graph theory. While many algorithmic problems become easier on arbitrary classes of bounded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Irene Heinrich , Moritz Lichter , Klara Pakhomenko , Simon Raßmann

We consider the graph alignment problem, wherein the objective is to find a vertex correspondence between two graphs that maximizes the edge overlap. The graph alignment problem is an instance of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-07 Sushil Mahavir Varma , Irène Waldspurger , Laurent Massoulié

Many real-world problems can be formulated as the alignment between two geometric patterns. Previously, a great amount of research focus on the alignment of 2D or 3D patterns in the field of computer vision. Recently, the alignment problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Hu Ding , Wenjie Liu , Mingquan Ye

We propose the use of non-parametric, graph-based tests to assess the distributional balance of covariates in observational studies with multi-valued treatments. Our tests utilize graph structures ranging from Hamiltonian paths that connect…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-11 Eric A. Dunipace

We propose to study the problem of few shot graph classification in graph neural networks (GNNs) to recognize unseen classes, given limited labeled graph examples. Despite several interesting GNN variants being proposed recently for node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jatin Chauhan , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

Stochastic optimization algorithms update models with cheap per-iteration costs sequentially, which makes them amenable for large-scale data analysis. Such algorithms have been widely studied for structured sparse models where the sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Baojian Zhou , Feng Chen , Yiming Ying

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

The comparison of graphs is a vitally important, yet difficult task which arises across a number of diverse research areas including biological and social networks. There have been a number of approaches to define graph distance however…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Andrew Mellor , Angelica Grusovin