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Subgraph matching is to find all subgraphs in a data graph that are isomorphic to an existing query graph. Subgraph matching is an NP-hard problem, yet has found its applications in many areas. Many learning-based methods have been proposed…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Zixun Lan , Ye Ma , Limin Yu , LingLong Yuan , Fei Ma

Subgraph matching, a cornerstone of relational pattern detection in domains ranging from biochemical systems to social network analysis, faces significant computational challenges due to the dramatically growing search space. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuchen Ying , Yiyang Dai , Wenda Li , Wenjie Huang , Rui Wang , Tongya Zheng , Yu Wang , Hanyang Yuan , Mingli Song

Graph matching can be formalized as a combinatorial optimization problem, where there are corresponding relationships between pairs of nodes that can be represented as edges. This problem becomes challenging when there are potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Dongdong Chen , Yuxing Dai , Lichi Zhang , Zhihong Zhang

One of the major challenges in applications related to social networks, computational biology, collaboration networks etc., is to efficiently search for similar patterns in their underlying graphs. These graphs are typically noisy and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Kanigalpula Samanvi , Naveen Sivadasan

Subgraph matching query is a fundamental problem in graph data management and has a variety of real-world applications. Several recent works utilize deep learning (DL) techniques to process subgraph matching queries. Most of them find…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bin Yang , Zhaonian Zou , Jianxiong Ye

Problems in scientific computing, such as distributing large sparse matrix operations, have analogous formulations as hypergraph partitioning problems. A hypergraph is a generalization of a traditional graph wherein "hyperedges" may connect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Justin Sybrandt , Ruslan Shaydulin , Ilya Safro

In this work, we propose a novel approach for subgraph matching, the problem of finding a given query graph in a large source graph, based on the fused Gromov-Wasserstein distance. We formulate the subgraph matching problem as a partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Wen-Xin Pan , Isabel Haasler , Pascal Frossard

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

Efficiently finding subgraph embeddings in large graphs is crucial for many application areas like biology and social network analysis. Set intersections are the predominant and most challenging aspect of current join-based subgraph query…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jonas Dann , Tobias Götz , Daniel Ritter , Jana Giceva , Holger Fröning

This study poses the feature correspondence problem as a hypergraph node labeling problem. Candidate feature matches and their subsets (usually of size larger than two) are considered to be the nodes and hyperedges of a hypergraph. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-07-14 Toufiq Parag , Vladimir Pavlovic , Ahmed Elgammal

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

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

The increasing size of screening libraries poses a significant challenge for the development of virtual screening methods for drug discovery, necessitating a re-evaluation of traditional approaches in the era of big data. Although 3D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Daniel Rose , Oliver Wieder , Thomas Seidel , Thierry Langer

Subgraph matching is a fundamental building block for graph-based applications and is challenging due to its high-order combinatorial nature. Existing studies usually tackle it by combinatorial optimization or learning-based methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Xuanzhou Liu , Lin Zhang , Jiaqi Sun , Yujiu Yang , Haiqin Yang

The problem of finding dense components of a graph is a widely explored area in data analysis, with diverse applications in fields and branches of study including community mining, spam detection, computer security and bioinformatics. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 B. D. M. De Zoysa , Y. A. M. M. A. Ali , M. D. I. Maduranga , Indika Perera , Saliya Ekanayake , Anil Vullikanti

Subgraph isomorphism is a well-known NP-hard problem which is widely used in many applications, such as social network analysis and knowledge graph query. Its performance is often limited by the inherent hardness. Several insightful works…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Li Zeng , Yan Jiang , Weixin Lu , Lei Zou

Finding patterns in large highly connected datasets is critical for value discovery in business development and scientific research. This work focuses on the problem of subgraph matching on streaming graphs, which provides utility in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Bibek Bhattarai , Howie Huang

The similarity of graph structures, such as Meaning Representations (MRs), is often assessed via structural matching algorithms, such as Smatch (Cai and Knight, 2013). However, Smatch involves a combinatorial problem that suffers from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Juri Opitz , Philipp Meier , Anette Frank

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

This paper addresses the challenging problem of retrieval and matching of graph structured objects, and makes two key contributions. First, we demonstrate how Graph Neural Networks (GNN), which have emerged as an effective model for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yujia Li , Chenjie Gu , Thomas Dullien , Oriol Vinyals , Pushmeet Kohli