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We propose a fast approximate algorithm for large graph matching. A new projected fixed-point method is defined and a new doubly stochastic projection is adopted to derive the algorithm. Previous graph matching algorithms suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Yao Lu , Kaizhu Huang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Edge-labeled graphs are widely used to describe relationships between entities in a database. Given a query subgraph that represents an example of what the user is searching for, we study the problem of efficiently searching for similar…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Zhaoyang Shao , Davood Rafiei , Themis Palpanas

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

Given two graphs, the graph matching problem is to align the two vertex sets so as to minimize the number of adjacency disagreements between the two graphs. The seeded graph matching problem is the graph matching problem when we are first…

Graph edit distance / similarity is widely used in many tasks, such as graph similarity search, binary function analysis, and graph clustering. However, computing the exact graph edit distance (GED) or maximum common subgraph (MCS) between…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Haibo Xiu , Xiao Yan , Xiaoqiang Wang , James Cheng , Lei Cao

Graphs provide an efficient tool for object representation in various computer vision applications. Once graph-based representations are constructed, an important question is how to compare graphs. This problem is often formulated as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-04-30 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

The graph matching problem emerges naturally in various applications such as web privacy, image processing and computational biology. In this paper, graph matching is considered under a stochastic model, where a pair of randomly generated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Farhad Shirani , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

Graph embeddings have emerged as a powerful tool for representing complex network structures in a low-dimensional space, enabling the use of efficient methods that employ the metric structure in the embedding space as a proxy for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Radosław Nowak , Adam Małkowski , Daniel Cieślak , Piotr Sokół , Paweł Wawrzyński

Measuring similarity between complex objects is a fundamental task in many scientific fields. When objects are represented as graphs, graph similarity/distance measures offer a powerful framework for quantifying structural resemblance.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Matthias Dehmer , Izudin Redžepović , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

As a fundamental problem in pattern recognition, graph matching has applications in a variety of fields, from computer vision to computational biology. In graph matching, patterns are modeled as graphs and pattern recognition amounts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-06-19 Tiberio S. Caetano , Julian J. McAuley , Li Cheng , Quoc V. Le , Alex J. Smola

Graph edit distance (GED) is a powerful and flexible graph matching paradigm that can be used to address different tasks in structural pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining. In this paper, some new binary linear programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Julien Lerouge , Zeina Abu-Aisheh , Romain Raveaux , Pierre Héroux , Sébastien Adam

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

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

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 Graph Edit Distance (GED) is an important metric for measuring the similarity between two (labeled) graphs. It is defined as the minimum cost required to convert one graph into another through a series of (elementary) edit operations.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Andrea D'Ascenzo , Julian Meffert , Petra Mutzel , Fabrizio Rossi

Graph matching refers to finding node correspondence between graphs, such that the corresponding node and edge's affinity can be maximized. In addition with its NP-completeness nature, another important challenge is effective modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Runzhong Wang , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

We consider the following stochastic matching problem on both weighted and unweighted graphs: A graph $G(V, E)$ along with a parameter $p \in (0, 1)$ is given in the input. Each edge of $G$ is realized independently with probability $p$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Soheil Behnezhad , Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Nima Reyhani

A large driver of the complexity of graph learning is the interplay between structure and features. When analyzing the expressivity of graph neural networks, however, existing approaches ignore features in favor of structure, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Martin Carrasco , Olga Zaghen , Kavir Sumaraj , Erik Bekkers , Bastian Rieck

Graph similarity search is a common and fundamental operation in graph databases. One of the most popular graph similarity measures is the Graph Edit Distance (GED) mainly because of its broad applicability and high interpretability.…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Zijian Li , Xun Jian , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen

Image matching is a key component of many tasks in computer vision and its main objective is to find correspondences between features extracted from different natural images. When images are represented as graphs, image matching boils down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Nancy Xu , Giannis Nikolentzos , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Henrik Boström