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The graph edit distance is used for comparing graphs in various domains. Due to its high computational complexity it is primarily approximated. Widely-used heuristics search for an optimal assignment of vertices based on the distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Franka Bause , Christian Permann , Nils M. Kriege

Graph matching is the process of computing the similarity between two graphs. Depending on the requirement, it can be exact or inexact. Exact graph matching requires a strict correspondence between nodes of two graphs, whereas inexact…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

In this paper, matching pairs of stocahstically generated graphs in the presence of generalized seed side-information is considered. The graph matching problem emerges naturally in various applications such as social network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Mahshad Shariatnasab , Farhad Shirani , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

Metric data plays an important role in various settings such as metric-based indexing, clustering, classification, and approximation algorithms in general. Due to measurement error, noise, or an inability to completely gather all the data,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Chenglin Fan , Benjamin Raichel , Gregory Van Buskirk

Finding optimal matchings in dense graphs is of general interest and of particular importance in social, transportation and biological networks. While developing optimal solutions for various matching problems is important, the running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Nitish K. Panigrahy , Prithwish Basu , Don Towsley

The ability to compute similarity scores between graphs based on metrics such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) is important in many real-world applications. Computing exact GED values is typically an NP-hard problem and traditional algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Haoyan Xu , Runjian Chen , Yueyang Wang , Ziheng Duan , Jie Feng

Removing overlaps is a central task in domains such as scheduling, visibility, and map labelling. This can be modelled using graphs, where overlap removals correspond to enforcing a certain sparsity constraint on the graph structure. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Nicolás Honorato-Droguett , Kazuhiro Kurita , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono , Alexander Wolff

We study Geometric Graph Edit Distance (GGED), a graph-editing model to compute the minimum edit distance of intersection graphs that uses moving objects as an edit operation. We first show an $O(n\log n)$-time algorithm that minimises the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nicolás Honorato-Droguett , Kazuhiro Kurita , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono

Many applications in pattern recognition represent patterns as a geometric graph. The geometric graph distance (GGD) has recently been studied as a meaningful measure of similarity between two geometric graphs. Since computing the GGD is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Sushovan Majhi

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

The need to identify graphs with small structural distances from a query arises in domains such as biology, chemistry, recommender systems, and social network analysis. Among several methods for measuring inter-graph distance, Graph Edit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Aditya Bommakanti , Harshith Reddy Vonteri , Sayan Ranu , Panagiotis Karras

The graph edit distance (GED) measures the dissimilarity between two graphs as the minimal cost of a sequence of elementary operations transforming one graph into another. This measure is fundamental in many areas such as structural pattern…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Nicolas Boria , David B. Blumenthal , Sébastien Bougleux , Luc Brun

A matching cut of a graph is a partition of its vertex set in two such that no vertex has more than one neighbor across the cut. The Matching Cut problem asks if a graph has a matching cut. This problem, and its generalization d-cut, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Emanuel Juliano , Gabriel Martins , Vinicius F. dos Santos

We introduce GSimCNN (Graph Similarity Computation via Convolutional Neural Networks) for predicting the similarity score between two graphs. As the core operation of graph similarity search, pairwise graph similarity computation is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Tolerance graphs model interval relations in such a way that intervals can tolerate a certain amount of overlap without being in conflict. In one of the most natural generalizations of tolerance graphs with direct applications in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , George B. Mertzios

Graph Similarity Computation (GSC) is a fundamental graph related task where Graph Edit Distance (GED) serves as a prevalent metric. GED is determined by an optimal alignment between a pair of graphs that partitions each into aligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhentao Zhan , Xiaoliang Xu , Jingjing Wang , Junmei Wang

Graph matching aims to establish correspondences between vertices of graphs such that both the node and edge attributes agree. Various learning-based methods were recently proposed for finding correspondences between image key points based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhenzhang Ye , Tarun Yenamandra , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

In graph modification problems, one is given a graph G and the goal is to apply a minimum number of modification operations (such as edge deletions) to G such that the resulting graph fulfills a certain property. For example, the Cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

Despite Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved prominent success in many graph-based learning problem, such as credit risk assessment in financial networks and fake news detection in social networks. However, the trained GNNs still make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zirui Liu , Zhimeng Jiang , Shaochen Zhong , Kaixiong Zhou , Li Li , Rui Chen , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

This paper introduces the \emph{$d$-distance matching problem}, in which we are given a bipartite graph $G=(S,T;E)$ with $S=\{s_1,\dots,s_n\}$, a weight function on the edges and an integer $d\in\mathbb Z_+$. The goal is to find a maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Péter Madarasi