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Recently, deep learning based methods have demonstrated promising results on the graph matching problem, by relying on the descriptive capability of deep features extracted on graph nodes. However, one main limitation with existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Quankai Gao , Fudong Wang , Nan Xue , Jin-Gang Yu , Gui-Song Xia

Hypergraph matching has recently become a popular approach for solving correspondence problems in computer vision as it allows to integrate higher-order geometric information. Hypergraph matching can be formulated as a third-order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Quynh Nguyen , Francesco Tudisco , Antoine Gautier , Matthias Hein

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

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…

Planning in hybrid systems with both discrete and continuous control variables is important for dealing with real-world applications such as extra-planetary exploration and multi-vehicle transportation systems. Meanwhile, generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jingkai Chen , Brian Williams , Chuchu Fan

A matching in a graph is induced if no two of its edges are joined by an edge, and finding a large induced matching is a very hard problem. Lin et al. (Approximating weighted induced matchings, Discrete Applied Mathematics 243 (2018)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Julien Baste , Maximilian Fürst , Dieter Rautenbach

In this paper, we propose a graph classification approach for automatically determining whether to use a monolithic or a decomposition-based solution method. In this approach, an optimization problem is represented as a graph that captures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

We consider the NP-hard problem of MAP-inference for undirected discrete graphical models. We propose a polynomial time and practically efficient algorithm for finding a part of its optimal solution. Specifically, our algorithm marks some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Alexander Shekhovtsov , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

Graph matching consists of aligning the vertices of two unlabeled graphs in order to maximize the shared structure across networks; when the graphs are unipartite, this is commonly formulated as minimizing their edge disagreements. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-13 Jesús Arroyo , Carey E. Priebe , Vince Lyzinski

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

Computing high-quality graph partitions is a challenging problem with numerous applications. In this paper, we present a novel meta-heuristic for the balanced graph partitioning problem. Our approach is based on integer linear programs that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Alexandra Henzinger , Alexander Noe , Christian Schulz

Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a foundational tool for complex decision-making problems. However, the NP-hard nature of MILP presents a significant computational challenge, motivating the development of machine learning-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hongpei Li , Hui Yuan , Han Zhang , Jianghao Lin , Dongdong Ge , Mengdi Wang , Yinyu Ye

Storyline drawings are a popular visualization of interactions of a set of characters over time, e.g., to show participants of scenes in a book or movie. Characters are represented as $x$-monotone curves that converge vertically for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Alexander Dobler , Michael Jünger , Paul J. Jünger , Julian Meffert , Petra Mutzel , Martin Nöllenburg

We contribute to the sparsely populated area of unsupervised deep graph matching with application to keypoint matching in images. Contrary to the standard \emph{supervised} approach, our method does not require ground truth correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Siddharth Tourani , Carsten Rother , Muhammad Haris Khan , Bogdan Savchynskyy

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

Consider a random graph model where each possible edge $e$ is present independently with some probability $p_e$. Given these probabilities, we want to build a large/heavy matching in the randomly generated graph. However, the only way we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-01 Nikhil Bansal , Anupam Gupta , Jian Li , Julian Mestre , Viswanath Nagarajan , Atri Rudra

Graph matching is a fundamental tool in computer vision and pattern recognition. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for graph matching based on the proximal operator, referred to as differentiable proximal graph matching (DPGM).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Haoru Tan , Chuang Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Differentiable solvers for the linear assignment problem (LAP) have attracted much research attention in recent years, which are usually embedded into learning frameworks as components. However, previous algorithms, with or without learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 He Liu , Tao Wang , Congyan Lang , Songhe Feng , Yi Jin , Yidong Li

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problems with multilinear interpolations of look-up tables. These problems arise when objective or constraints contain black-box functions only known at…

The Smatch metric is a popular method for evaluating graph distances, as is necessary, for instance, to assess the performance of semantic graph parsing systems. However, we observe some issues in the metric that jeopardize meaningful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Juri Opitz