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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

Temporal sequences of terrains arise in various application areas. To analyze them efficiently, one generally needs a suitable abstraction of the data as well as a method to compare and match them over time. In this paper we consider merge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Thijs Beurskens , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek

In this paper we study a new metric for comparing Betti numbers functions in bidimensional persistent homology, based on coherent matchings, i.e. families of matchings that vary in a continuous way. We prove some new results about this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Andrea Cerri , Marc Ethier , Patrizio Frosini

Graphs drawn in the plane are ubiquitous, arising from data sets through a variety of methods ranging from GIS analysis to image classification to shape analysis. A fundamental problem in this type of data is comparison: given a set of such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Levent Batakci , Abigail Branson , Bryan Castillo , Candace Todd , Erin Wolf Chambers , Elizabeth Munch

The unordered tree edit distance is a natural metric to compute distances between trees without intrinsic child order, such as representations of chemical molecules. While the unordered tree edit distance is MAX SNP-hard in principle, it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Benjamin Paaßen

The tutorial describes the concept of edit distances applied to research and commercial contexts. We use Translation Edit Rate (TER), Levenshtein, Damerau-Levenshtein, Longest Common Subsequence and $n$-gram distances to demonstrate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Félix do Carmo , Diptesh Kanojia

Many natural language processing (NLP) applications require the computation of similarities between pairs of syntactic or semantic trees. Many researchers have used tree edit distance for this task, but this technique suffers from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Maytham Alabbas , Allan Ramsay

A geometric graph is a combinatorial graph, endowed with a geometry that is inherited from its embedding in a Euclidean space. Formulation of a meaningful measure of (dis-)similarity in both the combinatorial and geometric structures of two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

Computing the edit distance of two strings is one of the most basic problems in computer science and combinatorial optimization. Tree edit distance is a natural generalization of edit distance in which the task is to compute a measure of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Debarati Das , Jacob Gilbert , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tomasz Kociumaka , Barna Saha , Hamed Saleh

Merge trees are a topological descriptor of a filtered space that enriches the degree zero barcode with its merge structure. The space of merge trees comes equipped with an interleaving distance $d_I$, which prompts a naive question: is the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-04 David Beers , Gillian Grindstaff

There are several interrelated notions of discrete curvature on graphs. Many approaches utilize the optimal transportation metric on its probability simplex or the distance matrix of the graph. In this survey article, we compute formulas…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sawyer Jack Robertson

Recently, $p$-presentation distances for $p\in [1,\infty]$ were introduced for merge trees and multiparameter persistence modules as more sensitive variations of the respective interleaving distances ($p=\infty)$. It is well-known that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Magnus Bakke Botnan

Kondo et al. (DS 2014) proposed methods for computing distances between unordered rooted trees by transforming an instance of the distance computing problem into an instance of the integer programming problem. They showed that the tree edit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Eunpyeong Hong , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Akihiro Yamamoto

We define edit distance for hierarchically structured data compatible with the hierarchical multi-instance learning paradigm. Example of such data is dataset represented in JSON format where inner Array objects are interpreted as unordered…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Břetislav Šopík , Tomáš Strenáčik

We study transport distances on metric graphs representing gas networks. Starting from the dynamic formulation of the Wasserstein distance, we review extensions to networks, with and without the possibility of storing mass on the vertices.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Martin Burger , Ariane Fazeny , Gilles Mordant , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

The mutational heterogeneity of tumours can be described with a tree representing the evolutionary history of the tumour. With noisy sequencing data there may be uncertainty in the inferred tree structure, while we may also wish to study…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Luís Cunha , Jack Kuipers , Thiago Lopes

Compression and sparsification algorithms are frequently applied in a preprocessing step before analyzing or optimizing large networks/graphs. In this paper we propose and study a new framework contracting edges of a graph (merging vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Aaron Bernstein , Karl Däubel , Yann Disser , Max Klimm , Torsten Mütze , Frieder Smolny

Merge trees, a type of topological descriptor, serve to identify and summarize the topological characteristics associated with scalar fields. They present a great potential for the analysis and visualization of time-varying data. First,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Lin Yan , Talha Bin Masood , Farhan Rasheed , Ingrid Hotz , Bei Wang

We consider a Markov chain on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with invariant measure $\mu$. We are interested in the rate of convergence of the empirical measures towards the invariant measure with respect to various dual distances, including in particular…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Adrian Riekert

The problem of computing the edit-distance between a string and a finite automaton arises in a variety of applications in computational biology, text processing, and speech recognition. This paper presents linear-space algorithms for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-30 Cyril Allauzen , Mehryar Mohri