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Recently various optimization problems, such as Mixed Integer Linear Programming Problems (MILPs), have undergone comprehensive investigation, leveraging the capabilities of machine learning. This work focuses on learning-based solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhentao Tan , Yadong Mu

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an NP-hard problem which has proven particularly challenging to solve: unlike other combinatorial problems like the traveling salesman problem (TSP), which can be solved to optimality for instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Puneet S. Bagga , Arthur Delarue

Multigraph matching is a recent variant of the graph matching problem. In this framework, the optimization procedure considers several graphs and enforces the consistency of the matches along the graphs. This constraint can be formalized as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 François-Xavier Dupé , Rohit Yadav , Guillaume Auzias , S. Takerkart

In this paper, we consider the weighted graph matching problem with partially disclosed correspondences between a number of anchor nodes. Our construction exploits recently introduced node signatures based on graph Laplacians, namely the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Nan Hu , Raif M. Rustamov , Leonidas Guibas

Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a practical combinatorial optimization problems that has been studied for several years. Since it is NP-hard, solving large problem instances of QAP is challenging. Although heuristics can find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Satoko Iida , Ryota Yasudo

Graph matching, typically formulated as a Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP), seeks to establish node correspondences between two graphs. To address the NP-hardness of QAP, some existing methods adopt projection-based relaxations that embed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Binrui Shen , Yuan Liang , Shengxin Zhu

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 propose a convex-concave programming approach for the labeled weighted graph matching problem. The convex-concave programming formulation is obtained by rewriting the weighted graph matching problem as a least-square problem on the set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-10-27 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

Data integration is essential across diverse domains, from historical records to biomedical research, facilitating joint statistical inference. A crucial initial step in this process involves merging multiple data sources based on matching…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-15 Trisha Dawn , Jesús Arroyo

Graph matching plays a central role in such fields as computer vision, pattern recognition, and bioinformatics. Graph matching problems can be cast as two types of quadratic assignment problems (QAPs): Koopmans-Beckmann's QAP or Lawler's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zhen Zhang , Yijian Xiang , Lingfei Wu , Bing Xue , Arye Nehorai

In this paper, we present a polynomial-sized linear programming formulation of the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). The proposed linear program is a network flow-based model. Hence, it provides for the solution of the QAP in polynomial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Moustapha Diaby

Retrieving the most similar objects in a large-scale database for a given query is a fundamental building block in many application domains, ranging from web searches, visual, cross media, and document retrievals. State-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Muge Li , Liangyue Li , Feiping Nie

In recent years, powered by the learned discriminative representation via graph neural network (GNN) models, deep graph matching methods have made great progresses in the task of matching semantic features. However, these methods usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 He Liu , Tao Wang , Yidong Li , Congyan Lang , Yi Jin , Haibin Ling

Graph matching is an important problem that has received widespread attention, especially in the field of computer vision. Recently, state-of-the-art methods seek to incorporate graph matching with deep learning. However, there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhoubo Xu , Puqing Chen , Romain Raveaux , Xin Yang , Huadong Liu

We study the quadratic assignment problem, in computer vision also known as graph matching. Two leading solvers for this problem optimize the Lagrange decomposition duals with sub-gradient and dual ascent (also known as message passing)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Paul Swoboda , Carsten Rother , Hassan Abu Alhaija , Dagmar Kainmueller , Bogdan Savchynskyy

Finding shape correspondences can be formulated as an NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP) that becomes infeasible for shapes with high sampling density. A promising research direction is to tackle such quadratic optimization problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Zorah Lähner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christof Wunderlich , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

A quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that belongs to the class of NP-hard ones. So, it is difficult to solve in the polynomial time even for small instances. Research on the QAP has thus focused on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Zohreh Raziei , Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam , Siavash Tabrizian

Graph alignment refers to the problem of finding a bijective mapping across vertices of two graphs such that, if two nodes are connected in the first graph, their images are connected in the second graph. This problem arises in many fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Soheil Feizi , Gerald Quon , Mariana Recamonde-Mendoza , Muriel Medard , Manolis Kellis , Ali Jadbabaie

We consider the incomplete multi-graph matching problem, which is a generalization of the NP-hard quadratic assignment problem for matching multiple finite sets. Multi-graph matching plays a central role in computer vision, e.g., for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Max Kahl , Sebastian Stricker , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Bogdan Savchynskyy

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