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Graphs provide a natural way to represent data by encoding information about objects and the relationships between them. With the ever-increasing amount of data collected and generated, locating specific patterns of relationships between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tatyana Benko , Rebecca Jones , Lucas Tate

Finding vertex-to-vertex correspondences in real-world graphs is a challenging task with applications in a wide variety of domains. Structural matching based on graphs connectivities has attracted considerable attention, while the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Raphaël Candelier

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

Graph matching is one of the most significant graph analytic tasks, which aims to find the node correspondence across different graphs. Most existing graph matching approaches mainly rely on topological information, whose performances are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haoran Cheng , Dixin Luo , Hongteng Xu

Whether comparing networks to each other or to random expectation, measuring dissimilarity is essential to understanding the complex phenomena under study. However, determining the structural dissimilarity between networks is an ill-defined…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Leo Torres , Pablo Suarez-Serrato , Tina Eliassi-Rad

Feature-based image matching has extensive applications in computer vision. Keypoints detected in images can be naturally represented as graph structures, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been shown to outperform traditional deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xianfeng Song , Yi Zou , Zheng Shi , Zheng Liu

Traditional graph centrality measures effectively quantify node importance but fail to capture the structural uniqueness of multi-scale connectivity patterns -- critical for understanding network resilience and function. This paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-03 R. Scott Johnson

We present a novel framework based on optimal transport for the challenging problem of comparing graphs. Specifically, we exploit the probabilistic distribution of smooth graph signals defined with respect to the graph topology. This allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille EL Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

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

In this paper, we present a new metric distance for comparing two large graphs to find similarities and differences between them based on one of the most important graph structural properties, which is Node Adjacency Information, for all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Arefe Alikhani , Farzad Didehvar

Graph matching is a challenging problem with very important applications in a wide range of fields, from image and video analysis to biological and biomedical problems. We propose a robust graph matching algorithm inspired in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Marcelo Fiori , Pablo Sprechmann , Joshua Vogelstein , Pablo Musé , Guillermo Sapiro

Finding interesting symmetrical topological structures in high-dimensional systems is an important problem in statistical machine learning. Limited amount of available high-dimensional data and its sensitivity to noise pose computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Kallol Roy , Anh Tong , Jaesik Choi

We propose a novel method for comparing non-aligned graphs of different sizes, based on the Wasserstein distance between graph signal distributions induced by the respective graph Laplacian matrices. Specifically, we cast a new formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille El Gheche , Matthias Minder , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

We present a robust method to find region-level correspondences between shapes, which are invariant to changes in geometry and applicable across multiple shape representations. We generate simplified shape graphs by jointly decomposing the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov

Homomorphism is a key mapping technique between graphs that preserves their structure. Given a graph and a pattern, the subgraph homomorphism problem involves finding a mapping from the pattern to the graph, ensuring that adjacent vertices…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shuyang Guo , Wenjin Xie , Ping Lu , Ting Deng , Richong Zhang , Jianxin Li , Xiangping Huang , Zhongyi Liu

Community identification is a long-standing challenge in the modern network science, especially for very large scale networks containing millions of nodes. In this paper, we propose a new metric to quantify the structural similarity between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-05-31 Biao Xiang , En-Hong Chen , Tao Zhou

Recent years have seen a rise in the development of representational learning methods for graph data. Most of these methods, however, focus on node-level representation learning at various scales (e.g., microscopic, mesoscopic, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Lili Wang , Chenghan Huang , Weicheng Ma , Xinyuan Cao , Soroush Vosoughi

Effective information analysis generally boils down to properly identifying the structure or geometry of the data, which is often represented by a graph. In some applications, this structure may be partly determined by design constraints or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Dorina Thanou , Xiaowen Dong , Daniel Kressner , Pascal Frossard

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

We address the correspondence search problem among multiple graphs with complex properties while considering the matching consistency. We describe each pair of graphs by combining multiple attributes, then jointly match them in a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Han-Mu Park , Kuk-Jin Yoon