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The computation of distance measures between nodes in graphs is inefficient and does not scale to large graphs. We explore dense vector representations as an effective way to approximate the same information: we introduce a simple yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Andrey Kutuzov , Mohammad Dorgham , Oleksiy Oliynyk , Chris Biemann , Alexander Panchenko

This paper presents a spectral framework for quantifying the differentiation between graph data samples by introducing a novel metric named Graph Geodesic Distance (GGD). For two different graphs with the same number of nodes, our framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Soumen Sikder Shuvo , Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

We introduce a general framework for analyzing data modeled as parameterized families of networks. Building on a Gromov-Wasserstein variant of optimal transport, we define a family of parameterized Gromov-Wasserstein distances for comparing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-29 Mario Gómez , Guanqun Ma , Tom Needham , Bei Wang

Learning efficient graph representation is the key to favorably addressing downstream tasks on graphs, such as node or graph property prediction. Given the non-Euclidean structural property of graphs, preserving the original graph data's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Bingxin Zhou , Xuebin Zheng , Yu Guang Wang , Ming Li , Junbin Gao

We consider the problem of learning distance-based Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) for relational data. Specifically, we first embed the original graph into the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^m$ using a relational density estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Devendra Singh Dhami , Siwen Yan , Sriraam Natarajan

Graph embeddings have emerged as a powerful tool for representing complex network structures in a low-dimensional space, enabling the use of efficient methods that employ the metric structure in the embedding space as a proxy for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Radosław Nowak , Adam Małkowski , Daniel Cieślak , Piotr Sokół , Paweł Wawrzyński

Graph comparison deals with identifying similarities and dissimilarities between graphs. A major obstacle is the unknown alignment of graphs, as well as the lack of accurate and inexpensive comparison metrics. In this work we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille El Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance, rooted in optimal transport (OT) theory, quantifies dissimilarity between metric measure spaces and provides a framework for aligning heterogeneous datasets. While computational aspects of the GW…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Zhengxin Zhang , Ziv Goldfeld , Youssef Mroueh , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

Entity alignment is the task of identifying corresponding entities across different knowledge graphs (KGs). Although recent embedding-based entity alignment methods have shown significant advancements, they still struggle to fully utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jianheng Tang , Kangfei Zhao , Jia Li

Fused Gromov-Wasserstein (FGW) distances provide a principled framework for comparing objects by jointly aligning structure and node features. However, existing FGW formulations treat all features uniformly, which limits interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Harlin Lee , Ying Yu , Mingxin Li , Ranthony Clark

Gromov-Wasserstein distance has found many applications in machine learning due to its ability to compare measures across metric spaces and its invariance to isometric transformations. However, in certain applications, this invariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Pinar Demetci , Quang Huy Tran , Ievgen Redko , Ritambhara Singh

Current graph neural network (GNN) architectures naively average or sum node embeddings into an aggregated graph representation -- potentially losing structural or semantic information. We here introduce OT-GNN, a model that computes graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Benson Chen , Gary Bécigneul , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Graph coarsening is a technique for solving large-scale graph problems by working on a smaller version of the original graph, and possibly interpolating the results back to the original graph. It has a long history in scientific computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yifan Chen , Rentian Yao , Yun Yang , Jie Chen

Many graph processing algorithms require determination of shortest-path distances between arbitrary numbers of node pairs. Since computation of exact distances between all node-pairs of a large graph, e.g., 10M nodes and up, is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Deepak Ajwani , W. Sean Kennedy , Alessandra Sala , Iraj Saniee

Learning faithful graph representations as sets of vertex embeddings has become a fundamental intermediary step in a wide range of machine learning applications. The quality of the embeddings is usually determined by how well the geometry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Federico López , Beatrice Pozzetti , Steve Trettel , Anna Wienhard

The Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) test is a classical procedure for graph isomorphism testing. The WL test has also been widely used both for designing graph kernels and for analyzing graph neural networks. In this paper, we propose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Samantha Chen , Sunhyuk Lim , Facundo Mémoli , Zhengchao Wan , Yusu Wang

In many real-world applications data come as discrete metric spaces sampled around 1-dimensional filamentary structures that can be seen as metric graphs. In this paper we address the metric reconstruction problem of such filamentary…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Frédéric Chazal , Jian Sun

Geometric graphs appear in many real-world data sets, such as road networks, sensor networks, and molecules. We investigate the notion of distance between embedded graphs and present a metric to measure the distance between two geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Erin Wolf Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Xinyi Wang

The Gromov-Wasserstein distance is a notable extension of optimal transport. In contrast to the classic Wasserstein distance, it solves a quadratic assignment problem that minimizes the pair-wise distance distortion under the transportation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Wei Zhang , Zihao Wang , Jie Fan , Hao Wu , Yong Zhang

In this paper, we study the design and analysis of a class of efficient algorithms for computing the Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance tailored to large-scale graph learning tasks. Armed with the Luo-Tseng error bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jiajin Li , Jianheng Tang , Lemin Kong , Huikang Liu , Jia Li , Anthony Man-Cho So , Jose Blanchet