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Graph similarity learning, crucial for tasks such as graph classification and similarity search, focuses on measuring the similarity between two graph-structured entities. The core challenge in this field is effectively managing the…

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Pairwise comparison of graphs is key to many applications in Machine learning ranging from clustering, kernel-based classification/regression and more recently supervised graph prediction. Distances between graphs usually rely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-29 Junjie Yang , Matthieu Labeau , Florence d'Alché-Buc

In this paper we offer a metric similar to graph edit distance which measures the distance between two (possibly infinite)weighted graphs with finite norm (we define the norm of a graph as the sum of absolute values of its edges). The main…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-16 Hamed Daneshpajouh , Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh , Farzad Didehvar

The metric dimension of a graph is the smallest number of nodes required to identify all other nodes based on shortest path distances uniquely. Applications of metric dimension include discovering the source of a spread in a network,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Richard C. Tillquist , Rafael M. Frongillo , Manuel E. Lladser

Graph isomorphism is a problem for which there is no known polynomial-time solution. Nevertheless, assessing (dis)similarity between two or more networks is a key task in many areas, such as image recognition, biology, chemistry, computer…

Computation · Statistics 2022-06-28 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff , Cristián Bravo , Yuri Lawryshyn

In this article, we revisit and expand our prior work on graph similarity. As with our earlier work, we focus on a view of similarity which does not require node correspondence between graphs under comparison. Our work is suited to the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shetopaloff

Graph theory has drawn a lot of attention in the field of Neuroscience during the last decade, mainly due to the abundance of tools that it provides to explore the interactions of elements in a complex network like the brain. The local and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-16 Sofia Ira Ktena , Sarah Parisot , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Daniel Rueckert

A novel Gromov-Wasserstein learning framework is proposed to jointly match (align) graphs and learn embedding vectors for the associated graph nodes. Using Gromov-Wasserstein discrepancy, we measure the dissimilarity between two graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Hongteng Xu , Dixin Luo , Hongyuan Zha , Lawrence Carin

This paper proposes a family of graph metrics for measuring distances between graphs of different sizes. The proposed metric family defines a general form of the graph generalised optimal sub-pattern assignment (GOSPA) metric and is also…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jinhao Gu , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Robert E. Firth , Lennart Svensson

We analytically study proximity and distance properties of various kernels and similarity measures on graphs. This helps to understand the mathematical nature of such measures and can potentially be useful for recommending the adoption of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Pavel Chebotarev , Dmytro Rubanov

The emergence of geometric deep learning as a novel framework to deal with graph-based representations has faded away traditional approaches in favor of completely new methodologies. In this paper, we propose a new framework able to combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Pau Riba , Andreas Fischer , Josep Lladós , Alicia Fornés

Identifying and quantifying structural dissimilarities between complex networks is a fundamental and challenging problem in network science. Previous network comparison methods are based on the structural features, such as the length of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zhipeng Wang , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Chuang Liu , Zi-Ke Zhang

In many domains where data are represented as graphs, learning a similarity metric among graphs is considered a key problem, which can further facilitate various learning tasks, such as classification, clustering, and similarity search.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Guixiang Ma , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Theodore L. Willke , Philip S. Yu

Distance measures between graphs are important primitives for a variety of learning tasks. In this work, we describe an unsupervised, optimal transport based approach to define a distance between graphs. Our idea is to derive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Michael Scholkemper , Damin Kühn , Gerion Nabbefeld , Simon Musall , Björn Kampa , Michael T. Schaub

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

Graph is an abstract representation commonly used to model networked systems and structure. In problems across various fields, including computer vision and pattern recognition, and neuroscience, graphs are often brought into comparison (a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Quoc Van Tran , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Identifying networks with similar characteristics in a given ensemble, or detecting pattern discontinuities in a temporal sequence of networks, are two examples of tasks that require an effective metric capable of quantifying network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Carlo Piccardi

Large graphs can be found in a wide array of scientific fields ranging from sociology and biology to scientometrics and computer science. Their analysis is by no means a trivial task due to their sheer size and complex structure. Such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Georgios Drakopoulos , Stavros Kontopoulos , Christos Makris , Vasileios Megalooikonomou

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