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In this paper we define a novel edit distance for merge trees, which we argue to be suitable for a good range of applications. Relying also on some technical results contained in other works, we investigate its stability properties, which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Matteo Pegoraro

In topological data analysis and visualization, topological descriptors such as persistence diagrams, merge trees, contour trees, Reeb graphs, and Morse-Smale complexes play an essential role in capturing the shape of scalar field data. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Lin Yan , Talha Bin Masood , Raghavendra Sridharamurthy , Farhan Rasheed , Vijay Natarajan , Ingrid Hotz , Bei Wang

Merge trees are a type of topological descriptors that record the connectivity among the sublevel sets of scalar fields. They are among the most widely used topological tools in visualization. In this paper, we are interested in sketching a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mingzhe Li , Sourabh Palande , Lin Yan , Bei Wang

In this article, we propose tree edit distance with variables, which is an extension of the tree edit distance to handle trees with variables and has a potential application to measuring the similarity between mathematical formulas,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Tatsuya Akutsu , Tomoya Mori , Naotoshi Nakamura , Satoshi Kozawa , Yuhei Ueno , Thomas N. Sato

Node similarity is a fundamental problem in graph analytics. However, node similarity between nodes in different graphs (inter-graph nodes) has not received a lot of attention yet. The inter-graph node similarity is important in learning a…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Haohan Zhu , Xianrui Meng , George Kollios

Merge trees are a common topological descriptor for data with a hierarchical component, such as terrains and scalar fields. The interleaving distance, in turn, is a common distance for comparing merge trees. However, the interleaving…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Thijs Beurskens , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek

Comparative visualization of scalar fields is often facilitated using similarity measures such as edit distances. In this paper, we describe a novel approach for similarity analysis of scalar fields that combines two recently introduced…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Florian Wetzels , Mathieu Pont , Julien Tierny , Christoph Garth

In this work we study the interleaving distance between merge trees from a combinatorial point of view. We use a particular type of matching between trees to obtain a novel formulation of the distance. With such formulation, we tackle the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Matteo Pegoraro

Comparison of graph structure is a ubiquitous task in data analysis and machine learning, with diverse applications in fields such as neuroscience, cyber security, social network analysis, and bioinformatics, among others. Discovery and…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-11 Peter Wills , Francois G. Meyer

Metric learning has the aim to improve classification accuracy by learning a distance measure which brings data points from the same class closer together and pushes data points from different classes further apart. Recent research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Benjamin Paaßen

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

A merge tree is a fundamental topological structure used to capture the sub-level set (and similarly, super-level set) topology in scalar data analysis. The interleaving distance is a theoretically sound, stable metric for comparing merge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Althaf P , Amit Chattopadhyay , Osamu Saeki

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

An ordered labeled tree is a tree in which the nodes are labeled and the left-to-right order among siblings is relevant. The edit distance between two ordered labeled trees is the minimum cost of changing one tree into the other through a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Shihyen Chen

Metric learning has the aim to improve classification accuracy by learning a distance measure which brings data points from the same class closer together and pushes data points from different classes further apart. Recent research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Benjamin Paaßen , Claudio Gallicchio , Alessio Micheli , Barbara Hammer

This paper introduces decorated merge trees (DMTs) as a novel invariant for persistent spaces. DMTs combine both $\pi_0$ and $H_n$ information into a single data structure that distinguishes filtrations that merge trees and persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Justin Curry , Haibin Hang , Washington Mio , Tom Needham , Osman Berat Okutan

Merge trees are a powerful tool from topological data analysis that is frequently used to analyze scalar fields. The similarity between two merge trees can be captured by an interleaving: a pair of maps between the trees that jointly…

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

Understanding the response of an output variable to multi-dimensional inputs lies at the heart of many data exploration endeavours. Topology-based methods, in particular Morse theory and persistent homology, provide a useful framework for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yarden Livnat , Dan Maljovec , Attila Gyulassy , Dr Baptiste Mouginot , Valerio Pascucci

This paper revisits recent code similarity evaluation metrics, particularly focusing on the application of Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) editing distance in diverse programming languages. In particular, we explore the usefulness of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yewei Song , Cedric Lothritz , Daniel Tang , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein