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There are several interrelated notions of discrete curvature on graphs. Many approaches utilize the optimal transportation metric on its probability simplex or the distance matrix of the graph. In this survey article, we compute formulas…

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Earth's forests play an important role in the fight against climate change, and are in turn negatively affected by it. Effective monitoring of different tree species is essential to understanding and improving the health and biodiversity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Venkatesh Ramesh , Arthur Ouaknine , David Rolnick

In order to develop statistical methods for shapes with a tree-structure, we construct a shape space framework for tree-like shapes and study metrics on the shape space. This shape space has singularities, corresponding to topological…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-07-24 Aasa Feragen , Pechin Lo , Marleen de Bruijne , Mads Nielsen , Francois Lauze

Tree matching techniques have been investigated in many fields, including web data mining and extraction, as a key component to analyze the content of web documents, existing tree matching approaches, like Tree-Edit Distance (TED) or…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Sacha Brisset , Romain Rouvoy , Renaud Pawlak , Lionel Seinturier

Determining the interaction partners among protein/domain families poses hard computational problems, in particular in the presence of paralogous proteins. Available approaches aim to identify interaction partners among protein/domain…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-14 Iman Hajirasouliha , Alexander Schönhuth , David Juan , Alfonso Valencia , S. Cenk Sahinalp

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

Metrics for merge trees that are simultaneously stable, informative, and efficiently computable have so far eluded researchers. We show in this work that it is possible to devise such a metric when restricting merge trees to ordered domains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Christopher J. Tralie , Zachary Schlamowitz , Jose Arbelo , Antonio I. Delgado , Charley Kirk , Nicholas A. Scoville

We introduce top trees as a design of a new simpler interface for data structures maintaining information in a fully-dynamic forest. We demonstrate how easy and versatile they are to use on a host of different applications. For example, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stephen Alstrup , Jacob Holm , Kristian de Lichtenberg , Mikkel Thorup

Computing the edit distance of two strings is one of the most basic problems in computer science and combinatorial optimization. Tree edit distance is a natural generalization of edit distance in which the task is to compute a measure of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Debarati Das , Jacob Gilbert , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tomasz Kociumaka , Barna Saha , Hamed Saleh

We describe an algorithm for comparing two RNA secondary structures coded in the form of trees that introduces two new operations, called node fusion and edge fusion, besides the tree edit operations of deletion, insertion, and relabeling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-23 Julien Allali , Marie-France Sagot

We consider the classical tree edit distance between ordered labeled trees, which is defined as the minimum-cost sequence of node edit operations that transform one tree into another. The state-of-the-art solutions for the tree edit…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Mateusz Pawlik , Nikolaus Augsten

The purpose of this article is twofold. On one hand, we reveal the equivalence of shift of finite type between a one-sided shift $X$ and its associated hom tree-shift $\mathcal{T}_{X}$, as well as the equivalence in the sofic shift. On the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Jung-Chao Ban , Chih-Hung Chang , Wen-Guei Hu , Guan-Yu Lai , Yu-Liang Wu

Galled trees, directed acyclic graphs that model evolutionary histories with isolated hybridization events, have become very popular due to both their biological significance and the existence of polynomial time algorithms for their…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-06-08 Gabriel Cardona , Merce Llabres , Francesc Rossello , Gabriel Valiente

Topological methods for comparing weighted graphs are valuable in various learning tasks but often suffer from computational inefficiency on large datasets. We introduce RTD-Lite, a scalable algorithm that efficiently compares topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Eduard Tulchinskii , Daria Voronkova , Ilya Trofimov , Evgeny Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

We define edit distance for hierarchically structured data compatible with the hierarchical multi-instance learning paradigm. Example of such data is dataset represented in JSON format where inner Array objects are interpreted as unordered…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Břetislav Šopík , Tomáš Strenáčik

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

A geometric graph is a combinatorial graph, endowed with a geometry that is inherited from its embedding in a Euclidean space. Formulation of a meaningful measure of (dis-)similarity in both the combinatorial and geometric structures of two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

Symmetry plays a major role in subgraph matching both in the description of the graphs in question and in how it confounds the search process. This work addresses how to quantify these effects and how to use symmetries to increase the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Dominic Yang , Yurun Ge , Thien Nguyen , Jacob Moorman , Denali Molitor , Andrea Bertozzi

Finding an optimal assignment between two sets of objects is a fundamental problem arising in many applications, including the matching of `bag-of-words' representations in natural language processing and computer vision. Solving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Nils M. Kriege , Pierre-Louis Giscard , Franka Bause , Richard C. Wilson

This paper presents a generalization of the Wasserstein distance for both persistence diagrams and merge trees [20], [66] that takes advantage of the regions of their topological features in the input domain. Specifically, we redefine the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mathieu Pont , Christoph Garth