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Subgraph query is a critical task in graph analysis with a wide range of applications across various domains. Most existing methods rely on heuristic vertex matching orderings, which may significantly degrade enumeration performance for…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Linglin Yang , Lei Zou , Chunshan Zhao

Subgraph isomorphism is a fundamental problem in graph analysis that seeks to find all instances of a pattern graph within a larger data graph while preserving structural relationships. This NP-complete problem is central to domains such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yulun Wang , Esteban Ginez , Jamie Friel , Yuval Baum , Jin-Sung Kim , Alex Shih , Oded Green

Graph pattern mining is important for analyzing graph data. Graph mining systems typically require answering pattern matching queries, which involve solving the NP-complete subgraph isomorphism problem. To address this, domain experts often…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nazanin Yousefian , Kasra Jamshidi , Keval Vora , Anders Miltner

The maximum common subtree isomorphism problem asks for the largest possible isomorphism between subtrees of two given input trees. This problem is a natural restriction of the maximum common subgraph problem, which is ${\sf NP}$-hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Andre Droschinsky , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel

We consider the isomorphism problem for hypergraphs taking as input two hypergraphs over the same set of vertices $V$ and a permutation group $\Gamma$ over domain $V$, and asking whether there is a permutation $\gamma \in \Gamma$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Daniel Neuen

Sparse, irregular graphs show up in various applications like linear algebra, machine learning, engineering simulations, robotic control, etc. These graphs have a high degree of parallelism, but their execution on parallel threads of modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Nimish Shah , Wannes Meert , Marian Verhelst

We propose a novel variational method for solving the sub-graph isomorphism problem on a gate-based quantum computer. The method relies (1) on a new representation of the adjacency matrices of the underlying graphs, which requires a number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Nicola Mariella , Andrea Simonetto

(Induced) Subgraph Isomorphism and Maximum Common (Induced) Subgraph are fundamental problems in graph pattern matching and similarity computation. In graphs derived from time-series data or protein structures, a natural total ordering of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Haruya Imamura , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi , Toshiki Saitoh , Keita Sato , Asahi Takaoka , Ryo Yoshinaka , Tom C. van der Zanden

Many real-world networks can be modeled as graphs. Finding dense subgraphs is a key problem in graph mining with applications in diverse domains. In this paper, we consider two variants of the densest subgraph problem where multiple graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chamalee Wickrama Arachchi , Nikolaj Tatti

The graph isomorphism is to determine whether two graphs are isomorphic. A closely related problem is automorphism detection, where an isomorphism between two graphs is a bijection between their vertex sets that preserves adjacency, and an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Can Lu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Zhiwei Zhang , Hong Cheng

The isomorphism problem for graphs (GI) and the isomorphism problem for groups (GrISO) have been studied extensively by researchers. The current best algorithms for both these problems run in quasipolynomial time. In this paper, we study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Bireswar Das , Jinia Ghosh , Anant Kumar

In this work, we propose a novel approach for subgraph matching, the problem of finding a given query graph in a large source graph, based on the fused Gromov-Wasserstein distance. We formulate the subgraph matching problem as a partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Wen-Xin Pan , Isabel Haasler , Pascal Frossard

One of the major challenges in applications related to social networks, computational biology, collaboration networks etc., is to efficiently search for similar patterns in their underlying graphs. These graphs are typically noisy and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Kanigalpula Samanvi , Naveen Sivadasan

We study the problem of finding and monitoring fixed-size subgraphs in a continually changing large-scale graph. We present the first approach that (i) performs worst-case optimal computation and communication, (ii) maintains a total memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Khaled Ammar , Frank McSherry , Semih Salihoglu , Manas Joglekar

Graph mining applications analyze the structural properties of large graphs, and they do so by finding subgraph isomorphisms, which makes them computationally intensive. Existing graph mining techniques including both custom graph mining…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Kasra Jamshidi , Keval Vora

In this paper we present an algorithm, called conauto-2.0, that can efficiently compute a set of generators of the automorphism group of a graph, and test whether two graphs are isomorphic, finding an isomorphism if they are. This algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-05 José Luis López-Presa , Antonio Fernández Anta , Luis Núñez Chiroque

Subgraph isomorphism counting is an important problem on graphs, as many graph-based tasks exploit recurring subgraph patterns. Classical methods usually boil down to a backtracking framework that needs to navigate a huge search space with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xingtong Yu , Zemin Liu , Yuan Fang , Xinming Zhang

The graph isomorphism (GI) problem, which asks whether two graphs are structurally identical, occupies a unique position in computational complexity -- it is neither known to be solvable in polynomial time, nor proven to be NP-complete. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Wenjie Xiao , Mathieu Besançon , Patrick Gelß , Deborah Hendrych , Stefan Klus , Sebastian Pokutta

Subgraph isomorphism is a well-known NP-hard problem that is widely used in many applications, such as social network analysis and query over the knowledge graph. Due to the inherent hardness, its performance is often a bottleneck in…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Li Zeng , Lei Zou , M. Tamer Özsu , Lin Hu , Fan Zhang

Visual place recognition is an important subproblem of mobile robot localization. Since it is a special case of image retrieval, the basic source of information is the pairwise similarity of image descriptors. However, the embedding of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Stefan Schubert , Peer Neubert , Peter Protzel