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Graph Edit Distance (GED) is defined as the minimum cost transformation of one graph into another and is a widely adopted metric for measuring the dissimilarity between graphs. The major problem of GED is that its computation is NP-hard,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Francesco Leonardi , Markus Orsi , Jean-Louis Reymond , Kaspar Riesen

The Graph Edit Distance (GED) is an important metric for measuring the similarity between two (labeled) graphs. It is defined as the minimum cost required to convert one graph into another through a series of (elementary) edit operations.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Andrea D'Ascenzo , Julian Meffert , Petra Mutzel , Fabrizio Rossi

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

Computing efficiently a robust measure of similarity or dissimilarity between graphs is a major challenge in Pattern Recognition. The Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a flexible measure of dissimilarity between graphs which arises in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Sébastien Bougleux , Luc Brun , Vincenzo Carletti , Pasquale Foggia , Benoit Gaüzère , Mario Vento

We develop a new framework for generalizing approximation algorithms from the structural graph algorithm literature so that they apply to graphs somewhat close to that class (a scenario we expect is common when working with real-world…

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a popular similarity measurement for pairwise graphs and it also refers to the recovery of the edit path from the source graph to the target graph. Traditional A* algorithm suffers scalability issues due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Runzhong Wang , Tianqi Zhang , Tianshu Yu , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

The need to identify graphs with small structural distances from a query arises in domains such as biology, chemistry, recommender systems, and social network analysis. Among several methods for measuring inter-graph distance, Graph Edit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Aditya Bommakanti , Harshith Reddy Vonteri , Sayan Ranu , Panagiotis Karras

Graph similarity search is a common and fundamental operation in graph databases. One of the most popular graph similarity measures is the Graph Edit Distance (GED) mainly because of its broad applicability and high interpretability.…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Zijian Li , Xun Jian , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen

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

Graph edit distance (GED) is an important similarity measure adopted in a similarity-based analysis between two graphs, and computing GED is a primitive operator in graph database analysis. Partially due to the NP-hardness, the existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Lijun Chang , Xing Feng , Xuemin Lin , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang

Large graphs are difficult to represent, visualize, and understand. In this paper, we introduce "gate graph" - a new approach to perform graph simplification. A gate graph provides a simplified topological view of the original graph.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ning Ruan , Ruoming Jin , Yan Huang

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

Information distributed through the Web keeps growing faster day by day, and for this reason, several techniques for extracting Web data have been suggested during last years. Often, extraction tasks are performed through so called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Emilio Ferrara , Robert Baumgartner

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a widely used metric for measuring similarity between two graphs. Computing the optimal GED is NP-hard, leading to the development of various neural and non-neural heuristics. While neural methods have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Samidha Verma , Arushi Goyal , Ananya Mathur , Ankit Anand , Sayan Ranu

Graph representation is a powerful abstraction of real-world objects and relations. Computing the Graph Edit Distance (GED) between graphs is critical in domains such as bioinformatics, machine learning, and pattern recognition. GED…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Adel Dabah , Andreas Herten

In scientific visualization, scalar fields are often compared through edit distances between their merge trees. Typical tasks include ensemble analysis, feature tracking and symmetry or periodicity detection. Tree edit distances represent…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Florian Wetzels , Christoph Garth

Graphs drawn in the plane are ubiquitous, arising from data sets through a variety of methods ranging from GIS analysis to image classification to shape analysis. A fundamental problem in this type of data is comparison: given a set of such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Levent Batakci , Abigail Branson , Bryan Castillo , Candace Todd , Erin Wolf Chambers , Elizabeth Munch

This report evaluates the efficiency of Graph Edit Distance (GED) computation for graph similarity search, comparing Cascading Metric Trees (CMT) with brute-force verification. Despite the anticipated advantages of CMT, our findings…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Wenqi Marshall Guo , Jeffrey Uhlmann

Among various distance functions for graphs, graph and subgraph edit distances (GED and SED respectively) are two of the most popular and expressive measures. Unfortunately, exact computations for both are NP-hard. To overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Rishabh Ranjan , Siddharth Grover , Sourav Medya , Venkatesan Chakaravarthy , Yogish Sabharwal , Sayan Ranu

In graph theory, a tree is one of the more popular families of graphs with a wide range of applications in computer science as well as many other related fields. While there are several distance measures over the set of all trees, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Lev Yohananov , Eitan yaakobi