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This work presents a two-stage neural architecture for learning and refining structural correspondences between graphs. First, we use localized node embeddings computed by a graph neural network to obtain an initial ranking of soft…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Matthias Fey , Jan E. Lenssen , Christopher Morris , Jonathan Masci , Nils M. Kriege

Finding a maximum-cardinality or maximum-weight matching in (edge-weighted) undirected graphs is among the most prominent problems of algorithmic graph theory. For $n$-vertex and $m$-edge graphs, the best known algorithms run in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Tomohiro Koana , Viatcheslav Korenwein , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier , Philipp Zschoche

Active contour models based on partial differential equations have proved successful in image segmentation, yet the study of their geometric formulation on arbitrary geometric graphs is still at an early stage. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Christos Sakaridis , Kimon Drakopoulos , Petros Maragos

The (unweighted) tree edit distance problem for $n$ node trees asks to compute a measure of dissimilarity between two rooted trees with node labels. The current best algorithm from more than a decade ago runs in $O(n ^ 3)$ time [Demaine,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Xiao Mao

Graph Neural Networks have emerged as the most popular architecture for graph-level learning, including graph classification and regression tasks, which frequently arise in areas such as biochemistry and drug discovery. Achieving good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lukas Fesser , Melanie Weber

One of the most important combinatorial optimization problems is graph coloring. There are several variations of this problem involving additional constraints either on vertices or edges. They constitute models for real applications, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Rosiane de Freitas , Bruno Dias , Nelson Maculan , Jayme Szwarcfiter

The edit distance between two graphs on the same labeled vertex set is the size of the symmetric difference of the edge sets. The distance between a graph, $G$, and a hereditary property, ${\cal H}$, is the minimum of the distance between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Ryan R. Martin

The notion of $\mathcal{H}$-treewidth, where $\mathcal{H}$ is a hereditary graph class, was recently introduced as a generalization of the treewidth of an undirected graph. Roughly speaking, a graph of $\mathcal{H}$-treewidth at most $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Michal Wlodarczyk

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

In this paper, we introduce the Fixed Topology Minimum-Length Tree with Neighborhood Problem, which aims to embed a rooted tree-shaped graph into a $d$-dimensional metric space while minimizing its total length provided that the nodes must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Víctor Blanco , Gabriel González , Justo Puerto

Given a graph $G=(V, E)$, the problem of Graph Burning is to find a sequence of nodes from $V$, called a burning sequence, to burn the whole graph. This is a discrete-step process, and at each step, an unburned vertex is selected as an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , S. Durga Bhavani

In this paper, we present a novel heuristic algorithm for the stable but NP-complete deformation-based edit distance on merge trees. Our key contribution is the introduction of a user-controlled look-ahead parameter that allows to trade off…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Florian Wetzels , Heike Leitte , Christoph Garth

Pedigree graphs, or family trees, are typically constructed by an expensive process of examining genealogical records to determine which pairs of individuals are parent and child. New methods to automate this process take as input genetic…

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Graph-structured data is central to many scientific and industrial domains, where the goal is often to optimize objectives defined over graph structures. Given the combinatorial complexity of graph spaces, such optimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Shiqiang Zhang , Ruth Misener

There is a rising interest in mapping trees using satellite or aerial imagery, but there is no standardized evaluation protocol for comparing and enhancing methods. In dense canopy areas, the high variability of tree sizes and their spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Dimitri Gominski , Ankit Kariryaa , Martin Brandt , Christian Igel , Sizhuo Li , Maurice Mugabowindekwe , Rasmus Fensholt

Rotation distances measure the differences in structure between rooted ordered binary trees. The one-dimensional skeleta of associahedra are rotation graphs, where two vertices representing trees are connected by an edge if they differ by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Sean Cleary , Haris Nadeem

Graph vertex ordering is widely employed in spatial data analysis, especially in urban analytics, where street graphs serve as spatial discretization for modeling and simulation. It is also crucial for visualization, as many methods require…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Karelia Salinas , Victor Barella , Thales Viera , Luis Gustavo Nonato

\Graph similarity computation is an essential task in many real-world graph-related applications such as retrieving the similar drugs given a query chemical compound or finding the user's potential friends from the social network database.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jingjing Wang , Hongjie Zhu , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Xiaoliang Xu , Yuxiang Wang

Best match graphs (BMGs) are a class of colored digraphs that naturally appear in mathematical phylogenetics and can be approximated with the help of similarity measures between gene sequences, albeit not without errors. The corresponding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-15 David Schaller , Manuela Geiß , Marc Hellmuth , Peter F. Stadler