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A hypergraph is a generalization of a graph, in which a hyperedge can connect multiple vertices, modeling complex relationships involving multiple vertices simultaneously. Hypergraph pattern matching, which is to find all isomorphic…

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Graph similarity learning (GSL), also referred to as graph matching in many scenarios, is a fundamental problem in computer vision, pattern recognition, and graph learning. However, previous GSL methods assume that graphs are homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Shilong Sang , Ke-Jia Chen , Zheng liu

Classical graph matching aims to find a node correspondence between two unlabeled graphs of known topologies. This problem has a wide range of applications, from matching identities in social networks to identifying similar biological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Hang Liu , Anna Scaglione , Hoi-To Wai

We address the correspondence search problem among multiple graphs with complex properties while considering the matching consistency. We describe each pair of graphs by combining multiple attributes, then jointly match them in a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Han-Mu Park , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Graph pattern matching is often defined in terms of subgraph isomorphism, an NP-complete problem. To lower its complexity, various extensions of graph simulation have been considered instead. These extensions allow pattern matching to be…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Shuai Ma , Yang Cao , Wenfei Fan , Jinpeng Huai , Tianyu Wo

Graph database is designed to store bidirectional relationships between objects and facilitate the traversal process to extract a subgraph. However, the subgraph matching process is an NP-Complete problem. Existing solutions to this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-29 C. Q. Cheng , K. S. Wong , L. K. Soon

Graph isomorphism is an important computer science problem. The problem for the general case is unknown to be in polynomial time. The base algorithm for the general case works in quasi-polynomial time. The solutions in polynomial time for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Vaibhav Amit Patel

The phenomenal growth of graph data from a wide variety of real-world applications has rendered graph querying to be a problem of paramount importance. Traditional techniques use structural as well as node similarities to find matches of a…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Jithin Vachery , Akhil Arora , Sayan Ranu , Arnab Bhattacharya

Our starting point is the observation that if graphs in a class C have low descriptive complexity in first order logic, then the isomorphism problem for C is solvable by a fast parallel algorithm (essentially, by a simple combinatorial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Grohe , Oleg Verbitsky

The Subgraph Isomorphism problem asks, given a host graph G on n vertices and a pattern graph P on k vertices, whether G contains a subgraph isomorphic to P. The restriction of this problem to planar graphs has often been considered. After…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Bonsma

In this paper we study a natural generalization of both {\sc $k$-Path} and {\sc $k$-Tree} problems, namely, the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem. In the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem we are given two graphs $F$ and $G$ on $k$ and $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Venkatesh Raman , B. V. Raghavendra Rao , Saket Saurabh

Graph matching is a challenging problem with very important applications in a wide range of fields, from image and video analysis to biological and biomedical problems. We propose a robust graph matching algorithm inspired in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Marcelo Fiori , Pablo Sprechmann , Joshua Vogelstein , Pablo Musé , Guillermo Sapiro

Subgraph matching, which finds subgraphs isomorphic to a query, is the key to information retrieval from data represented as a graph. To avoid redundant exploration in the data, existing methods restrict the search space by extracting…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Junya Arai , Yasuhiro Fujiwara , Makoto Onizuka

A subgraph is constructed by using a subset of vertices and edges of a given graph. There exist many graph properties that are hereditary for subgraphs. Hence, researchers from different communities have paid a great deal of attention in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Kai Siong Yow , Ningyi Liao , Siqiang Luo , Reynold Cheng , Chenhao Ma , Xiaolin Han

We give a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm that, given a parameter $k$ and two graphs $G_1,G_2$, either concludes that one of these graphs has treewidth at least $k$, or determines whether $G_1$ and $G_2$ are isomorphic. The running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Daniel Lokshtanov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh

In traditional graph retrieval tools, graph matching is commonly used to retrieve desired graphs from extensive graph datasets according to their structural similarities. However, in real applications, graph nodes have numerous attributes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuhua Liu , Haoxuan Wang , Jiajia Kou , Ling Sun , Heyu Wang , Yongheng Wang , Yigang Wang , Jinchang Lic , Zhiguang Zhou

Recent advances have shown the success of using reinforcement learning and search to solve NP-hard graph-related tasks, such as Traveling Salesman Optimization, Graph Edit Distance computation, etc. However, it remains unclear how one can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Yunsheng Bai , Derek Xu , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Sparsity-constrained optimization is an important and challenging problem that has wide applicability in data mining, machine learning, and statistics. In this paper, we focus on sparsity-constrained optimization in cases where the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Feng Chen , Baojian Zhou

We propose a fast approximate algorithm for large graph matching. A new projected fixed-point method is defined and a new doubly stochastic projection is adopted to derive the algorithm. Previous graph matching algorithms suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Yao Lu , Kaizhu Huang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Image matching is a key component of many tasks in computer vision and its main objective is to find correspondences between features extracted from different natural images. When images are represented as graphs, image matching boils down…

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