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The Matching Augmentation Problem (MAP) has recently received significant attention as an important step towards better approximation algorithms for finding cheap $2$-edge connected subgraphs. This has culminated in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Etienne Bamas , Marina Drygala , Ola Svensson

The graph matching problem seeks to find an alignment between the nodes of two graphs that minimizes the number of adjacency disagreements. Solving the graph matching is increasingly important due to it's applications in operations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-11 Ali Saad-Eldin , Benjamin D. Pedigo , Carey E. Priebe , Joshua T. Vogelstein

Many inverse problems involve two or more sets of variables that represent different physical quantities but are tightly coupled with each other. For example, image super-resolution requires joint estimation of the image and motion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 James Herring , James Nagy , Lars Ruthotto

Point matching refers to the process of finding spatial transformation and correspondences between two sets of points. In this paper, we focus on the case that there is only partial overlap between two point sets. Following the approach of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Wei Lian , Lei Zhang

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an important discrete optimization instance that encompasses many well-known combinatorial optimization problems, and has applications in a wide range of areas such as logistics and computer vision.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Junyu Chen , Yong Sheng Soh

Finding shape correspondences can be formulated as an NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP) that becomes infeasible for shapes with high sampling density. A promising research direction is to tackle such quadratic optimization problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Zorah Lähner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christof Wunderlich , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

As a fundamental problem in pattern recognition, graph matching has applications in a variety of fields, from computer vision to computational biology. In graph matching, patterns are modeled as graphs and pattern recognition amounts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-06-19 Tiberio S. Caetano , Julian J. McAuley , Li Cheng , Quoc V. Le , Alex J. Smola

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an important combinatorial optimization problem with applications in many areas including logistics and manufacturing. QAP is known to be NP-hard, a computationally challenging problem, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Clara Novoa , Apan Qasem

Graph matching, typically formulated as a Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP), seeks to establish node correspondences between two graphs. To address the NP-hardness of QAP, some existing methods adopt projection-based relaxations that embed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Binrui Shen , Yuan Liang , Shengxin Zhu

Aligning partially overlapping point sets where there is no prior information about the value of the transformation is a challenging problem in computer vision. To achieve this goal, we first reduce the objective of the robust point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Wei Lian , WangMeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

We propose a new exact approach to the generalized graph layering problem that is based on a particular quadratic assignment formulation. It expresses, in a natural way, the associated layout restrictions and several possible objectives,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Sven Mallach

Data integration is essential across diverse domains, from historical records to biomedical research, facilitating joint statistical inference. A crucial initial step in this process involves merging multiple data sources based on matching…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-15 Trisha Dawn , Jesús Arroyo

Recently, deep learning based methods have demonstrated promising results on the graph matching problem, by relying on the descriptive capability of deep features extracted on graph nodes. However, one main limitation with existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Quankai Gao , Fudong Wang , Nan Xue , Jin-Gang Yu , Gui-Song Xia

We present an alternate formulation of the partial assignment problem as matching random clique complexes, that are higher-order analogues of random graphs, designed to provide a set of invariants that better detect higher-order structure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Charu Sharma , Deepak Nathani , Manohar Kaul

Graph partitioning is the problem of dividing the nodes of a graph into balanced partitions while minimizing the edge cut across the partitions. Due to its combinatorial nature, many approximate solutions have been developed, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a well-known NP-hard problem that is equivalent to optimizing a linear objective function over the QAP polytope. The QAP polytope with parameter $n$ - \qappolytope{n} - is defined as the convex hull…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Pawan Aurora , Hans Raj Tiwary

This paper presents an algorithmic study of a class of covering mixed-integer linear programming problems which encompasses classic cover problems, including multidimensional knapsack, facility location and supplier selection problems. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kobe Grobben , Phablo F. S. Moura , Hande Yaman

Graph matching aims at finding the vertex correspondence between two unlabeled graphs that maximizes the total edge weight correlation. This amounts to solving a computationally intractable quadratic assignment problem. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-23 Zhou Fan , Cheng Mao , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is one of the most difficult combinatorial optimization problems. An effective heuristic for obtaining approximate solutions to the QAP is simulated annealing (SA). Here we describe an SA…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Gerald Paul

This paper proposes a new algorithm for simultaneous graph matching and clustering. For the first time in the literature, these two problems are solved jointly and synergetically without relying on any training data, which brings advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maximilian Krahn , Florian Bernard , Vladislav Golyanik