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A suitable measure for the similarity of shapes represented by parameterized curves or surfaces is the Fr\'echet distance. Whereas efficient algorithms are known for computing the Fr\'echet distance of polygonal curves, the same problem for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Helmut Alt , Maike Buchin

Distance measures between graphs are important primitives for a variety of learning tasks. In this work, we describe an unsupervised, optimal transport based approach to define a distance between graphs. Our idea is to derive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Michael Scholkemper , Damin Kühn , Gerion Nabbefeld , Simon Musall , Björn Kampa , Michael T. Schaub

We develop a theory to measure the variance and covariance of probability distributions defined on the nodes of a graph, which takes into account the distance between nodes. Our approach generalizes the usual (co)variance to the setting of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-19 Karel Devriendt , Samuel Martin-Gutierrez , Renaud Lambiotte

Quantifying the semantic similarity between database queries is a critical challenge with broad applications, ranging from query log analysis to automated educational assessment of SQL skills. Traditional methods often rely solely on…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Leo Köberlein , Dominik Probst , Richard Lenz

A {\em faithful (unit) distance graph} in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a graph whose set of vertices is a finite subset of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, where two vertices are adjacent if and only if the Euclidean distance between them is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Noga Alon , Andrey Kupavskii

Online social network services provide a platform for human social interactions. Nowadays, many kinds of online interactions generate large-scale social network data. Network analysis helps to mine knowledge and pattern from the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Andry Alamsyah , Yahya Peranginangin , Intan Muchtadi-Alamsyah , Budi Rahardjo , Kuspriyanto

Enlighted by the recent work of Hao Huang on sensitivity conjecture [arXiv:1907.00847], we propose a new definition of the dimension of graphs and establish a relationship between the chromatic number and the dimension.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-01 X. Zhao

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

Graphs are commonly used in mathematics to represent some relationships between items. However, as simple objects, they sometimes fail to capture all relevant aspects of real-world data. To address this problem, we generalize them and model…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Pimprenelle Parmentier , Tiphaine Viard , Benjamin Renoust , Jean-François Baffier

We consider isomorphism of controllable graphs and cospectrality of distance-regularized graphs (which are known to be distance-regular or distance-biregular) in relation to logical definability. While most characterizations of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Aida Abiad , Anuj Dawar , Octavio B. Zapata-Fonseca

The widespread relevance of complex networks is a valuable tool in the analysis of a broad range of systems. There is a demand for tools which enable the extraction of meaningful information and allow the comparison between different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-30 Kathryn Cooper , Mauricio Barahona

Network node similarity measure has been paid particular attention in the field of statistical physics. In this paper, we utilize the concept of information and information loss to measure the node similarity. The whole model is based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-19 Yongli Li , Peng Luo , Chong Wu

A graph $G$ is cordial if there exists a function $f$ from the vertices of $G$ to $\{0,1\}$ such that the number of vertices labelled $0$ and the number of vertices labelled $1$ differ by at most $1$, and if we assign to each edge $xy$ the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Anand Brahmbhatt , Kartikeya Rai , Amitabha Tripathi

This article investigates the connectivity dimension of a graph. We introduce this concept in analogy to the metric dimension of a graph, providing a graph parameter that measures the heterogeneity of the connectivity structure of a graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Kurt Klement Gottwald , Tobias Hofmann

This paper proposes a new graph proximity measure. This measure is a derivative of network reliability. By analyzing its properties and comparing it against other proximity measures through graph examples, we demonstrate that it is more…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Haifeng Qian , Hui Wan , Mark N. Wegman , Luis A. Lastras , Ruchir Puri

In this short note, we introduce cospectral graphons, paralleling the notion of cospectral graphs. As in the graph case, we give three equivalent definitions: by equality of spectra, by equality of cycle densities, and by a unitary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Jan Hladký , Daniel Iľkovič , Jared León , Xichao Shu

Two-sample tests utilizing a similarity graph on observations are useful for high-dimensional and non-Euclidean data due to their flexibility and good performance under a wide range of alternatives. Existing works mainly focused on sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Yejiong Zhu , Hao Chen

Graph similarity learning, crucial for tasks such as graph classification and similarity search, focuses on measuring the similarity between two graph-structured entities. The core challenge in this field is effectively managing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Zenghui Chang , Yiqiao Zhang , Hong Cai Chen

Multivariate graphs are prolific across many fields, including transportation and neuroscience. A key task in graph analysis is the exploration of connectivity, to, for example, analyze how signals flow through neurons, or to explore how…

In machine learning and particularly in topological data analysis, $\epsilon$-graphs are important tools but are generally hard to compute as the distance calculation between n points takes time O(n^2) classically. Recently, quantum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Naomi Mona Chmielewski , Nina Amini , Paulin Jacquot , Joseph Mikael