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We present a method for learning "spectrally descriptive" edge weights for graphs. We generalize a previously known distance measure on graphs (Graph Diffusion Distance), thereby allowing it to be tuned to minimize an arbitrary loss…

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Contrastive learning has shown great promise in the field of graph representation learning. By manually constructing positive/negative samples, most graph contrastive learning methods rely on the vector inner product based similarity metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Yuehui Han , Le Hui , Haobo Jiang , Jianjun Qian , Jin Xie

This work considers the problem of computing distances between structured objects such as undirected graphs, seen as probability distributions in a specific metric space. We consider a new transportation distance (i.e. that minimizes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Titouan Vayer , Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Nicolas Courty

The edit distance between two graphs is a widely used measure of similarity that evaluates the smallest number of vertex and edge deletions/insertions required to transform one graph to another. It is NP-hard to compute in general, and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Utkan Onur Candogan , Venkat Chandrasekaran

In many real-world contexts, such as social or transport networks, data exhibit both structural connectivity and node-level attributes. For example, roads in a transport network can be characterized not only by their connectivity but also…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-18 Ioana Gavra , Ketsia Guichard-Sustowski , Loïc Le Marrec

We present a framework for embedding graph structured data into a vector space, taking into account node features and topology of a graph into the optimal transport (OT) problem. Then we propose a novel distance between two graphs, named…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Dai Hai Nguyen , Koji Tsuda

In recent years, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved great success in learning from graph-structured data. With the growing tendency of graph nodes and edges, GCN training by single processor cannot meet the demand for time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Taige Zhao , Xiangyu Song , Jianxin Li , Wei Luo , Imran Razzak

Pairwise comparison of graphs is key to many applications in Machine learning ranging from clustering, kernel-based classification/regression and more recently supervised graph prediction. Distances between graphs usually rely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-29 Junjie Yang , Matthieu Labeau , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Comparing graphs by means of optimal transport has recently gained significant attention, as the distances induced by optimal transport provide both a principled metric between graphs as well as an interpretable description of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 James S. Nagai , Ivan G. Costa , Michael T. Schaub

Graph neural networks, despite their impressive performance, are highly vulnerable to distribution shifts on graphs. Existing graph domain adaptation (graph DA) methods often implicitly assume a mild shift between source and target graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhichen Zeng , Ruizhong Qiu , Wenxuan Bao , Tianxin Wei , Xiao Lin , Yuchen Yan , Tarek F. Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han , Hanghang Tong

Stress models are a promising approach for graph drawing. They minimize the weighted sum of the squared errors of the Euclidean and desired distances for each node pair. The desired distance typically uses the graph-theoretic distances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yosuke Onoue

Comparing structured objects such as graphs is a fundamental operation involved in many learning tasks. To this end, the Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance, based on Optimal Transport (OT), has proven to be successful in handling the specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Cédric Vincent-Cuaz , Rémi Flamary , Marco Corneli , Titouan Vayer , Nicolas Courty

Edge-Geodetic Sets play a crucial role in network monitoring and optimization, wherein the goal is to strategically place monitoring stations on vertices of a network, represented as a graph, to ensure complete coverage of edges and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Giordano Colli

We introduce COPT, a novel distance metric between graphs defined via an optimization routine, computing a coordinated pair of optimal transport maps simultaneously. This gives an unsupervised way to learn general-purpose graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yihe Dong , Will Sawin

Recently, the pretrain-finetuning paradigm has attracted tons of attention in graph learning community due to its power of alleviating the lack of labels problem in many real-world applications. Current studies use existing techniques, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jiying Zhang , Xi Xiao , Long-Kai Huang , Yu Rong , Yatao Bian

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs), have demonstrated excellent capabilities in processing heterogeneous information networks. Self-supervised learning on heterogeneous graphs, especially contrastive self-supervised strategy, shows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yanbei Liu , Chongxu Wang , Zhitao Xiao , Lei Geng , Yanwei Pang , Xiao Wang

We develop new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for finding the global minimum edge-cut in a directed edge-weighted graph, and for finding the global minimum vertex-cut in a directed vertex-weighted graph. Our algorithms are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ron Mosenzon

We present a message-passing algorithm to solve the edge disjoint path problem (EDP) on graphs incorporating under a unique framework both traffic optimization and path length minimization. The min-sum equations for this problem present an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-01-21 Fabrizio Altarelli , Alfredo Braunstein , Luca Dall'Asta , Caterina De Bacco , Silvio Franz

We propose an efficient $\epsilon$-differentially private algorithm, that given a simple {\em weighted} $n$-vertex, $m$-edge graph $G$ with a \emph{maximum unweighted} degree $\Delta(G) \leq n-1$, outputs a synthetic graph which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jingcheng Liu , Jalaj Upadhyay , Zongrui Zou

Current graph neural network (GNN) architectures naively average or sum node embeddings into an aggregated graph representation -- potentially losing structural or semantic information. We here introduce OT-GNN, a model that computes graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Benson Chen , Gary Bécigneul , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola