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Graph matching is a fundamental tool in computer vision and pattern recognition. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for graph matching based on the proximal operator, referred to as differentiable proximal graph matching (DPGM).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Haoru Tan , Chuang Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Representational similarity analysis (RSA) is widely used to analyze the alignment between humans and neural networks; however, conclusions based on this approach can be misleading without considering the underlying representational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Nahid Torbati , Michael Gaebler , Simon M. Hofmann , Nico Scherf

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in many graph-based tasks. Much work is dedicated to empowering GNNs with the adaptive locality ability, which enables measuring the importance of neighboring nodes to the target node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Haifeng Li , Jun Cao , Jiawei Zhu , Yu Liu , Qing Zhu , Guohua Wu

Real-world graphs have inherently complex and diverse topological patterns, known as topological heterogeneity. Most existing works learn graph representation in a single constant curvature space that is insufficient to match the complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zihao Guo , Qingyun Sun , Haonan Yuan , Xingcheng Fu , Min Zhou , Yisen Gao , Jianxin Li

In this paper, we present a new metric distance for comparing two large graphs to find similarities and differences between them based on one of the most important graph structural properties, which is Node Adjacency Information, for all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Arefe Alikhani , Farzad Didehvar

Graph Machine Learning often involves the clustering of nodes based on similarity structure encoded in the graph's topology and the nodes' attributes. On homophilous graphs, the integration of pooling layers has been shown to enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Amy Feng , Melanie Weber

In this work, we study two fundamental graph optimization problems, minimum vertex cover (MVC) and maximum-cardinality matching (MCM), for intersection graphs of geometric objects, e.g., disks, rectangles, hypercubes, etc., in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Sujoy Bhore , Timothy M. Chan

The characterization of complex networks with tools originating in geometry, for instance through the statistics of so-called Ricci curvatures, is a well established tool of network science. There exist various types of such Ricci…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Madhumita Mondal , Areejit Samal , Florentin Münch , Jürgen Jost

Characterizing shapes of high-dimensional objects via Ricci curvatures plays a critical role in many research areas in mathematics and physics. However, even though several discretizations of Ricci curvatures for discrete combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Bhaskar DasGupta , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

Temporal networks -- sequences of time-stamped contacts among nodes -- constitute the finest-grained representation of dynamic interaction data; however, geometric and topological analyses of such networks have remained largely confined to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Taiki Yamada

Is matching in NC, i.e., is there a deterministic fast parallel algorithm for it? This has been an outstanding open question in TCS for over three decades, ever since the discovery of randomized NC matching algorithms [KUW85, MVV87]. Over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nima Anari , Vijay V. Vazirani

Finding optimal matchings in dense graphs is of general interest and of particular importance in social, transportation and biological networks. While developing optimal solutions for various matching problems is important, the running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Nitish K. Panigrahy , Prithwish Basu , Don Towsley

Graph Ricci curvature is crucial as it geometrically quantifies network structure. It pinpoints bottlenecks via negative curvature, identifies cohesive communities with positive curvature, and highlights robust hubs. This guides network…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Juan Zhao , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

In this paper, we explore the relationship between one of the most elementary and important properties of graphs, the presence and relative frequency of triangles, and a combinatorial notion of Ricci curvature. We employ a definition of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Jürgen Jost , Shiping Liu

The configuration model is a standard tool for uniformly generating random graphs with a specified degree sequence, and is often used as a null model to evaluate how much of an observed network's structure can be explained by its degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Upasana Dutta , Bailey K. Fosdick , Aaron Clauset

Geometrical interpretations of deep learning models offer insightful perspectives into their underlying mathematical structures. In this work, we introduce a novel approach that leverages differential geometry, particularly concepts from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Sung Moon Ko , Jaewan Lee , Sumin Lee , Soorin Yim , Kyunghoon Bae , Sehui Han

Establishing point-to-point correspondences across multiple 3D shapes is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we introduce DcMatch, a novel unsupervised learning framework for non-rigid multi-shape matching.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Tianwei Ye , Yong Ma , Xiaoguang Mei

Motivated by the methods and results of manifold sampling based on Ricci curvature, we propose a similar approach for networks. To this end we make appeal to three types of discrete curvature, namely the graph Forman-, full Forman- and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Vladislav Barkanass , Jürgen Jost , Emil Saucan

We introduce a new distributed algorithm for aligning graphs or finding substructures within a given graph. It is based on the cavity method and is used to study the maximum-clique and the graph-alignment problems in random graphs. The…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-04-02 S. Bradde , A. Braunstein , H. Mahmoudi , F. Tria , M. Weigt , R. Zecchina

The problem of defining correctly geometric objects such as the curvature is a hard one in discrete geometry. In 2009, Ollivier defined a notion of curvature applicable to a wide category of measured metric spaces, in particular to graphs.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Benoît Loisel , Pascal Romon