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In many domains where data are represented as graphs, learning a similarity metric among graphs is considered a key problem, which can further facilitate various learning tasks, such as classification, clustering, and similarity search.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Guixiang Ma , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Theodore L. Willke , Philip S. Yu

Graph similarity learning refers to calculating the similarity score between two graphs, which is required in many realistic applications, such as visual tracking, graph classification, and collaborative filtering. As most of the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Di Jin , Luzhi Wang , Yizhen Zheng , Xiang Li , Fei Jiang , Wei Lin , Shirui Pan

In the regime of two-sample comparison, tests based on a graph constructed on observations by utilizing similarity information among them is gaining attention due to their flexibility and good performances for high-dimensional/non-Euclidean…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-13 Jingru Zhang , Hao Chen

Various approaches and measures from network analysis have been applied to granular and particulate networks to gain insights into their structural, transport, failure-propagation and other systems-level properties. In this article, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-06 Silvia Nauer , Lucas Böttcher , Mason A. Porter

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been highly successful for the node classification task. GNNs typically assume graphs are homophilic, i.e. neighboring nodes are likely to belong to the same class. However, a number of real-world graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yurui Lai , Taiyan Zhang , Rui Fan

The task of inferring the missing links in a graph based on its current structure is referred to as link prediction. Link prediction methods that are based on pairwise node similarity are well-established approaches in the literature. They…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Md Kamrul Islam , Sabeur Aridhi , Malika Smail-Tabbone

Comparative graph and network analysis play an important role in both systems biology and pattern recognition, but existing surveys on the topic have historically ignored or underserved one or the other of these fields. We present an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Emily Evans , Marissa Graham

Notions of graph similarity provide alternative perspective on the graph isomorphism problem and vice-versa. In this paper, we consider measures of similarity arising from mismatch norms as studied in Gervens and Grohe: the edit distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 He Sun , Danny Vagnozzi

Node role explainability in complex networks is very difficult, yet is crucial in different application domains such as social science, neurosciences or computer science. Many efforts have been made on the quantification of hubs revealing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-01 Lucrezia Carboni , Michel Dojat , Sophie Achard

This paper proposes a metric to measure the dissimilarity between graphs that may have a different number of nodes. The proposed metric extends the generalised optimal subpattern assignment (GOSPA) metric, which is a metric for sets, to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jinhao Gu , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Robert E. Firth , Lennart Svensson

Measure the similarity of the nodes in the complex networks have interested many researchers to explore it. In this paper, a new method which is based on the degree centrality and the Relative-entropy is proposed to measure the similarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Qi Zhang , Meizhu Li , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

Graph similarity computation (GSC) is to calculate the similarity between one pair of graphs, which is a fundamental problem with fruitful applications in the graph community. In GSC, graph edit distance (GED) and maximum common subgraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Haoran Zheng , Jieming Shi , Renchi Yang

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

We discuss the problem of extending data mining approaches to cases in which data points arise in the form of individual graphs. Being able to find the intrinsic low-dimensionality in ensembles of graphs can be useful in a variety of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-18 Karthikeyan Rajendran , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Measuring similarity of neural networks to understand and improve their behavior has become an issue of great importance and research interest. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive overview of two complementary perspectives of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Max Klabunde , Tobias Schumacher , Markus Strohmaier , Florian Lemmerich

Within many real-world networks the links between pairs of nodes change over time. Thus, there has been a recent boom in studying temporal graphs. Recognizing patterns in temporal graphs requires a proximity measure to compare different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vincent Froese , Brijnesh Jain , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

To quantify the fundamental evolution of time-varying networks, and detect abnormal behavior, one needs a notion of temporal difference that captures significant organizational changes between two successive instants. In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Nathan D Monnig , Francois G Meyer

Much data with graph structures satisfy the principle of homophily, meaning that connected nodes tend to be similar with respect to a specific attribute. As such, ubiquitous datasets for graph machine learning tasks have generally been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Derek Lim , Xiuyu Li , Felix Hohne , Ser-Nam Lim

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-21 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra