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Correlation analysis is a fundamental step in uncovering meaningful insights from complex datasets. In this paper, we study the problem of detecting correlations between two random graphs following the Gaussian Wigner model with unlabeled…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Dong Huang , Pengkun Yang

This paper addresses the Graph Matching problem, which consists of finding the best possible alignment between two input graphs, and has many applications in computer vision, network deanonymization and protein alignment. A common approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-12 Ernesto Araya Valdivia , Hemant Tyagi

The graph alignment problem aims to identify the vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs. Most existing studies focus on the scenario in which the two graphs share the same vertex set. However, in many real-world applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chun Hei Michael Shiu , Hei Victor Cheng , Lele Wang

Graph matching problem aims to identify node correspondence between two or more correlated graphs. Previous studies have primarily focused on models where only edge information is provided. However, in many social networks, not only the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

This work studies fundamental limits for recovering the underlying correspondence among multiple correlated graphs. In the setting of inhomogeneous random graphs, we present and analyze a matching algorithm: first partially match the graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Taha Ameen , Bruce Hajek

In this work, we propose an efficient two-stage algorithm solving a joint problem of correlation detection and partial alignment recovery between two Gaussian databases. Correlation detection is a hypothesis testing problem; under the null…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Ran Tamir

Random graph alignment refers to recovering the underlying vertex correspondence between two random graphs with correlated edges. This can be viewed as an average-case and noisy version of the well-known graph isomorphism problem. For the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-18 Luca Ganassali , Laurent Massoulié , Marc Lelarge

Motivated by applications such as discovering strong ties in social networks and assembling genome subsequences in biology, we study the problem of recovering a hidden $2k$-nearest neighbor (NN) graph in an $n$-vertex complete graph, whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Jian Ding , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Dana Yang

This paper studies the problem of recovering the hidden vertex correspondence between two edge-correlated random graphs. We focus on the Gaussian model where the two graphs are complete graphs with correlated Gaussian weights and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Sophie H. Yu

We study the graph matching problem in the presence of vertex feature information using shallow graph neural networks. Specifically, given two graphs that are independent perturbations of a single random geometric graph with sparse binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Suqi Liu , Morgane Austern

For two correlated graphs which are independently sub-sampled from a common Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph $\mathbf{G}(n, p)$, we wish to recover their \emph{latent} vertex matching from the observation of these two graphs \emph{without labels}.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Jian Ding , Hang Du

Graphical model selection is a seemingly impossible task when many pairs of variables are never jointly observed; this requires inference of conditional dependencies with no observations of corresponding marginal dependencies. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Giuseppe Vinci , Gautam Dasarathy , Genevera I. Allen

Graph learning problems are typically approached by focusing on learning the topology of a single graph when signals from all nodes are available. However, many contemporary setups involve multiple related networks and, moreover, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Samuel Rey , Madeline Navarro , Andrei Buciulea , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

Link sign prediction on a signed graph is a task to determine whether the relationship represented by an edge is positive or negative. Since the presence of negative edges violates the graph homophily assumption that adjacent nodes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinkyu Sung , Myunggeum Jee , Joonseok Lee

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 consider the statistical inference problem of recovering an unknown perfect matching, hidden in a weighted random graph, by exploiting the information arising from the use of two different distributions for the weights on the edges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-10 Guilhem Semerjian , Gabriele Sicuro , Lenka Zdeborová

We introduce the problem of hidden Hamiltonian cycle recovery, where there is an unknown Hamiltonian cycle in an $n$-vertex complete graph that needs to be inferred from noisy edge measurements. The measurements are independent and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Vivek Bagaria , Jian Ding , David Tse , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

In graph signal processing, data samples are associated to vertices on a graph, while edge weights represent similarities between those samples. We propose a convex optimization problem to learn sparse well connected graphs from data. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

We consider the problem of perfectly recovering the vertex correspondence between two correlated Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi (ER) graphs on the same vertex set. The correspondence between the vertices can be obscured by randomly permuting the vertex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Daniel Cullina , Negar Kiyavash

Graph matching involves combinatorial optimization based on edge-to-edge affinity matrix, which can be generally formulated as Lawler's Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). This paper presents a QAP network directly learning with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Runzhong Wang , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang