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Graph embedding is a transformation of nodes of a network into a set of vectors. A good embedding should capture the underlying graph topology and structure, node-to-node relationship, and other relevant information about the graph, its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Bogumił Kamiński , Łukasz Kraiński , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

Graph neural networks (GNNs) provide a powerful and scalable solution for modeling continuous spatial data. However, they often rely on Euclidean distances to construct the input graphs. This assumption can be improbable in many real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Konstantin Klemmer , Nathan Safir , Daniel B. Neill

We introduce an unsupervised graph embedding that trades off local node similarity and connectivity, and global structure. The embedding is based on a generalized graph Laplacian, whose eigenvectors compactly capture both network structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Shay Deutsch , Stefano Soatto

Graph embedding techniques are pivotal in real-world machine learning tasks that operate on graph-structured data, such as social recommendation and protein structure modeling. Embeddings are mostly performed on the node level for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Nan Wang , Lu Lin , Jundong Li , Hongning Wang

We propose a novel node embedding of directed graphs to statistical manifolds, which is based on a global minimization of pairwise relative entropy and graph geodesics in a non-linear way. Each node is encoded with a probability density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Thorben Funke , Tian Guo , Alen Lancic , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

We present Graph Random Neural Features (GRNF), a novel embedding method from graph-structured data to real vectors based on a family of graph neural networks. The embedding naturally deals with graph isomorphism and preserves the metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi , Lorenzo Livi

Graph embeddings are a ubiquitous tool for machine learning tasks, such as node classification and link prediction, on graph-structured data. However, computing the embeddings for large-scale graphs is prohibitively inefficient even if we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Matthew Fahrbach , Gramoz Goranci , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva , Chi Wang

Scene graph representations enable structured visual understanding by modeling objects and their relationships, and have been widely used for multiview and 3D scene reasoning. Existing methods such as MSG learn scene graph embeddings in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Liyang Wang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

The Wasserstein distance received a lot of attention recently in the community of machine learning, especially for its principled way of comparing distributions. It has found numerous applications in several hard problems, such as domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-23 Nicolas Courty , Rémi Flamary , Mélanie Ducoffe

We introduce new distance measures for comparing straight-line embedded graphs based on the Fr\'echet distance and the weak Fr\'echet distance. These graph distances are defined using continuous mappings and thus take the combinatorial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Hugo A. Akitaya , Maike Buchin , Bernhard Kilgus , Stef Sijben , Carola Wenk

Graph embedding has recently gained momentum in the research community, in particular after the introduction of random walk and neural network based approaches. However, most of the embedding approaches focus on representing the local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Joerg Schloetterer , Martin Wehking , Fatemeh Salehi Rizi , Michael Granitzer

Graph embedding has been widely applied in areas such as network analysis, social network mining, recommendation systems, and bioinformatics. However, current graph construction methods often require the prior definition of neighborhood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 S. Peng , L. Hu , W. Zhang , B. Jie , Y. Luo

We define a class of Euclidean distances on weighted graphs, enabling to perform thermodynamic soft graph clustering. The class can be constructed form the "raw coordinates" encountered in spectral clustering, and can be extended by means…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-09-15 François Bavaud

The network embedding problem aims to map nodes that are similar to each other to vectors in a Euclidean space that are close to each other. Like centrality analysis (ranking) and community detection, network embedding is in general…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Cheng-Shang Chang , Ching-Chu Huang , Chia-Tai Chang , Duan-Shin Lee , Ping-En Lu

We demonstrate that a graph-based search algorithm-relying on the construction of an approximate neighborhood graph-can directly work with challenging non-metric and/or non-symmetric distances without resorting to metric-space mapping…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Leonid Boytsov , Eric Nyberg

The efficiency of graph-based semi-supervised algorithms depends on the graph of instances on which they are applied. The instances are often in a vectorial form before a graph linking them is built. The construction of the graph relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Pauline Wauquier , Mikaela Keller

Euclidean distance matrices (EDMs) are a major tool for localization from distances, with applications ranging from protein structure determination to global positioning and manifold learning. They are, however, static objects which serve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Puoya Tabaghi , Ivan Dokmanić , Martin Vetterli

Learning node representations is a fundamental problem in graph machine learning. While existing embedding methods effectively preserve local similarity measures, they often fail to capture global functions like graph distances. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 My Le , Luana Ruiz , Souvik Dhara

Distance measuring is a very important task in digital geometry and digital image processing. Due to our natural approach to geometry we think of the set of points that are equally far from a given point as a Euclidean circle. Using the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-18 Janos Farkas , Szabolcs Bajak , Benedek Nagy

The notion of local intrinsic dimensionality (LID) is an important advancement in data dimensionality analysis, with applications in data mining, machine learning and similarity search problems. Existing distance-based LID estimators were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Miloš Savić , Vladimir Kurbalija , Miloš Radovanović