Robust Graph Matching Using An Unbalanced Hierarchical Optimal Transport Framework

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Auteurs principaux: Cheng, Haoran, Luo, Dixin, Xu, Hongteng
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author Cheng, Haoran
Luo, Dixin
Xu, Hongteng
author_facet Cheng, Haoran
Luo, Dixin
Xu, Hongteng
contents Graph matching is one of the most significant graph analytic tasks, which aims to find the node correspondence across different graphs. Most existing graph matching approaches mainly rely on topological information, whose performances are often sub-optimal and sensitive to data noise because of not fully leveraging the multi-modal information hidden in graphs, such as node attributes, subgraph structures, etc. In this study, we propose a novel and robust graph matching method based on an unbalanced hierarchical optimal transport (UHOT) framework, which, to our knowledge, makes the first attempt to exploit cross-modal alignment in graph matching. In principle, applying multi-layer message passing, we represent each graph as layer-wise node embeddings corresponding to different modalities. Given two graphs, we align their node embeddings within the same modality and across different modalities, respectively. Then, we infer the node correspondence by the weighted average of all the alignment results. This method is implemented as computing the UHOT distance between the two graphs -- each alignment is achieved by a node-level optimal transport plan between two sets of node embeddings, and the weights of all alignment results correspond to an unbalanced modality-level optimal transport plan. Experiments on various graph matching tasks demonstrate the superiority and robustness of our method compared to state-of-the-art approaches. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/Dixin-Lab/UHOT-GM.
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spellingShingle Robust Graph Matching Using An Unbalanced Hierarchical Optimal Transport Framework
Cheng, Haoran
Luo, Dixin
Xu, Hongteng
Artificial Intelligence
Graph matching is one of the most significant graph analytic tasks, which aims to find the node correspondence across different graphs. Most existing graph matching approaches mainly rely on topological information, whose performances are often sub-optimal and sensitive to data noise because of not fully leveraging the multi-modal information hidden in graphs, such as node attributes, subgraph structures, etc. In this study, we propose a novel and robust graph matching method based on an unbalanced hierarchical optimal transport (UHOT) framework, which, to our knowledge, makes the first attempt to exploit cross-modal alignment in graph matching. In principle, applying multi-layer message passing, we represent each graph as layer-wise node embeddings corresponding to different modalities. Given two graphs, we align their node embeddings within the same modality and across different modalities, respectively. Then, we infer the node correspondence by the weighted average of all the alignment results. This method is implemented as computing the UHOT distance between the two graphs -- each alignment is achieved by a node-level optimal transport plan between two sets of node embeddings, and the weights of all alignment results correspond to an unbalanced modality-level optimal transport plan. Experiments on various graph matching tasks demonstrate the superiority and robustness of our method compared to state-of-the-art approaches. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/Dixin-Lab/UHOT-GM.
title Robust Graph Matching Using An Unbalanced Hierarchical Optimal Transport Framework
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12081