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Main Authors: Bommakanti, Aditya, Vonteri, Harshith Reddy, Ranu, Sayan, Karras, Panagiotis
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05885
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author Bommakanti, Aditya
Vonteri, Harshith Reddy
Ranu, Sayan
Karras, Panagiotis
author_facet Bommakanti, Aditya
Vonteri, Harshith Reddy
Ranu, Sayan
Karras, Panagiotis
contents The need to identify graphs with small structural distances from a query arises in domains such as biology, chemistry, recommender systems, and social network analysis. Among several methods for measuring inter-graph distance, Graph Edit Distance (GED) is preferred for its comprehensibility, though its computation is hindered by NP-hardness. Optimization based heuristic methods often face challenges in providing accurate approximations. State-of-the-art GED approximations predominantly utilize neural methods, which, however: (i) lack an explanatory edit path corresponding to the approximated GED; (ii) require the NP-hard generation of ground-truth GEDs for training; and (iii) necessitate separate training on each dataset. In this paper, we propose EUGENE, an efficient, algebraic, and structure-aware optimization based method that estimates GED and also provides edit paths corresponding to the estimated cost. Extensive experimental evaluation demonstrates that EUGENE achieves state-of-the-art GED estimation with superior scalability across diverse datasets and generalized cost settings.
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spellingShingle EUGENE: Explainable Structure-aware Graph Edit Distance Estimation with Generalized Edit Costs
Bommakanti, Aditya
Vonteri, Harshith Reddy
Ranu, Sayan
Karras, Panagiotis
Machine Learning
The need to identify graphs with small structural distances from a query arises in domains such as biology, chemistry, recommender systems, and social network analysis. Among several methods for measuring inter-graph distance, Graph Edit Distance (GED) is preferred for its comprehensibility, though its computation is hindered by NP-hardness. Optimization based heuristic methods often face challenges in providing accurate approximations. State-of-the-art GED approximations predominantly utilize neural methods, which, however: (i) lack an explanatory edit path corresponding to the approximated GED; (ii) require the NP-hard generation of ground-truth GEDs for training; and (iii) necessitate separate training on each dataset. In this paper, we propose EUGENE, an efficient, algebraic, and structure-aware optimization based method that estimates GED and also provides edit paths corresponding to the estimated cost. Extensive experimental evaluation demonstrates that EUGENE achieves state-of-the-art GED estimation with superior scalability across diverse datasets and generalized cost settings.
title EUGENE: Explainable Structure-aware Graph Edit Distance Estimation with Generalized Edit Costs
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05885