Computing Approximate Graph Edit Distance via Optimal Transport
Summary: Uses optimal transport to approximate graph edit distance by deriving vertex coupling from the cost matrix via inverse OT with a learnable Sinkhorn (GEDIOT). Proposes GEDGW (OT + Gromov–Wasserstein) and GEDHOT, a fusion of GEDIOT and GEDGW for improved GED accuracy and generalization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Qihao Cheng (Tsinghua University)
- 2. Da Yan (Indiana University)
- 3. Tianhao Wu (Tsinghua University)
- 4. Zhongyi Huang (Tsinghua University)
- 5. Qin Zhang (Indiana University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{cheng_sigmod25,
title = {{Computing Approximate Graph Edit Distance via Optimal Transport}},
author = {Cheng, Qihao and Yan, Da and Wu, Tianhao and Huang, Zhongyi and Zhang, Qin},
series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3709673},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3709673},
year = {2025}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,268 | Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment for Graph Edit Distance Computation and Beyond | 2025 | VLDB | 5.1860131e-05 |
| 10,779 | A Semantics-aware Approach for Graph Edit Distance Estimation over Knowledge Graphs | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9605343e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,136 | Comparing Stars: On Approximating Graph Edit Distance | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00011857445 |
| 2,635 | Neural Subgraph Counting with Wasserstein Estimator | 2022 | SIGMOD | 8.1795762e-05 |
| 3,105 | A Learned Sketch for Subgraph Counting | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.6278115e-05 |
| 3,461 | Computing Graph Edit Distance via Neural Graph Matching | 2023 | VLDB | 7.2629166e-05 |
| 3,582 | A Partition-Based Approach to Structure Similarity Search | 2014 | VLDB | 7.1715746e-05 |
| 4,012 | TaGSim: Type-aware Graph Similarity Learning and Computation | 2022 | VLDB | 6.8419352e-05 |
| 6,002 | Neural Attributed Community Search at Billion Scale | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.9028394e-05 |
| 7,226 | Boosting Graph Similarity Search through Pre-Computation | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.5651409e-05 |
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