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A Comprehensive Survey of Subgraph Matching: [Experiments & Analysis]
Summary: Survey reframing subgraph matching beyond filter-order-enumeration by integrating compiler-based (cache/validation) approaches and emphasizing pruning; proposes two unifying pillars—redundancy reduction and order generation—across 17 methods. Experiments show cache/filter/prune combinations up to 1.81× faster, reveal heuristic and validation orderings often converge to similar behavior, and provide empirical guidance for strategy selection across graph scenarios.
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hebcdce8b20f02fb6
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SIGMOD
Year
2026
Pagerank
5.050482e-05
Overall Rank
10,254 | 31.06%
DOI
10.1145/3771791
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@inproceedings{jiang_sigmod26,
title = {{A Comprehensive Survey of Subgraph Matching: [Experiments \& Analysis]}},
author = {Jiang, Haolin and Pandey, Santosh and Liu, Hang},
series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3771791},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3771791},
year = {2026}
}
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