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Summary of Efficient Graph Similarity Computation with Alignment Regularization, by Wei Zhuo et al.


Efficient Graph Similarity Computation with Alignment Regularization

by Wei Zhuo, Guang Tan

First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Jun 2024

Categories

  • Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
  • Secondary: None

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
Medium Difficulty summary: This paper tackles the graph similarity computation (GSC) task by estimating graph edit distance (GED). Conventional methods employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), incorporating a node-level matching module for fine-grained interactions. However, this approach is computationally expensive during training and inference. The authors demonstrate that this node-to-node matching module is unnecessary, instead proposing Alignment Regularization (AReg) to impose node-graph correspondence constraints on the GNN encoder. They also introduce a multi-scale GED discriminator to enhance learned representations. Experimental results on real-world datasets showcase the effectiveness, efficiency, and transferability of their approach.
Low GrooveSquid.com (original content) Low Difficulty Summary
Low Difficulty summary: This paper is about finding similarities between graphs. Current methods use special computers called Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to do this. However, these methods can be very slow. The authors suggest a simpler way to achieve good results without using the extra computer power. They also introduce a new tool that helps improve the accuracy of their method. By testing their approach on real-world data, they show it works well and is efficient.

Keywords

» Artificial intelligence  » Alignment  » Encoder  » Gnn  » Inference  » Regularization  » Transferability