Summary of Learning Partial Graph Matching Via Optimal Partial Transport, by Gathika Ratnayaka et al.
Learning Partial Graph Matching via Optimal Partial Transport
by Gathika Ratnayaka, James Nichols, Qing Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A machine learning technique called partial graph matching is used to solve complex problems in various fields. Traditional graph matching methods are limited as they require all nodes to be matched, which can be impractical for certain scenarios. Recent studies have applied deep learning techniques to partial graph matching, but there has been a lack of an optimization objective that accurately captures the problem’s nature while allowing efficient solutions. This paper proposes a novel optimization framework inspired by optimal partial transport, which formulates an objective that balances matched and unmatched nodes while incorporating matching biases. The method can achieve efficient, exact solutions within cubic worst-case time complexity. The contributions are threefold: introducing a novel optimization objective, establishing a connection between partial graph matching and linear sum assignment problem, and proposing a deep graph matching architecture with a novel partial matching loss. Empirical evaluations on standard benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Partial graph matching is used to solve complex problems in various fields. The traditional method requires all nodes to be matched, which can be impractical for certain scenarios. This paper proposes a new way to do partial graph matching that works well and is efficient. It uses a novel optimization framework inspired by optimal partial transport to balance matched and unmatched nodes while incorporating matching biases. This approach can achieve exact solutions quickly. The results show that this method is effective. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Deep learning * Machine learning * Optimization
