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Diffusion enabled Optimal Transport distances for graph matching

arXiv:2607. 06646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces Diffusion Semi-Relaxed Fused Gromov-Wasserstein (DsrFGW), a novel method for graph comparison that unifies node features and structural connectivity through optimal transport.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Optimal Transport for Network Comparison: A Review with Machine Learning Applications

The paper reviews the use of optimal transport for comparing undirected, unweighted graphs, focusing on three main distances: Wasserstein, Gromov-Wasserstein, and Bures-Wasserstein. It discusses closed-form solutions for the Wasserstein distance in one dimension, how transport plans identify influential nodes after perturbations, and derives spectral bounds for the Bures-Wasserstein distance to avoid full decompositions. The authors evaluate these distances on synthetic clustering data and a real-world time‑series network for anomaly detection.

By James Hyun, Fran\c{c}ois G. Meyer
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

Cluster-Aware Matching via Laplacian Optimal Transport

arXiv:2607. 16178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many applications of matching, the point clouds to be matched are not merely unstructured sets of points but rather samples from distributions with an intrinsic cluster structure.

By Gabriel Samberg, YoonHaeng Hur, Yuehaw Khoo, Nir Sharon
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Alignment Matters Inside and Out in Equivariant Graph Flow Matching

The paper investigates how alignment—both outer (choosing which graphs to pair) and inner (aligning node representatives)—affects permutation-equivariant graph flow matching. It connects inner alignment to transport on the graph quotient space and shows that quotient couplings can be lifted to aligned representatives, while symmetrization yields equivariant flow‑matching minimizers. Experiments on continuous graph and molecular generation demonstrate that appropriate alignment can simplify trajectories and improve few‑step generation, though the benefits vary with the type of alignment and computational budget.

By Moritz Piening, Christian Wald
arXiv Statistics ML
Sep 4

Discrete Gromov-Wasserstein Duality: Algorithms and Isomorphism Testing

The paper presents a new duality formulation for the Gromov‑Wasserstein distance that applies to all finitely supported metric‑measure spaces, with and without entropic regularization. Using this duality, the authors derive sample‑complexity bounds and limit distributions for empirical GW distances, and introduce algorithms with formal convergence guarantees. These results enable a principled, efficient method for testing isomorphism between distributions on graphs with a fixed number of nodes based on samples.

By Gabriel Rioux, Joanna Marks, Riccardo Passeggeri, Ziv Goldfeld