A Probabilistic Approach to Learning Costs for Graph Edit Distance

  • Authors:
  • Michel Neuhaus;Horst Bunke

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bern, Switzerland;University of Bern, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '04 Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition, 17th International Conference on (ICPR'04) Volume 3 - Volume 03
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Graph edit distance provides an error-tolerant way to measure distances between attributed graphs. The effectiveness of edit distance based graph classification algorithms relies on the adequate definition of edit operation costs. We propose a cost inference method that is based on a distribution estimation of edit operations. For this purpose we employ an Expectation Maximization algorithm to learn mixture densities from a labeled sample of graphs and derive edit costs that are subsequently applied in the context of a graph edit distance computation framework. We evaluate the performance of the proposed distance model in comparison to another recently introduced learning model for edit costs.