Computing the graph edit distance using dominant sets

Nicola Rebagliati, Albert Solé-Ribalta, Marcello Pelillo, Francesc Serratosa

Abstract: We present a new approach to compute the graph edit distance between two attributed graphs which is based on a formal connection between the graph edit distance problem and that of finding a dominant set in an auxiliary edge-weighted “association” graph. Experiments performed on various data sets show that with the proposed approach we are able to improve on state-of-the-art algorithms.