Yihong Wu | Random graph matching at Otter’s threshold via counting chandeliers
GRAMSIA 5/18/2023
Speaker: Yihong Wu (Yale)
Title: Random graph matching at Otter’s threshold via counting chandeliers
Abstract: We propose an efficient algorithm for graph matching based on similarity scores constructed from counting a certain family of weighted trees rooted at each vertex. For two Erdős–Rényi graphs G(n,q) whose edges are correlated through a latent vertex correspondence, we show that this algorithm correctly matches all but a vanishing fraction of the vertices with high probability, provided that nq\to\infty and the edge correlation coefficient ρ satisfies ρ^2(greater than)α≈0.338*, where α is Otter’s tree-counting constant. Moreover, this almost exact matching can be made exact under an extra condition that is information-theoretically necessary. This is the first polynomial-time graph matching algorithm that succeeds at an explicit constant correlation and applies to both sparse and dense graphs. In comparison, previous methods either require ρ=1−o(1) or are restricted to sparse graphs. The crux of the algorithm is a carefully curated family of rooted trees called chandeliers, which allows effective extraction of the graph correlation from the counts of the same tree while suppressing the undesirable correlation between those of different trees. This is joint work with Cheng Mao, Jiaming Xu, and Sophie Yu, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12313
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