
The isomorphism problem is a fundamental problem in network analysis, which involves capturing both low-order and high-order structural information. In terms of extracting low-order structural information, graph isomorphism algorithms analyze the structural equivalence to reduce the solver space dimension, which demonstrates its power in many applications, such as protein design, chemical pathways, and community detection. For the more commonly occurring high-order relationships in real-life scenarios, the problem of hypergraph isomorphism, which effectively captures these high-order structural relationships, cannot be straightforwardly addressed using graph isomorphism methods. Besides, the existing hypergraph kernel methods may suffer from high memory consumption or inaccurate sub-structure identification, thus yielding sub-optimal performance. In this paper, to address the abovementioned problems, we first propose the hypergraph Weisfiler-Lehman test algorithm for the hypergraph isomorphism test problem by generalizing the Weisfiler-Lehman test algorithm from graphs to hypergraphs. Secondly, based on the presented algorithm, we propose a general hypergraph Weisfieler-Lehman kernel framework and implement two instances, which are Hypergraph Weisfeiler-Lehamn Subtree Kernel and Hypergraph Weisfeiler-Lehamn Hyperedge Kernel. In order to fulfill our research objectives, a comprehensive set of experiments was meticulously designed, including seven graph classification datasets and 12 hypergraph classification datasets. Results on hypergraph classification datasets show significant improvements compared to other typical kernel-based methods, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed methods. In our evaluation, we found that our proposed methods outperform the second-best method in terms of runtime, running over 80 times faster when handling complex hypergraph structures.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), Machine Learning (cs.LG)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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