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The skew spectrum of graphs

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The central issue in representing graph-structured data instances in learning algorithms is designing features which are invariant to permuting the numbering of the vertices. We present a new system of invariant graph features which we call the skew spectrum of graphs. The skew spectrum is based on mapping the adjacency matrix of any (weigted, directed, unlabeled) graph to a function on the symmetric group and computing bispectral invariants. The reduced form of the skew spectrum is computable in O(n3) time, and experiments show that on several benchmark datasets it can outperform state of the art graph kernels.

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            ICML '08: Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning
            July 2008
            1310 pages
            ISBN:9781605582054
            DOI:10.1145/1390156

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