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Quantifying randomness in complex graph sets using pairwise graph distances

Jul 2026 · Computing · Vol 108 · 0 citations · 56 references
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The novel Radial Graphlet Distribution Distance is effective, and comparable in performance to state-of-the-art methods, and the easy-to-compute Joint Degree Distance is a viable alternative to graphlet-based distances, especially for measuring randomness in sets of very large networks.

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