Improved achievability and converse bounds for erdos-rényi graph matching

D Cullina, N Kiyavash - ACM SIGMETRICS performance evaluation …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
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We consider the problem of perfectly recovering the vertex correspondence between two
correlated Erdos-Renyi (ER) graphs. For a pair of correlated graphs on the same vertex set,
the correspondence between the vertices can be obscured by randomly permuting the
vertex labels of one of the graphs. In some cases, the structural information in the graphs
allow this correspondence to be recovered. We investigate the information-theoretic
threshold for exact recovery, ie the conditions under which the entire vertex correspondence …
We consider the problem of perfectly recovering the vertex correspondence between two correlated Erdos-Renyi (ER) graphs. For a pair of correlated graphs on the same vertex set, the correspondence between the vertices can be obscured by randomly permuting the vertex labels of one of the graphs. In some cases, the structural information in the graphs allow this correspondence to be recovered. We investigate the information-theoretic threshold for exact recovery, i.e. the conditions under which the entire vertex correspondence can be correctly recovered given unbounded computational resources. Pedarsani and Grossglauser provided an achievability result of this type. Their result establishes the scaling dependence of the threshold on the number of vertices. We improve on their achievability bound. We also provide a converse bound, establishing conditions under which exact recovery is impossible. Together, these establish the scaling dependence of the threshold on the level of correlation between the two graphs. The converse and achievability bounds differ by a factor of two for sparse, significantly correlated graphs.
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