stat.MLMar 24, 2026

Sharp Statistical Thresholds for Attributed Gaussian Graph Matching

Authors: Mohammad Hassan Ahmad Yarandi, Luca Ganassali

Organizations: Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran · Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, Laboratoire de mathématiques d’Orsay, Orsay, France

Abstract

We investigate the problem of matching networks where both edge weights and node features are correlated following a specific node correspondence. While prior work has established sharp thresholds for matching either graphs or features individually, the joint setting has been significantly less explored. In this study, we derive precise information-theoretic thresholds for exact recovery, almost-exact recovery, and partial recovery of the underlying alignment. These are expressed in terms of graph and feature correlation strengths, the number of nodes, and the dimension of the features. Interestingly, whereas an all-or-nothing phase transition is observed in the standard graph-matching scenario, the inclusion of contextual information at the node level introduces a richer structure: the exact-recovery threshold separates from the shared threshold for almost-exact and partial recovery. Closing gaps left by prior works, we provide a sharp characterization of the thresholds governing how structural and contextual information interact in graph matching, and thereby establish a benchmark for designing efficient algorithms in the high-dimensional setting.

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