Table 1 Classification of network distances.

From: Comparing methods for comparing networks

Network type

Known Node-Correspondence (KNC)

Unknown Node-Correspondence (UNC)

Undirected Unweighted

–Euclidean (EUC), Manhattan (MAN), Canberra (CAN), Jaccard (JAC) distances

–DeltaCon (DCON)

–Global statistics

–Spectral Adjacency (EIG-ADJ), Laplacian (EIG-LAP), SNL (EIG-SNL) distances

–GCD-11

–MI-GRAAL

–NetLSD

–Portrait Divergence (PDIV)

Directed Unweighted

–Euclidean, Manhattan, Canberra, Jaccard distances

–DeltaCon

–Global statistics

–DGCD-129

–MI-GRAAL

–Portrait Divergence

Undirected Weighted

–Euclidean, Manhattan, Canberra distances

–Weighted Jaccard distance (WJAC)

–Global statistics

–Spectral Adjacency, Laplacian, SNL distances

–MI-GRAAL

–NetLSD

–Portrait Divergence

Directed Weighted

–Euclidean, Manhattan, Canberra distances

–Weighted Jaccard distance

–Global statistics

–MI-GRAAL

–Portrait Divergence