On 2014-03-03, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK both implement the same basic algorithm. My guess is that nauty 
> quickly realizes that it has a huge problem and starts constructing graph 
> invariants in an attempt to answer it to the negative. If you were to 
> compare two graphs that are actually isomorphic I'm pretty sure that you 
> wouldn't find such a big difference. For practical applications it is of 
> course important to have this trick using easily-accessible graph 
> invariants, but its probably not that hard to implement.. 

it's known that most "easy" graph invariants, such as counting
sizes of isomorphism classes of k-vertex subgraphs on each arc,
are only heuristics (cf. Cai-Furer-Immerman results). However, 
if you average over sufficiently large classes of graphs, these
heuristics appear to work quite well.

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