Comparing phylogenetic trees of stars with spectral graph distances

arXiv:2609.26782 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted on A&A

Code: https://github.com/theosig/phylographs

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 54× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
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• Benchmark — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Milky Way — 11× in this paper
• Trace — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adjacency Matrix — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Metallicity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adjacency Spectral Distance — 2× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Computational Biology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Graph Construction — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Disentangling chemical evolution histories with phylogenetic trees

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