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48 results for data similarity

Modified cosine distance improves similarity performance in data with variance and correlation.

problem Limitations of traditional cosine similarity in random variable spaces with variance and correlation.
method Proposed a variance-adjusted cosine distance metric to overcome limitations of traditional cosine similarity.
result Modified cosine distance shows 100% test accuracy in KNN model on the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Dataset.

Similarity-based clustering and semi-supervised learning methods separate the data into clusters or classes according to the pairwise similarity between the data, and the pairwise similarity is crucial for their performance. In this paper, we propose a novel discriminative similarity learning framework which learns dis…

2017-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum networks learn task-dependent asymmetric similarity measures.

problem Challenges of conventional distance functions in capturing meaningful similarity.
method GQSim: Quantum networks for learning task-dependent (a)symmetric similarity.
result Quantum similarity measures extract salient features and achieve theoretically guaranteed performance.

Defining similarity measures is a requirement for some machine learning methods. One such method is case-based reasoning (CBR) where the similarity measure is used to retrieve the stored case or set of cases most similar to the query case. Describing a similarity measure analytically is challenging, even for domain exp…

2020-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

A good measure of similarity between data points is crucial to many tasks in machine learning. Similarity and metric learning methods learn such measures automatically from data, but they do not scale well respect to the dimensionality of the data. In this paper, we propose a method that can learn efficiently similarit…

2014-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently, randomly mapping vectorial data to strings of discrete symbols (i.e., sketches) for fast and space-efficient similarity searches has become popular. Such random mapping is called similarity-preserving hashing and approximates a similarity metric by using the Hamming distance. Although many efficient similarit…

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Introduces CHL, a new loss function for continuous similarity learning.

problem Binary similarity learning limitations.
method CHL is a novel loss function that generalizes histogram loss to continuous similarities.
result CHL solves a wider range of tasks including similarity learning, representation learning, and data visualization.

Paper tackles weakly supervised learning from similarity-confidence data.

problem Learning binary classifier from unlabeled data pairs with confidence of similarity.
method Proposes an unbiased estimator of classification risk from Sconf data and risk correction scheme.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of proposed methods through experiments.

SBSS uses similarity to split data for better classifier training.

problem Training better classifiers with realistic performance estimation.
method SBSS uses both input and output space information to split data using similarity functions.
result SBSS outperformed ordinary stratified 10-fold cross-validation in 75% of scenarios.

The paper studies batch decompositions of random datasets with probabilistic similarity constraints.

problem Understanding how to optimally split large datasets into batches for better model learning.
method Assumes independent data points from a space, defines similarity, and uses probabilistic and martingale methods to find bounds on batch sizes.
result Demonstrates an inherent tradeoff between relaxing similarity constraints and batch size, and provides bounds for maximum similarity subsets.

Data similarity is a key concept in many data-driven applications. Many algorithms are sensitive to similarity measures. To tackle this fundamental problem, automatically learning of similarity information from data via self-expression has been developed and successfully applied in various models, such as low-rank repr…

2019-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved forecasting of suicide attempts using LSGPs for patients with little data.

problem Challenges in predicting suicide attempts due to their rarity and patient heterogeneity.
method Introduced Latent Similarity Gaussian Processes (LSGPs) to capture patient heterogeneity.
result LSGPs outperform baseline models, even without kernel-design, and offer new insights into patient similarity.

Bipartite data is common in data engineering and brings unique challenges, particularly when it comes to clustering tasks that impose on strong structural assumptions. This work presents an unsupervised method for assessing similarity in bipartite data. Similar to some co-clustering methods, the method is based on regu…

2017-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

CoLoRA leverages task similarity to boost fine-tuning efficiency.

problem Efficiently fine-tuning large foundation models with scarce labeled data.
method CoLoRA trains a shared adapter for task similarity and personalized adapters for user-specific tasks.
result CoLoRA significantly boosts fine-tuning performance when tasks are similar.

DNN-based cross-modal retrieval has become a research hotspot, by which users can search results across various modalities like image and text. However, existing methods mainly focus on the pairwise correlation and reconstruction error of labeled data. They ignore the semantically similar and dissimilar constraints bet…

2017-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

A general framework for solving the subspace clustering problem using the CUR decomposition is presented. The CUR decomposition provides a natural way to construct similarity matrices for data that come from a union of unknown subspaces U=Mi=1Si\mathscr{U}=\underset{i=1}{\overset{M}\bigcup}S_i. The similarity matrices thus c…

2017-11-11abs ↗pdf ↗

For many analytical problems the challenge is to handle huge amounts of available data. However, there are data science application areas where collecting information is difficult and costly, e.g., in the study of geological phenomena, rare diseases, faults in complex systems, insurance frauds, etc. In many such cases,…

2019-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Study measures impact of data and neural net similarity on transferability in restaurant sales data.

problem Identify indicators for successful transferability of neural nets across different data sets.
method Empirical study on sales data from six restaurants, calculating indicators based on data and neural net similarities.
result Negative correlations between transferability and indicators, allowing better model performance and fewer transfers.

CAST improves spectral clustering for multi-scale data by integrating reachability similarity.

problem Applying spectral clustering to multi-scale data where clusters vary in size and density.
method CAST integrates reachability similarity with distance-based similarity to derive a coefficient matrix, then applies trace Lasso regularization.
result CAST provides excellent performance and robustness across various multi-scale data test cases.

New stability measures for similar features improve feature selection accuracy.

problem Existing stability measures fail to distinguish similar features in highly correlated datasets.
method Introduce new adjusted stability measures that consider feature similarities.
result One new stability measure considers highly similar features as interchangeable.

We propose a family of near-metrics based on local graph diffusion to capture similarity for a wide class of data sets. These quasi-metametrics, as their names suggest, dispense with one or two standard axioms of metric spaces, specifically distinguishability and symmetry, so that similarity between data points of arbi…

2017-07-21abs ↗pdf ↗

CLS measures dataset similarity through decision rule performance.

problem Measuring dataset similarity in machine learning, especially for transfer learning and domain adaptation.
method Cross-Learning Score (CLS) measures similarity through bidirectional generalization performance of decision rules, linking to cosine similarity under canonical linear models.
result CLS effectively measures dataset similarity and transferability, validated on synthetic and real-world datasets.

Given only information in the form of similarity triplets "Object A is more similar to object B than to object C" about a data set, we propose two ways of defining a kernel function on the data set. While previous approaches construct a low-dimensional Euclidean embedding of the data set that reflects the given similar…

2016-07-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Language-based methods improve human similarity approximations without requiring many human judgments.

problem Approximating human similarity judgments using pre-trained deep neural networks (DNNs) is challenging and expensive.
method Developed language-based methods to approximate human similarity judgments, validated with adaptive tag collection pipeline.
result Language-based methods significantly improve performance over DNN-based methods with fewer human judgments.

Proposes a new stability measure for model fitting on similar feature data sets.

problem Model fitting on data sets with similar features is challenging.
method Tuning hyperparameters in a multi-criteria fashion with predictive accuracy and feature selection stability.
result Our approach achieves similar or better predictive performance than single-criteria and stability selection approaches.

Excessive reuse of test data has become commonplace in today's machine learning workflows. Popular benchmarks, competitions, industrial scale tuning, among other applications, all involve test data reuse beyond guidance by statistical confidence bounds. Nonetheless, recent replication studies give evidence that popular…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning improves invoice matching speed and accuracy.

problem Efficiently matching similar invoices from various businesses and organizations.
method Combining machine learning with string similarity functions on invoice datasets.
result Neural network and boosted decision tree outperformed existing solutions.

Leveraging on the underlying low-dimensional structure of data, low-rank and sparse modeling approaches have achieved great success in a wide range of applications. However, in many applications the data can display structures beyond simply being low-rank or sparse. Fully extracting and exploiting hidden structure info…

2019-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Deconfounds neural network representation similarity metrics to improve consistency and accuracy.

problem Confounding by population structure in similarity metrics like RSA and CKA.
method Covariate adjustment regression to adjust for confounders.
result Improves detection of semantically similar neural networks and consistency in transfer learning.

Calculating similarities between objects defined by many heterogeneous data modalities is an important challenge in many multimedia applications. We use a multi-modal topic model as a basis for defining such a similarity between objects. We propose to compare the resulting similarities from different model realizations…

2014-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new discrepancy score between two distributions that gives an indication on their similarity. While much research has been done to determine if two samples come from exactly the same distribution, much less research considered the problem of determining if two finite samples come from similar distributio…

2012-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

There are plenty of problems where the data available is scarce and expensive. We propose a generator of semi-artificial data with similar properties to the original data which enables development and testing of different data mining algorithms and optimization of their parameters. The generated data allow a large scal…

2014-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Clustering methods group a set of data points into a few coherent groups or clusters of similar data points. As an example, consider clustering pixels in an image (or video) if they belong to the same object. Different clustering methods are obtained by using different notions of similarity and different representation…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗