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48 results for distance metric learning

Distance metric learning is an important component for many tasks, such as statistical classification and content-based image retrieval. Existing approaches for learning distance metrics from pairwise constraints typically suffer from two major problems. First, most algorithms only offer point estimation of the distanc…

2012-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a new method for embedding sequences using Wasserstein distances.

problem Embedding sequences in a metric space for better pattern recognition.
method Develops a deep learning model that embeds sequences as distributions and uses Wasserstein distances for comparison.
result Distributional embeddings using Wasserstein distances outperform traditional vector embeddings.

Self-supervised metric learning boosts downstream tasks in multi-view data.

problem Improving distance-based downstream tasks without labeled data.
method Developed a statistical framework to study self-supervised metric learning in multi-view data.
result Self-supervised metric learning improves target distances for various downstream tasks.

A new method learns meaningful distances between samples using optimal transport.

problem Learning meaningful distances between samples in datasets without labeled data.
method Computes OT distances between samples and features using singular vectors of a function mapping ground metrics to OT distances.
result Wasserstein Singular Vectors provide a scalable solution for unsupervised ground metric learning.

Proposes a new metric learning method for image recognition.

problem Improving image recognition performance using learned distance representations.
method Introduces a Generalized Hybrid Metric Loss (GHM-Loss) to learn hybrid proximity features combining geometric and probabilistic spaces.
result Demonstrates superior performance compared to existing methods on public datasets.

New neural nets respect triangle inequality, improving graph and reinforcement learning performance.

problem Neural nets lack inductive bias for certain subadditive distances.
method Introduced novel architectures that universally approximate norm-induced metrics.
result Neural nets with triangle inequality inductive bias outperform existing approaches.

In this paper, we present a novel two-stage metric learning algorithm. We first map each learning instance to a probability distribution by computing its similarities to a set of fixed anchor points. Then, we define the distance in the input data space as the Fisher information distance on the associated statistical ma…

2014-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Metric learning has the aim to improve classification accuracy by learning a distance measure which brings data points from the same class closer together and pushes data points from different classes further apart. Recent research has demonstrated that metric learning approaches can also be applied to trees, such as m…

2018-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a new method for local distance metric learning based on sample similarity as side information. These local metrics, which utilize conical combinations of metric weight matrices, are learned from the pooled spatial characteristics of the data, as well as the similarity profiles between the pairs of samples, …

2019-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for learning distance metrics for K-NN classification.

problem Improving the performance of K-NN classifier by learning an appropriate distance metric.
method Designing a continuous decision function for K-NN and minimizing its continuous empirical risk function.
result The proposed ANN algorithm outperforms existing methods like LMNN, NCA, and pairwise constraints.

Paper uses Sinkhorn distances to improve imitation learning effectiveness.

problem Improving imitation learning algorithms by comparing occupancy measures.
method Formulates imitation learning as Sinkhorn distance minimization, combining optimal transport and cosine distances.
result Proposes a new critic network and transport plan that guide imitation learning.

Transportation distances have been used for more than a decade now in machine learning to compare histograms of features. They have one parameter: the ground metric, which can be any metric between the features themselves. As is the case for all parameterized distances, transportation distances can only prove useful in…

2011-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey of spectral, probabilistic, and deep metric learning methods.

problem Developing effective distance metrics for various machine learning tasks.
method Divided into spectral, probabilistic, and deep approaches, covering various techniques and their applications.
result Comprehensive overview of metric learning methods, including new developments and applications.

DMLreg uses expert knowledge to improve model performance in high-dimensional settings.

problem Improving model performance in high-dimensional prediction problems.
method Learning a Mahalanobis distance metric from expert comparisons and integrating it into a regularized linear model.
result DMLreg leads to improvements in model performance when expert knowledge is relevant.

Distance metric learning is a branch of machine learning that aims to learn distances from the data, which enhances the performance of similarity-based algorithms. This tutorial provides a theoretical background and foundations on this topic and a comprehensive experimental analysis of the most-known algorithms. We sta…

2018-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Image ranking is to rank images based on some known ranked images. In this paper, we propose an improved linear ordinal distance metric learning approach based on the linear distance metric learning model. By decomposing the distance metric AA as LTLL^TL, the problem can be cast as looking for a linear map between two …

2019-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural networks learn distance-based representations, not just intensity.

problem Understanding how neural networks interpret and learn from internal activations.
method Manipulated ReLU and Absolute Value activations to observe sensitivity to distance and intensity perturbations.
result Neural networks are highly sensitive to small distance-based perturbations, challenging the intensity-based interpretation.

This paper proposes a boosting-based solution addressing metric learning problems for high-dimensional data. Distance measures have been used as natural measures of (dis)similarity and served as the foundation of various learning methods. The efficiency of distance-based learning methods heavily depends on the chosen d…

2015-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We define a novel class of distances between statistical multivariate distributions by modeling an optimal transport problem on their marginals with respect to a ground distance defined on their conditionals. These new distances are metrics whenever the ground distance between the marginals is a metric, generalize both…

2018-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

It has been reported repeatedly that discriminative learning of distance metric boosts the pattern recognition performance. A weak point of ITML-based methods is that the distance threshold for similarity/dissimilarity constraints must be determined manually and it is sensitive to generalization performance, although t…

2018-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a new class of metrics on sets, vectors, and functions that can be used in various stages of data mining, including exploratory data analysis, learning, and result interpretation. These new distance functions unify and generalize some of the popular metrics, such as the Jaccard and bag distances on sets, Man…

2016-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Distance metric learning (DML) has been studied extensively in the past decades for its superior performance with distance-based algorithms. Most of the existing methods propose to learn a distance metric with pairwise or triplet constraints. However, the number of constraints is quadratic or even cubic in the number o…

2018-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent work in distance metric learning has focused on learning transformations of data that best align with provided sets of pairwise similarity and dissimilarity constraints. The learned transformations lead to improved retrieval, classification, and clustering algorithms due to the better adapted distance or similar…

2016-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new method to learn distance metrics for semi-supervised learning.

problem Inconsistency between perturbed input sets and lack of pairwise relationship information.
method Metric Learning by Similarity Network (MLSN) co-training with a classification network to learn distance metrics adaptively.
result Performs better than state-of-the-art methods on empirical tasks.

The need for appropriate ways to measure the distance or similarity between data is ubiquitous in machine learning, pattern recognition and data mining, but handcrafting such good metrics for specific problems is generally difficult. This has led to the emergence of metric learning, which aims at automatically learning…

2013-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Distance/Similarity learning is a fundamental problem in machine learning. For example, kNN classifier or clustering methods are based on a distance/similarity measure. Metric learning algorithms enhance the efficiency of these methods by learning an optimal distance function from data. Most metric learning methods nee…

2019-04-26abs ↗pdf ↗

As a highlighting research topic in the multimedia area, cross-media retrieval aims to capture the complex correlations among multiple media types. Learning better shared representation and distance metric for multimedia data is important to boost the cross-media retrieval. Motivated by the strong ability of deep neura…

2017-04-14abs ↗pdf ↗

New metrics improve quantum ensemble learning efficiency and power.

problem Quantum ensembles' distances poorly understood due to measurement constraints.
method Introduce MMD-kk hierarchy of integral probability metrics for quantum ensembles.
result MMD-kk requires fewer samples for full discriminative power at higher kk.

Distance metric learning is a successful way to enhance the performance of the nearest neighbor classifier. In most cases, however, the distribution of data does not obey a regular form and may change in different parts of the feature space. Regarding that, this paper proposes a novel local distance metric learning met…

2018-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

A new distance metric compares probability distributions using kernel covariance operators.

problem Comparing probability distributions in machine learning tasks.
method Introduces a novel distance metric based on Schatten norm of kernel covariance operators.
result The new distance metric is more discriminative and robust to hyperparameters.

End-to-end deep metric learning tackles multi-label image classification.

problem Multi-label image classification problem.
method Two-way deep distance metric learning in a latent space with a reconstruction module.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-arts on publicly available image datasets.

The study compares Euclidean and cosine distances in medical drug prescription prediction.

problem Comparing Euclidean and cosine distances in medical drug prescription prediction.
method Established geometric properties and compared distances in real-world medical data.
result Different distances lead to different optimizing nonlinear kernel embedding frameworks.