Advocates Tversky's model for image similarity learning.
problem Learning Tversky similarity measures from image data.
method Computational approach using Tversky's ratio model.
result Performs well compared to existing methods on image datasets.
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We introduce GSimCNN (Graph Similarity Computation via Convolutional Neural Networks) for predicting the similarity score between two graphs. As the core operation of graph similarity search, pairwise graph similarity computation is a challenging problem due to the NP-hard nature of computing many graph distance/simila…
BiLRP explains deep similarity models by decomposing scores into feature contributions.
problem Verifying meaningful patterns in complex similarity models.
method Augmenting similarity scores with feature explanations using LRP.
result BiLRP robustly explains deep neural network features and historical document similarities.
New findings clarify the link between distributional closeness and representational similarity.
problem When and why do different neural network representations become similar?
method Identifiability theory, focusing on model families including autoregressive language models.
result Small Kullback-Leibler divergence does not guarantee similar representations.
This paper proposes novel algorithms for speaker embedding using subjective inter-speaker similarity based on deep neural networks (DNNs). Although conventional DNN-based speaker embedding such as a -vector can be applied to multi-speaker modeling in speech synthesis, it does not correlate with the subjective inter-…
Music genre classification is an essential tool for music information retrieval systems and it has been finding critical applications in various media platforms. Two important problems of the automatic music genre classification are feature extraction and classifier design. This paper investigates inter-genre similarit…
Method generates visual explanations for similarity models without classification.
problem Lack of visual explanations for similarity models trained without classification loss.
method Gradient-based visual attention using learned feature embeddings.
result Attention maps improve model performance and can be used as constraints.
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.
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…
Paper proposes embedding models to capture semantic similarities of categorical attributes in financial bonds.
problem Challenges in finding similar bonds due to overshadowing of categorical non-financial attributes.
method Embedding models to capture semantic similarities of categorical attributes.
result Improves risk modeling and curve construction via sparse-issuer augmentation.
Exploits class similarity for better machine learning models with confidence labels and projective loss functions.
problem Poor model performance due to confusing similar classes.
method Exploits class similarity with confidence labels and projective loss functions.
result Improved model performance on noisy labels.
We propose (WIPS) for neural network-based graph embedding. In addition to the parameters of neural networks, we optimize the weights of the inner product by allowing positive and negative values. Despite its simplicity, WIPS can approximate arbitrary general similarities in…
Study evaluates relevance metrics for similarity-based model explanations.
problem Providing understandable explanations for complex model predictions.
method Evaluated three relevance metrics using three tests.
result Cosine similarity of gradients performs best for explanations.
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.
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…
Large language models learn company embeddings from SEC filings.
problem Lack of a rigorous definition of company similarity.
method Pre-trained and finetuned large language models (LLMs) to learn embeddings from SEC filings.
result LLMs can reproduce GICS classifications and indicate similar financial performance.
Develops a fast method to analyze image similarities without pre-trained models.
problem Lack of efficient methods to analyze fine-level similarities in large image datasets.
method Wavelet decomposition and numerical analysis tools.
result Identifies similar images in standard datasets (like CIFAR) in a few seconds.
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.
Probabilistic graphical models compactly represent joint distributions by decomposing them into factors over subsets of random variables. In Bayesian networks, the factors are conditional probability distributions. For many problems, common information exists among those factors. Adding similarity restrictions can be v…
ROTS improves sentence similarity by incorporating structural information.
problem Measuring sentence similarity with theoretical insights and structural awareness.
method Recursive Optimal Transport (ROT) framework to incorporate structural information.
result ROTS outperforms weakly supervised approaches in sentence similarity tasks.
Logit distance bounds representational similarity of models.
problem Approximating linear similarity when distributions are close.
method Defined a logit distance and proved its relationship to representational dissimilarity.
result Logit distance bounds representational similarity, providing nontrivial control in practice.
Pattern Similarity-based Machine Learning Methods for Mid-term Load Forecasting: A Comparative Studycs.LG
The paper uses pattern similarity-based methods for mid-term electricity demand forecasting.
problem Forecasting monthly electricity demand with seasonal patterns.
method Pattern similarity-based machine learning models (nearest neighbor, fuzzy neighborhood, kernel regression, GRNN).
result The proposed models outperform classical and state-of-the-art models in accuracy and simplicity.
Many similarity-based clustering methods work in two separate steps including similarity matrix computation and subsequent spectral clustering. However, similarity measurement is challenging because it is usually impacted by many factors, e.g., the choice of similarity metric, neighborhood size, scale of data, noise an…
Cross-domain visual data matching is one of the fundamental problems in many real-world vision tasks, e.g., matching persons across ID photos and surveillance videos. Conventional approaches to this problem usually involves two steps: i) projecting samples from different domains into a common space, and ii) computing (…
Classifies self-similar curve shortening flows in hyperbolic 2-space.
problem Classifying self-similar curve shortening flows in hyperbolic 2-space.
method Analyzes and classifies solutions in hyperbolic 2-space.
result Completes the classification of self-similar curve shortening flows in constant curvature model spaces in 2-dimensions.
Ethereum Fraud Detection via Joint Transaction Language Model and Graph Representation Learningcs.CR
TLMG4Eth combines language and graph models for Ethereum fraud detection.
problem Current fraud detection methods fail to consider semantic and similarity patterns in Ethereum transactions.
method TLMG4Eth uses a transaction language model and graph-based methods to capture semantic, similarity, and structural features.
result TLMG4Eth detects anomalies in Ethereum transactions more effectively than existing methods.
To address the limitations of existing magnitude-based pruning algorithms in cases where model weights or activations are of large and similar magnitude, we propose a novel perspective to discover parameter redundancy among channels and accelerate deep CNNs via channel pruning. Precisely, we argue that channels reveali…
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.
Method measures weight similarity in neural networks using normalization and statistical inference.
problem Quantifying weight similarity in non-convex neural networks.
method Chain normalization rule and hypothesis-training-testing statistical inference.
result Weights of identical neural networks converge to similar local solutions.
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…
Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition by Convolutional Neural Network and Similarity Rankingcs.LG
Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have recently achieved state-of-the art performance on handwritten Chinese character recognition (HCCR). However, most of CNN models employ the SoftMax activation function and minimize cross entropy loss, which may cause loss of inter-class information. To cope with this problem, we pr…
Towards Measuring Place Function Similarity at Fine Spatial Granularity with Trajectory Embeddingcs.AI
Study uses trajectory embedding to measure place function similarity at fine spatial granularity.
problem Measuring place function similarity at fine spatial granularity.
method Trajectory embedding to reduce dimensions and measure similarity of place functions.
result Embedding similarity can be a metric proxy for place functions at fine spatial granularity.
We propose a new method to model multi-way similarities into hypergraphs for clustering.
problem Clustering real-valued data using hypergraphs with multi-way similarities.
method Formulate multi-way similarities using kernel functions, establish connections to hypergraph cut, and develop a fast spectral clustering algorithm.
result Our method outperforms existing graph and heuristic modeling methods in clustering performance.
We consider the problem of learning soft assignments of items to categories given two sources of information: an item-category similarity matrix, which encourages items to be assigned to categories they are similar to (and to not be assigned to categories they are dissimilar to), and an item-item similarity mat…
PSimGNN partitions graphs into subgraphs for efficient graph similarity computation.
problem Efficiently compute graph similarity scores for large graphs.
method Graph partitioning followed by subgraph-level and node-level comparisons using a graph neural network.
result PSimGNN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in graph similarity computation tasks.
Most of the existing approaches focus on specific visual tasks while ignoring the relations between them. Estimating task relation sheds light on the learning of high-order semantic concepts, e.g., transfer learning. How to reveal the underlying relations between different visual tasks remains largely unexplored. In th…
SOAK: Same/Other/All K-fold cross-validation for estimating similarity of patterns in data subsetsstat.ML
SOAK assesses data subset similarity for better model training.
problem Estimating similarity between data subsets for accurate predictions.
method Same/Other/All K-fold cross-validation method.
result SOAK estimates similarity of learnable/predictable patterns in data subsets.
Learning a model of perceptual similarity from a collection of objects is a fundamental task in machine learning underlying numerous applications. A common way to learn such a model is from relative comparisons in the form of triplets: responses to queries of the form "Is object a more similar to b than it is to c?". I…
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.
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.
A large body of research into semantic textual similarity has focused on constructing state-of-the-art embeddings using sophisticated modelling, careful choice of learning signals and many clever tricks. By contrast, little attention has been devoted to similarity measures between these embeddings, with cosine similari…
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…
Graph similarity search is among the most important graph-based applications, e.g. finding the chemical compounds that are most similar to a query compound. Graph similarity computation, such as Graph Edit Distance (GED) and Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS), is the core operation of graph similarity search and many other …
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.
Algorithm learns similarity metrics for individual fairness.
problem Difficulty in learning similarity metrics for individual fairness.
method Gradient descent and Bradley-Terry model for pairwise comparisons.
result Algorithm converges to ground truth metric for individual fairness.
Estimates set overlap and similarity using random samples.
problem Estimating set overlap and similarity with limited data.
method Binomial model for predicting set overlap, comparing to previous methods.
result Binomial model provides better estimates with small sample sizes.
Topological parallax assesses AI models' geometric similarity to datasets for safety.
problem Ensuring AI models' robustness and safety in deep learning applications.
method Topological parallax compares a trained model to a reference dataset using Rips complexes and geodesic distortions.
result Topological parallax indicates whether a model shares similar multiscale geometric features with the dataset.
Bayesian methods detect significant IIA violations in similarity choice data.
problem Detecting IIA violations in similarity choice data complicates classical models.
method Proposed two statistical methods: classical goodness-of-fit test and Bayesian PPC.
result Significant IIA violations confirmed in both datasets, driven by context effects.