New measure quantifies function similarity for optimization.
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Study uses trajectory embedding to measure place function similarity at fine spatial granularity.
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…
Introduces CHL, a new loss function for continuous similarity learning.
Exploits class similarity for better machine learning models with confidence labels and projective loss functions.
Quantum networks learn task-dependent asymmetric similarity measures.
fMRI is a unique non-invasive approach for understanding the functional organization of the human brain, and task-based fMRI promotes identification of functionally relevant brain regions associated with a given task. Here, we use fMRI (using the Poffenberger Paradigm) data collected in mono- and dizygotic twin pairs t…
Study finds solutions to flows by negative curvature powers.
SBSS uses similarity to split data for better classifier training.
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…
Measuring the similarity of two files is an important task in malware analysis, with fuzzy hash functions being a popular approach. Traditional fuzzy hash functions are data agnostic: they do not learn from a particular dataset how to determine similarity; their behavior is fixed across all datasets. In this paper, we …
In this paper, a similarity-driven cluster merging method is proposed for unsuper-vised fuzzy clustering. The cluster merging method is used to resolve the problem of cluster validation. Starting with an overspecified number of clusters in the data, pairs of similar clusters are merged based on the proposed similarity-…
This paper provides a theoretical and computational justification of the long held claim that of the similarity of the probit and logit link functions often used in binary classification. Despite this widespread recognition of the strong similarities between these two link functions, very few (if any) researchers have …
We propose a novel biologically-plausible solution to the credit assignment problem motivated by observations in the ventral visual pathway and trained deep neural networks. In both, representations of objects in the same category become progressively more similar, while objects belonging to different categories become…
The study proves uniqueness and symmetry of self-similar solutions in warped product spaces.
We propose a new method to model multi-way similarities into hypergraphs for clustering.
Task loss matching misrepresents similarity between neural network layers.
Improved similarity search in embeddings using InfoNCE loss.
Extends Tanimoto kernel to real-valued functions.
The two main theorems of this paper provide a characterization of hyperbolic affine iterated function systems defined on Rm. Atsushi Kameyama (Distances on Topological Self-Similar Sets, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, Volume 72.1, 2004) asked the following fundamental question: given a topological self-si…
In recent years, deep metric learning has achieved promising results in learning high dimensional semantic feature embeddings where the spatial relationships of the feature vectors match the visual similarities of the images. Similarity search for images is performed by determining the vectors with the smallest distanc…
We address the problem of general supervised learning when data can only be accessed through an (indefinite) similarity function between data points. Existing work on learning with indefinite kernels has concentrated solely on binary/multi-class classification problems. We propose a model that is generic enough to hand…
The paper develops a decision support system for hierarchical text classification of conference proceedings.
We propose a new approach for analyzing price fluctuations in their strongly correlated regime ranging from minutes to months. This is done by employing a self-similarity assumption for the magnitude of coarse-grained price fluctuation or volatility. The existence of a Cramer function, the characteristic function for s…
Extends graph similarity theory to improve MPNNs' generalization abilities.
Study on self-similar sets on Riemannian manifolds with new separation conditions.
The development of algorithms for hierarchical clustering has been hampered by a shortage of precise objective functions. To help address this situation, we introduce a simple cost function on hierarchies over a set of points, given pairwise similarities between those points. We show that this criterion behaves sensibl…
We propose a novel learning framework to answer questions such as "if a user is purchasing a shirt, what other items will (s)he need with the shirt?" Our framework learns distributed representations for items from available textual data, with the learned representations representing items in a latent space expressing f…
Neural network learns kernel functions for survival analysis and prediction intervals.
New measure assesses neural network models' functional similarity.
Enzyme sequences and structures are routinely used in the biological sciences as queries to search for functionally related enzymes in online databases. To this end, one usually departs from some notion of similarity, comparing two enzymes by looking for correspondences in their sequences, structures or surfaces. For a…
Defines a similarity measure for classification distributions.
We consider the representation power of siamese-style similarity functions used in neural network-based graph embedding. The inner product similarity (IPS) with feature vectors computed via neural networks is commonly used for representing the strength of association between two nodes. However, only a little work has b…
We propose shifted inner-product similarity (SIPS), which is a novel yet very simple extension of the ordinary inner-product similarity (IPS) for neural-network based graph embedding (GE). In contrast to IPS, that is limited to approximating positive-definite (PD) similarities, SIPS goes beyond the limitation by introd…
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…
The paper analyzes the generalization of deep neural networks for metric and similarity learning.
This paper tackles efficient optimization for nonlinear embeddings in similarity learning.
Proposes a revenue function to evaluate dendrograms from comparisons.
Similarity measure for Gaussian process predictive distributions.
Inverse depth scaling found in LLMs due to similar layers averaging error.
SimLoss improves classification by considering class similarities.
We consider the setting of Reeb graphs of piecewise linear functions and study distances between them that are stable, meaning that functions which are similar in the supremum norm ought to have similar Reeb graphs. We define an edit distance for Reeb graphs and prove that it is stable and universal, meaning that it pr…
Financial market dynamics is rigorously studied via the exact generalized Langevin equation. Assuming market Brownian self-similarity, the market return rate memory and autocorrelation functions are derived, which exhibit an oscillatory-decaying behavior with a long-time tail, similar to empirical observations. Individ…
This paper studies quasar-convex functions to improve optimization methods.
Graph kernels assess graph similarity for various applications.
New framework to test neural network representation similarity measures.
Meta-learning framework uses task similarity through nonparametric kernel regression.
In this paper we study self-similar solutions in warped products satisfying , where is a nonnegative constant and is in a class of general curvature functions including powers of mean curvature and Gauss curvature. We show that slices are the only closed stri…