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48 results for similarity functions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ↗

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 …

2018-12-17abs ↗pdf ↗

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 …

2015-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2020-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The study proves uniqueness and symmetry of self-similar solutions in warped product spaces.

problem Uniqueness and symmetry of self-similar solutions in warped product spaces.
method Analysis of curvature flows with homogeneous speed functions in warped product spaces.
result Compact star-shaped self-similar solutions in warped product spaces are slices.

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.

Task loss matching misrepresents similarity between neural network layers.

problem Measuring similarity between neural network layers using task loss matching.
method Task loss matching vs. direct matching; comparison with CCA and CKA.
result Direct matching provides a better similarity index than task loss matching.

Improved similarity search in embeddings using InfoNCE loss.

problem Improving similarity search in embedding models trained by contrastive learning.
method Introduced a new continuity bound for InfoNCE loss via Gâteaux differentiation, preserving the averaging effect of negative samples.
result Demonstrated that the averaging effect of kk negative samples in InfoNCE loss carries over to stabilisation of generalisation error as kk grows.

Extends Tanimoto kernel to real-valued functions.

problem Measuring similarity between real-valued functions.
method Unified representation of real-valued functions via sets, derived general form of the kernel, explicit feature representation, and smooth approximation.
result General Tanimoto kernel for 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…

2009-08-10abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2012-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper develops a decision support system for hierarchical text classification of conference proceedings.

problem Classifying documents with a fixed hierarchical structure of topics.
method Developed a weighted hierarchical similarity function to calculate topic relevance, using entropy of words to estimate weights.
result The weighted hierarchical similarity function improves ranking accuracy compared to other methods.

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…

2001-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on self-similar sets on Riemannian manifolds with new separation conditions.

problem Analyzing self-similar sets on Riemannian manifolds with new separation conditions.
method Formulated weak separation and finite type conditions for conformal iterated function systems on Riemannian manifolds.
result Obtained formulas for Hausdorff dimensions of self-similar and graph self-similar sets.

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…

2015-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural network learns kernel functions for survival analysis and prediction intervals.

problem Predicting survival times for individuals based on similar training subjects.
method Develops a neural network framework to learn kernel functions for kernel survival analysis and uses these to construct valid prediction intervals.
result Neural network survival estimators are competitive with existing methods and provide valid prediction intervals.

Defines a similarity measure for classification distributions.

problem Measuring similarity between classification distributions.
method Proposes task similarity, a novel measure quantifying performance of source distributions on target distributions.
result Empirical task similarity correlates with transfer efficiency and semantic similarity of source distributions.

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 ↗

The paper analyzes the generalization of deep neural networks for metric and similarity learning.

problem Lack of rigorous understanding of generalization performance in metric and similarity learning.
method Derive explicit form of true metric, construct structured deep ReLU neural network, establish excess risk bounds.
result Explicit excess risk bounds for metric and similarity learning are derived.

This paper tackles efficient optimization for nonlinear embeddings in similarity learning.

problem Learning similarity with nonlinear embeddings is challenging due to the large number of pairs.
method Detailed derivations and efficient optimization methods for nonlinear embeddings are developed.
result Efficient optimization methods for nonlinear embeddings are shown to be highly effective.

Similarity measure for Gaussian process predictive distributions.

problem Comparing predictive distributions of Gaussian processes for correlated functions.
method Developed a similarity metric to compare predictive distributions of Gaussian processes.
result Gaussian process predictive distributions can be compared and one is enough to model two correlated functions.

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…

2018-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2010-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework to test neural network representation similarity measures.

problem Disagreements among dissimilarity measures in neural networks.
method Statistical testing framework to evaluate measures based on functional behavior.
result Current metrics have different weaknesses; a classical baseline performs surprisingly well.

Meta-learning framework uses task similarity through nonparametric kernel regression.

problem Limited tasks and outliers/dissimilar tasks hinder meta-learning performance.
method Nonparametric kernel regression to quantify and use task similarity.
result Meta-learning algorithm outperforms existing methods in task-limited settings.

In this paper we study self-similar solutions in warped products satisfying FF=gˉ(λ(r)r,ν)F-\mathcal{F}=\bar{g}(λ(r)\partial_{r},ν), where F\mathcal{F} is a nonnegative constant and FF 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…

2018-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗