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A note on the triangle inequality for the Jaccard distance

Discrete Mathematics 2016-12-09 v1 Information Retrieval Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

Two simple proofs of the triangle inequality for the Jaccard distance in terms of nonnegative, monotone, submodular functions are given and discussed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1612.02696,
  title  = {A note on the triangle inequality for the Jaccard distance},
  author = {Sven Kosub},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02696},
  year   = {2016}
}
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