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Kernel functions based on triplet comparisons

Machine Learning 2017-10-31 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms Machine Learning

Abstract

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 similarity triplets, we aim at defining kernel functions that correspond to high-dimensional embeddings. These kernel functions can subsequently be used to apply any kernel method to the data set.

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@article{arxiv.1607.08456,
  title  = {Kernel functions based on triplet comparisons},
  author = {Matthäus Kleindessner and Ulrike von Luxburg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08456},
  year   = {2017}
}
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