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Metric embeddings are a widely used method in algorithm design, where generally a ``complex'' metric is embedded into a simpler, lower-dimensional one. Historically, the theoretical computer science community has focused on bi-Lipschitz…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ainesh Bakshi , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Samuel B. Hopkins , Rajesh Jayaram , Silvio Lattanzi

Distance metrics and their nonlinear variant play a crucial role in machine learning based real-world problem solving. We demonstrated how Euclidean and cosine distance measures differ not only theoretically but also in real-world medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Der-Chen Chang , Ophir Frieder , Chi-Feng Hung , Hao-Ren Yao

When robot manipulators decide how to reach for an object, hand it over, or obey some task constraint, they implicitly assume a Euclidean distance metric in their configuration space. Their notion of what makes a configuration closer or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Hong Jun Jeon , Anca Diana Dragan

Edit distance is a fundamental measure of distance between strings and has been widely studied in computer science. While the problem of estimating edit distance has been studied extensively, the equally important question of actually…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Moses Charikar , Ofir Geri , Michael P. Kim , William Kuszmaul

In this report, the explicit probability density functions of the random Euclidean distances associated with regular hexagons are given, when the two endpoints of a link are randomly distributed in the same hexagon, and two adjacent…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Yanyan Zhuang , Jianping Pan

The goal of ordinal embedding is to represent items as points in a low-dimensional Euclidean space given a set of constraints in the form of distance comparisons like "item $i$ is closer to item $j$ than item $k$". Ordinal constraints like…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-24 Lalit Jain , Kevin Jamieson , Robert Nowak

Pairwise Euclidean distance calculation is a fundamental step in many machine learning and data analysis algorithms. In real-world applications, however, these distances are frequently distorted by heteroskedastic noise$\unicode{x2014}$a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-12 Keyi Li , Yuval Kluger , Boris Landa

It is well-understood that different algorithms, training processes, and corpora produce different word embeddings. However, less is known about the relation between different embedding spaces, i.e. how far different sets of embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xuhui Zhou , Zaixiang Zheng , Shujian Huang

The paper introduces a special case of the Euclidean distance matrix completion problem (edmcp) of interest in statistical data analysis where only the minimal spanning tree distances are given and the matrix completion must preserve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Adam Rahman , Wayne Oldford

We develop a new class of distances for objects including lines, hyperplanes, and trajectories, based on the distance to a set of landmarks. These distances easily and interpretably map objects to a Euclidean space, are simple to compute,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jeff M. Phillips , Pingfan Tang

We consider two disjoint sets of points. If at least one of the sets can be embedded into an Euclidean space, then we provide sufficient conditions for the two sets to be jointly embedded in one Euclidean space. In this joint Euclidean…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 N. Alexia Raharinirina , Konstantin Fackeldey , Marcus Weber

Products of MDS codes are of major practical importance; for a recent example, they are used in Data Availability Sampling (DAS) in blockchain networks such as Celestia and as part of the Ethereum roadmap. This motivates us to consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Amit Berman , Yaron Shany , Itzhak Tamo

The problem of finding suitable point embedding or geometric configurations given only Euclidean distance information of point pairs arises both as a core task and as a sub-problem in a variety of machine learning applications. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ipsita Ghosh , Abiy Tasissa , Christian Kümmerle

This paper is concerned with matching feature vectors in a one-to-one fashion across large collections of datasets. Formulating this task as a multidimensional assignment problem with decomposable costs (MDADC), we develop extremely fast…

Computation · Statistics 2021-01-07 David Degras

We consider the random Euclidean assignment problem on the line between two sets of $N$ random points, independently generated with the same probability density function $\varrho$. The cost of the matching is supposed to be dependent on a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-07 Sergio Caracciolo , Matteo D'Achille , Gabriele Sicuro

Metric embeddings traditionally study how to map $n$ items to a target metric space such that distance lengths are not heavily distorted; but what if we only care to preserve the relative order of the distances (and not their length)? In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Vaggos Chatziafratis , Piotr Indyk

The Euclidean distance geometry problem arises in a wide variety of applications, from determining molecular conformations in computational chemistry to localization in sensor networks. When the distance information is incomplete, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Abiy Tasissa , Rongjie Lai

Discrete forms of the mean and directed curvature are constructed on piecewise flat manifolds, providing local curvature approximations for smooth manifolds embedded in both Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces. The resulting expressions take…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Rory Conboye

Spatial networks are networks where nodes are located in a space equipped with a metric. Typically, the space is two-dimensional and until recently and traditionally, the metric that was usually considered was the Euclidean distance. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

We discuss the optimal matching solution for both the assignment problem and the matching problem in one dimension for a large class of convex cost functions. We consider the problem in a compact set with the topology both of the interval…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-10-11 Sergio Caracciolo , Matteo D'Achille , Gabriele Sicuro