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Measuring similarity between incomplete data is a fundamental challenge in web mining, recommendation systems, and user behavior analysis. Traditional approaches either discard incomplete data or perform imputation as a preprocessing step,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yang Cao , Sikun Yang , Kai He , Wenjun Ma , Ming Liu , Yujiu Yang , Jian Weng

A time series is a sequence of data items; typical examples are videos, stock ticker data, or streams of temperature measurements. Quite some research has been devoted to comparing and indexing simple time series, i.e., time series where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jörg P. Bachmann , Johann-Christoph Freytag , Benjamin Hauskeller , Nicole Schweikardt

In many domains where data are represented as graphs, learning a similarity metric among graphs is considered a key problem, which can further facilitate various learning tasks, such as classification, clustering, and similarity search.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Guixiang Ma , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Theodore L. Willke , Philip S. Yu

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches are often criticized for their inherent bias and for their lack of control, accountability, and transparency. Consequently, regulatory bodies struggle with containing this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Benjamin Roth , Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo , Yuxi Xia , Saskia Kaltenbrunner , Christoph Korab

Several application domains require formal but flexible approaches to the comparison problem. Different process models that cannot be related by behavioral equivalences should be compared via a quantitative notion of similarity, which is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Alessandro Aldini

Similarity manifests in various forms, including semantic similarity that is particularly important, serving as an approximation of human object categorization based on e.g. shared functionalities and evolutionary traits. It also offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Katarzyna Filus , Mateusz Żarski

We introduce a conceptually simple and effective method to quantify the similarity between relations in knowledge bases. Specifically, our approach is based on the divergence between the conditional probability distributions over entity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Weize Chen , Hao Zhu , Xu Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

This paper investigates contextual word representation models from the lens of similarity analysis. Given a collection of trained models, we measure the similarity of their internal representations and attention. Critically, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 John M. Wu , Yonatan Belinkov , Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , James Glass

The similarity between objects is significant in a broad range of areas. While similarity can be measured using off-the-shelf distance functions, they may fail to capture the inherent meaning of similarity, which tends to depend on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Santosh Kumar Radha , Casey Jao

Human perception is routinely assessing the similarity between images, both for decision making and creative thinking. But the underlying cognitive process is not really well understood yet, hence difficult to be mimicked by computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Olivier Risser-Maroix , Amine Marzouki , Hala Djeghim , Camille Kurtz , Nicolas Lomenie

For data sets with similar features, for example highly correlated features, most existing stability measures behave in an undesired way: They consider features that are almost identical but have different identifiers as different features.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-18 Andrea Bommert , Jörg Rahnenführer

Similarity search is an important problem in information retrieval. This similarity is based on a distance. Symbolic representation of time series has attracted many researchers recently, since it reduces the dimensionality of these high…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad , Pierre-François Marteau

Intelligence can be defined as a predominantly human ability to accomplish tasks that are generally hard for computers and animals. Artificial Intelligence [AI] is a field attempting to accomplish such tasks with computers. AI is becoming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-03 George Cevora

The ability to mimic human notions of semantic distance has widespread applications. Some measures rely only on raw text (distributional measures) and some rely on knowledge sources such as WordNet. Although extensive studies have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Saif M. Mohammad , Graeme Hirst

The notion of rough set captures indiscernibility of elements in a set. But, in many real life situations, an information system establishes the relation between different universes. This gave the extension of rough set on single universal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 B. K. Tripathy , D. P. Acharjya

Machine learning algorithms are increasingly used to assist human decision-making. When the goal of machine assistance is to improve the accuracy of human decisions, it might seem appealing to design ML algorithms that complement human…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Nina Grgić-Hlača , Claude Castelluccia , Krishna P. Gummadi

We propose a semantic similarity metric for image registration. Existing metrics like Euclidean Distance or Normalized Cross-Correlation focus on aligning intensity values, giving difficulties with low intensity contrast or noise. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Steffen Czolbe , Oswin Krause , Aasa Feragen

Fairness for Machine Learning has received considerable attention, recently. Various mathematical formulations of fairness have been proposed, and it has been shown that it is impossible to satisfy all of them simultaneously. The literature…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Megha Srivastava , Hoda Heidari , Andreas Krause

Analogical reasoning depends fundamentally on the ability to learn and generalize about relations between objects. We develop an approach to relational learning which, given a set of pairs of objects…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-08-30 Ricardo Silva , Katherine Heller , Zoubin Ghahramani , Edoardo M. Airoldi

Modularity is a widely used measure for evaluating community structure in networks. The definition of modularity involves a comparison of within-community edges in the observed network and that number in an equivalent randomized network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata , Ken Wakita