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Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) is one of the most popular methods for dimensionality reduction and visualization of high dimensional data. Apart from these tasks, it also found applications in the field of geometry processing for the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Amit Boyarski , Alex M. Bronstein , Michael M. Bronstein

The paper introduces a new kernel-based Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) statistic for measuring the distance between two distributions given finitely-many multivariate samples. When the distributions are locally low-dimensional, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-03 Xiuyuan Cheng , Alexander Cloninger , Ronald R. Coifman

Discrepancy is a well-known measure for the irregularity of the distribution of a point set. Point sets with small discrepancy are called low-discrepancy and are known to efficiently fill the space in a uniform manner. Low-discrepancy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 T. Konstantin Rusch , Nathan Kirk , Michael M. Bronstein , Christiane Lemieux , Daniela Rus

Precision measurement of small separations between two atoms or molecules has been of interest since the early days of science. Here, we discuss a scheme which yields spatial information on a system of two identical atoms placed in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun-Tao Chang , Joerg Evers , Marlan O. Scully , M. Suhail Zubairy

We demonstrate how the Fundamental Manifold (FM) can be used to cross-calibrate distance estimators even when those "standard candles" are not found in the same galaxy. Such an approach greatly increases the number of distance measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dennis Zaritsky , Ann I. Zabludoff , Anthony H. Gonzalez

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a popular technique for mapping a finite metric space into a low-dimensional Euclidean space in a way that best preserves pairwise distances. We study a notion of MDS on infinite metric measure spaces,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Lara Kassab

We introduce contextual behavioural metrics (CBMs) as a novel way of measuring the discrepancy in behaviour between processes, taking into account both quantitative aspects and contextual information. This way, process distances by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ugo Dal Lago , Maurizio Murgia

In this study, we establish a basis for selecting similarity measures when applying machine learning techniques to solve materials science problems. This selection is considered with an emphasis on the distinctiveness between materials that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Tran-Thai Dang , Tien-Lam Pham , Hiori Kino , Takashi Miyake , Hieu-Chi Dam

Although recovering an Euclidean distance matrix from noisy observations is a common problem in practice, how well this could be done remains largely unknown. To fill in this void, we study a simple distance matrix estimate based upon the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-09-18 Luwan Zhang , Grace Wahba , Ming Yuan

Kernel embeddings of distributions and the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), the resulting distance between distributions, are useful tools for fully nonparametric two-sample testing and learning on distributions. However, it is rarely that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Ho Chung Leon Law , Christopher Yau , Dino Sejdinovic

Let $(X, d)$ be a compact metric space and let $\mathcal{M}(X)$ denote the space of all finite signed Borel measures on $X$. Define $I \colon \mathcal{M}(X) \to \R$ by \[ I(\mu) = \int_X \int_X d(x,y) d\mu(x) d\mu(y), \] and set $M(X) =…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-05 Peter Nickolas , Reinhard Wolf

Interleaving distances are used widely in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) as a tool for comparing topological signatures of datasets. The theory of interleaving distances has been extended through various category-theoretic constructions,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Patrick K. McFaddin , Tom Needham

Persistent homology analysis provides means to capture the connectivity structure of data sets in various dimensions. On the mathematical level, by defining a metric between the objects that persistence attaches to data sets, we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Henri Riihimäki , José Licón-Saláiz

In this paper, we study the construction of structural models for the description of substitutional defects in crystalline materials. Predicting and designing the atomic structures in such systems is highly challenging due to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Xiaoxu Li , Ge Xu , Huajie Chen , Xingyu Gao , Haifeng Song

This paper introduces kdiff, a novel kernel-based measure for estimating distances between instances of time series, random fields and other forms of structured data. This measure is based on the idea of matching distributions that only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-01 Srinjoy Das , Hrushikesh Mhaskar , Alexander Cloninger

We have developed an extended distance matrix approach to study the molecular geometric configuration through spectral decomposition. It is shown that the positions of all atoms in the eigen-space can be specified precisely by their…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 Xiao-Tian Li , Xiao-bao Yang , Yu-Jun Zhao

We propose a geometric method for quantifying the difference between parametrized curves in Euclidean space by introducing a distance function on the space of parametrized curves up to rigid transformations (rotations and translations).…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Jaap Eldering , Joris Vankerschaver

The definition of weighted distance measure involves weights. The paper proposes a weighted distance measure without the help of weights. Here, weights are intrinsically added to the measure, and for this, the concept of metric space is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Q. M. Danish Lohani , Ashutosh Tiwari , Mohd Shoaib Khan

Generative models of 3D cardiovascular anatomy can synthesize informative structures for clinical research and medical device evaluation, but face a trade-off between geometric controllability and realism. We propose CardioComposer: a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Karim Kadry , Shoaib Goraya , Ajay Manicka , Abdalla Abdelwahed , Naravich Chutisilp , Farhad Nezami , Elazer Edelman

We establish a Minkowski measurability criterion for a large class of relative fractal drums (or, in short, RFDs), in Euclidean spaces of arbitrary dimension in terms of their complex dimensions, which are defined as the poles of their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Michel L. Lapidus , Goran Radunović , Darko Žubrinić