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This paper presents a genetic stereo matching algorithm with fuzzy evaluation function. The proposed algorithm presents a new encoding scheme in which a chromosome is represented by a disparity matrix. Evolution is controlled by a fuzzy…

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In many statistical problems, the data distribution is specified through a generative process for which the likelihood function is analytically intractable, yet inference on the associated model parameters remains of primary interest. We…

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Traditional methods for matching in causal inference are impractical for high-dimensional datasets. They suffer from the curse of dimensionality: exact matching and coarsened exact matching find exponentially fewer matches as the input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-12 Oscar Clivio , Fabian Falck , Brieuc Lehmann , George Deligiannidis , Chris Holmes

Statistical matching methods are widely used in the social and health sciences to estimate causal effects using observational data. Often the objective is to find comparable groups with similar covariate distributions in a dataset, with the…

Applications · Statistics 2021-01-19 Felix Bestehorn , Maike Bestehorn , Christian Kirches

Our aim of this paper is to develop new map matching algorithms and to improve upon previous work. We address two key approaches: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) map matching and fuzzy logic map matching. AHP is a decision-making method…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jeremy J. Lin , Tomoro Mochida , Riley C. W. O'Neill , Atsuro Yoshida , Masashi Yamazaki , Akinobu Sasada

Audio-to-score alignment is a long-standing challenge in music information retrieval and arguably the most widely applicable alignment task for music research. Alignment algorithms match two versions of a piece of music, and for this to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Silvan Peter , Patricia Hu , Gerhard Widmer

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values is a vital task for LLM practitioners. Current alignment techniques have several limitations: (1) requiring a large amount of annotated data; (2) demanding heavy human involvement; (3)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hongyi Guo , Yuanshun Yao , Wei Shen , Jiaheng Wei , Xiaoying Zhang , Zhaoran Wang , Yang Liu

Protein similarity searches are a routine job for molecular biologists where a query sequence of amino acids needs to be compared and ranked against an ever-growing database of proteins. All available algorithms in this field can be grouped…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Akash Nag , Sunil Karforma

The way for performing multiple sequence alignment is based on the criterion of the maximum scored information content computed from a weight matrix, but it is possible to have two or more alignments to have the same highest score leading…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-03 Jian-Jun Shu , Kian Yan Yong , Weng Kong Chan

Matching of binary image features is an important step in many different computer vision applications. Conventionally, an arbitrary threshold is used to identify a correct match from incorrect matches using Hamming distance which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Erkan Bostanci , Nadia Kanwal , Betul Bostanci , Mehmet Serdar Guzel

Given a list of N numbers, the maximum can be computed in N iterations. During these N iterations, the maximum gets updated on average as many times as the Nth harmonic number. We first use this fact to approximate the Nth harmonic number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Ali Dasdan

Pattern matching is a fundamental process in almost every scientific domain. The problem involves finding the positions of a given pattern (usually of short length) in a reference stream of data (usually of large length). The matching can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Anas Al-okaily , Abdelghani Tbakhi

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled zero-shot automated essay scoring (AES), providing a promising way to reduce the cost and effort of essay scoring in comparison with manual grading. However, most existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Takumi Shibata , Yuichi Miyamura

We have developed an alignment-free method that calculates phylogenetic distances using a maximum likelihood approach for a model of sequence change on patterns that are discovered in unaligned sequences. To evaluate the phylogenetic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Michael Höhl , Isidore Rigoutsos , Mark A. Ragan

Researchers are often interested in linking individuals between two datasets that lack a common unique identifier. Matching procedures often struggle to match records with common names, birthplaces or other field values. Computational…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-14 Thomas Stringham

Fuzzy authentication allows authentication based on the fuzzy matching of two objects, for example based on the similarity of two strings in the Hamming metric, or on the similiarity of two sets in the set difference metric. Aim of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Alessandro Neri , Joachim Rosenthal , Davide Schipani

Sequence alignment is common nowadays as it is used in many fields to determine how closely two sequences are related and at times to see how little they differ. In computational biology / Bioinformatics, there are many algorithms developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Bharath Reddy , Richard Fields

Automatic evaluation of various text quality criteria produced by data-driven intelligent methods is very common and useful because it is cheap, fast, and usually yields repeatable results. In this paper, we present an attempt to automate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Erion Çano , Ondřej Bojar

Rapid development of modern sequencing platforms enabled an unprecedented growth of protein families databases. The abundance of sets composed of hundreds of thousands sequences is a great challenge for multiple sequence alignment…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-03 Sebastin Deorowicz , Agnieszka Debudaj-Grabysz , Adam Gudys

Various methods have been developed to analyze the association between organisms and their genomic sequences. Among them, sequence alignment is the most frequently used for comparative analysis of biological genomes. However, the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-27 Yong Joon Song , Dong Jin Ji , Hye In Seo , Gyu Bum Han , Dong Ho Cho