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Euclidean distance matrices (EDMs) are a major tool for localization from distances, with applications ranging from protein structure determination to global positioning and manifold learning. They are, however, static objects which serve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Puoya Tabaghi , Ivan Dokmanić , Martin Vetterli

A Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM) is a table of distance-square between points on a k- dimensional Euclidean space, with applications in many fields (e.g. engineering, geodesy, economics, genetics, biochemistry, psychology). A problem that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Nilson Moreira , Leonardo Duarte , Carlile Lavor , Cristiano Torezzan

In the d-Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (d-EDMC) problem, one aims to determine whether a given partial matrix of pairwise distances can be extended to a full Euclidean distance matrix in d dimensions. This problem is a cornerstone of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM), which consists of pairwise squared Euclidean distances of a given point configuration, finds many applications in modern machine learning. This paper considers the setting where only a set of anchor nodes is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chandra Kundu , Abiy Tasissa , HanQin Cai

We consider the \emph{exact} error correction of a noisy Euclidean distance matrix, EDM, where the elements are the squared distances between $n$ points in $R^d$. For our problem we are given two facts: (i) the embedding dimension, $d$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Abdo Alfakih , Woosuk L. Jung , Henry Wolkowicz , Tina Xu

A unit spherical Euclidean distance matrix (EDM) D is a matrix whose entries can be realized as the interpoint (squared) Euclidean distances of n points on a unit sphere. In this paper, given such a D and 1 \leq k < l \leq n, we present a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-09 A. Y. Alfakih

In the present paper we focus on the coherence properties of general random Euclidean distance matrices, which are very closely related to the respective matrix completion problem. This problem is of great interest in several applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Dionysios S. Kalogerias , Athina P. Petropulu

Euclidean distance geometry is the study of Euclidean geometry based on the concept of distance. This is useful in several applications where the input data consists of an incomplete set of distances, and the output is a set of points in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-05-03 Leo Liberti , Carlile Lavor , Nelson Maculan , Antonio Mucherino

The problem of recovering the configuration of points from their partial pairwise distances, referred to as the Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (EDMC) problem, arises in a broad range of applications, including sensor network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Chandler Smith , HanQin Cai , Abiy Tasissa

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

This paper addresses the problem of ad hoc microphone array calibration where only partial information about the distances between microphones is available. We construct a matrix consisting of the pairwise distances and propose to estimate…

We review the relations between distance matrices and isometric embeddings and give simple proofs that distance matrices defined on euclidean and spherical spaces have all eigenvalues except one non-negative. Several generalizations are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-10-11 E. Bogomolny , O. Bohigas , C. Schmit

The completion of a Euclidean distance matrix (EDM) from sparse and noisy observations is a fundamental challenge in signal processing, with applications in sensor network localization, acoustic room reconstruction, molecular conformation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Rohit Varma Chiluvuri , Santosh Nannuru

A Euclidean distance matrix $D(\alpha)$ is defined by $D_{ij}=(\alpha_i-\alpha_j)^2$, where $\alpha=(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n)$ is a real vector. We prove that $D(\alpha)$ cannot be written as a sum of $\left[2\sqrt{n}-2\right]$ nonnegative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Yaroslav Shitov

To improve our understanding of connected systems, different tools derived from statistics, signal processing, information theory and statistical physics have been developed in the last decade. Here, we will focus on the graph comparison…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-23 Johann H. Martínez , Mario Chavez

The knowledge of end-to-end network distances is essential to many Internet applications. As active probing of all pairwise distances is infeasible in large-scale networks, a natural idea is to measure a few pairs and to predict the other…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yongjun Liao , Wei Du , Pierre Geurts , Guy Leduc

Let $D$ be an $n \times n$ Euclidean distance matrix (EDM) with embedding dimension $r$; and let $d \in R^n$ be a given vector. In this note, we consider the problem of finding a vector $y \in R^n$, that is closest to d in Euclidean norm,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 A. Y. Alfakih

The Earth movers distance (EMD) is a measure of distance between probability distributions which is at the heart of mass transportation theory. Recent research has shown that the EMD plays a crucial role in studying the potential impact of…

Computation · Statistics 2013-10-15 Kyle Treleaven , Emilio Frazzoli

Accurate source localization in Multi-Platform Radar Networks (MPRNs) benefits from exploiting both range and angle measurements under robust estimation. In this paper, we propose a robust Euclidean distance matrix (EDM) optimization model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Mingyu Zhao , Qingna Li , Hou-Duo Qi

The Earth Mover Distance (EMD) between two sets of points $A, B \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ with $|A| = |B|$ is the minimum total Euclidean distance of any perfect matching between $A$ and $B$. One of its generalizations is asymmetric EMD,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Dhruv Rohatgi
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