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The edit distance between two rooted ordered trees with $n$ nodes labeled from an alphabet~$\Sigma$ is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence of elementary operations consisting of deleting and relabeling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Karl Bringmann , Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance, rooted in optimal transport (OT) theory, quantifies dissimilarity between metric measure spaces and provides a framework for aligning heterogeneous datasets. While computational aspects of the GW…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Zhengxin Zhang , Ziv Goldfeld , Youssef Mroueh , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

In this article, we propose tree edit distance with variables, which is an extension of the tree edit distance to handle trees with variables and has a potential application to measuring the similarity between mathematical formulas,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Tatsuya Akutsu , Tomoya Mori , Naotoshi Nakamura , Satoshi Kozawa , Yuhei Ueno , Thomas N. Sato

We have constructed a realization of rectilinear geodesic (in the sense of~\cite{Memoli2018}), lying in Gromov-Hausdorff space, as a shortest geodesic w.r.t. the Hausdorff distance in an ambient metric space.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Alexander O. Ivanov , Alexey A. Tuzhilin

Recently used in various machine learning contexts, the Gromov-Wasserstein distance (GW) allows for comparing distributions whose supports do not necessarily lie in the same metric space. However, this Optimal Transport (OT) distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-21 Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Laetitia Chapel , Nicolas Courty

Similarity measures are used extensively in machine learning and data science algorithms. The newly proposed graph Relative Hausdorff (RH) distance is a lightweight yet nuanced similarity measure for quantifying the closeness of two graphs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Sinan G. Aksoy , Kathleen E. Nowak , Emilie Purvine , Stephen J. Young

Fitting distances to tree metrics and ultrametrics are two widely used methods in hierarchical clustering, primarily explored within the context of numerical taxonomy. Given a positive distance function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Amir Carmel , Debarati Das , Evangelos Kipouridis , Evangelos Pipis

The purpose of this paper is twofold. On a technical side, we propose an extension of the Hausdorff distance from metric spaces to spaces equipped with asymmetric distance measures. Specifically, we focus on the family of Bregman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Tuyen Pham , Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská , Hubert Wagner

Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) is a powerful tool to compare probability measures whose supports are in different metric spaces. GW suffers however from a computational drawback since it requires to solve a complex non-convex quadratic program. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-18 Tam Le , Nhat Ho , Makoto Yamada

As a valid metric of metric-measure spaces, Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance has shown the potential for matching problems of structured data like point clouds and graphs. However, its application in practice is limited due to the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Mengyu Li , Jun Yu , Hongteng Xu , Cheng Meng

The purpose of this paper is to extend the definition of Frechet distance which measures the distance between two curves to a distance (Frechet-Like distance) which measures the similarity between two rooted trees. The definition of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Elena Farahbakhsh Touli

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

We augment a tree $T$ with a shortcut $pq$ to minimize the largest distance between any two points along the resulting augmented tree $T+pq$. We study this problem in a continuous and geometric setting where $T$ is a geometric tree in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Jean-Lou De Carufel , Carsten Grimm , Anil Maheshwari , Stefan Schirra , Michiel Smid

Comparing two geometric graphs embedded in space is important in the field of transportation network analysis. Given street maps of the same city collected from different sources, researchers often need to know how and where they differ.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Mahmuda Ahmed , Brittany Terese Fasy , Kyle S. Hickmann , Carola Wenk

In this empirical study, I compare various tree distance measures -- originally developed in computational biology for the purpose of tree comparison -- for the purpose of parser evaluation. I will control for the parser setting by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Taraka Rama

We study the question of approximating a compact geodesic metric space by metric graphs satisfying a uniform upper bound on their first Betti number. We prove that, up to a suitable multiplicative constant, Reeb graphs of distance functions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Facundo Memoli , Osman Berat Okutan , Qingsong Wang

For a finitely generated group $G$, we introduce an asymmetric pseudometric on projectivized deformation spaces of $G$-trees, using stretching factors of $G$-equivariant Lipschitz maps, that generalizes the Lipschitz metric on Outer space…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Sebastian Meinert

The early development of a zygote can be mathematically described by a developmental tree. To compare developmental trees of different species, we need to define distances on trees. If children cells after a division are not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Yue Wang

Distances on merge trees facilitate visual comparison of collections of scalar fields. Two desirable properties for these distances to exhibit are 1) the ability to discern between scalar fields which other, less complex topological…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Brian Bollen , Pasindu Tennakoon , Joshua A. Levine

Gromov-Wasserstein distances are generalization of Wasserstein distances, which are invariant under distance preserving transformations. Although a simplified version of optimal transport in Wasserstein spaces, called linear optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Florian Beier , Robert Beinert , Gabriele Steidl