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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Pochun Li

Simon's congruence $\sim_k$ is defined as follows: two words are $\sim_k$-equivalent if they have the same set of subsequences of length at most $k$. We propose an algorithm which computes, given two words $s$ and $t$, the largest $k$ for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Pawel Gawrychowski , Maria Kosche , Tore Koss , Florin Manea , Stefan Siemer

Relevance vector machine (RVM) can be seen as a probabilistic version of support vector machines which is able to produce sparse solutions by linearly weighting a small number of basis functions instead using all of them. Regardless of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Farhood Rismanchian , Karim Rahimian

This paper presents a hybrid system for intuitive item similarity search that combines a Large Language Model (LLM) with a custom K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm. Unlike black-box dense vector systems, this architecture provides…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ana Rodrigues , João Mata , Rui Rego

Sequence discriminative training is a great tool to improve the performance of an automatic speech recognition system. It does, however, necessitate a sum over all possible word sequences, which is intractable to compute in practice.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Nils-Philipp Wynands , Wilfried Michel , Jan Rosendahl , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

As a promising step, the performance of data analysis and feature learning are able to be improved if certain pattern matching mechanism is available. One of the feasible solutions can refer to the importance estimation of instances, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Miao Cheng , Xinge You

Measuring similarity between two objects is the core operation in existing clustering algorithms in grouping similar objects into clusters. This paper introduces a new similarity measure called point-set kernel which computes the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Ye Zhu

Domain specific (dis-)similarity or proximity measures used e.g. in alignment algorithms of sequence data, are popular to analyze complex data objects and to cover domain specific data properties. Without an underlying vector space these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Andrej Gisbrecht , Frank-Michael Schleif

Support vector machine (SVM) is a particularly powerful and flexible supervised learning model that analyzes data for both classification and regression, whose usual algorithm complexity scales polynomially with the dimension of data space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Chen Ding , Tian-Yi Bao , He-Liang Huang

Kernel methods are powerful tools in machine learning. They have to be computationally efficient. In this paper, we present a novel Geometric-based approach to compute efficiently the string subsequence kernel (SSK). Our main idea is that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Slimane Bellaouar , Hadda Cherroun , Djelloul Ziadi

Image classification is an important task in the field of machine learning and image processing. However, the usually used classification method --- the K Nearest-Neighbor algorithm has high complexity, because its two main processes:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Yijie Dang , Nan Jiang , Hao Hu , Zhuoxiao Ji , Wenyin Zhang

Sequence classification has numerous applications in various fields. Despite extensive studies in the last decades, many challenges still exist, particularly in pattern-based methods. Existing pattern-based methods measure the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Junjie Dong , Mudi Jiang , Lianyu Hu , Zengyou He

Alignment-based sequence similarity searches, while accurate for some type of sequences, can produce incorrect results when used on more divergent but functionally related sequences that have undergone the sequence rearrangements observed…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-21 Ivan Borozan , Stuart Watt , Vincent Ferretti

Subsequence matching has appeared to be an ideal approach for solving many problems related to the fields of data mining and similarity retrieval. It has been shown that almost any data class (audio, image, biometrics, signals) is or can be…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2012-06-13 David Novak , Petr Volny , Pavel Zezula

A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new ``normalized information distance'', based on the noncomputable notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Ming Li , Xin Chen , Xin Li , Bin Ma , Paul Vitanyi

Sparse data approximation has become a popular research topic in signal processing. However, in most cases only a single measurement vector (SMV) is considered. In applications, the multiple measurement vector (MMV) case is more usual,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Florian Boßmann

The problem of similarity search is one of the main problems in computer science. This problem has many applications in text-retrieval, web search, computational biology, bioinformatics and others. Similarity between two data objects can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

Any applied mathematical model contains parameters. The paper proposes to use kernel learning for the parametric analysis of the model. The approach consists in setting a distribution on the parameter space, obtaining a finite training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler

Semantic embeddings to represent objects such as image, text and audio are widely used in machine learning and have spurred the development of vector similarity search methods for retrieving semantically related objects. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Stephen Mussmann , Mehul Smriti Raje , Kavya Tumkur , Oumayma Messoussi , Cyprien Hachem , Seby Jacob

Query complexity measures the amount of information an algorithm needs about a problem to compute a solution. On a quantum computer there are different realizations of a query and we will show that these are not always equivalent. Our…

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