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Metric learning aims at finding a suitable distance metric over the input space, to improve the performance of distance-based learning algorithms. In high-dimensional settings, it can also serve as dimensionality reduction by imposing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Efstratios Palias , Ata Kabán

In machine learning, classification is usually seen as a function approximation problem, where the goal is to learn a function that maps input features to class labels. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering and classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hrushikesh Mhaskar , Ryan O'Dowd , Efstratios Tsoukanis

We propose a novel semiparametric classifier based on Mahalanobis distances of an observation from the competing classes. Our tool is a generalized additive model with the logistic link function that uses these distances as features to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-05 Annesha Ghosh , Anil K. Ghosh , Rita SahaRay , Soham Sarkar

Self-Organising Maps (SOM) are Artificial Neural Networks used in Pattern Recognition tasks. Their major advantage over other architectures is human readability of a model. However, they often gain poorer accuracy. Mostly used metric in SOM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-07 Piotr Płoński , Krzysztof Zaremba

Any generic deep machine learning algorithm is essentially a function fitting exercise, where the network tunes its weights and parameters to learn discriminatory features by minimizing some cost function. Though the network tries to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Tapabrata Chakraborti , Brendan McCane , Steven Mills , Umapada Pal

Distance-based clustering and classification are widely used in various fields to group mixed numeric and categorical data. In many algorithms, a predefined distance measurement is used to cluster data points based on their dissimilarity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jesse S. Ghashti , John R. J. Thompson

In the context of algorithmic decision-making, fair machine learning methods often yield multiple models that balance predictive fairness and performance in varying degrees. This diversity introduces a challenge for stakeholders who must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sofoklis Kitharidis , Cor J. Veenman , Thomas Bäck , Niki van Stein

Metric learning seeks a transformation of the feature space that enhances prediction quality for the given task at hand. In this work we provide PAC-style sample complexity rates for supervised metric learning. We give matching lower- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Nakul Verma , Kristin Branson

Many researches have been devoted to learn a Mahalanobis distance metric, which can effectively improve the performance of kNN classification. Most approaches are iterative and computational expensive and linear rigidity still critically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Jianbo Ye

Metric learning is an important family of algorithms for classification and similarity search, but the robustness of learned metrics against small adversarial perturbations is less studied. In this paper, we show that existing metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Lu Wang , Xuanqing Liu , Jinfeng Yi , Yuan Jiang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Metric learning aims to embed one metric space into another to benefit tasks like classification and clustering. Although a greatly distorted metric space has a high degree of freedom to fit training data, it is prone to overfitting and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Renjie Liao , Jianping Shi , Ziyang Ma , Jun Zhu , Jiaya Jia

Nowadays government and private agencies use remote sensing imagery for a wide range of applications from military applications to farm development. The images may be a panchromatic, multispectral, hyperspectral or even ultraspectral of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-23 K. Perumal , R. Bhaskaran

Distance metric learning is an important component for many tasks, such as statistical classification and content-based image retrieval. Existing approaches for learning distance metrics from pairwise constraints typically suffer from two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Liu Yang , Rong Jin , Rahul Sukthankar

Distance metric learning algorithms aim to appropriately measure similarities and distances between data points. In the context of clustering, metric learning is typically applied with the assist of side-information provided by experts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Rodrigo Randel , Daniel Aloise , Alain Hertz

Clustering is widely used in unsupervised learning to find homogeneous groups of observations within a dataset. However, clustering mixed-type data remains a challenge, as few existing approaches are suited for this task. This study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Badih Ghattas , Alvaro Sanchez San-Benito

The distance metric plays an important role in nearest neighbor (NN) classification. Usually the Euclidean distance metric is assumed or a Mahalanobis distance metric is optimized to improve the NN performance. In this paper, we study the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2007-06-26 Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Gert R. G. Lanckriet

Due to the existence of various views or representations in many real-world data, multi-view learning has drawn much attention recently. Multi-view spectral clustering methods based on similarity matrixes or graphs are pretty popular.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Nan Xu , Yanqing Guo , Jiujun Wang , Xiangyang Luo , Ran He

Active learning is commonly used to train label-efficient models by adaptively selecting the most informative queries. However, most active learning strategies are designed to either learn a representation of the data (e.g., embedding or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Namrata Nadagouda , Austin Xu , Mark A. Davenport

Distance metric learning has attracted much attention in recent years, where the goal is to learn a distance metric based on user feedback. Conventional approaches to metric learning mainly focus on learning the Mahalanobis distance metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhongfang Zhuang , Xiangnan Kong , Elke Rundensteiner , Jihane Zouaoui , Aditya Arora

In machine learning, the term active learning regroups techniques that aim at selecting the most useful data to label from a large pool of unlabelled examples. While supervised deep learning techniques have shown to be increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Alex Goupilleau , Tugdual Ceillier , Marie-Caroline Corbineau