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Given a dataset an outlier can be defined as an observation that it is unlikely to follow the statistical properties of the majority of the data. Computation of the location estimate of is fundamental in data analysis, and it is well known…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-16 G. Zioutas , C. Chatzinakos , T. D. Nguyen , L. Pitsoulis

The problem of computing a bi-Lipschitz embedding of a graphical metric into the line with minimum distortion has received a lot of attention. The best-known approximation algorithm computes an embedding with distortion $O(c^2)$, where $c$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Karine Chubarian , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Deep Metric Learning algorithms aim to learn an efficient embedding space to preserve the similarity relationships among the input data. Whilst these algorithms have achieved significant performance gains across a wide plethora of tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Soumava Kumar Roy , Yan Han , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

We provide efficient constant factor approximation algorithms for the problems of finding a hierarchical clustering of a point set in any metric space, minimizing the sum of minimimum spanning tree lengths within each cluster, and in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-07-08 David Eppstein

Data clustering, the task of grouping observations according to their similarity, is a key component of unsupervised learning -- with real world applications in diverse fields such as biology, medicine, and social science. Often in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Anne Sophie Riis Damstrup , Sofie Tosti Madsen , Michele Coscia

Many modern data-intensive computational problems either require, or benefit from distance or similarity data that adhere to a metric. The algorithms run faster or have better performance guarantees. Unfortunately, in real applications, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Anna C. Gilbert , Lalit Jain

We consider the problem of optimal recovery of an element $u$ of a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ from $m$ measurements obtained through known linear functionals on $\mathcal{H}$. Problems of this type are well studied \cite{MRW} under an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Peter Binev , Albert Cohen , Wolfgang Dahmen , Ronald DeVore , Guergana Petrova , Przemyslaw Wojtaszczyk

Finding a minimum spanning tree (MST) for $n$ points in an arbitrary metric space is a fundamental primitive for hierarchical clustering and many other ML tasks, but this takes $\Omega(n^2)$ time to even approximate. We introduce a…

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A common approach for compressing NLP networks is to encode the embedding layer as a matrix $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times d}$, compute its rank-$j$ approximation $A_j$ via SVD, and then factor $A_j$ into a pair of matrices that correspond to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Alaa Maalouf , Harry Lang , Daniela Rus , Dan Feldman

The vast majority of Dimensionality Reduction (DR) techniques rely on second-order statistics to define their optimization objective. Even though this provides adequate results in most cases, it comes with several shortcomings. The methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

Many loss functions in representation learning are invariant under a continuous symmetry transformation. For example, the loss function of word embeddings (Mikolov et al., 2013) remains unchanged if we simultaneously rotate all word and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-21 Robert Bamler , Stephan Mandt

The high computational complexity and increasing parameter counts of deep neural networks pose significant challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments, such as edge devices or real-time systems. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Laura Erb , Tommaso Boccato , Alexandru Vasilache , Juergen Becker , Nicola Toschi

In many data science applications, the objective is to extract appropriately-ordered smooth low-dimensional data patterns from high-dimensional data sets. This is challenging since common sorting algorithms are primarily aiming at finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Illia Horenko , Lukas Pospisil

This article introduces a new data-driven approach that leverages a manifold embedding generated by the invertible neural network to improve the robustness, efficiency, and accuracy of the constitutive-law-free simulations with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Bahador Bahmani , WaiChing Sun

It is a key to construct a similarity graph in graph-oriented subspace learning and clustering. In a similarity graph, each vertex denotes a data point and the edge weight represents the similarity between two points. There are two popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Liangli Zhen , Zhang Yi , Xi Peng , Dezhong Peng

Let $X$ be a set of $n$ points of norm at most $1$ in the Euclidean space $R^k$, and suppose $\varepsilon>0$. An $\varepsilon$-distance sketch for $X$ is a data structure that, given any two points of $X$ enables one to recover the square…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Noga Alon , Bo'az Klartag

We study the problem of representing all distances between $n$ points in $\mathbb R^d$, with arbitrarily small distortion, using as few bits as possible. We give asymptotically tight bounds for this problem, for Euclidean metrics, for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

The Minimum Linear Arrangement problem (MLA) consists of finding a mapping $\pi$ from vertices of a graph to distinct integers that minimizes $\sum_{\{u,v\}\in E}|\pi(u) - \pi(v)|$. In that setting, vertices are often assumed to lie on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Lluís Alemany-Puig , Juan Luis Esteban , Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

Classical network embeddings create a low dimensional representation of the learned relationships between features across nodes. Such embeddings are important for tasks such as link prediction and node classification. In the current paper,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Chris Connell , Yang Wang

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