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A time series is a sequence of data items; typical examples are videos, stock ticker data, or streams of temperature measurements. Quite some research has been devoted to comparing and indexing simple time series, i.e., time series where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jörg P. Bachmann , Johann-Christoph Freytag , Benjamin Hauskeller , Nicole Schweikardt

What distributions arise as the distribution of the distance between two typical points in some measured metric space? This seems to be a surprisingly subtle problem. We conjecture that every distribution with a density function whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-19 David J. Aldous , Guillaume Blanc , Nicolas Curien

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is a powerful tool for comparing metric measure spaces which has found broad applications in data science and machine learning. Driven by the need to analyze datasets whose objects have increasingly…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Martin Bauer , Facundo Mémoli , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

In many applications, we need to measure similarity between nodes in a large network based on features of their neighborhoods. Although in-network node similarity based on proximity has been well investigated, surprisingly, measuring…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Yu Yang , Jian Pei

WWe define the notion of a random metric space and prove that with probability one such a space is isometricto the Urysohn universal metric space. The main technique is the study of universal and random distance matrices; we relate the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 A. M. Vershik

The problem of measuring similarity of graphs and their nodes is important in a range of practical problems. There is a number of proposed measures, some of them being based on iterative calculation of similarity between two graphs and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Mladen Nikolic

We consider machine learning in a comparison-based setting where we are given a set of points in a metric space, but we have no access to the actual distances between the points. Instead, we can only ask an oracle whether the distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-06 Siavash Haghiri , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Ulrike von Luxburg

Metric learning from a set of triplet comparisons in the form of "Do you think item h is more similar to item i or item j?", indicating similarity and differences between items, plays a key role in various applications including image…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-07 Gokcan Tatli , Yi Chen , Blake Mason , Robert Nowak , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak

This paper presents methods to compare high order networks, defined as weighted complete hypergraphs collecting relationship functions between elements of tuples. They can be considered as generalizations of conventional networks where only…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Weiyu Huang , Alejandro Ribeiro

We consider the space of complete and separable metric spaces which are equipped with a probability measure. A notion of convergence is given based on the philosophy that a sequence of metric measure spaces converges if and only if all…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-13 Andreas Greven , Peter Pfaffelhuber , Anita Winter

A radial probability measure is a probability measure with a density (with respect to the Lebesgue measure) which depends only on the distances to the origin. Consider the Euclidean space enhanced with a radial probability measure. A…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Yashar Memarian

We present a new general framework for metrization of Gromov-Hausdorff-type topologies on non-compact metric spaces. We also give easy-to-check conditions for separability and completeness and hence the measure theoretic requirements are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Ryoichiro Noda

Starting with a similarity function between objects, it is possible to define a distance metric on pairs of objects, and more generally on probability distributions over them. These distance metrics have a deep basis in functional analysis,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Sarang Joshi , Raj Varma Kommaraju , Jeff M. Phillips , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Interactions and relations between objects may be pairwise or higher-order in nature, and so network-valued data are ubiquitous in the real world. The "space of networks", however, has a complex structure that cannot be adequately described…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Stephen Y Zhang , Fangfei Lan , Youjia Zhou , Agnese Barbensi , Michael P H Stumpf , Bei Wang , Tom Needham

Applications in data science, shape analysis and object classification frequently require comparison of probability distributions defined on different ambient spaces. To accomplish this, one requires a notion of distance on a given class of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Facundo Mémoli , Tom Needham

The Gromov-Hausdorff distance between two metric spaces measures how far the spaces are from being isometric. It has played an important and longstanding role in geometry and shape comparison. More recently, it has been discovered that the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Michael Harrison , R. Amzi Jeffs

Two objects may be close in the Hausdorff metric, yet have very different geometric and topological properties. We examine other methods of comparing digital images such that objects close in each of these measures have some similar…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Laurence Boxer

A new similarity measure for two sets of S-parameters is proposed. It is constructed with the modified Hausdorff distance applied to S-parameter points in 3D space with real, imaginary and normalized frequency axes. New S-parameters…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Yuriy Shlepnev

The Gromov-Hausdorff (GH) distance is a natural way to measure distance between two metric spaces. We prove that it is $\mathrm{NP}$-hard to approximate the Gromov-Hausdorff distance better than a factor of $3$ for geodesic metrics on a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Kyle Fox , Abhinandan Nath , Anastasios Sidiropoulos , Yusu Wang

A geometric graph is a combinatorial graph, endowed with a geometry that is inherited from its embedding in a Euclidean space. Formulation of a meaningful measure of (dis-)similarity in both the combinatorial and geometric structures of two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk