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Laplacian-based methods are popular for the dimensionality reduction of data lying in $\mathbb{R}^N$. Several theoretical results for these algorithms depend on the fact that the Euclidean distance locally approximates the geodesic distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Liane Xu , Amit Singer

This paper introduces kdiff, a novel kernel-based measure for estimating distances between instances of time series, random fields and other forms of structured data. This measure is based on the idea of matching distributions that only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-01 Srinjoy Das , Hrushikesh Mhaskar , Alexander Cloninger

Distance metric learning can be viewed as one of the fundamental interests in pattern recognition and machine learning, which plays a pivotal role in the performance of many learning methods. One of the effective methods in learning such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Mostafa Razavi Ghods , Mohammad Hossein Moattar , Yahya Forghani

Many metric learning tasks, such as triplet learning, nearest neighbor retrieval, and visualization, are treated primarily as embedding tasks where the ultimate metric is some variant of the Euclidean distance (e.g., cosine or Mahalanobis),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Fred Lu , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro

This study conducts a Quantitative Structure Property Relationship (QSPR) analysis to explore the correlation between the physical properties of drug molecules and their topological indices using machine learning techniques. While prior…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 M. J. Nadjafi Arani , S. Sorgun , M. Mirzargar

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

Advances in computational power and hardware efficiency have enabled tackling increasingly complex, high-dimensional problems. While artificial intelligence (AI) achieves remarkable results, the interpretability of high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Federico Tessari , Kunpeng Yao , Neville Hogan

The ability of the organism to distinguish between various stimuli is limited by the structure and noise in the population code of its sensory neurons. Here we infer a distance measure on the stimulus space directly from the recorded…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-14 Gašper Tkačik , Einat Granot-Atedgi , Ronen Segev , Elad Schneidman

Many statistical and machine learning approaches rely on pairwise distances between data points. The choice of distance metric has a fundamental impact on performance of these procedures, raising questions about how to appropriately…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Didong Li , David B Dunson

Generating point clouds, e.g., molecular structures, in arbitrary rotations, translations, and enumerations remains a challenging task. Meanwhile, neural networks utilizing symmetry invariant layers have been shown to be able to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Moritz Hoffmann , Frank Noé

Accurate quantification of complex human movements, such as gait, is essential for clinical diagnosis and rehabilitation but is often limited by traditional linear models rooted in Euclidean geometry. These frameworks frequently fail to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-11 Tomáš Bůžek

In order to characterize molecular structures we introduce configurational fingerprint vectors which are counterparts of quantities used experimentally to identify structures. The Euclidean distance between the configurational fingerprint…

Cross-entropy loss has long been the standard choice for training deep neural networks, yet it suffers from interpretability limitations, unbounded weight growth, and inefficiencies that can contribute to costly training dynamics. The…

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Data visualization and dimension reduction for regression between a general metric space-valued response and Euclidean predictors is proposed. Current Fr\'ech\'et dimension reduction methods require that the response metric space be…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-28 Abdul-Nasah Soale , Yuexiao Dong

This paper introduces a novel uncertainty quantification framework for regression models where the response takes values in a separable metric space, and the predictors are in a Euclidean space. The proposed algorithms can efficiently…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Gábor Lugosi , Marcos Matabuena

The paper presents new metrics to quantify and test for (i) the equality of distributions and (ii) the independence between two high-dimensional random vectors. We show that the energy distance based on the usual Euclidean distance cannot…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-01 Shubhadeep Chakraborty , Xianyang Zhang

In the era of foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs), Euclidean space is the de facto geometric setting of our machine learning architectures. However, recent literature has demonstrated that this choice comes with fundamental…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Menglin Yang , Yifei Zhang , Jialin Chen , Melanie Weber , Rex Ying

Log-Euclidean distances are commonly used to quantify the similarity between positive definite matrices using geometric considerations. This paper analyzes the behavior of this distance when it is used to measure closeness between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Xavier Mestre , Roberto Pereira

Several ongoing and upcoming large scale structure surveys aim to explore the nonlinear regime of structure formation with high precision. Making reliable cosmological inferences from these observations necessitates precise theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Sarah Safi , Marzieh Farhang

Distance Geometry Problem (DGP) and Nonlinear Mapping (NLM) are two well established questions: Distance Geometry Problem is about finding a Euclidean realization of an incomplete set of distances in a Euclidean space, whereas Nonlinear…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Alain Franc , Pierre Blanchard , Olivier Coulaud