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Although several self-indexes for highly repetitive text collections exist, developing an index and search algorithm with editing operations remains a challenge. Edit distance with moves (EDM) is a string-to-string distance measure that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Yoshimasa Takabatake , Kenta Nakashima , Tetsuji Kuboyama , Yasuo Tabei , Hiroshi Sakamoto

We give a reduction from $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) to $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate Closest Pair (CP). As a consequence, we improve the fastest known approximation algorithm for high-dimensional EMD. Here,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Lorenzo Beretta , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Rajesh Jayaram , Erik Waingarten

The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) computes the optimal cost of transforming one distribution into another, given a known transport metric between them. In deep learning, the EMD loss allows us to embed information during training about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Manuel Martinez , Monica Haurilet , Ziad Al-Halah , Makarand Tapaswi , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) has been widely employed to measure the distance between probability distributions. In this paper, we propose using MMD to solve continuous multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). For solving MOPs, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Hao Wang , Chenyu Shi , Angel E. Rodriguez-Fernandez , Oliver Schütze

Large Language Models (LLMs) with Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) architectures achieve superior model performance with reduced computation costs, but at the cost of high memory capacity and bandwidth requirements. Near-Memory Processing (NMP)…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Haochen Huang , Shuzhang Zhong , Zhe Zhang , Shuangchen Li , Dimin Niu , Hongzhong Zheng , Runsheng Wang , Meng Li

A key principle in assessing textual similarity is measuring the degree of semantic overlap between two texts by considering the word alignment. Such alignment-based approaches are intuitive and interpretable; however, they are empirically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Sho Yokoi , Ryo Takahashi , Reina Akama , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

It is well-understood that different algorithms, training processes, and corpora produce different word embeddings. However, less is known about the relation between different embedding spaces, i.e. how far different sets of embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xuhui Zhou , Zaixiang Zheng , Shujian Huang

Despite the increasing popularity of NLP in the humanities and social sciences, advances in model performance and complexity have been accompanied by concerns about interpretability and explanatory power for sociocultural analysis. One…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Mikael Brunila , Jack LaViolette

Objective: Today's neural machine translation (NMT) can achieve near human-level translation quality and greatly facilitates international communications, but the lack of parallel corpora poses a key problem to the development of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shengxuan Luo , Huaiyuan Ying , Jiao Li , Sheng Yu

The main approach of traditional information retrieval (IR) is to examine how many words from a query appear in a document. A drawback of this approach, however, is that it may fail to detect relevant documents where no or only few words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Sun Kim , Nicolas Fiorini , W. John Wilbur , Zhiyong Lu

With their high energy efficiency, processing-in-memory (PIM) arrays are increasingly used for convolutional neural network (CNN) inference. In PIM-based CNN inference, the computational latency and energy are dependent on how the CNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Johnny Rhe , Sungmin Moon , Jong Hwan Ko

Word translation is an integral part of language translation. In machine translation, each language is considered a domain with its own word embedding. The alignment between word embeddings allows linking semantically equivalent words in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Antonio H. O. Fonseca , David van Dijk

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has recently been recognized as a promising approach for large-scale machine learning models. However, very few results study ADMM from the aspect of communication costs, especially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yu Ye , Hao Chen , Zheng Ma , Ming Xiao

Document alignment is necessary for the hierarchical mining (Ba\~n\'on et al., 2020; Morishita et al., 2022), which aligns documents across source and target languages within the same web domain. Several high precision sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xiaotian Wang , Takehito Utsuro , Masaaki Nagata

Many information retrieval algorithms rely on the notion of a good distance that allows to efficiently compare objects of different nature. Recently, a new promising metric called Word Mover's Distance was proposed to measure the divergence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Georgios Balikas , Charlotte Laclau , Ievgen Redko , Massih-Reza Amini

The Earth Mover's Distance is a popular similarity measure in several branches of computer science. It measures the minimum total edge length of a perfect matching between two point sets. The Earth Mover's Distance under Translation…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Karl Bringmann , Frank Staals , Karol Węgrzycki , Geert van Wordragen

A linear-complexity algorithm for computing the Wasserstein-1 distance on non-uniform meshes is proposed. This work extends the fast Sinkhorn algorithms from [Q. Liao et al., Commun. Math. Sci., 20(2022)] and [Q. Liao et al., J. Sci.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Qihao Cheng , Qichen Liao , Hao Wu , Shuai Yang

We propose a new framework for formulating optimal transport distances between Markov chains. Previously known formulations studied couplings between the entire joint distribution induced by the chains, and derived solutions via a reduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Sergio Calo , Anders Jonsson , Gergely Neu , Ludovic Schwartz , Javier Segovia-Aguas

The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) is the measure of choice between point clouds. However the computational cost to compute it makes it prohibitive as a training loss, and the standard approach is to use a surrogate such as the Chamfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Atul Kumar Sinha , Francois Fleuret

Online change point detection in dynamic graphs requires comparing graphs as they arrive, in time linear in the number of edges, without parametric assumptions. Recent spectral methods address scale via the Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM):…

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