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Given a set of $n$ points in $d$ dimensions, the Euclidean $k$-means problem (resp. the Euclidean $k$-median problem) consists of finding $k$ centers such that the sum of squared distances (resp. sum of distances) from every point to its…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Kasper Green Larsen , David Saulpic , Chris Schwiegelshohn , Omar Ali Sheikh-Omar

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

Distance geometry explores the properties of distance spaces that can be exactly represented as the pairwise Euclidean distances between points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d \geq 1$), or equivalently, distance spaces that can be isometrically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

$\newcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$We study the minWSPD problem of computing the minimum-size well-separated pairs decomposition of a set of points, and show constant approximation algorithms in low-dimensional Euclidean space and doubling…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Kevin Buchin , Jacobus Conradi , Sariel Har-Peled , Antonia Kalb , Abhiruk Lahiri , Lukas Plätz , Carolin Rehs , Sampson Wong

Recent literature has shown that symbolic data, such as text and graphs, is often better represented by points on a curved manifold, rather than in Euclidean space. However, geometrical operations on manifolds are generally more complicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Max Aalto , Nakul Verma

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

To improve our understanding of connected systems, different tools derived from statistics, signal processing, information theory and statistical physics have been developed in the last decade. Here, we will focus on the graph comparison…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-23 Johann H. Martínez , Mario Chavez

Euclidean embeddings of data are fundamentally limited in their ability to capture latent semantic structures, which need not conform to Euclidean spatial assumptions. Here we consider an alternative, which embeds data as discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Charlie Frogner , Farzaneh Mirzazadeh , Justin Solomon

This paper addresses to the problem of finding the (minimum) Euclidean distance between two linear varieties. This problem is, usually, solved minimising a target function. We propose a novel approach: to use the Moore-Penrose generalised…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-25 M. A. Facas Vicente , Armando Gonçalves , José Vitória

Dimensionality reduction techniques map values from a high dimensional space to one with a lower dimension. The result is a space which requires less physical memory and has a faster distance calculation. These techniques are widely used…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Richard Connor , Lucia Vadicamo

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) lemma is a cornerstone of dimensionality reduction in Euclidean space, but its applicability to non-Euclidean data has remained limited. This paper extends the JL lemma beyond Euclidean geometry to handle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Kevin Lu , Feng Luo , Cheng Xin

In order to study the fundamental limits of network densification, we look at the spatial spectral efficiency gain achieved when densely deployed communication devices embedded in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space are optimally `matched'…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-14 Alexander P. Kartun-Giles , Suhanya Jayaprakasam , Sunwoo Kim

The Planar Graph Metric Compression Problem is to compactly encode the distances among $k$ nodes in a planar graph of size $n$. Two na\"ive solutions are to store the graph using $O(n)$ bits, or to explicitly store the distance matrix with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Amir Abboud , Pawel Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

We establish Euclidean-type lower bounds for the codimension-1 Hausdorff measure of sets that separate points in doubling and linearly locally contractible metric manifolds. This gives a quantitative topological isoperimetric inequality in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Kyle Kinneberg

The problem of finding suitable point embedding or geometric configurations given only Euclidean distance information of point pairs arises both as a core task and as a sub-problem in a variety of machine learning applications. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ipsita Ghosh , Abiy Tasissa , Christian Kümmerle

Euclidean distance matrix optimization with ordinal constraints (EDMOC) has found important applications in sensor network localization and molecular conformation. It can also be viewed as a matrix formulation of multidimensional scaling,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Sitong Lu , Miao Zhang , Qingna Li

Classical multidimensional scaling only works well when the noisy distances observed in a high dimensional space can be faithfully represented by Euclidean distances in a low dimensional space. Advanced models such as Maximum Variance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-24 Chao Ding , Hou-Duo Qi

The depinning of an elastic line interacting with a quenched disorder is studied for long range interactions, applicable to crack propagation or wetting. An ultrametric distance is introduced instead of the Euclidean distance, allowing for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Damien Vandembroucq , Stephane Roux

We develop an adaptive-metric framework for norm-minimization-based outer approximation algorithms in bounded convex vector optimization. The key idea is to let the scalarization metric vary across iterations while measuring approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Mohammed Alshahrani

Thurston's circle packing approximation of the Riemann Mapping (proven to give the Riemann Mapping in the limit by Rodin-Sullivan) is largely based on the theorem that any topological disk with a circle packing metric can be deformed into a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-21 David Glickenstein