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We consider a classical problem in choice theory -- vote aggregation -- using novel distance measures between permutations that arise in several practical applications. The distance measures are derived through an axiomatic approach, taking…

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Let $M$ be a connected compact Riemannian manifold possibly with a boundary, let $V\in C^2(M)$ such that $\mu(\d x):=\e^{V(x)}\d x$ is a probability measure, where $\d x$ is the volume measure, and let $L=\Delta+\nabla V$. The exact…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Feng-Yu Wang , Bingyao Wu

While spectral clustering algorithms for undirected graphs are well established and have been successfully applied to unsupervised machine learning problems ranging from image segmentation and genome sequencing to signal processing and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Stefan Klus , Natasa Djurdjevac Conrad

The statistical properties of level spacings provide valuable insights into the dynamical properties of a many-body quantum systems. We investigate the level statistics of the Fermi-Hubbard model with dimerized hopping amplitude and find…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-14 Karin Haderlein , David J. Luitz , Corinna Kollath , Ameneh Sheikhan

Entanglement related properties work as nice fingerprint of the quantum many-body wave function. However, those of fermionic models are hard to evaluate in standard numerical methods because they suffer from finite size effects. We show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-04 Xavier Plat , Chisa Hotta

Pattern recognition constitutes a particularly important task underlying a great deal of scientific and technologica activities. At the same time, pattern recognition involves several challenges, including the choice of features to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

We develop novel methods for using persistent homology to infer the homology of an unknown Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ from a point cloud sampled from an arbitrary smooth probability density function. Standard distance-based filtered…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Abigail Hickok

The spectra of random feature matrices provide essential information on the conditioning of the linear system used in random feature regression problems and are thus connected to the consistency and generalization of random feature models.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-13 Zhijun Chen , Hayden Schaeffer , Rachel Ward

Analysis and processing of data is a vital part of our modern society and requires vast amounts of computational resources. To reduce the computational burden, compressing and approximating data has become a central topic. We consider the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Jürgen Dölz , Michael Multerer

We introduce Statistical Flow Matching (SFM), a novel and mathematically rigorous flow-matching framework on the manifold of parameterized probability measures inspired by the results from information geometry. We demonstrate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chaoran Cheng , Jiahan Li , Jian Peng , Ge Liu

This work investigates minimal parametric networks in hyperspaces of closed subsets of metric spaces endowed with the Hausdorff distance. It is shown that the problems of finding such networks are nontrivial only within finiteness classes,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Arsen Galstyan

Quantifying the distance between datasets is a fundamental question in mathematics and machine learning. We propose \textit{magnitude distance}, a novel distance metric defined on finite datasets using the notion of the \emph{magnitude} of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sahel Torkamani , Henry Gouk , Rik Sarkar

Consider the sum of the first $N$ eigenspaces for the Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold. A basis for this space determines a map to Euclidean space and for $N$ sufficiently large the map is an embedding. In analogy with a fruitful idea of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Eric Potash

The discrete Fr{\'e}chet distance is a measure of similarity between point sequences which permits to abstract differences of resolution between the two curves, approximating the original Fr{\'e}chet distance between curves. Such distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jérémy Barbay

This work builds a unified framework for the study of quadratic form distance measures as they are used in assessing the goodness of fit of models. Many important procedures have this structure, but the theory for these methods is dispersed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Bruce G. Lindsay , Marianthi Markatou , Surajit Ray , Ke Yang , Shu-Chuan Chen

We introduce the {\it diffusion $K$-means} clustering method on Riemannian submanifolds, which maximizes the within-cluster connectedness based on the diffusion distance. The diffusion $K$-means constructs a random walk on the similarity…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang

This paper establishes the consistency of spectral approaches to data clustering. We consider clustering of point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. A graph representing the point cloud is obtained by assigning weights to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Nicolás García Trillos , Dejan Slepčev

We consider collections of Lagrangian submanifolds of a given symplectic manifold which respect uniform bounds of curvature type coming from an auxiliary Riemannian metric. We prove that, for a large class of metrics on these collections,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Jean-Philippe Chassé

Regression with distribution-valued responses and Euclidean predictors has gained increasing scientific relevance. While methodology for univariate distributional data has advanced rapidly in recent years, multivariate distributions, which…

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