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Data cohesion, a recently introduced measure inspired by social interactions, uses distance comparisons to assess relative proximity. In this work, we provide a collection of results which can guide the development of cohesion-based methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Katherine E. Moore

Measuring and evaluating source code similarity is a fundamental software engineering activity that embraces a broad range of applications, including but not limited to code recommendation, duplicate code, plagiarism, malware, and smell…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa , Mohammad Ramezani , Chanchal Roy , Masoud Ekhtiarzadeh

The Jaccard similarity index has often been employed in science and technology as a means to quantify the similarity between two sets. When modified to operate on real-valued values, the Jaccard similarity index can be applied to compare…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-10-23 Gonzalo Travieso , Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

Increasingly, critical decisions in public policy, governance, and business strategy rely on a deeper understanding of the needs and opinions of constituent members (e.g. citizens, shareholders). While it has become easier to collect a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Saket Gurukar , Deepak Ajwani , Sourav Dutta , Juho Lauri , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Alessandra Sala

A personalized learning system needs a large pool of items for learners to solve. When working with a large pool of items, it is useful to measure the similarity of items. We outline a general approach to measuring the similarity of items…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Radek Pelánek , Tomáš Effenberger , Matěj Vaněk , Vojtěch Sassmann , Dominik Gmiterko

We present a model to measure the similarity in appearance between different materials, which correlates with human similarity judgments. We first create a database of 9,000 rendered images depicting objects with varying materials, shape…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Manuel Lagunas , Sandra Malpica , Ana Serrano , Elena Garces , Diego Gutierrez , Belen Masia

Judging the similarity of visualizations is crucial to various applications, such as visualization-based search and visualization recommendation systems. Recent studies show deep-feature-based similarity metrics correlate well with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Sheng Long , Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Emma Alexander , Matthew Kay , Jessica Hullman

Information Retrieval (IR) plays a pivotal role in diverse Software Engineering (SE) tasks, e.g., bug localization and triaging, code retrieval, requirements analysis, etc. The choice of similarity measure is the core component of an IR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Md Masudur Rahman , Saikat Chakraborty , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

We define the similarity boundary of a self-similar set and use it to analyze the properties of self-similar sets in the general setting of any complete metric space. The similarity boundary is an attempt at extending the concept of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. E. Keesling , C. Krishnamurthi

Similarity metrics are a core component of many information retrieval and machine learning systems. In this work we propose a method capable of learning a similarity metric from data equipped with a binary relation. By considering only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Henry Gouk , Bernhard Pfahringer , Michael Cree

Spatio-temporal trajectory analytics is at the core of smart mobility solutions, which offers unprecedented information for diversified applications such as urban planning, infrastructure development, and vehicular networks. Trajectory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Danlei Hu , Lu Chen , Hanxi Fang , Ziquan Fang , Tianyi Li , Yunjun Gao

The problem of identifying to which of a given set of classes objects belong is ubiquitous, occurring in many research domains and application areas, including medical diagnosis, financial decision making, online commerce, and national…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 David J. Hand , Peter Christen , Sumayya Ziyad

Machine Learning is a diverse field applied across various domains such as computer science, social sciences, medicine, chemistry, and finance. This diversity results in varied evaluation approaches, making it difficult to compare models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Silvia Beddar-Wiesing , Alice Moallemy-Oureh , Marie Kempkes , Josephine M. Thomas

Similarity search in math is to find mathematical expressions that are similar to a user's query. We conceptualized the similarity factors between mathematical expressions, and proposed an approach to math similarity search (MSS) by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Qun Zhang , Abdou Youssef

Similarity is a fundamental measure in network analyses and machine learning algorithms, with wide applications ranging from personalized recommendation to socio-economic dynamics. We argue that an effective similarity measurement should…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-07 Jian-Guo Liu , Lei Hou , Xue Pan , Qiang Guo , Tao Zhou

Algorithmic fairness is receiving significant attention in the academic and broader literature due to the increasing use of predictive algorithms, including those based on artificial intelligence. One benefit of this trend is that algorithm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Pratyush Garg , John Villasenor , Virginia Foggo

Music similarity is an essential aspect of music retrieval, recommendation systems, and music analysis. Moreover, similarity is of vital interest for music experts, as it allows studying analogies and influences among composers and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Andrea Poltronieri

Explaining the predictions made by complex machine learning models helps users to understand and accept the predicted outputs with confidence. One promising way is to use similarity-based explanation that provides similar instances as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Kazuaki Hanawa , Sho Yokoi , Satoshi Hara , Kentaro Inui

We present a conceptually simple and intuitive method to calculate and to measure the dissimilarities among 2D shapes. Several methods to interpret and to visualize the resulting dissimilarity matrix are presented and compared.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Karel Zimmermann

The focus of this paper is the calculation of similarity between two concepts from an ontology for a Human-Like Interaction system. In order to facilitate this calculation, a similarity function is proposed based on five dimensions (sort,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Esperanza Albacete , Javier Calle , Elena Castro , Dolores Cuadra