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We introduce a conceptually simple and effective method to quantify the similarity between relations in knowledge bases. Specifically, our approach is based on the divergence between the conditional probability distributions over entity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Weize Chen , Hao Zhu , Xu Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Comparing the top $k$ elements between two or more ranked results is a common task in many contexts and settings. A few measures have been proposed to compare top $k$ lists with attractive mathematical properties, but they face a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Arun Konagurthu , James Collier

Non-homogeneous self-similar measures are generically absolute continuous in the domain of parameters for which the similarity dimension is larger than one, see \cite{[SSS]}. Using certain algebraic curves we construct here exceptional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Jörg Neunhäuserer

Assessing similarity in source code has gained significant attention in recent years due to its importance in software engineering tasks such as clone detection and code search and recommendation. This work presents a comparative analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jorge Martinez-Gil

With growing success in experimental implementations it is critical to identify a "gold standard" for quantum information processing, a single measure of distance that can be used to compare and contrast different experiments. We enumerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-27 Alexei Gilchrist , Nathan K. Langford , Michael A. Nielsen

The automatic ranking of word pairs as per their semantic relatedness and ability to mimic human notions of semantic relatedness has widespread applications. Measures that rely on raw data (distributional measures) and those that use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Saif M Mohammad , Graeme Hirst

Assessing the validity of user simulators when used for the evaluation of information retrieval systems remains an open question, constraining their effective use and the reliability of simulation-based results. To address this issue, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Andreas Konstantin Kruff , Nolwenn Bernard , Philipp Schaer

In this vision paper, we propose a shift in perspective for improving the effectiveness of similarity search. Rather than focusing solely on enhancing the data quality, particularly machine learning-generated embeddings, we advocate for a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Renzhi Wu , Jingfan Meng , Jie Jeff Xu , Huayi Wang , Kexin Rong

Predicting the collaboration likelihood and measuring cognitive trust to AI systems is more important than ever. To do that, previous research mostly focus solely on the model features (e.g., accuracy, confidence) and ignore the human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Müge Kural , Ali Gebeşçe , Tilek Chubakov , Gözde Gül Şahin

Source code summarization involves creating brief descriptions of source code in natural language. These descriptions are a key component of software documentation such as JavaDocs. Automatic code summarization is a prized target of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Sakib Haque , Zachary Eberhart , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

Spectral Clustering(SC) is a prominent data clustering technique of recent times which has attracted much attention from researchers. It is a highly data-driven method and makes no strict assumptions on the structure of the data to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Lalith Srikanth Chintalapati , Raghunatha Sarma Rachakonda

Measuring visual similarity between two or more instances within a data distribution is a fundamental task in image retrieval. Theoretically, non-metric distances are able to generate a more complex and accurate similarity model than metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Noa Garcia , George Vogiatzis

The ability to mimic human notions of semantic distance has widespread applications. Some measures rely only on raw text (distributional measures) and some rely on knowledge sources such as WordNet. Although extensive studies have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Saif M. Mohammad , Graeme Hirst

Spreadsheets are widely used in industry, because they are flexible and easy to use. Sometimes they are even used for business-critical applications. It is however difficult for spreadsheet users to correctly assess the quality of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Felienne Hermans , Martin Pinzger , Arie van Deursen

In this paper, concept of possibility neutrosophic soft set and its operations are defined, and their properties are studied. An application of this theory in decision making is investigated. Also a similarity measure of two possibility…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Faruk Karaaslan

Density Estimation is one of the central areas of statistics whose purpose is to estimate the probability density function underlying the observed data. It serves as a building block for many tasks in statistical inference, visualization,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-02 Zhipeng Wang , David W. Scott

We use an information-theoretic measure of linguistic similarity to investigate the organization and evolution of scientific fields. An analysis of almost 20M papers from the past three decades reveals that the linguistic similarity is…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Laercio Dias , Martin Gerlach , Joachim Scharloth , Eduardo G. Altmann

Real-world data typically contain a large number of features that are often heterogeneous in nature, relevance, and also units of measure. When assessing the similarity between data points, one can build various distance measures using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-27 Aldo Glielmo , Claudio Zeni , Bingqing Cheng , Gabor Csanyi , Alessandro Laio

There has been a significant amount of interest regarding the use of diversity-based testing techniques in software testing over the past two decades. Diversity-based testing (DBT) technique uses similarity metrics to leverage the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Islam T. Elgendy , Robert M. Hierons , Phil McMinn

Propensity score matching is a tool for causal inference in non-randomized studies that allows for conditioning on large sets of covariates. The use of propensity scores in the social sciences is currently experiencing a tremendous…

Applications · Statistics 2012-02-01 Felix Thoemmes