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Time series motifs play an important role in the time series analysis. The motif-based time series clustering is used for the discovery of higher-order patterns or structures in time series data. Inspired by the convolutional neural network…

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This paper proposes a new method for determining similarity and anomalies between time series, most practically effective in large collections of (likely related) time series, by measuring distances between structural breaks within such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Nick James , Max Menzies , Lamiae Azizi , Jennifer Chan

We present a simple, efficient model for learning boundary detection based on a random forest classifier. Our approach combines (1) efficient clustering of training examples based on simple partitioning of the space of local edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Sam Hallman , Charless C. Fowlkes

Time-series classification is an important domain of machine learning and a plethora of methods have been developed for the task. In comparison to existing approaches, this study presents a novel method which decomposes a time-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Josif Grabocka , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Remote sensing data are increasingly available and frequently used to produce forest attributes maps. The sampling strategy of the calibration plots may directly affect predictions and map qualities. The aim of this manuscript is to…

Applications · Statistics 2024-08-09 Andrey Ramirez Luigui , Jean-Pierre Renaud , Cédric Vega

Given a real-valued function $f$ defined over a manifold $M$ embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$, we are interested in recovering structural information about $f$ from the sole information of its values on a finite sample $P$. Existing methods…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Mickaël Buchet , Frédéric Chazal , Tamal K. Dey , Fengtao Fan , Steve Y. Oudot , Yusu Wang

This manuscript proposes to extend the information set of time-series regression trees with latent stationary factors extracted via state-space methods. In doing so, this approach generalises time-series regression trees on two dimensions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-14 Filippo Pellegrino

We present improved learning-augmented algorithms for finding an approximate minimum spanning tree (MST) for points in an arbitrary metric space. Our work follows a recent framework called metric forest completion (MFC), where the learned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Nate Veldt , Thomas Stanley , Benjamin W. Priest , Trevor Steil , Keita Iwabuchi , T. S. Jayram , Grace J. Li , Geoffrey Sanders

The ability to compare between individuals or organisations fairly is important for the development of robust and meaningful quantitative benchmarks. To make fair comparisons, contextual factors must be taken into account, and comparisons…

Applications · Statistics 2020-11-18 Daniel W. Kennedy , Jessica Cameron , Paul P. -Y. Wu , Kerrie Mengersen

The random forest (RF) algorithm has become a very popular prediction method for its great flexibility and promising accuracy. In RF, it is conventional to put equal weights on all the base learners (trees) to aggregate their predictions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-18 Xinyu Chen , Dalei Yu , Xinyu Zhang

Dealing with datasets of very high dimension is a major challenge in machine learning. In this paper, we consider the problem of feature selection in applications where the memory is not large enough to contain all features. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-07 Antonio Sutera , Célia Châtel , Gilles Louppe , Louis Wehenkel , Pierre Geurts

We describe the use of an unsupervised Random Forest for similarity learning and improved unsupervised anomaly detection. By training a Random Forest to discriminate between real data and synthetic data sampled from a uniform distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-23 Joshua S. Harvey , Joshua Rosaler , Mingshu Li , Dhruv Desai , Dhagash Mehta

The Robinson-Foulds (RF) distance is by far the most widely used measure of dissimilarity between trees. Although the distribution of these distances has been investigated for twenty years, an algorithm that is explicitly polynomial time…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-10-07 David Bryant , Mike Steel

We provide a general framework for getting expected linear time constant factor approximations (and in many cases FPTASs) to several well-known problems in Computational Geometry, such as $k$-center clustering and farthest nearest neighbor.…

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Similarity measures are used extensively in machine learning and data science algorithms. The newly proposed graph Relative Hausdorff (RH) distance is a lightweight yet nuanced similarity measure for quantifying the closeness of two graphs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Sinan G. Aksoy , Kathleen E. Nowak , Emilie Purvine , Stephen J. Young

This paper studies the important problem of finding all $k$-nearest neighbors to points of a query set $Q$ in another reference set $R$ within any metric space. Our previous work defined compressed cover trees and corrected the key…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yury Elkin , Vitaliy Kurlin

This paper presents enhancements to the projection pursuit tree classifier and visual diagnostic methods for assessing their impact in high dimensions. The original algorithm uses linear combinations of variables in a tree structure where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-16 Natalia da Silva , Dianne Cook , Eun-Kyung Lee

Research on time-series similarity measures has emphasized the need for elastic methods which align the indices of pairs of time series and a plethora of non-parametric have been proposed for the task. On the other hand, deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Josif Grabocka , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Introgression is an evolutionary process in which genes or other types of genetic material are introduced into a genome. It is an important evolutionary process that can, for example, play a fundamental role in speciation. Recently the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-26 K. T. Huber , V. Moulton , G. E. Scholz

Computable Stein discrepancies have been deployed for a variety of applications, ranging from sampler selection in posterior inference to approximate Bayesian inference to goodness-of-fit testing. Existing convergence-determining Stein…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Jonathan H. Huggins , Lester Mackey