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A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new ``normalized information distance'', based on the noncomputable notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Ming Li , Xin Chen , Xin Li , Bin Ma , Paul Vitanyi

The classification of random objects within metric spaces without a vector structure has attracted increasing attention. However, the complexity inherent in such non-Euclidean data often restricts existing models to handle only a limited…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-20 Shuaida He , Jiaqi Li , Xin Chen

This paper is devoted to the mathematical study of some divergences based on the mutual information well-suited to categorical random vectors. These divergences are generalizations of the "entropy distance" and "information distance". Their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Jean-François Coeurjolly , Rémy Drouilhet , Jean-François Robineau

Proximities are at the heart of almost all machine learning methods. If the input data are given as numerical vectors of equal lengths, euclidean distance, or a Hilbertian inner product is frequently used in modeling algorithms. In a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Maximilian Münch , Michiel Straat , Michael Biehl , Frank-Michael Schleif

In the d-Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (d-EDMC) problem, one aims to determine whether a given partial matrix of pairwise distances can be extended to a full Euclidean distance matrix in d dimensions. This problem is a cornerstone of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

Categorical attributes with qualitative values are ubiquitous in cluster analysis of real datasets. Unlike the Euclidean distance of numerical attributes, the categorical attributes lack well-defined relationships of their possible values…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Mingjie Zhao , Zhanpei Huang , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiqun Zhang , Weifeng Su , Yiu-ming Cheung

The original k-means clustering method works only if the exact vectors representing the data points are known. Therefore calculating the distances from the centroids needs vector operations, since the average of abstract data points is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Balázs Szalkai

In this paper, we present a linear-time approximation scheme for $k$-means clustering of \emph{incomplete} data points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. An \emph{incomplete} data point with $\Delta>0$ unspecified entries is represented as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Kyungjin Cho , Eunjin Oh

We formulate the conditional Kolmogorov complexity of x given y at precision r, where x and y are points in Euclidean spaces and r is a natural number. We demonstrate the utility of this notion in two ways. 1. We prove a point-to-set…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Jack H. Lutz , Neil Lutz

We study the complexity of approximations to the normalized information distance. We introduce a hierarchy of computable approximations by considering the number of oscillations. This is a function version of the difference hierarchy for…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Klaus Ambos-Spies , Wolfgang Merkle , Sebastiaan A. Terwijn

We present a new similarity measure based on information theoretic measures which is superior than Normalized Compression Distance for clustering problems and inherits the useful properties of conditional Kolmogorov complexity. We show that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-22 Andrey Bogomolov , Bruno Lepri , Fabio Pianesi

A disordered medium is often constructed by $N$ points independently and identically distributed in a $d$-dimensional hyperspace. Characteristics related to the statistics of this system is known as the random point problem. As $d \to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Cesar Augusto Sangaletti Tercariol , Alexandre Souto Martinez

Data clustering, the task of grouping observations according to their similarity, is a key component of unsupervised learning -- with real world applications in diverse fields such as biology, medicine, and social science. Often in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Anne Sophie Riis Damstrup , Sofie Tosti Madsen , Michele Coscia

In general, the clustering problem is NP-hard, and global optimality cannot be established for non-trivial instances. For high-dimensional data, distance-based methods for clustering or classification face an additional difficulty, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Tsvetan Asamov , Adi Ben-Israel

This article presents a theoretical investigation of generalized encoded forms of networks in a uniform multidimensional space. First, we study encoded networks with (finite) arbitrary node dimensions (or aspects), such as time instants or…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Felipe S. Abrahão , Klaus Wehmuth , Hector Zenil , Artur Ziviani

In the present paper we focus on the coherence properties of general random Euclidean distance matrices, which are very closely related to the respective matrix completion problem. This problem is of great interest in several applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Dionysios S. Kalogerias , Athina P. Petropulu

There are many distance-based methods for classification and clustering, and for data with a high number of dimensions and a lower number of observations, processing distances is computationally advantageous compared to the raw data matrix.…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-25 Christian Hennig

We study shallow and deep neural networks whose inputs range over a general topological space. The model is built from a prescribed family of continuous feature maps and reduces to multilayer feedforward networks in the Euclidean case. We…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Vugar Ismailov

We consider generalized metric spaces taking distances in an arbitrary ordered commutative monoid, and investigate when a class $\mathcal{K}$ of finite generalized metric spaces satisfies the Hrushovski extension property: for any…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Gabriel Conant

Deep distance metric learning (DDML), which is proposed to learn image similarity metrics in an end-to-end manner based on the convolution neural network, has achieved encouraging results in many computer vision tasks.$L2$-normalization in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Xuefei Zhe , Shifeng Chen , Hong Yan