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Distance metric learning has attracted a lot of interest for solving machine learning and pattern recognition problems over the last decades. In this work we present a simple approach based on concepts from statistical physics to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Dusan Stosic , Darko Stosic , Teresa B. Ludermir , Borko Stosic

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods have demonstrated top-notch performance in many pattern recognition and image classification tasks. Despite their popularity, they suffer from highly expensive time and memory requirements, which…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Amir Najafi , Amir Joudaki , Emad Fatemizadeh

Diffusion models indirectly estimate the probability density over a data space, which can be used to study its structure. In this work, we show that geodesics can be computed in diffusion latent space, where the norm induced by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Qingtao Yu , Jaskirat Singh , Zhaoyuan Yang , Peter Henry Tu , Jing Zhang , Hongdong Li , Richard Hartley , Dylan Campbell

Distance metric learning is a branch of machine learning that aims to learn distances from the data, which enhances the performance of similarity-based algorithms. This tutorial provides a theoretical background and foundations on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Juan Luis Suárez-Díaz , Salvador García , Francisco Herrera

The shortest path problem is related to many dynamic processes on networks, ranging from routing in communication networks to signaling in molecular interaction networks. When the network is fully known, the shortest path problem can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhihao Qiu , Sámuel G. Balogh , Xinhan Liu , Piet Van Mieghem , Maksim Kitsak

Algorithms for the computation of the forward and inverse geodesic problems for an ellipsoid of revolution are derived. These are accurate to better than 15 nm when applied to the terrestrial ellipsoids. The solutions of other problems…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Charles F. F. Karney

Starting with an exact and simple geodesic, we generate approximate geodesics by summing up higher-order geodesic deviations within a General Relativistic setting, without using Newtonian and post-Newtonian approximations. We apply this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Colistete , C. Leygnac , R. Kerner

We perform an experimental evaluation of algorithms for finding geodesic shortest paths between two points inside a simple polygon in the constant-workspace model. In this model, the input resides in a read-only array that can be accessed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Jonas Cleve , Wolfgang Mulzer

Computing intrinsic distances on discrete surfaces is at the heart of many minimization problems in geometry processing and beyond. Solving these problems is extremely challenging as it demands the computation of on-surface distances along…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yue Li , Logan Numerow , Bernhard Thomaszewski , Stelian Coros

Transportation distances have been used for more than a decade now in machine learning to compare histograms of features. They have one parameter: the ground metric, which can be any metric between the features themselves. As is the case…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-26 Marco Cuturi , David Avis

Consider the following toy problem. There are $m$ rectangles and $n$ points on the plane. Each rectangle $R$ is a consumer with budget $B_R$, who is interested in purchasing the cheapest item (point) inside R, given that she has enough…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Parinya Chalermsook , Khaled Elbassioni , Danupon Nanongkai , He Sun

This work presents a trajectory planning method based on composite Bernstein polynomials for autonomous systems navigating complex environments. The method is implemented in a symbolic optimization framework that enables continuous paths…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nick Gorman , Gage MacLin , Maxwell Hammond , Venanzio Cichella

Guided depth map super-resolution (GDSR), which aims to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR) depth map from a low-resolution (LR) observation with the help of a paired HR color image, is a longstanding and fundamental problem, it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhiwei Zhong , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Debin Zhao , Xiangyang Ji

What is the shortest path between two data points lying in a high-dimensional space? While the answer is trivial in Euclidean geometry, it becomes significantly more complex when the data lies on a curved manifold -- requiring a Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Louis Béthune , David Vigouroux , Yilun Du , Rufin VanRullen , Thomas Serre , Victor Boutin

Computing the shortest path between two given locations in a road network is an important problem that finds applications in various map services and commercial navigation products. The state-of-the-art solutions for the problem can be…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Lingkun Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Dingxiong Deng , Gao Cong , Andy Diwen Zhu , Shuigeng Zhou

Shortest paths in treespace, which represent minimal deformations between trees, are unique and can be computed in polynomial time. The ability to quickly compute shortest paths has enabled new approaches for statistical analysis of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Sean Skwerer , Scott Provan

Geometric deep learning (GDL) has gained significant attention in scientific fields, for its proficiency in modeling data with intricate geometric structures. However, very few works have delved into its capability of tackling the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Deyu Zou , Shikun Liu , Siqi Miao , Victor Fung , Shiyu Chang , Pan Li

It has been shown beneficial for many types of data which present an underlying hierarchical structure to be embedded in hyperbolic spaces. Consequently, many tools of machine learning were extended to such spaces, but only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Clément Bonet , Laetitia Chapel , Lucas Drumetz , Nicolas Courty

The paper focuses on composite multistage decision making problems which are targeted to design a route/trajectory from an initial decision situation (origin) to goal (destination) decision situation(s). Automobile routing problem is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Mark Sh. Levin

We introduce a new complexity measure of a path of (problems, solutions) pairs in terms of the length of the path in the condition metric which we define in the article. The measure gives an upper bound for the number of Newton steps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Shub