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Metric embeddings are a widely used method in algorithm design, where generally a ``complex'' metric is embedded into a simpler, lower-dimensional one. Historically, the theoretical computer science community has focused on bi-Lipschitz…

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Local graph neighborhood sampling is a fundamental computational problem that is at the heart of algorithms for node representation learning. Several works have presented algorithms for learning discrete node embeddings where graph nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Konstantin Kutzkov

Low-dimensional embeddings (LDEs) of high-dimensional data are ubiquitous in science and engineering. They allow us to quickly understand the main properties of the data, identify outliers and processing errors, and inform the next steps of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jonas Fischer , Rong Ma

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

Node embeddings map graph vertices into low-dimensional Euclidean spaces while preserving structural information. They are central to tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and signal reconstruction. A key goal is to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Valentin de Bassompierre , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Laurent Jacques

Hyperbolic geometry has emerged as an effective latent space for representing complex networks, owing to its ability to capture hierarchical organization and heterogeneous connectivity patterns using low-dimensional embeddings. As a result,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sofía Pérez Casulo , Marcelo Fiori , Bernardo Marenco , Federico Larroca

Proximity graph-based methods have emerged as a leading paradigm for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in the system community. This paper presents fresh insights into the theoretical foundation of these methods. We describe an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Shangqi Lu , Yufei Tao

We introduce a spectral embedding algorithm for finding proximal relationships between nodes in signed graphs, where edges can take either positive or negative weights. Adopting a physical perspective, we construct a Hamiltonian which is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-15 Shazia'Ayn Babul , Renaud Lambiotte

Spectral embedding uses eigenfunctions of the discrete Laplacian on a weighted graph to obtain coordinates for an embedding of an abstract data set into Euclidean space. We propose a new pre-processing step of first using the eigenfunctions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-18 Alexander Cloninger , Stefan Steinerberger

A finite set of the Euclidean space is called an $s$-distance set provided the number of Euclidean distances in the set is $s$. Determining the largest possible $s$-distance set for the Euclidean space of a given dimension is challenging.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Hiroshi Nozaki , Masashi Shinohara , Sho Suda

When we represent a network of sensors in Euclidean space by a graph, there are two distances between any two nodes that we may consider. One of them is the Euclidean distance. The other is the distance between the two nodes in the graph,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-06-10 Rodrigo S. C. Leao , Valmir C. Barbosa

The need for efficiently comparing and representing datasets with unknown alignment spans various fields, from model analysis and comparison in machine learning to trend discovery in collections of medical datasets. We use manifold learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-13 Tal Shnitzer , Mikhail Yurochkin , Kristjan Greenewald , Justin Solomon

We consider the fundamental task of optimising a real-valued function defined in a potentially high-dimensional Euclidean space, such as the loss function in many machine-learning tasks or the logarithm of the probability distribution in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-20 Marcelo Hartmann , Bernardo Williams , Hanlin Yu , Mark Girolami , Alessandro Barp , Arto Klami

This paper addresses the problem of finding a B-term wavelet representation of a given discrete function $f \in \real^n$ whose distance from f is minimized. The problem is well understood when we seek to minimize the Euclidean distance…

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Learning fair graph representations for downstream applications is becoming increasingly important, but existing work has mostly focused on improving fairness at the global level by either modifying the graph structure or objective function…

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Estimating the location of N coordinates in a P dimensional Euclidean space from pairwise distances (or proximity measurements), is a principal challenge in a wide variety of fields. Conventionally, when localizing a static network of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Raj Thilak Rajan , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

We introduce a novel architecture for graph networks which is equivariant to any transformation in the coordinate embeddings that preserves the distance between neighbouring nodes. In particular, it is equivariant to the Euclidean and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Francesco Farina , Emma Slade

Every graph G can be embedded in a Euclidean space as a two-distance set. The Euclidean representation number of G is the smallest dimension in which G is representable by such an embedding. We consider spherical and J-spherical…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Oleg R. Musin

Continuous maps representations, as opposed to traditional discrete ones such as grid maps, have been gaining traction in the research community. However, current approaches still suffer from high computation costs, making them unable to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Erik Warberg , Adam Miksits , Fernando S. Barbosa

In metric theories of gravity with photon number conservation, the luminosity and angular diameter distances are related via the Etherington relation, also known as the distance-duality relation (DDR). A violation of this relation would…