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Solomonoff's central result on induction is that the posterior of a universal semimeasure M converges rapidly and with probability 1 to the true sequence generating posterior mu, if the latter is computable. Hence, M is eligible as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Marcus Hutter , Andrej Muchnik

One of the main problems that emerges in the classic approach to semantics is the difficulty in acquisition and maintenance of ontologies and semantic annotations. On the other hand, the Internet explosion and the massive diffusion of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Valentina Franzoni

Clustering is a difficult and widely-studied data mining task, with many varieties of clustering algorithms proposed in the literature. Nearly all algorithms use a similarity measure such as a distance metric (e.g. Euclidean distance) to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Andrew Lensen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Intuitively, the concept of similarity is the notion to measure an inexact matching between two entities of the same reference set. The notions of similarity and its close relative dissimilarity are widely used in many fields of Artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Lluís A. Belanche

Background: Alignment of biological sequences such as DNA, RNA or proteins is one of the most widely used tools in computational bioscience. All existing alignment algorithms rely on heuristic scoring schemes based on biological expertise.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2008-10-27 Orion Penner , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

We consider the problem of metric learning subject to a set of constraints on relative-distance comparisons between the data items. Such constraints are meant to reflect side-information that is not expressed directly in the feature vectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Ehsan Amid , Aristides Gionis , Antti Ukkonen

In many domains where data are represented as graphs, learning a similarity metric among graphs is considered a key problem, which can further facilitate various learning tasks, such as classification, clustering, and similarity search.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Guixiang Ma , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Theodore L. Willke , Philip S. Yu

Similarity learning has received a large amount of interest and is an important tool for many scientific and industrial applications. In this framework, we wish to infer the distance (similarity) between points with respect to an arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-30 Michael Rabadi

Nowadays, cross-modal retrieval plays an indispensable role to flexibly find information across different modalities of data. Effectively measuring the similarity between different modalities of data is the key of cross-modal retrieval.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Yuxin Peng , Jinwei Qi , Yuxin Yuan

In big data times, massive datasets often carry different relationships among the same group of nodes, analyzing on these heterogeneous relationships may give us a window to peek the essential relationships among nodes. In this paper, first…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Liu Weiyi , Chen Lingli , Hu Guangmin

TThe problem is to identify a probability associated with a set of natural numbers, given an infinite data sequence of elements from the set. If the given sequence is drawn i.i.d. and the probability mass function involved (the target)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Nick Chater

This paper revisits recent code similarity evaluation metrics, particularly focusing on the application of Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) editing distance in diverse programming languages. In particular, we explore the usefulness of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yewei Song , Cedric Lothritz , Daniel Tang , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein

Data similarity is a key concept in many data-driven applications. Many algorithms are sensitive to similarity measures. To tackle this fundamental problem, automatically learning of similarity information from data via self-expression has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Zhao Kang , Yiwei Lu , Yuanzhang Su , Changsheng Li , Zenglin Xu

The "maximum similarity correlation" definition introduced in this study is motivated by the seminal work of Szekely et al on "distance covariance" (Ann. Statist. 2007, 35: 2769-2794; Ann. Appl. Stat. 2009, 3: 1236-1265). Instead of using…

CONTEXT. Attack treesare a recommended threat modeling tool, but there is no established method to compare them. OBJECTIVE. We aim to establish a method to compare "real" attack trees, based on both the structure of the tree itself and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Nathan D. Schiele , Olga Gadyatskaya

Many methods have been developed for data clustering, such as k-means, expectation maximization and algorithms based on graph theory. In this latter case, graphs are generally constructed by taking into account the Euclidian distance as a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-27 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Recommendation systems for different Document Networks (DN) such as the World Wide Web (WWW) and Digital Libraries, often use distance functions extracted from relationships among documents and keywords. For instance, documents in the WWW…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 L. M. Rocha

The notion of task similarity is at the core of various machine learning paradigms, such as domain adaptation and meta-learning. Current methods to quantify it are often heuristic, make strong assumptions on the label sets across the tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 David Alvarez-Melis , Nicolò Fusi

This paper proposes a general framework for matching similar subsequences in both time series and string databases. The matching results are pairs of query subsequences and database subsequences. The framework finds all possible pairs of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Haohan Zhu , George Kollios , Vassilis Athitsos

An accurate assessment of a model's complexity is crucial for topics such as interpretation, generalization, and model selection. However, most existing complexity measures either rely on heuristic assumptions or are computationally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-21 Oskar Allerbo , Thomas B. Schön