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This paper presents a hybrid system for intuitive item similarity search that combines a Large Language Model (LLM) with a custom K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm. Unlike black-box dense vector systems, this architecture provides…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ana Rodrigues , João Mata , Rui Rego

The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) is a state-of-the art metric for comparing discrete probability distributions, but its high distinguishability comes at a high cost in computational complexity. Even though linear-complexity approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Kubilay Atasu , Thomas Mittelholzer

We introduce a semiparametric approach to neighbor-based classification. We build off the recently proposed Boundary Trees algorithm by Mathy et al.(2015) which enables fast neighbor-based classification, regression and retrieval in large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Tharindu Adikari , Stark C. Draper

Metrics on the space of sets of trajectories are important for scientists in the field of computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and general artificial intelligence. However, existing notions of closeness between sets of trajectories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 José Bento , Jia Jie Zhu

Vector similarity measures play a fundamental role in various fields, including machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, and data mining. These measures quantify the closeness between two vectors in a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Abeeb A. Awotunde

We propose a new method for local distance metric learning based on sample similarity as side information. These local metrics, which utilize conical combinations of metric weight matrices, are learned from the pooled spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 YInjie Huang , Cong Li , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

We develop some theoretical results for a robust similarity measure named "generalized min-max" (GMM). This similarity has direct applications in machine learning as a positive definite kernel and can be efficiently computed via…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-02 Ping Li , Cun-Hui Zhang

The extent to which different biological and artificial neural systems rely on equivalent internal representations to support similar tasks remains a central question in neuroscience and machine learning. Prior work typically compares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jialin Wu , Shreya Saha , Yiqing Bo , Meenakshi Khosla

Paraphrase plagiarism identification represents a very complex task given that plagiarized texts are intentionally modified through several rewording techniques. Accordingly, this paper introduces two new measures for evaluating the…

Measure the similarity of the nodes in the complex networks have interested many researchers to explore it. In this paper, a new method which is based on the degree centrality and the Relative-entropy is proposed to measure the similarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Qi Zhang , Meizhu Li , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

Deep semi-supervised learning has been widely implemented in the real-world due to the rapid development of deep learning. Recently, attention has shifted to the approaches such as Mean-Teacher to penalize the inconsistency between two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-30 Sanyou Wu , Xingdong Feng , Fan Zhou

Network or graph structures are ubiquitous in the study of complex systems. Often, we are interested in complexity trends of these system as it evolves under some dynamic. An example might be looking at the complexity of a food web as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-23 Russell K. Standish

We define a special network that exhibits the large embeddings in any class of similar algebras. With the aid of this network, we introduce a notion of distance that conceivably counts the minimum number of dissimilarities, in a sense,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Tuğba Aslan , Mohamed Khaled , Gergely Székely

The focus of this paper is the calculation of similarity between two concepts from an ontology for a Human-Like Interaction system. In order to facilitate this calculation, a similarity function is proposed based on five dimensions (sort,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Esperanza Albacete , Javier Calle , Elena Castro , Dolores Cuadra

We study the problem of how well a tree metric is able to preserve the sum of pairwise distances of an arbitrary metric. This problem is closely related to low-stretch metric embeddings and is interesting by its own flavor from the line of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-16 Mong-Jen Kao , Der-Tsai Lee , Dorothea Wagner

Network or graph structures are ubiquitous in the study of complex systems. Often, we are interested in complexity trends of these system as it evolves under some dynamic. An example might be looking at the complexity of a food web as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Russell K. Standish

We propose a computational method to measure and visualize interrelationships among any number of DNA sequences allowing, for example, the examination of hundreds or thousands of complete mitochondrial genomes. An "image distance" is…

A major computational burden, while performing document clustering, is the calculation of similarity measure between a pair of documents. Similarity measure is a function that assigns a real number between 0 and 1 to a pair of documents,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Muhammad Rafi , Mohammad Shahid Shaikh

Time series are ubiquitous, and a measure to assess their similarity is a core part of many computational systems. In particular, the similarity measure is the most essential ingredient of time series clustering and classification systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Joan Serrà , Josep Lluis Arcos

Comparison of graph structure is a ubiquitous task in data analysis and machine learning, with diverse applications in fields such as neuroscience, cyber security, social network analysis, and bioinformatics, among others. Discovery and…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-11 Peter Wills , Francois G. Meyer