Supervised distance metric learning through maximization of the Jeffrey divergence

B Nguyen, C Morell, B De Baets - Pattern Recognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, distance metric learning has attracted a lot of interest in machine
learning and related fields. In this work, we propose an optimization framework for distance …

A tutorial on distance metric learning: Mathematical foundations, algorithms, experimental analysis, prospects and challenges

JL Suárez, S García, F Herrera - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Large-scale distance metric learning for k-nearest neighbors regression

B Nguyen, C Morell, B De Baets - Neurocomputing, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents a distance metric learning method for k-nearest neighbors regression.
We define the constraints based on triplets, which are built from the neighborhood of each …

[PDF][PDF] Distance metric learning: A comprehensive survey

L Yang, R Jin - Michigan State Universiy, 2006 - cse.msu.edu
Many machine learning algorithms, such as K Nearest Neighbor (KNN), heavily rely on the
distance metric for the input data patterns. Distance Metric learning is to learn a distance …

An approach to supervised distance metric learning based on difference of convex functions programming

B Nguyen, B De Baets - Pattern Recognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Distance metric learning has motivated a great deal of research over the last years due to its
robustness for many pattern recognition problems. In this paper, we develop a supervised …

[PDF][PDF] A tutorial on distance metric learning: Mathematical foundations, algorithms and software

JL Suárez, S García, F Herrera - arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05944, 2018 - pages.cs.wisc.edu
This paper describes the discipline of distance metric learning, a branch of machine learning
that aims to learn distances from the data. Distance metric learning can be useful to improve …

An information geometry approach for distance metric learning

S Wang, R Jin - Artificial intelligence and statistics, 2009 - proceedings.mlr.press
Metric learning is an important problem in machine learning and pattern recognition. In this
paper, we propose a framework for metric learning based on information geometry. The key …

A nearest-neighbor search model for distance metric learning

Y Ruan, Y Xiao, Z Hao, B Liu - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Distance metric learning aims to deal with the data distribution by learning a suitable
distance metric from the training instances. For distance metric learning, the optimization …

Hierarchical distance metric learning for large margin nearest neighbor classification

S Sun, Q Chen - International Journal of Pattern Recognition and …, 2011 - World Scientific
Distance metric learning is a powerful tool to improve performance in classification,
clustering and regression tasks. Many techniques have been proposed for distance metric …

Multi-granularity distance metric learning via neighborhood granule margin maximization

P Zhu, Q Hu, W Zuo, M Yang - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Learning a distance metric from training samples is often a crucial step in machine learning
and pattern recognition. Locality, compactness and consistency are considered as the key …