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How to calculate weighted similarity with scipy.spatial.distance.cosine?

From the function definition: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.spatial.distance.cosine.html scipy.spatial.distance.cosine(u, v, w=None) but my codes got some errors: from ...
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Confuse with sklearn distance algorithm

While I want to use standard Euclidean metric in KNeighborsClassifier. knn = KNeighborsRegressor(n_neighbors=k,metric='seuclidean' ) knn.fit(newx,y) and the typeerror shown: C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-...
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Subsequent time-series matching

I've been stuck with subsequent matching of time-series in MATLAB (I'm new to it). I have two time-series: A (of length a) and B (of length b). Assume that a is much larger than b. The task is to ...
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Finding the 10 nearest points in 3D Euclidean space, for EACH element in a 5-million element catalog

Suppose I have a catalog of 5 million points, with their x,y,z location in 3D space. For EACH of these 5 million points, I want to find the 10 points closest to it (straightforward 3D Euclidean ...
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Distance measure for categorical attributes for k-Nearest Neighbor

For my class project, I am working on the Kaggle competition - Don't get kicked The project is to classify test data as good/bad buy for cars. There are 34 features and the data is highly skewed. I ...
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In K-Means clustering algorithm(sklearn) how to override euclidean distance to some distance

I have some set of documents, I just want to group related docs. Currently I'm using google's news vector file (GoogleNews-vectors-negative300.bin) and with this vector file I'm getting the vector and ...
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Euclidean Distance

I have some problem understanding euclidean distance. I have two different entities and I want to measure the similarity between these entities. Lets suppose that entity A has 2 feature vectors and ...
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distance measure used to calculate k nearest neighbour

I am reading about k nearest neighbour, and the distance measure given in the example is as below. It says Ri is the range of the i-th component. I am confused about which distance measure is used ...
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Correctly interpreting Cosine Angular Distance Similarity & Euclidean Distance Similarity

As an example, let's say I have a very simple data set. I am given a csv with three columns, user_id, book_id, rating. The rating can be any number 0-5, where 0 means the user has NOT rated the book. ...
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Distance Estimation Using Quantum Computer

I did a small benchmarking to compare quantum version of algorithm to its classical version, and I found that quantum computing taking so much time in comparison to classical version. I don't ...
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Distance Calculations for Nearest Mean Classifer

Greetins, How can I calculate how many distance calculations would need to be performed to classify the IRIS dataset using Nearest Mean Classifier. I know that IRIS dataset has 4 features and every ...
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How to convert TS-SS result to similarity measure between 0 - 1?

I'm currently developing a question plugin for some LMS that auto grade the answer based on the similarity between the answer and answer key with cosine similarity. But lately, I found that there is a ...
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How to I create a tensor of euclidean distances from the maxval in an image array using TensorFlow?

I'm trying to write a custom loss function that inputs a batch of multichannel images and outputs a loss based on how well-clustered the pixel values are around the max value of each image on average. ...
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Facial identification using difference of L2 distances

I've had some confusion on this for some time now. When FaceNet is run on an image, it returns an 128 element array in Euclidean space/L2 (even this is something I do not completely get). I've had the ...
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How K-NN Algorithms work with same distance in rapidminer?

Actually I already asked in rapidminer forum, but no one has given an answer yet.. https://community.rapidminer.com/discussion/55963/how-k-nn-algorithms-work-with-same-distance-in-rapidminer#latest I ...
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caffe custom Euclidean layer

I need to do a rather simple thing using the caffe framework. I want to create a new custom c++ Euclidean layer. This layer should set all values of the bottom[1] BLOB (ground truth data) to the ...
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digit categorisation using Euclidean distance

I want to categorise digits which are represented in a 64 dimensional space which gives an 8X8 pixel character image. Each attribute is an integer from 0...16. I have 20 rows of 64 values plus one at ...
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How to define weights for KNN?

I want to identify a set of weights for the distance measure in KNN method. I read through the MATLAB help and I found that there are functions for inverse or squared inverse (w.r.t the distances) ...
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Weighted Euclidean Distance while Merging Feature Vectors?

I have two groups of features (describing an image, in a machine learning context). The first group A, consisting of 3 features, and group B consisting of 15 features. A = [f1, f2, f3] B = [f4, f5, ..,...
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computing the euclidean distance for KNN

I've been seeing a lot of examples of computing euclidean distance for KNN but non for sentiment classification. For example I have a sentence "a very close game" How do I compute the euclidean ...
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Similarity Metrics

I am trying to research on different metrics and found many ssimilarity metrics : Euclidean distance Dynamic Time Warping, Edit Distance with Real Penalty DISSIM , Sequence Weighted Alignment model, ...
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How do I assign weights using Kernel function based on a vector of pairwise Euclidean distance?

I want to quantify the dissimilarity between two group. Each group has 5 observations, so there are 25 combinations. For each combination, I have calculated their pairwise Euclidean distance (based ...
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How to convert Euclidean Distance to a percentage confidence?

I have an application doing facial recognition which uses euclidean distance to compare encoded numpy arrays of faces. The algorithm outputs the distance between the two face images as a float value. ...
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Online Metric Learning for Face Recognition

I'm using OpenFace to compute representations (in 128D) for faces found in images taken under unconstrained conditions that show significant variations in lighting, time, etc. According to their ...
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There are other useful similarity or distance metrics?

I'm developing an approximate computation system. Defining how much similar two objects are is a basic operation in such a system. Usually in computer science and math, similarity is synonym of ...
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Why tsne method use Euclidean distance to compute the similarities in high dimensional data?

I have tried other distance metrics like chebychev distance or Manhatten distance and so on, which are all implemented in tsne in Matlab. Some of them achieve the same good performance as Euclidean ...
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