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ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A new Mallows distance based metric for comparing clusterings
Despite of the large number of algorithms developed for clustering, the study on comparing clustering results is limited. In this paper, we propose a measure for comparing cluster...
Ding Zhou, Jia Li, Hongyuan Zha
ICCV
2001
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
The Earth Mover's Distance is the Mallows Distance: Some Insights from Statistics
The Earth Mover's distance was first introduced as a purely empirical way to measure texture and color similarities. We show that it has a rigorous probabilistic interpretati...
Elizaveta Levina, Peter J. Bickel